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I think a tour of the ghost towns, haunted areas and old gold mines around here would do well. There are lots of local ghost tours that are popular . The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park is one of the more famous ones: https://www.stanleyhotel.com/night-tour.html . It's the hotel that inspired Stephen King to write "The Shining" . But there are loads of ruins, etc that could make up a week long riding tour.

How much of an asshole do you have to be for Hitler to hate you!?!??

Maybe he just didn’t like the food served, damn Hitler and his manners

A meeting of two genocidal fascist dictators.......and Yen's looking for personal grooming tips! It could only happen on here!

I haven't snapped many bolts over the years, but I think most were when using a torque wrench, I prefer doing bolts by feel. I save them for wheel nuts and front/rear sprocket nuts which are impossible to break mostly.

Look at the starch on those lapels in the middle. How ever were we on the winning side in WW2, Churchill looked like Wurzel Gummidge in comparison, no two pounds of him hanging straight!

Which is fine if unlike my mate, you haven't bought a new CCM only to find the company folds, your warranty goes up the pictures and the reformed company say, 'nothing to do with us matey, keep that muddy thing away from us, would you like a trendy cafe racer with free lumberjack shirt?'.

In terms of abandoned villages Belchite is the most striking.......and by far the darkest with 3000 dead in the Spanish Civil War.

This is the best run up ive seen yet.

I like the ones that hold air their whole life!

A lot of people rip the piss out of Halfords but my Halfords torque wrench is ace

I voted for @Skippy's bike over @Grasshopper's Ride bike because i like the tyres on his bike better. Im sure Grasshoppers tyres work well on wet roads, however...... Riding when its wet should be illegal imho

I couldnt walk for a week after that, we rode for an hour or so...

Nope i learned to use both hands many years ago just in case of disasters like this

Looks like "Wankers Doom" to me!

Brilliant Fred, Some great photos of some great trails there These exact rock steps claimed my 950 once when we were riding it in the opposite direction, the bike had the scars until I sold it. Looks like some fresh grading has been going on here, did you notice that they're trying to turn it into a cycleway, We'll probably be banned from it before long

Trains, off-road..dark! now i remember, i was going to work on this topic for some pics, i forgot... Cant think of much darkness around here, property costs to much it doesnt sit long. ?????

I've uncovered a rather sinister bit of info about the abandoned village I'm going to search for on Sunday. You may remember that with all these villages the reason so far for them being empty is economic. Because people moved to the bigger towns and cities to get work. But not with this one.......because the residents were made to leave and their homes demolished! And there's a pattern of villages being forcibly depopulated throughout Spain during the years of the Franco dictatorship up to 1975. In this case, the creation of the Cazorla-Segura National Hunting Reserve in 1960 required a change in the usage of large tracts of land, land that contained a number of villages and hamlets. So the residents were evicted in order that the state could take their land. This is Dark Motorcycling for sure!

Oh the hand is ok ish today thanks for asking . thumb showing a little colour and some swelling, I was like woody Harrelson in the film Kingpin in work today i think the lesson is not to hold on when your going down