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Shot in the Dark!


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This is an example of Dark Motorcycling......you blowhards should try it sometime. Instead of posturing on here and boasting about your bikes!

I don't follow the path of sitting round all day in a cafe, or having an ice cream at the seaside, or splashing in puddles as seems to be the norm here.

Instead I walk a different path and push the psychological boundaries with my much maligned and sorely underrated CB500X.

Today I followed the old railway route from Baul to Zujar-Freila......which incorporates the old railway tunnel and eventually leads to the abandoned station.

I didn't ride through the tunnel as I did 2 years ago because I ran into a bunch of walkers then......so I didn't want to push my luck again! After all, it is a greenway and there is no vehicular access permitted......and I can only play the lost Tourist card so many times.

So I walked through it......and you know how much I hate walking! But if I wanted to get the footage it had to be done! And here it is......the vid is a combination of onboard and location footage!

At the entrance to the path that leads to the Tunnel....

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This is where most of you would start crying and go home......

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But I'm made of sterner stuff so in I went.....

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Till eventually I was in total darkness!

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I kept on going to the end though.....

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Then back through the tunnel to get to the bike. Never saw a soul!

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It was then a run through very remote roads to get to the abandoned station in Zujar-Freila. In the vid you'll see the line running parallel to the road!

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Every time I come here more of it has collapsed.....

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The view up the track from the direction I rode in.....

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Then back on the bike and across to Zujar!

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26C today......on the last weekend of October! I don't expect to get hot on the bike this time of year! Very odd!

Now I know the usual suspects will be nitpicking with this report......but as I've said before, you're all more than welcome to get your asses over here sometime and try it for yourself!

@Skippy didn't come to any harm last week after all! OK, admittedly his jacket and Kwak didn't fare so well......but these things can happen anywhere! Just coincidence, nothing more!

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  On 30/10/2022 at 17:58, boboneleg said:

FFS !

 

@Sir Fallsalot   show him a proper tunnel Fred where you ride through over all sorts of shite , I haven't got any photos of it as it was a while ago .

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Like this one you mean LOL


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Or this one of a 71 year old navigating the exit from Talybont tunnel 

 

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  On 30/10/2022 at 21:20, boboneleg said:

Is that @Renegade with his back to the camera ?

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Yeh.....he'd just tucked me up for coffees again.

Then he went and spat on the floor in front of my bike so I'd have to ride through it! Sick deviant!

That's Mad Mandy from Builth in the background......no idea what became of her!

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  On 31/10/2022 at 09:36, Marcel said:

The only boundary your pushing pushing with that bike is the question of your sexual preference.... More delapetated ghost town with rappen dog shit everywheres... And a walk trough a tunnel of love.. Wow!! 

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Says the guy who hangs out in truck stops with other Harley riders!

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  On 30/10/2022 at 21:22, XTreme said:

Yeh.....he'd just tucked me up for coffees again.

Then he went and spat on the floor in front of my bike so I'd have to ride through it! Sick deviant!

That's Mad Mandy from Builth in the background......no idea what became of her!

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I havn't heard from or seen Mandy for quite a few years.

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