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All Saints Day in Spain today.......so I took a run up the remote mountain road that leads to Santiago de la Espada. I was able to get about 25 miles before I had to turn back, or I'd have gone outside the perimeters of this area. And there are restrictions in place now. This is quite a challenging road as the surface is pretty bad in most places, there's continual hairpin bends, and a drop of a few hundred feet at the sides in various places. There's also wild deer and wild boar roaming all over the place, and the deer have a tendency to leap from banks at the side of the road straight into your path. There's no phone coverage either, and if you do encounter another vehicle it'll probably be coming at you on the wrong side of the road in one of the many hairpin bends. So this really isn't an area to bin it......because you're on your own! You go over the edge and nobody's ever going to know. I think every bike I've had in Spain has done this road......some better than others obviously. But none of them have done it as easily as this Beemer! It really is an eye-opener......not because anything about it is particularly special, it's more a case of it being so well balanced and just so easy to ride. Lyn has ridden this road back in 2007.......remember it @KAYZ1? So here we go......just a short vid but you'll get the idea.

Just tried it.....the existing one is clearer.

Pedro's gig Fred.....he calls the shots on this!

That's not Moon's is it?

Replaced! Hopefully @MooN will ask @Buckster for camera advice.......in case he wins it again!

Deleted years ago Yen! Strangely enough I thought this one would be deleted by now as well!

It's not the content of the photo Bob.......it's the quality of it. It's blurred and pixelated.........like he's taken it on a Polaroid Swinger from the 1960's.

I took one today at a distance......just in case I ever won it. That's highly unlikely of course.....unless everybody flounces and I'm the only one left.

Well it's in! I think he's going to look for a better one! Has @Buckster seen this shit?

Still no camera so you've had to resort to Cartoons @Buckster?

Still waiting for a suitable header pic taken from a distance from @MooN

Hi! ?

Yen's something of an authority on underground stuff! His specialist area is abandoned Victorian toilets! You still got those pics @yen_powell?

They're scattered throughout the country aren't they Yen?

There must be info on it somewhere @Sir Fallsalot........have you checked on Urbex sites?

Great vid Michelle.....those camera angles are incredible! And I'd say that lake qualifies as Dark Motorcycling!

Absolutely! It's nothing short of a miracle that the road isn't strewn with headless corpses! What you say @Grasshopper's Ride?

I had a bit of a scary moment with that substance today Fred! It could very easily have turned into Death and Dismemberment.......but, more by luck than judgement, carnage was avoided! What you say @Tym?

We got to Fred......who knows what happens next!

And in this case it's me! Because I get the feeling we're going to be going back into a total lockdown soon. And that will mean the Army back on the streets patrolling again.......that's not something you can ignore. So I'm making the most of this weekend! At the moment the restrictions imposed mean I can't go into another town......I have to stay within the perimeters of this one. But fortunately there's plenty of scope for riding round the vast open countryside around this place. The elements were in my favour.....24C and blue skies! So it would have been rude not to take advantage of that! And besides that.....I love this fucking bike! And I still want to ride it like a bit on the side!

I thought you might.........most ladies do. Except the Welsh ones......it doesn't work on them so they just want to smack me in the face!