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Talking to a client the other day who's in the Tourist Industry and she commented about the abandoned railway stations and villages as she'd seen them on FB. I told her that I wasn't aware of anybody else who was doing anything similar within the motorcycling fraternity. And she said that there's actually a whole genre of holidays and excursions that are put together to cater for these unusual type of places.......it's called Dark Tourism. And the destinations would be places like Death Camps, sites of natural disasters, or man-made disasters like Chernobyl etc. Interesting concept for sure! She suggested that I start a Dark Motorcycling tour business running trips to these grim and bleak places. Because nobody else does it. I told her there's not a hope of me doing something like that.......which essentially is dragging a bunch of fucking dickheads across Southern Spain, arranging accommodation , translating etc. The whole premise behind going to these places is to totally escape, and be in complete solitude with nobody for miles around. Not pandering to a bunch of selfie-taking twats who would just ruin the atmosphere of the whole thing like they're now doing on the rail tracks at Auschwitz. However, it's an interesting business concept for somebody......though whether people would stump up the dosh to make it worthwhile I'm not sure. But the upshot is that I seem to have created a new genre of biking.......Dark Motorcycling! You won't get this shit on Buttrider you know! Tell 'em @Tym

If you did it for a living it would probably become a chore very quickly. i know it would for me, bikes are strictly for pleasure

I need a safe space! Bully proof windows, troll proof doors....

Oh god.....he'll go and shoot somebody now!

And it's @Sir Fallsalot lfd: (mod_security) mod_security (id:405001) triggered by 81.xxx.xxx.xx (GB/United Kingdom/cable.virginm.net): 5 in the last 3600 secs - Sun Aug 16 11:31:41 2020 Who triggered the security firewall 5 times and blacklisted himself! No idea what he was trying to do.......maybe he can tell us? Feel free to call him a....... Note to everybody......the server will NEVER be down! If you can't reach the site then you've done something stupid and triggered security! So that's both @Catteeclan and @Sir Fallsalot now! Who's next?

Actually, thats where i crashed back in 07

We disagree. That would be true if the main thing in motorcycle tours would be motorcycling, but it's not. The main thing in motorcycle tours is to hold the hand of hopeless people that are too afraid to tour even a civilized western country on their own, motorcycles are just the vehicles in that business.

Exactly! When your hobby/interest becomes your living it changes everything.

Dark Tourism is a big thing here as well. Loads of supposedly "haunted" places that the geeks tour. Dunno if I'd wanna take them along on a bike trip though. I'd love to do a regular touring business on bikes though - would be fun and I know all the good places to go.

It's a doorway.....possibly a time portal as well. If I could guarantee I'd get 1973 I'd be through it like a shot. Knowing my luck I'd get something like the time of Kennedy's assassination or Pearl Harbour!

That's a sweet Bike Fred.....?

Shouldn’t laugh, but ......

HELL YES!.....dirt everywhere...................... ahhhhhhhhhhhh RUN AWAY ?

ummmmm...ya, great stuff guys... ?

Is that amazing or what? Who can afford to ride these things?