Beeeeeeeg ride out on starts on Saturday :)

[Ros]

Right, that's it.

3 weeks holiday starts Friday night, so I'm busy planning a monster trip with the wife. 

The idea is to start here, in Monza, then head out over the top of the FR IT alps to stay at a mate's house near Grenoble, then down the Route Napoleon  to Lorgues at my folks' place. Stay a couple of days to sort a few things out and take advantage of their pool facilities, then down towards Perpignan.  We will then follow the coast all the way down to Alicante to stay at the sister in law's place... Yep, to take advantage of her pool facilities too.  Prolly stay there for a while then dream up a nice route back up towards France and then hit the coast roads towards Genoa, and back up towards home.

I'm gonna have a square arse...  That will be the biggest trip I've done on a bike two up and we're really looking forward to it.

Finally got round to finding a few places to mount the GoPro, and no doubt the wife will be busy snappin' pics on the back too.

Looking at the forecast, we're really going to COOK.......... 

Just gotta find some nice but inexpensive places to stay to split some of those parts up a bit...

My next job is to read the post about what to take with me. Then I'll know how much to jack the suspension up to carry all the extra useless  that the French have deemed necessary to cart along..........

Cheers

Ros

[Lonewolf]

A three week tour on the GTR, that sounds like bliss. 
Have a great time and dont forget to do a write up on it when you get back or even during the trip if you can.

[O.C.]

I'm not jealous..........no really       

[Rusty]

If you havn't already gone .... have a great time .... and don't get too hot !

[Ros]

Wow.

My arse hurts.

So far, Monza to Grenoble
Grenoble to Lorgues
Lorgues to Perpignan
Perpignan to Onda....


Onda?! On a Kawasaki?!   

Pictures to follow when I can find a way... :)

Tomorrow, Onda to Alicante.

We did get completely drenched in a proper storm around Lorgues. Hailstones like marbles! That really hurts!!!

It did cool us off though. The temp display on the dash went from 38 to 12! Then back to 32 all in the space of about 20 minutes.

I'll update over the next few days with some pics when I can get access to one of those computer thingies... This ipad is total shite!

See ya

Ros 

[Rusty]

Sounds bloody brilliant mate ! 

[O.C.]

looking forward to your next update ros, even with a shite iPad 

[Ros]

Hiyq qll,

Just chilling todqy, so I ;qnqg  aaargh.  UK Keyboard... Let's start again.

Just chilling today, so I managed to borrow my mate's PC.

Here are a few pics of our trip down!

Some niiiiice French roads


Lunch at the top of a big hill


Notice we're wearing half-decent gear....


And here are a few people we snapped whilst overtaking.  NO decent gear and didn't even notice me coming up behind them...



Anyway...   Onda on a Kawasaki 


This is the centre of Valencia.  Notice how all the traffic lights went green for us 


Take care

Ros

[Ros]

A couple more pics...

Found some shade to take a quick break in...


My bike has a big nose...


Arrived at a hotel, and refreshment in progress!  And yes, that is the shite iPad on the table...



Interestingly enough, I have found an app to stick on my phone that uploads my pics to photobucket and then I can actually post to here on the shitepad.  I think this is this is the only website that actually works properly on it.

Can't type for toffee on it though...

Night all 

Ros

[Kwikasfuki]

Nice pics Rasbif.

100mph = 70 mph? I think you're proving that magnesium isn't the fastest colour 

[O.C.]

Nice one Rosbif......I like the comment "lunch at the top of a big hill"  brilliant..... continue to enjoy your tour

You've got much better weather there than we have here 

[Lonewolf]

Brilliant photos. As much as I like to see photos of the Uk its good to see pics from overseas members especially when they have the best coloured bike. I see you have the GoPro where I had my mounted too. Excellent choice.

Feel free to show more photos from your shitepad. 

[O.C.]

I see you have the GoPro where I had my mounted too. Excellent choice.

I noticed that too Steve, I currently have mine mounted alongside the glove box top left panel, and its far from ideal

[Lonewolf]

I didn't even know you had a GoPro. I've recently just bought one of the new GoPro units. The GoPro 2 but I've yet to put it on the GTR.

[O.C.]

I bought it about 3 years ago Steve, and to be honest I haven't really used it that much

I'm in the process of mounting the camera so that I can use it when I go to France at the end of this month, under the mirror is a place I hadn't considered

I assume that you have it attached with a safety cord just in case it swings loose.

I don't like the idea of using the suction cup to attach it to the body work although I think I'm right in saying that Winnie has done this in the past