Travel through Calais?

[Itchy]

Well should I?

Considering there are lots of unsavoury individuals attempting to get into the UK. Should I go through Calais? Motorbike seems a tad vulnerable.
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[FlightRisk]

I think it would be quite difficult for an asylum seeker to find a place to hide on your motorbike.
I would just get on with it and not hang about there.
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[barrkel]

I haven't seen a single prospective asylum seeker on any occasion I've gone through the Eurotunnel, and I've gone through Calais town centre several times too.

French Police stopping you to look you up on their system for any unpaid speeding fines is a bigger risk. I've been stopped once, and I've seen police around Calais 3 other times. Nothing found, mind, but a minor hassle giving details etc.
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[Matt B]

Seriously?

MTFU and get on with it!
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[Rogue_Shadow]

Unhitch the sidecar and you'll be fine

[pepperami]

Yer you`ll be fine, just make sure you don`t stop long enough for an illegal to climb into your topbox
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[delsol]

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[G]

No trouble driving around at 2am a year and and a half ago in my van looking for a petrol station that'd take cash.
No trouble going back at 5pm or something, though I didn't stop.

[Dave500]

Just came back through Calais and there was no trouble.
We stayed in a hotel within the centre and hardly saw any of the beggars. Plus with the amount of police they would be silly to do anything. Even Sangatte was showing little immigrant life.
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[Skudd]

Should we let Itchy back in?
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[c-m]

Never even seen an asylum seeker in Calais in the times I've been there. I've even camped a few times at the Municipal camping site which is looks pretty ghetto like.

What on earth are you expecting people seeking a better life in the UK to do to you whilst on your motorcycle?

[The Shaggy D.A.]

[gorillaonabik...]

Had my top box searched last time I went through. I pointed out the four wheel drives, estate cars, vans and lorries might be better at carrying stuff through but that didn't go down too well.

No immigrants were found...
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[STONEY!]

Well my experience was a little different to the rest. Returned through calais at 6.30am sunday morning. Rode past a large shanty town near the docks full of asylum seekers living in tents made of tarps, bin bags and cardboard boxes. Looked awful to be honest.

Got on the ferry and it was full of very dodgy looking people possibly romanian, kept an eye on them as they walked around looking at peoples bags, wallets, phones etc. To be fair they didn't actually do anything but it looked like they would if they could.

When I got to dover, riding up the a20 there is a layby full of trucks and shortly after that I passed a group of very dirty rough looking blokes walking up the hard shoulder who I'm pretty sure must have just got here illegally.

All that said I had no problems going in or out of calais so wouldn't worry about it if I where you!

[Matt B]

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[Itchy]

It's because that was 6 years ago when I was an impetuous young man.

Like many of the BCF I've calmed down and become more cautious as I grow older. I definitely have more things to lose than back then.

I mean just look at the 2007 tell us about yourself thread. How many don't post and or ride any more? Even the extreme risk taking R1 couple vanished.

Hell you and me are pretty much the only ones left from that time that post from that era with any regularity.
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