boxerscott
Grignapoco
Posts : 153
Join date : 2016-01-25
Age : 67
 |  Subject: Spanish stroll  Thu Oct 27, 2016 3:15 pm | |
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Bill Hagan
GRiSO Capo
Posts : 1738
Join date : 2014-07-03
| | Subject: Re: Spanish stroll Thu Oct 27, 2016 3:27 pm | |
| "2000 mile, 2up, 2weeks." And all we get is five pix? Puhleeeze.   Seriously, very envious. Do tell more when you have time. Bill P.S. My Kathi is a grand pillion  , but will only do that on my Norge and EV. She had one ride on the GRiSO and said "No, thank you" after that. In her defense, I may have overdone the demo.   | |
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boxerscott
Grignapoco
Posts : 153
Join date : 2016-01-25
Age : 67
| | Subject: Re: Spanish stroll Thu Oct 27, 2016 4:36 pm | |
| - Bill Hagan wrote:
"2000 mile, 2up, 2weeks."
And all we get is five pix? Puhleeeze.
Seriously, very envious. Do tell more when you have time.
Bill
P.S. My Kathi is a grand pillion , but will only do that on my Norge and EV. She had one ride on the GRiSO and said "No, thank you" after that. In her defense, I may have overdone the demo. Believe me Bill, I have tried! but everytime I lose the whole thread into the ether, I am sure it is something to do with the touch pad on my lap top. Two up, this was ambitious, fortunately we did 3 days walking. My idea of this bike being a relaxed ride were quashed soon as we hit the high uneven twisty stuff and we did a lot of that . The pillion and bike were well out of their comfort zones and we will not be doing a two up again on the GRiSO, at one point I fell out of love with it and proclaimed "it`s going". Then on reflection I realised a lot of two up bikes would have struggled with the narrow tight sinewy ascents and descents we did. We left a map in a roadside bar in Potes a few miles from our last hotel, It was a fantastic road with lovely 3rd and 4th gear sweepers smooth as well, so whilst Amanda was checking in I doubled back for it, someone else needed the map but that ride made me realise why I bought it! (The GRiSO, not the map) The duc can go instead and I get excited about getting a two up all rounder. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Portsmouth Heading out. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Tarifa [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]info board Alto Tajo Nature Park [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]Cuenca. Chris | |
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Street
L'Innominato
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Join date : 2013-05-29
Age : 65
| | Subject: Re: Spanish stroll Thu Oct 27, 2016 7:10 pm | |
| Looks like a great trip, Chris, thanks for posting the awesome pics. --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]“Danger + Survival = Fun.” - Neil Peart[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] | |
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bioman
GRiSO Capo
Posts : 835
Join date : 2014-05-06
| | Subject: Re: Spanish stroll Thu Oct 27, 2016 8:08 pm | |
| Wow, great pictures! And what a nice trip. I did a similar tour d'Espana 10 years ago, but with an Italian rental car (a small Lancia) instead of an Italian motorcycle. I remember those Spanish roads as absolutely spectacular! Thanks for showing!
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boxerscott
Grignapoco
Posts : 153
Join date : 2016-01-25
Age : 67
| | Subject: Re: Spanish stroll Fri Oct 28, 2016 12:29 am | |
| No problemo, interestingly we met Simon Pavey and Tom Wolff at the Paradore hotel in Alarcon. They were conducting a BMW off road adventure and skills course called Pistes and Paradores. They had 10 fully off road specced g`esses, jockeys from North America UK and Euro. All backed up by a panel van and moto techhy with lots of spare parts. These guys were holidaying practising their bike breaking skills. [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] | |
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