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you spelt it wrong Bloke!
Judging by some of the 'Old Farts' that post on here we should have a  Forum! 
Can you believe I heard of one person having their bike 'shipped' while they flew by air so they could meet up with the Dakar! Hardly an adventure....... and there was NO way they could say it was CHEAPER, so they did it as a cost saving excercise! I am beginning to wonder if anyone ever rides their bikes these days?
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I'm not taking the pish. some people like to talk about it, without the inclination/cash/time/etc to go anywhere. that's cool.
but this site, by design or not, serves a purpose for the people out there on the sharp end. and if you're not out there on a crap link you might not realise that all the image posting and endless debate over the latest colours of an XYZ640GPF, really slows things down.
anyway, time for hogmanay....
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It's a draw so far :
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How come there's not a "don't know" category ?
But really ,if you are looking for serious info ,would you even look in a Charley and Ewan thread ?
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Yes, probably, but what would be top of my new year wish list would be that people do a search before posting.
But hey I'm being nitpicky here, an excellent forum and happy new year to everyone.
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Originally Posted by Martynbiker
Judging by some of the 'Old Farts' that post on here we should have a Forum!
Can you believe I heard of one person having their bike 'shipped' while they flew by air so they could meet up with the Dakar! Hardly an adventure....... and there was NO way they could say it was CHEAPER, so they did it as a cost saving excercise! I am beginning to wonder if anyone ever rides their bikes these days?
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I followed the 06 Dakar all the way and rode to and from the UK and have never been so cold in all my life on a bike, and that includes the 1981 Elefant treffen.
I met up in Lisbon with 2 Dutch riders and in Ceuta with a Belgian guy and all of them shipped bikes by truck to Lisbon and flew in, one Dutch guy said it was because ot time but the Belgian said he was not prepared to ride in the cold.
A number of Brit riders are doing at least some of the Dakar for 08 and I believe they are riding the lot! must be something about the Brits with rain and the cold.
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Can you believe I heard of one person having their bike 'shipped' while they flew by air so they could meet up with the Dakar! Hardly an adventure....... and there was NO way they could say it was CHEAPER, so they did it as a cost saving excercise!
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I've riden through Spain in the middle of winter the last two years on the way to watch the Dakar in Morocco and it's not my ideal of adventure.
BikeTruck picked my bike up last night in a massive truck with about a dozen bikes in total and I shall fly into Málaga on 5 Jan to collect it. A second truck left several days earlier taking all the UK Dakar competitor bikes directly to Lisbon. For me the decision was easy, it would cost £380 for the ferry to Bilbao and then ride the 700 miles through Spain, or I could lay out a total of £390 for Biketruck plus the flight and start from Málaga.
I'm carrying on to Senegal where my wife is flying out to join me for a couple of weeks in the sun, so I suppose that's not an adventure either???
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