Ride to Eat nr 3 Lighthouse Alexandroupoli ,Greece june 30,2018
- Thread starter michiel kerkhof
- Start date
I'll be leaving Thursday morning and taking a leisurely ride over. May take a detour to Athens.. For the armchair riders my SPOT tracker will be active from Thursday.
https://spotwalla.com/tripViewer.php?id=19b925b327ddd68e99
https://spotwalla.com/tripViewer.php?id=19b925b327ddd68e99
Don't forget to buy highway vignettes in Slovenie and Bulgary.
Got out and tested camping gear this we; it's gonna be warm, will take the camelbag along ....
Got the Yam only back last week from major (two months..), under gurantee, repair.
Valve coating was disolving/gone, no more pressure ..... they had to take out the whole motor from the frame .....
This morning minor electricity issues on the GPS etc .. plus head of sparkplugs kaput, but by end of day this should be cured!
great ride to all
Got out and tested camping gear this we; it's gonna be warm, will take the camelbag along ....
Got the Yam only back last week from major (two months..), under gurantee, repair.
Valve coating was disolving/gone, no more pressure ..... they had to take out the whole motor from the frame .....
This morning minor electricity issues on the GPS etc .. plus head of sparkplugs kaput, but by end of day this should be cured!
great ride to all
Sorry folks woke up Thursday morning with a terrible sickness. Coming around now but not fit enough to jump on bike and ride 2000 miles.
Ride safe everyone.
Have a drink for Garry who unfortunately didn't make it to Finistere.
I have the patches and will post them if somebody can collect together a list of names and addresses of attendees.
Ride safe everyone.
Have a drink for Garry who unfortunately didn't make it to Finistere.
I have the patches and will post them if somebody can collect together a list of names and addresses of attendees.
The 4 riders who made it to the lighthouse. If you email me your up to date addresses and I'll post you a patch.... Or 2.
[email protected]
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Hi Guys, made it back safe and sound, it took me 41 hours to get back to Milton Keynes including the ferry back to dover and 5 hours sleeping in the Iron Butt Hotel in a service station in Austria, route was Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and France, had a great time at the RTE with the three other guys that turned up 
, unfortunately left my shower gel at the hotel so I might just have to ride back and get it
, unfortunately left my shower gel at the hotel so I might just have to ride back and get it 
A great ride as usual.
Michiel - great choice on the restaurant for dinner - the owner was "honoured" and I think a little amazed that we had ridden across Europe to eat at his restaurant.
I rode home via Albania in order to get a ferry to Bari in Italy - I was on my way to Florence to scatter my Mums ashes. She would have been delighted at her send off on Monday evening but unimpressed a being carried across Europe on the back of a "bloody motorcycle" as she called them.
I don't mind saying I was a little anxious at the prospect of riding into Macedonia and Albania. This was put into perspective when I had a coffee at a petrol station in Greece with an Italian biker. He was riding a 1990s 1100 Suzuxi (gsx 1100f I think) and was on the way back from 15000kms riding around Turkey, Jordan, Iraq and Israel. Had also tried to enter Syria! (cannot get in without a Syrian passport) and Iran (did not want to wait 48hours for a visa).
This was my first time motoring in Italy for more than 20 years and I managed to set an unwanted personal record when I paid 1.91 euros per litre for fuel north of Bari on the autostrada! Anyone paid more than that for fuel anywhere?
Michiel - great choice on the restaurant for dinner - the owner was "honoured" and I think a little amazed that we had ridden across Europe to eat at his restaurant.
I rode home via Albania in order to get a ferry to Bari in Italy - I was on my way to Florence to scatter my Mums ashes. She would have been delighted at her send off on Monday evening but unimpressed a being carried across Europe on the back of a "bloody motorcycle" as she called them
.I don't mind saying I was a little anxious at the prospect of riding into Macedonia and Albania. This was put into perspective when I had a coffee at a petrol station in Greece with an Italian biker. He was riding a 1990s 1100 Suzuxi (gsx 1100f I think) and was on the way back from 15000kms riding around Turkey, Jordan, Iraq and Israel. Had also tried to enter Syria! (cannot get in without a Syrian passport) and Iran (did not want to wait 48hours for a visa).
This was my first time motoring in Italy for more than 20 years and I managed to set an unwanted personal record when I paid 1.91 euros per litre for fuel north of Bari on the autostrada! Anyone paid more than that for fuel anywhere?
Which of you chaps feels up to producing a full-sized ride report, one-way or both ways, with/without pictures?
Our ride reports page on the website's looking a little dated. Send me the text if you don't want to do the techie stuff yourself.
Our ride reports page on the website's looking a little dated. Send me the text if you don't want to do the techie stuff yourself.