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I'm planning a bicycle trip through Norway and Sweden, ferry to Rostock and then to Salzburg and south to Italy or Slovenia in the last days of April or beginning of May. My plan is to bike to Radstadt and take the Tauernpass and Katschberg. Are this passes open all the year? Later I will go to Villach and over Wurzenpass to Podkoren in Slovenia. Is it better to bike west to Tarvisio in Italy? Are other routes preferable for a biker?

Bikerwolf, I´m impressed! (I cycled the Fjords and Fjell and the Alps myself several times in younger days myself..).
I strongly advise to avoid most of the main roads you mentioned (horrible traffic!) and select small, even more scenic routes with little car traffic.
Here is the perfect route for you (personally tested and approved!) :
Salzburg - go east on small roads via Faistenau to Fuschl (scenic lake Fuschl), on to St.Gilgen, along Wolfgangssee on nice bicycle route off the mainroad, on to Bad Ischl, south to Hallstatt (!) (lake!), short steep ascent to Bad Aussee (more lakes! don´t miss Altaussee!); from Bad Mitterndorf there is a tiny road south to Groebming; cross the main Alpine range via Soelkpass (1788m, old Roman Alpine crossing), a swift descent to Murau; go west and then turn south to Flattnitz (1400m, lots of meadows and cows); then a swift descent into lovely Carinthia; don´t miss the outstanding Romanic cathedral in Gurk, maybe medieval Friesach and the old town of St.Veit; and make sure to spend some time cycling around in the beautiful Woerther See area!! continue west via Faaker See, cross Wurzenpass to Kranjska Gora. Finally, going further south on Vrsic pass (1611m) is another breathtaking scenic experience, but you´d have to come back via Passo del Predil to Tarvisio (major railway station).
I hope this does it! I´d love to do the same route again!! Enjoy! and I´d love to get some feedback in case you really do this route

you´ll certainly get a good map... Freytag&Berndt has Austria´s best maps, www.freytagberndt.at

I think all these mountain passes will be open by beginning of May (only Soelkpass?) but better check with OEAMTC (Austrian Automobile club) on short notice.

Thank you for the fine route proposal. I have read about Soelkpass and other routes, I will consider it but I think the E55 will take the most heavy traffic. See my former trips and my plan in http://fag.hials.no/id101402/uk. From Rostock to Salzburg I will follow the maps from
http://www.radweit.de. You biked in younger days, you said, my age is 66.