DangerRuss58

Admin please remove if this has already been posted or if I have put this in the wrong place. For a little while now Pete and I have been talking about going on a couple of rides, relatively long rides, then in May he went into hospital to have a couple of stents fitted. I have tried to contact him a few times over the last 5 or 6 weeks then this afternoon I received a message from his son Scot who informed that Pete had passed away on the 18th May because of heart, failure he never left the hospital!! RIP mate

Thank God for obstacle avoidance technology eh?

I hope not too damn expensive lOL

The battery life is good for a drone Pete I got the drone with a triple charger and three batteries I get around 20 mins out of a battery

We have had the house here for nearly 6 years we moved over Christmas 2018 and yes not all Spain is burnt grass and brown LOL

Yes I know the rules Pete luckily my drone falls under 250gms so is not so affected by the rule

Not being able to ride at the moment as I have two bald tyres and the new ones haven't arrived yet I am relegated to just walking everywhere. About 18 months ago my wife bought me a drone to take with me on my motorbike travels but Covid hit so after flying it a couple of times its been in the cupboard, yesterday I found it charged the batteries up and took it out for a play while walking the dogs just to see if I could remember how it works...? I did manage to get some decent footage of the area behind our house.

Iberian Meet: sounds like a great idea to me but....! Long story short, my wife is a nurse been off work for a while, just over a year with a very bad knee she has had a knee replacement but was sacked just before Christmas RE: "Capability to work" after several weeks of phone calls to the UK nurses union and solicitors she has her job back and has booked a flight for the first week of June, That means I am restricted on where I can go as I have two dogs here at home and one is elderly so can't leave them for long. Also I haven't sorted out my Spanish Licence yet because of this Virus crap so if I get my licence change sorted I can only go on a longish trip once my wife is back here in Spain which will be roughly every 6-8 weeks. If we can work the meet around that...brilliant.! Excuse the delays in answering Pete I am in the middle of writing a book for the ride reports section .

It might be worth having a look at this web site Pete https://www.atlasobscura.com/things-to-do/spain/abandoned

I found that place on the map Pete bloody hell it is in the middle of nowhere, around 145 miles from me which isn't too bad, the wife is going back to work as soon as this virus thing is over so will have to arrange it when she is home..two dogs LOL Looks like a good ride out

A good friend of mine Tony Smith from Tonypandy ( i hope that's how you spell it) is a keen photography and a lot of his photos are of abandoned places like the institutes already mentioned and old factories and the like, I'm pretty sure he's been in that place in Denbigh

Sounds Like a plan Pete

I have never been a bike snob to me of it has two wheels and engine it's a motorbike..respect! I have owned all sorts of bikes in my life I have never understood the "Them and us" thing when regarding Harley's and BMW's I have toured on Adventure Bikes and been off road on sports bikes..not always out of choice LOL My off road skills are about the same as my cooking skills nearly non existent. I just didn't want to put a ride report up on a bike that perhaps didn't conform to the general opinion of what is an Adventure bike..I'll go and write it now!

OK so I was looking through some of my stuff to see what I could put on the Ride report topic and one of the biggest trips I ever did was on my old Harley, my thinking has always been: "a trip is an adventure therefore whatever I'm riding by association is an Adventure Motorcycle" so before I annoy anyone what are you thoughts on this?