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Snowdonia Rider |
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Snowdonia Rider World Chat Champion
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Posted: 18:40 - 09 Apr 2016 Post subject: |
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Fook me that's an adventure you'll all never forget ____________________ I want your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle.
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barrkel wrote: |
As to the scenery, I like roads that make me focus solely on the roads. The Pyrenees aren't as photogenic as the Alps; it's brown, scrub and brush. The roads in the Alps are, as a rule, a series of straights and hairpins - these, for me, are the most tedious and least entertaining roads of all. I can quite easily imagine never riding a bike through another Alpine pass ever again. There are some incredible sights in the Alps though. |
The best days out for me mix up some variation: fast, winding, good surfaces for some fun, gnarly little mountain roads for low speed negotiation of hazards and good scenery, and maybe something less challenging for the route home.
The one road where on the few occasions I've done it I can never decide whether to gawp at the scenery or cane it like a race track is the road out to Kyle of Loch Alsh, through Glen Shiel. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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stevo as b4 World Chat Champion
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Posted: 20:22 - 09 Apr 2016 Post subject: |
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Excellent write up and pics of an epic sounding trip. Shame about all the machinery, directional and popo incidents though.
Seeing the French part really took me back 12years to my best bike adventure ever. I loved seeing St.Naziare and La rochelle again, beautiful places and nice sea and beaches too. I loved the D-roads even more than the N-roads when I went, and the state of them was excellent, making Britains best look like third world tracks.
Oh and I too found the J-series Ninja6 a great sports tourer, and a comfy bike for long distances too. Mind you 612miles in a day was too much but only because of arse ache and clutch hand muscle pump/cramp.
Oh and I don't think BCF needs to worry about tarnishing relations with the Spanish authorities, as I think Fast bikes did enough to really please them back in the late 90's. |
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Matt B |
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Matt B World Chat Champion
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Posted: 11:52 - 10 Apr 2016 Post subject: |
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chickenstrip wrote: | The best days out for me mix up some variation: fast, winding, good surfaces for some fun, gnarly little mountain roads for low speed negotiation of hazards and good scenery |
I agree, that would be perfect. Unfortunately, when you have 11 bikes in the group, it often comes down to a lot of compromise on routes with where to go and what to see and the factor of time is massively important.
We have coined the term "Eurojolly Factor" to describe the way that a 250 mile 4 hour day inexplicably turns into an 8-12 hour one. Seeking out the twisties is fine but if it adds hours to the journey it can cause headaches, and before you know it you are riding in the dark. We ended up doing this a few times, not an issue with only a couple of you, but we got separated in Pamplona because it's really hard to spot people doing the drop-off system in those conditions. Problematic when there are only one or two decent sat-navs within the group. Also comfort breaks and fuel stops can easily stretch out and eat up time when there are a large number of bikes and stomachs to fill and bladders to empty.
I think we just chose a destination that was too far this time, bashing out miles on dull roads to cover distance. The Spanish roads down to Barcelona probably would have been better riding "normally" but one of us had just had his bike impounded and carted off in handcuffs for speeding and the place was awash with police. Nobody wanted to really take the chance so we stuck to the limits.
I enjoyed the trip, don't get me wrong, but a lot of that is down to the group and the fact we always manage to have a laugh regardless. We were spoiled last year because we had it all - excellent roads, stunning scenery, lovely towns to stop in for lunch. The B500 through the Black Forest for the fast sweeping bits, Stelvio and the other passes for the gnarly mountain roads, Alpine scenery and a trip to the Nurburgring. If I did Spain again it would be on the ferry to Santander and more time up in the mountains. ____________________ stinkwheel: He had an animated .gif of a cat performing fellatio. It's not socially acceptable. It can have real life adverse effects on other people. |
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After hearing we were heading to Barcelona they warned us that the speeding tolerances were much tighter. They handled it really well tbh. Made light of quite a serious situation. (They wouldn't cuff him for a photo opportunity though ) Apologized profusely for disrupting out trip despite them just doing what they're there to do. ____________________ 2002 Aprilia RSV1000R, Cbr600Fs, Mk1 B12, Vfr400 NC30...
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 7 years, 281 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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