Tour venue
Innertkirchen - Camping

 SAP Tour - Swiss Alps and Passes really came into its own
and took off with a nice compliment of international participants.

9 bikes and 13 participants.

From the USA/Germany - Scotty - Ted & Lynda - Jim & Pam
From Holland  - Jos & Els
From England - John Woods - James - Doug & Val - Alan.
Switzerland - Jed

The 6 day tour was blessed with high temperatures and at times rain.
 The  pass tops had a fair amount of snow still on the road side.

I have no digital pics from that time so sorry about the quality being somewhat fuzzy.

    

From left to right.
Participants Start to put up tents
on the base camp in Innertkirchen.
My GL 1000 again.
Ted "oh-my-Gaaawd" Snyder

       
From left to right.
 In the foreground Scotty-  Len and Pam to his right.
Jos & Els in the back ground and Lynda .
 James & John on the Base Camp.
On the Gotthard looking down on the old
Tremola route direction Italy.
On the Susten Pass.
I was riding the 1983 GL1100 Aspencade at the time.

 At the time John Woods who was the International Rep for the GWOCGB
found  the Alps very much to his liking and wrote about his travels
in the "WingSpang" GWOCGB's official magazine.

 

SAP made front cover as well as a three page spread cover story in 1986.

John's passion for the Alps and SAP Tour prove to be very positive indeed.
We became good friends and John went on to being the SAP Tour Tail man
on many future tour as well.


That famous Inane Grin we adopted!
Cheers John.

As this archive gathers information I must say that the first three
or four years of gathering information, facts,
participant lists and pictures on who's who is not an easy task.
 I apologise if there has been some mix up with names and pictures
according to which year they appear under.

If you possibly took part on one of the first tours then
please send in any pictures or relevant information
 that would help to correct any mistakes
and make this archive a more complete and factual history of SAP Tours

 Many thanks.

Jed