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Normandie Express (Brittany Ferries fast ferry) runs from Portsmouth to Cherbourg in 3 hours in the summer. Cherbourg is good for Normandy D-Day...
Take a cable lock. Useful for securing helmet & jacket through sleeves to bike when having a wander around a city, especially when hot. Takes up...
True and I wouldn't bother with it, but I'm respectable. If the gendarmes wish to be awkward of if you have been doing other silly things, it...
Don't now if anyone has mentioned this, but removing it probably makes it illegal in France. I take mine to France and it is wired open (also...
Unexpected - Jerez de la Frontera, but it's very small for a city. Bruges is nice, Berlin as well as "coolest", but I'm too old for it and Vienna...
I'm guessing they do; they had tie downs on Grimaldi from Barcelona to Rome. I know that there are organised bike tours which do Palermo - Sicily...
Never had one on the Ducati, but used one on all previous bikes. Quality is excellent and rain cover good, as integral, even if it does take up a...
Got back today, after a week. Rained every day, but worth it. Last time up, lost a rear tyre on the MS. They put on a new BT023GT at a place in...
I prefer to have places to stay booked. Sounds great to be able to go as you please and have an "adventure" until you get to 7:30 at night and all...
One more thing; I'm sure you realise this, but, going round the Iberian peninsula, just as a route, is about 2,300 miles and would take around 5...
Know the feeling. If it didn't rain, they wouldn't make the whisky
Love the road from Puigcerda to Seu D'Urgell. If you're going to Santander and coming from Burgos (which seems a bit unlikely if you're mainly...
Six weeks to go. Skye to Tongue and wander. Traffic in Skye has been silly for the last two years. Not a big fan of Fort Augustus. Did you know...
I've been doing Spain every year for the past 20. Make sure you are prepared for the weather and time of year. Most of the roads are really good....
If you're doing the lakes, A7 is a pleasant way to get to Edinburgh. Tweed valley makes a nice detour too. If Aviemore is a destination, try try...
If this is Ultraseal, I have used it without ill effect. Doesn't always work. It seems as if every time I don't put it in, I get a puncture. The...
If you know Guernsey well enough to know the Val des Terres, you can imagine the fun I have with the gearing on a Multistrada. The FJR was easy...
Good to know, thanks. I tried the K1600 for an extended ride in Scotland, on a friend's bike. It is a truly wonderful machine, that I didn't...
Worse than FJR 1300? I had two of these prior to the MS and managed about 110,000 miles on them. Very reliable but not hugely entertaining to...
Coming up to 20,000 miles on mine (2014), Can't blame the bike for three punctures in the last 3,000 miles, but the guy who changed the tyre...
