Recent trip to Spain

SunEye · 28-08-2012, 09:39 PM

A couple of pics from my recent two weeks in Andalucia.

My bike has now done over 5200 miles in 7 weeks. I rode almost 4000 of those in 16 days riding across France and Spain (3 days each way - Calais-Limoges-Zaragoza-Malaga) and then enjoying myself on the roads of Andalucia.

No crashes and no speeding tickets. A few small slides (mostly front end). Some testing of the ABS. Almost no flying insects hit (in Spain). A serious drenching from the top of the Pyrennes (Col du Pourtalet) all the way to Toulouse. A large number of Magnums eaten and cold water drunk. One accident witnessed and the immediate aftermath of three seen, all near Madrid. 60mpg on the motorways and 50mpg elsewhere, so it didn't cost me my life savings.

Overall a great holiday and some great riding including some special roads that I seem to find that are far more suited to trail bikes than a Monster. One had some mountain bikers carefully picking their way down it and another was first gear only for about 10km.

28-08-2012, 09:39 PM	#1
SunEye Registered User Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Bognor Regis Bike: Other Ducati Posts: 589	Recent trip to Spain A couple of pics from my recent two weeks in Andalucia. My bike has now done over 5200 miles in 7 weeks. I rode almost 4000 of those in 16 days riding across France and Spain (3 days each way - Calais-Limoges-Zaragoza-Malaga) and then enjoying myself on the roads of Andalucia. No crashes and no speeding tickets. A few small slides (mostly front end). Some testing of the ABS. Almost no flying insects hit (in Spain). A serious drenching from the top of the Pyrennes (Col du Pourtalet) all the way to Toulouse. A large number of Magnums eaten and cold water drunk. One accident witnessed and the immediate aftermath of three seen, all near Madrid. 60mpg on the motorways and 50mpg elsewhere, so it didn't cost me my life savings. Overall a great holiday and some great riding including some special roads that I seem to find that are far more suited to trail bikes than a Monster. One had some mountain bikers carefully picking their way down it and another was first gear only for about 10km.