Spanish bike rental

[jaguar65uk]

Me and a friend will be heading to Valencia on June 29th and heading up the coast, through Barcelona and into France. Train is once possibility but we want to stop off a lot during the way and bike rental seems like a cool idea, any information about hire companies etc?
Thanks
John
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Past: Aprilia SR 50, Aprilia RS 125
Current: Aprilia RS 125, Yamaha Teos 125

[Annabella]

I haven't hired a bike in Spain, but did hire an NSR50 from a Pork'n'Cheese man in Largos.

I found them pretty lax in finding helmets, and despite lots of perstering I ended up with a piss pot that didn't do up. so my advice would be to make sure you know how to request a helmet in Spanish
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[stinkwheel]

Give the bike a good check over before you ride it too. Some of the rental bikes over there are in a sorry state. I hired a DR350 in Gran Canaria (Ok, not Spain, but Spanish). For starters it had virtually no oil in it at all and would have seized had I not checked. It had a cross-ply knobbly tyre on the front and a radial road tyre on the back, the chain was hanging off and there was no bulb in the tail light.
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[jaguar65uk]

Oh those Spaniards! I'm studying A level spanish, helmet is "casco" sure I can get buy on that.
I was looking into something like an BMW F650 kinda jobbie, something that would eat up the 400km or so we have to travel but bike rental on that scale seems rare and rarer still is the option to return the bike at a different city to that of rental,
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Past: Aprilia SR 50, Aprilia RS 125
Current: Aprilia RS 125, Yamaha Teos 125