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As we have so many people of limited intelligence here, I'll phrase this ride report in a meaningful way that hopefully they can understand!

Once upon a time.......

.......I took a trip up into the Sierra de Cazorla going via the opposite side of the reservoirs......passing through Santiago de la Espada! And this is a route I'd take visitors on.....in fact, Dell and Lyn did it in 2007.

I hadn't been up there for some years.....it was great fun when I first came here, but now it's bloody hard work. Cos you spend most of the time in second and third gear with switchback bends on adverse cambers every 50 metres or so.

At points the road surface isn't too clever and there's big drops either side onto rocks. Then you've got wild boar, deer, and goats that sprint across the road or jump off the banks right into your path.

Plus the occasional twat in a car or bike.....who are incapable of setting up the bends correctly. If that's not enough, there's no phone signal or towns for 50 kms! So this isn't the place to fuck things up.

Now ask yourself........could you see yourself riding here? 

This is the perfect bike for this sort of stuff......it was hard work on the R1150GS! My left wrist used to kill me with all the gearchanges.

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Just crossing into Jaen province at this point.....

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We're still at some altitude.....

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Looking down right across the valley!

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When I got back to town it was fuel up again (bike always goes in the garage with a full tank).......and a serious Jet Wash as it was covered in flies and dust!

On the way back I passed 20k kms......it was 15.5k when I got it 15 months ago. Not a lot admittedly, but with roads like these you can fit a lot of motorcycling into a relatively modest mileage. 

So if you want to participate in a motorcycling extravaganza of truly epic proportions such as this......I'm ready when you are!

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11 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

That looks like a great area to ride, I reckon the Donkey would lap up those bends and rough surfaces 👍

The XT's were good up there as well......even the 350 cos you never get the chance to build up any sort of speed.

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What you needed is a quickshifter  up and down the box without needing the clutch on downshifts it's a game changer.

Looks like a great area to mooch around in, I'd say the busa would do it but it would take abit of hustling to get it to behave 

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7 minutes ago, XTreme said:

I'm waiting for you to confirm that you can handle this @Six30......or have you bottled out again?

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wheres the nearest place to you i can rent a bike

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1 minute ago, Buckster said:

a big jobbie in the foreground. 

Still trying to pretend you're a Scot then Ian?

Understandable given your real nationality!

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4 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Still trying to pretend you're a Scot then Ian?

Understandable given your real nationality!

I had a Scottish grandparent.

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1 minute ago, Buckster said:

I can be one of four nationalities based on my grandparents. 

I can only be one nationality based on my parents, grandparents, and place of birth.

The wife's father was English so if I want to get the death stare I only have to point out that she could claim English nationality if she wanted.

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20 minutes ago, XTreme said:

I can only be one nationality based on my parents, grandparents, and place of birth.

The wife's father was English so if I want to get the death stare I only have to point out that she could claim English nationality if she wanted.

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Gingers aren't allowed to claim a nationality. 

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12 minutes ago, Six30 said:

Nothing in Granada.....only Scooters.

Malaga is the place......a guy I know rented a Tiger there.

I'm 170 miles from there, and @Slowlycatchymonkey (if she's in residence) is about 60 miles.

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