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This building was originally a sugar factory, but at the time of the Spanish Civil War it was used as an Internment Camp by the Franco regime. So it has a somewhat grim history. It's condition is pretty bad now and the upper floors have completely collapsed. I also checked out the Officers' Accommodation which is further up the road! Once again it's pretty bad, but there is access to the upper floor. The first bunch of pics is the main building where political dissidents were held.......easy access to it! I found a superb Drone vid on YouTube which gives you a better idea! I need a Drone I do! It was a 200kms round trip on this run, but nearly all motorway. So nothing of interest for an onboard vid! I did actually do a vid walkthrough but it appears there's no video stabilisation on this new phone, so it wasn't too good! I need a GoPro I do! But what I don't need is another bike! The most reviled motorcycle on the forum does everything I need it to do. Anyway......let's check out the main building! And inside...... This roof isn't going to last much longer! Then it was up the road to visit the Officers' building! Here it is......probably very upmarket in it's day! But it's day has long gone! Ceilings are falling in! Looking up to the verandah...... ......which obviously needed to be investigated! And this would probably be the point where most of you would shit out! Upper floor rooms......some of which have caved in! This one was well and truly fucked...... Then back onto the verandah and I made my way out. The place wasn't as creepy as I expected it to be.......because there are some places where you get a real bad vibe as soon as you enter. This wasn't one of them. No axe murderers, no corpses, no midgets, no dead animals......you could say it was more of a holiday excursion really! For me! But for you lot it would be a bridge too far. Stick to going to your local coffee shop and leave the Dark Motorcycling to the real men!

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Sounds like diabetes. Get yourself checked.

He is scared to come here, he has goat legs and we have Marcel and the Welsh.

Abandoned Engineering sounds cool and interesting. Abandoned shit not so much

Relented....turned the central heating on , only for half a hour though

and more Canadians.

Finally an advent calendar for real people but who deserves it most?

Nice one Pete, that looks like a decent trip I'm sure why you keep banging on about your bike being the most reviled bike on the forum ? It's only the peeps with the huuuuuuuuuuuuuge bikes saying that , they need to have a huge bike or they can't get a hard-on

Nice to see the universal graffiti cock drawn there, common to every graffitied wall throughout the world ancient or new, probably drawn with a different accent then the UK though El cocko

So after the puncture/breakdown debacle I was chomping at the bit to see what the cause was today. Out came the rear wheel, the tyre was removed and the culprit was revealed ............ The valve had come free of the tube, that explains the instant deflation. On inspection the area around the valve hole was showing signs of corrosion. Not great on a set of wheels that are only 15 months old The rim tape was also destroyed from riding 7 miles on a flat tyre............... I've cleaned up the rim , mounted a new rim tape, tube and new tyre. I'll carry on with the rest of it on Tuesday .

Mines more like shredded wheat.

I watched the film Fisherman's Friends last night . I sure I saw @Saul in there somewhere

Yes it often quite windy here.

You know I wouldn't against having a religious sign on the front page ....to keep the demons away..

I'm sure the 250 is an ex Neil Hudson bike. Back in the day before he became World 250 MX champion we used to try and get up the same coal tips as him and his brother at Pensford. Obviously we wern't quite as successful as them two https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Hudson_(motorcyclist)

Slowlycatchymonkey we're trying to turn the page and move the forum into a more refine place in order to attract more members...posting pictures of animal sex is only gonna attract those sheepshagers...just saying...

The No 1, YZ490 was one of those bikes that all my mates said don't buy it you will regret it, well guess what i bought one and they were wrong it was a wicked machine just when i thought i'd sussed it out it would do something to surprise me it was such an adrenalin rush riding it on the dirt and the road sometimes. Broke my first bone on that bike and after i was healed i was back on it doing the same daft stuff the only thing i regret was selling it.

I have taken on board everything that Saul has said and from now on I am going to be only using very refined humour and avoiding anything that may drive away persons of delicate proclivities. There is no doubt going to be a large influx of new members now, all likely to be Honda riders. It's going to be fabulous.

Not that I know of mate, chubby slapheads are pretty common you know

No! A rule of Urbex is you leave everything as it was!

Calm down bob .. eat your dinner first , it looks lovely.

I see that GM and Honda have cancelled plans regarding building electric cars, it's almost all over, stupid idea anyway.

Yes I've heard being ginger is one step away from having horn on your head.

Scuse me, my piss smells of Sugar Puffs 1st thing in the morning.

The problem with hydrogen is the same as with electric powered vehicles, we are all looking at the end result which is clean energy but not looking at what it takes to get to the end result. At the moment it takes a lot of polluting energy to produce Hydrogen so unless they can come up with a clean efficient inexpensive way to produce it Hydrogen use is going to be limited.

Need the Archangel Michael here too, he will sort the f@ckers out.

And when I post Abandoned stuff nobody cares! They need to give me a TV series!

You do realise Pete is ginger, don’t you?

neither of you ??? is the mrs putting her hand in her pocket for the indian ? you need some Stella with that indian

Nothing wrong with a bat chow mein, or some meow meow stir fry

Not my photos one of the TRF members were there today thought the photos were worth showing

A refined place? Here? Even Jesus couldn’t turn this around.

Oh lord please save us from this.

It’s back in my garage

@Renegade , do you recognise the sticker on my old KTM 950 screen in the background ?

Nope, missed that an excellent suggestion for deviation from a traditional recipe, I salute you, but it’s usually in a pie isn’t it?..

I have 3 sets of specs, 1 for close up work and reading, 1 set for distance, but wear them most of the time, and 1 set that I wear to when looking for the other 2 sets. Wife has a guide dog and a white stick..

Sounds like @Six30's used car lot!

you'd think he would know what a crane looked like the amount of times he's had one turn up to lift his lorry out of ditches

Fucking van, cars, bike jackets, sheds everywhere LOL

You mean to funnel the harmful emissions back in to the house from which they came from

Breathing will become illegal soon too, either that or they will heavily tax anyone who does inhale a lung full of smog

Sorry missed this Pete. Pros on the forum for me are: Some very interesting people who do interesting things, live in interesting places and will talk about it. We can talk about bikes without a lot of the bullshit 180 mph on public roads type stories. Some very genuine people. No tolerance of Pomposity. No Politics, mostly. Some genuinely weird fuckers here. Cons: Those fucking mange photos. Some spiteful pile on type of nit picking, wind ups and bullying. There are a lot of bikes and bike type stuff that people avoid talking about because the pile on culture think they are shit. I think we are missing a lot of interesting content as a result. The sheer volume of homophobia, misogyny and obsession with bumming type comments. I grew up in the 1970's and understand the humour but there are less and less of us now and it just doesn't fly today, if you want to recruit new members and grow the forum. You may not want to change the dynamic of the place. But don't underestimate how many people will walk away from this type of stuff though, even in our own age group. Sometimes being a member of this place feels like a guilty secret rather than something I would recommend to my mates. Now don't take anything I have said as an attack on anyone, it's not meant that way. You asked for what I thought and here it is. I do think this is a great forum with a good community, I enjoy spending time here.