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I was out for a few hours as temps were perfect at 24C......ended up turning off the main road near Barranda and going along some rural roads I've never been on. You get a few isolated farming properties here and there but apart from those you won't see any sign of life! Obviously I found some abandoned shit......but not as much as I expected! Ended up on a road I'd been on before....... .....and some ruins I'd visited in the past at some point. But this time there were decomposing farm animals strewn around the place......fucking stinking it was! About 100 miles in all........makes a nice change not to sweat my nuts off! Please note the absence of a van.......cos I believe in keeping it real!

Hes not going to see you though

So there are no roads going through the hills then ? I can see awesome looking roads around that area like this

If you ever get sick of abandoned farms, you can start visiting sewer treatment plants, they're proper stinky too

One springs to mind and also one I've never admitted to...until now. Was on a trip to Germany in 2016 and left early on a Saturday morning to head back to the UK from Neuerburg on my own, leaving the others at the hotel. Leaving the town, there were roadworks so I stopped at the red light and then went on the green as usual. Thing is, the roadworks lane was on the left and when I set off I stayed in that lane and headed down the road totally forgetting where I was until a van came towards me flashing it's lights and beeping it's horn. In a split second I realised I was on the wrong side of the road and moved the bike across to the right so quickly I ended up riding on a grass verge and nearly binned it before pulling over and spending a minute nearly throwing up with the shock. Anyway, got back to Calais in less than 4 hours so the day turned out alright in the end

As happy as a grump old fucker can be you mean

Still fairly green here in Ohio, not at all like back home....

Very tasty.

Yeah, me and Fred are going to tearass around those hills and when you get near we'll just bomb it through a river crossing and that's you f*cked

Mine's got the spoked wheels, smart ass!

Hey @boboneleg, if you´re in the neighborhood and fancy popping by, I might show you around a couple of nice roads. Although, bring sport touring tires on the Tenere, one needs a level playing field.

I have no doubt he'll be seeing Dago Midgets though!

He's waiting for the right helmet

I rode the Tomos twice.

Do it mate, there is soooooooooooooo much to see where you live. You don't even need to find abandoned shit, just look at some of those roads, if I get fit again and I have the time I'm heading your way.

Well there's a nice day trip for you then

Yes haven't long got in. Eleven and a half hours of muddy fun bloody aching all over now, the lads i was out with today were a bit faster than the usual ones i go out with i'm not ashamed to say I've had a beating only took two photos all day

I can't ride across farmers' fields Bob!

you are a very rude little man .

Now that really is Dark Motorcycling! @yen_powell.......Eric's on the graveyard shift!

Yeah... Eric "rides" from Colorado to Ohio in two days, and 1000 miles into the trip he shows a huge enclosed trailer that just HAPPENS to be from... COLORADO. Yeah, sure, he rode all the way... uh huh...

Tomorrow, Saturday, is an off the bike day as we look at some real estate in the area. Might get some pics of that but won't bore you with them. Sunday I'm headed south for 500 miles to Tennessee.

Kind of a depressing place to be. Markers are all of pretty low quality, uniform in size and badly worn despite not being all that old. They'll soon fade away. Some of the large markers were placed by family members after the Asylum was closed.

I don't think i have any awards at least nothing i can think of but my wife was once told by a landlady of a pub in north wales your husband is the drunkest person I've ever seen in my life

Those iron bars and gates on the windows weren't designed to keep people out ...

Only did a couple hundred miles today - on Route 555 south out of Zanesville. Fun road. Loads of blind curves and crests, relatively smooth road surface and not a soul out there other than me....

is she ... any pics

Don’t talk about old Pete like that, you young whipper snapper.

Just listening to this on planet rock thought id post it here just look at that crowd

You won't find many river crossings here Bob!

Yes, I remember Big Nige . All that lot in Caerphilly club can ride like you can't believe.

No a guy called big Nige not sure if you know him He's piloting this here think i posted it before

Shit, @Sir Fallsalot, 11 hours on muddy trails? Did you loose a bet or join the foreign legion? I rode the GS around very local streets to dry it out after washing, took 20 minutes

Actually at some point I'm going to visit the Sierra Espuña for the Abandoned Sanitorium! That's where I was going to see @Skippy. It's been on the cards for a long time, but travel restrictions from Oct to May prevented it......then when those were lifted the wall of heat came down.

But it's only 100 miles and then you get soooooooooooooooo much better roads. I'm not getting on your case but you've got so much potential where you live ?

Thanks Mr Two Photos!

Shit! You'll ache for a week after that Fred!

And for the "patients" that didn't make it, we have a private cemetery out behind the place. No names on the markers, just numbers. The final disrespect to the mentally ill that lived here. There are 5 or 6 of these cemeteries on the grounds, located on different hills behind the Asylum...

This is another abandoned place that should be in the movies. It housed some seriously deranged people back when I was in college here (1977-81) but was closed in 1980 or so. We sued to go into the buildings and walk around when I was in school. It looked like the people just walked out and left all of the office and hospital stuff behind. Very weird. They are trying to turn it into an artists studio of some sort these days...

Headed down the road towards Athens and the Insane Asylum....

Dunno if they ever filmed a scary movie at this house, but they should. hate to see it at night. Gotta say though, the lawn looks magnificent!

Some abandoned farm house for @XTreme ...

I remember me and the wife were on the bike in Germany many years ago. we stopped to get some chips (french fries) and bought some bread rolls to make chip butties you should have seen the confused looks the locals gave us

Newly trained lorry drivers are filtering in.

Been to Narbonne today. Mandy wanted some new shoes and we needed to get some food shopping done. Tomorrow's plan is to cycle to the next town for lunch to celebrate our first anniversary here. Got wine and beer in, to continue the celebrations when we get home! Sunday? No plans yet, but Mandy's got to leave home at 4am Monday morning to take the TGV to Paris for a meeting, so I don't suppose we'll be partying on Sunday!

October 2016 or 2017, coming back from Morocco: night time, tired, hungry and cold arriving in Lisbon in the rain, my more than half worn Heidenau K60 on a loaded bike letting me know at every motorway offramp and expansion joint why they are known to be shit in the rain. I swear I thought we were going down every time I had to put the slightest amount of lean into a corner.

There's a bit of 'fiddling' going on here, yesterday that was @Swagman Tea, now it's a 'snack'

I took my bike down to Denver and stored it in my shop as they're not expecting snow there. We should get about 8-10" at my house tonight so I'll have to drive teh truck to Denver and then hop on the bike...