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Posted: 14:38 - 08 Apr 2016 Post subject: BCF Spain 2016 Trip Report [55MB DATA] |
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My report for a trip down to Barcelona in Spain which eleven of us got back from last week. We went down and back up through France, taking twelve days in total.
We wanted to try and make the riding-days a bit less exhausting mileage-wise this time and also enjoy a few days actually seeing Barcelona area off the bikes as opposed to riding non-stop everyday, so we got a hotel just outside Barcelona for 4 nights in the middle of the trip and walked or got taxi's locally instead of riding constantly everyday.
Overall it was a really good trip, although a bit too eventful at points .
The route down to Barcelona.
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The route back up to Cherbourg.
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[size=15]Day 1 – Cherbourg to Saint Nazaire
Gathered in Poole earling in the morning to get the ferry over to Cherbourg.
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An omen of things to come . Ended up getting briefly trailed by these and some other police bikes three times over the course of the trip. One pair later on in the week even went to the effort of repeatedly overtaking some of the group, pulling in ahead of them and then following again for some time to try and catch someone out.
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Within an hour of getting off the ferry we noticed noobRider's Sprint had got a puncture. Luckily we managed to repair it quite easily with one of the Fix N' Go kits and get on our way again.
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Eventually we arrived at the first Hotel F1 in Saint Nazire in the evening.
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Day 2 – Saint Nazaire to Bordeaux via La Rochelle
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Arriving in La Rochelle.
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La Rochelle harbour
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La Rochelle fortress
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La Rochelle docks
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Continued on our way to Bordeaux.
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First drama of the trip.
After having an unpleasant banging sound for a few hours, we eventually pulled over to inspect Paris2's Daytona properly. We checked the calipers, brakes, chain and eventually ended up deciding there was something wrong with the wheel which was making intermitant banging sounds at random when it was turned.
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Borrowed a jack from a garage in the trading estate and got the bike jacked up and wheel off. Only to find the bearings were about to collapse and the bike was basically unable to go any further in its current state safely.
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Phoned for breakdown and began waiting for the lorry to arrive.
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Eventually.
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Paris2 and the bike were taken by the lorry a while, but because the nearby garage had shut by this time it ended up left at the breakdown compound for the night until it could be taken to the nearest garage in the morning, so we pillioned him the last leg of the journey with us into Bordeaux.
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Day 3 – Bordeaux to Pamplona via Biarritz
We managed to find a Triumph dealer in Bordeaux and organised the bike to be brought there. Triumph didn't have the bearings in stock so so we had a look around the local Kawasaki, Ducati and Suzuki dealers in the trading estate and managed to buy some from the Suzuki shop in the end. Unfortunately the bike wasn't due to arrive until much later in the day so we agreed to carry on to Pamplona and let the Daytona catch up after it was fixed in the evening.
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It certainly seemed eventful.
Not sure if I'm happy that I couldn't make it or not. ____________________ There ain't no devil, there's just god when he's drunk.
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Superb write-up and great pictures - did enjoy the read. Thanks for taking the time and effort
Glad you all made it back in one piece - by 'eck! ____________________ CG125, CBF250, DRZ400-SM, Z750, Street Triple R, Tuono V4R |
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two things of value i`ve taken from this ..
1. puncture repair kits
2. sat nav with speed alerts/ scamera areas... ____________________ Whatever I post I have no citation and no intention of providing one..
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That made good reading ____________________ MT10 |
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Wondered who did that .
Its definitely Ollies fault now. Everything. Ever. |
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Serious lack of swing arm dust in this thread ____________________ Current Ride: Daytona 600 |
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WOW, just wow, £600 fine, fook me! Looked fab though, apart form the few mishaps.
Great write up too. ____________________ Current bike - GSX-R1000 k8 |
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Serious lack of swing arm dust in this thread Agreed.
And Pringle discs.Good point.
I should also add, on day 1 of the trip I discovered my swingarm had a rotten hole after having its first jet wash the night before.
And the discs gradually became more and more warped to the point I was mostly using the rear brake the last two days because it felt like hitting speed bumps using the front.
And both my sidelights and highbeam bulbs had blown by the time the ferry landed back home. The one remaining main beam required me to punch the nose fairing to make it turn on and off. Just in case there wasn't enough other problems going on.
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Great write up.. The trip however sounds like a bit of a disaster ____________________ Yamaha MT-09 - Triple powerrrr |
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As you can see, my head is poking in from the left urging them to stop and be sensible. No words of encouragement or laughter, honest. ____________________ Current bike: ZX6R J1
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 8 years, 20 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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