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Originally Posted by Martynbiker
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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