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Shadrack wrote:Thing is, some of us.....well me for a start....haven't ever riden abroad before.
Me fookin sphincter is twitching and I'm only packing
BiXXer Bob wrote:If you're like many Shads, you'll find switching to the wrong side of the road is easy - much easier than you'd imagine. It's when you get back the trouble starts. For months after repatriating from Germany, every time I came across a car coming the other way on the white line, I had a moment of panic cos' I couldn't remember who was right and who was wrong
Thing is, some of us.....well me for a start....haven't ever riden abroad before.
Me fookin sphincter is twitching and I'm only packing
REEFER wrote:Thing is, some of us.....well me for a start....haven't ever riden abroad before.
Me fookin sphincter is twitching and I'm only packing
shadders...
as long as your eyes are open you will have no problems atall riding abroad..in fact you will wonder how you manage to get about in the UK once your over there
bike are respected so much more over there, overtaking lanes will be clear for 95% of the time and the french will almost write off there cars to pull over to let a bike through
the only thing that WILL get in the way is UK drivers hogging the lane (really!)
a bad road surface over there is like a silky smooth one over here
making "progress" is so much easier and enjoyable and you will see on day one just how crap the roads and system is back here
all banter aside..you got all your doc, you got all the emergency bits and bobs and with X amount of bikes going there aint gonna be much that cant be fixed roadside
once that alarm clock goes off on friday the journey will seem like 10 mins!
theres only 3 things to look our for IMO...
1, hand help speed traps can be done from the other side of the road..even motorways and the plod with the gun will radio through to the plod waiting on bikes 1/2mile up the road on your side, also if the toll roads are used the police tend to sometimes sit behind an exit toll and if there really pissed off then can check the times on your ticket and nick you for speeding...unlikely tho and a stop for fueling, fag etc overcomes the time problem anyway
2, Brittish motorists
3, french version of hells angels..especialy when theres about 40 of them and you try to overtake but cant get through in one hit ..they really dont like it and will cut you up etc ..at this stage..grin, bear, and think of the war
only other thing to add really is keep a cloth(microfibre ones are good!) handy with some visor cleaner (normal window cleaner works ok for me) or you can keep it wet ind just carry it in a plastic bag as there is too many bloody insects over there that chuck them selfs at the visior..so cleanin it to see through is a regular thing
Shadrack wrote:Thing is, some of us.....well me for a start....haven't ever riden abroad before.
Me fookin sphincter is twitching and I'm only packing
Greg 1953 wrote:Toured Normandy last year and the only problem we had was petrol, i.e. getting it, they seem to close for about two hours over lunch and close early at night. We met a bloke touring on a Pan Euro who advised us not to pass a petrol station if we had done more than 50mls. since filling up ! good advice.
Greg
REEFER wrote:Greg 1953 wrote:Toured Normandy last year and the only problem we had was petrol, i.e. getting it, they seem to close for about two hours over lunch and close early at night. We met a bloke touring on a Pan Euro who advised us not to pass a petrol station if we had done more than 50mls. since filling up ! good advice.
Greg
that must have been fun then
Shadrack wrote:REEFER wrote:Greg 1953 wrote:Toured Normandy last year and the only problem we had was petrol, i.e. getting it, they seem to close for about two hours over lunch and close early at night. We met a bloke touring on a Pan Euro who advised us not to pass a petrol station if we had done more than 50mls. since filling up ! good advice.
Greg
that must have been fun then
Almost has much fun as going diagonaly across the whole of France using only roads built before the French revolution
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