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What have you been doing today?

Caught a flight to Malaga with a few mates for a Spanish off-roading motorcycle trip. Didn’t start too well for me when I was picked up at 5.00 am. I chucked my case into the back of a Galaxy and it felt like I’d broken a leg before the trip had started when I caught my shin on the f’cking tow bar.
Left a bloody dent in my shin bone. It didn’t half hurt! We were picked up at the airport by the organisers and taken to be fully kitted out with our riding gear. Dropped off at a hotel where we are staying tonight and we are being picked up later and being taken out to a restaurant. After breakfast tomorrow we are going to load up the bikes and take off to a town called Ronda for our second nights stay.

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We are staying here tonight.

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View from my room.

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Looks brilliant. Have a fantastic time, mates and bikes are the best combo for excitement.
 
Hardest f’cking days riding if my life. My mates are nutters. The guide is a nutter. Off roading is bloody hard work. I dropped my bike going round a hairpin on a steep mountain road when I changed from second to first but got neutral. We were riding on mountain roads that I can only liken to a demolition site. Rocks, gravel, mud, deep ruts, boulders blocking the track. We must have done 40 miles over a mountain pass. Took us ages. One of us got a puncture miles from nowhere on the rear so we had to strip the wheel off and fit a new tube. Luckily there were 3 mechanics in the group. Then the guide went off the edge and nearly went 100 feet down the mountain. It took 6 of us to drag the bike back onto the track. Then darkness came. Bloody freezing we were. Got to the hotel well after dark. I hope it’s not more of the same tomorrow.
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Mottie said:
We must have done 40 miles over a mountain pass.
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I tried to drive one of those - an old military road, over a mountain from north Italy, to Switzerland. Four of us in a company Escort. Parts of it so steep, the only way to move it was one driving -me, three burly fitters pushing. Got it to the top, and a tunnel through to Switzerland, turned around, and back home to the hotel.
 
I used to do a lot of off roading at one time, I stick to green lanes now with my transalp. It is hard work and hard on your body off roading, You will need a holiday after this one to recover from the looks of it. Fantastic thing to do but I don't like pain nowadays.
 
noseall said:
You are cocooned in a deep bucket. You'd literally have to make an almighty effort to clamber of it. Danger, my árse.
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try it mate, 10 metres in the air dangling over live traffic. fast roads and motorways. Yes a walk in the park.
 
Highway Man said:
try it mate, 10 metres in the air dangling over live traffic. fast roads and motorways. Yes a walk in the park.
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We have taken the easy route (cherry pickers) in the past, when ladders were deemed too dangerous. Absolute doddle cocooned in that deep bucket.
 
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