craigT19
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 Posted: 22:36 - 20 Jan 2004  Post subject: France trip 2004 |
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im going to france with 26 of my fellow two wheeled nutters.....any of you want to go??
no ums and ares!!!!
i need definets....100% going and soon....cos you will need to pay £100 by mid feb, then you just pay £150 a week b4 we go...and ya sorted.
the dates are from 25th may to 5th june
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Kris
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| Posted: 00:33 - 21 Jan 2004 Post subject: |
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I'd be up for it but where in France exactly? What do we need to take? Is it £250 in total then? Are the routes planned? Accommodation? Who are the others? Are you definately going?
Provisional yes...
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Ste
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| Posted: 00:34 - 21 Jan 2004 Post subject: |
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Probably best to give him a ring I'd reckon.
I'd go, but that'd finish up my time off for this year I think  |
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Kris
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| Posted: 11:50 - 21 Jan 2004 Post subject: |
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Some quotes from another site. Worth a read, especially the bits about accomodation and duration of trip. 
| Quote: | A couple of years back we went Portsmouth-St. Malo entering France at about noon. We rode about 70miles at a time (me on zx7r, mate on rsv1000) and took a break of about 15mins each time for a drink of water and a stretch. By about 8pm we were in the North of the Pyrenees looking for a hotel in Perpignan. (GOOD TIP - FIND OUT WHERE ALL THE "FORMULE 1" HOTELS ARE - A BIT LIKE McDonalds but in hotel form ie. cheap, clean and cheerful and everywhere).
Anyways, next day we were in Barcelona by early afternoon and on the beach soon after.
The following days involved riding all over the Pyrenees, through Andorra and into Northern Spain heading for Santander and a return ferry.
In retrospect, if we'd taken 10days to do the trip it would have been fine. 7 days meant we had little time to chill out or pick out some good roads to attack a few times.
The return ferry from Santander was totally amazing. Big, comfy, relaxed, food, beer, lovely sunny views of the sea in all directions. Just what we needed.
It very much depends on how you like to ride. Either way, if you go to/from SAntander or Bilbao you still have a fair distance to travel to get to the Pyrenees but it's much less so than going through France. Nice to experience both but I'll be making a more careful decision next time. I really can't stress how important rest days are. There's nothing worst than riding the best roads in the world when you can't fully concentrate on enjoying it and it turns into more of an endurance race.
Try what we did and you won't be dissappointed. The other plus is that you never feel like you're going back, only forward to your next destination.
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| Quote: | The crew and I have decided to take a week in France in May. Planning to go over at Calais and head down to a cottage in Dijon for a week. From there we are planning rides out to the south of France staying over somewhere in Avignon, Germany, Luxembourg and Switzerland if the weather is right. Should be a blast... my ZX7, 2 ZX9's, GSXR750, XJR1300 and a GPZ900 !!!
Ferry is £85 return and the cottage is £450 for the week... £75 a head, so giving us lot's of spare cash for fuel to ride as much as we can !
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craigT19
Jolly Green Giant
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| Posted: 21:19 - 22 Jan 2004 Post subject: |
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were going to dover, then across to france (leharve or summin im not shur??) from there were going to paris, around that on the ring road (a6) then the n85 to a place called gap where were staying for 4 days. last year they bumped into the superbike mag boys at gap as they use the n85 for all there pics.
ohhh and as its no fun with panniers on your bike....we have evan arranged for a sprinter van to take all our stuff 
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