Thank you, Grant 
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Originally Posted by backofbeyond
I quite like the sound of the vintage trip around Iberia. If they’re Italians I guess they’ll be using Ducati’s or something. I was supposed to be doing a vintage bike trip (UK to Morocco) last year but Covid has postponed it until next year - which is just as well because bikes that old (1970 in my case) have a mind of their own. There were supposed to be two identical bikes going and between us we managed a total of 350 miles on shakedown runs before they both blew up. We hadn’t planned on needing backup but I’m beginning to wonder ...
I think you need to take YouTube / Facebook Bike envy trips with a pinch of salt. I look at them in the same way as lifestyle adverts on tv. They only have a nodding relationship with real life. There’s a few of us here that use small bikes and loads of posts on what we’ve been doing on them - check out the archives.
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One is a Motobecane and the other a MV Augusta, I think having two modern-ish support bikes is the way to go because I can totally see having to tow both to the nearest machine shop at the same time more than once, lol ... also it allows for people to swap bikes when the limits of vintage ergonomics become apparent.
My commuter is a 2005 CBF250, which doesn't look too much like an angry Decepticon like the newest bikes do, so I figured having it tagging on at the back won't detract from the experience
Thanks for the tip regarding the "envy trips", I guess it's easy to fall into the trap of aspirational negativity. No wonder young people these days struggle with this problem so much!
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