XTreme

Sleeping in a van in October and then fucking walking about? No wonder she's always off somewhere to get away from you!

Clutching at straws now!

What airport would you be flying into?

Still trying to pretend you're a Scot then Ian? Understandable given your real nationality!

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

I believe there's only one female here who can talk a glass eye to sleep Pedro!

Any news where the Wandering Wench is currently talking a glass eye to sleep?

Alvin Lee......he was right up there with SRV and Hendrix!

Looking good Bob!

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.

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. Just crossing into Jaen province at this point..... We're still at some altitude..... Looking down right across the valley! 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!

No worries like that with a CB500X!

Cycling?

Sexism works both ways Pedro.

@Slowlycatchymonkey rubbing off on you?

Here's a Public Information Film......it carries a very important message for you BallSuckers!

Says the bloke who just sold his CRF cos it was too heavy!

Says the bloke who never rides!

What warranty is on them?

High maintenance bike then?

Some of these have done astronomical mileages......there's one in the UK that's hit half a million miles. So ours at 175k kms (110k when we got it) could have a lot of life left in it. And unlike the UK cars don't rust here!

And if we did a Tour and stipulated "Men Only" those bunny boilers would lose their shit and call us sexist!

We'll run the Citroen till it drops!

For a car?