- Time of past OR future Camino
- Francés x 5, Le Puy x 2, Arles, Tours, Norte, Madrid, Via de la Plata, Portuguese, Primitivo
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Funnily enough I was cleaning my bike over the weekend and debating one last fling or getting rid of it
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A brilliant compromise Kanga! I have actually posed a similar proposition to my husband, but he didn't go for it!I think this falls into the category of equipment! Even if not exactly for the camino. I try to walk a camino every year, but husband hates to walk. He loves to ride motorbikes. We also like to do thing together. So we have come to a kind of compromise this year - I will go walk a camino by myself, and afterwards he will meet me and we will do a bit of touring on a motorbike. With me riding pillion, and also doing some walking.
It is hideously expensive to hire a motorbike, and also quite difficult, but we do have friends with whom we can leave a bike if we buy one. So that is what we would like to do. We are currently looking in Germany, but I suspect we would do much better in Spain.
So here is my question. Can anyone help with links to websites for second hand motor bikes for sale in Spain? - not just ebay, but perhaps reliable dealers. Personal knowledge would be a real bonus.
What you wrote could have been written by me! My husband & I are in the same boat as you and your husband. I'm followingI think this falls into the category of equipment! Even if not exactly for the camino. I try to walk a camino every year, but husband hates to walk. He loves to ride motorbikes. We also like to do thing together. So we have come to a kind of compromise this year - I will go walk a camino by myself, and afterwards he will meet me and we will do a bit of touring on a motorbike. With me riding pillion, and also doing some walking.
It is hideously expensive to hire a motorbike, and also quite difficult, but we do have friends with whom we can leave a bike if we buy one. So that is what we would like to do. We are currently looking in Germany, but I suspect we would do much better in Spain.
So here is my question. Can anyone help with links to websites for second hand motor bikes for sale in Spain? - not just ebay, but perhaps reliable dealers. Personal knowledge would be a real bonus.
Trouble is it's a hefty 750cc bike weighing 250+kgs and should a 67yo who has had a (mild) stroke be tooling around on a 120mph bike anyway 🏍 ?NEVER get rid of the bike! You'll regret it. Got rid of mine 25+ years ago and regret it, still (trying to convince la esposa that I need another one).
Trouble is it's a hefty 750cc bike weighing 250+kgs and should a 67yo who has had a (mild) stroke be tooling around on a 120mph bike anyway 🏍 ?
Trouble is it's a hefty 750cc bike weighing 250+kgs and should a 67yo who has had a (mild) stroke be tooling around on a 120mph bike anyway 🏍 ?
I guess it doesn’t matter to a motorcyclist that hiring a car is easy and inexpensive;-)
We met a young dutch man on the Portugese who walked his camino and bought a second hand motorbike and was doing it in reverse back to Holland!I think this falls into the category of equipment! Even if not exactly for the camino. I try to walk a camino every year, but husband hates to walk. He loves to ride motorbikes. We also like to do thing together. So we have come to a kind of compromise this year - I will go walk a camino by myself, and afterwards he will meet me and we will do a bit of touring on a motorbike. With me riding pillion, and also doing some walking.
It is hideously expensive to hire a motorbike, and also quite difficult, but we do have friends with whom we can leave a bike if we buy one. So that is what we would like to do. We are currently looking in Germany, but I suspect we would do much better in Spain.
So here is my question. Can anyone help with links to websites for second hand motor bikes for sale in Spain? - not just ebay, but perhaps reliable dealers. Personal knowledge would be a real bonus.
I think I am the motorcycle riding friend peregrina2000 mentionsYou get the award for the most unusual post of the day! Where in Spain would you want to buy it? I have friends I could ask in different parts of the country. And one is a motorcycle rider himself, now living in between Logrono and Pamplona.
Is this Honda site any use?
ErMehGerd...
Thinking I just struck Gold in finding this thread for my guy, @tomoil 🏍
He's into restoring Royal Enfield's.
https://www.milanuncios.com/motos-de-segunda-mano/?fromSearch=1 Might find something here!
Just noticed your post on motorbiking along/beside/in the vicinity of the Camino. Have walked twice from St. Jean - first time riding up in a taxi on a weekend - and the number of sport bikes zooming around curves had me (owner of a Triumph Daytona 955i) slobbering all over the window. I'm considering returning next spring and would be interested in hearing more about biker join-ups, etc. Btw, I'll be at Burning Man with someone who's riding in on a V-Strom; would be fun meet other Peregrino-riders, if anyone is listening? I'll be part of Anonymous Village. All the best, and Keep the Rubber on the Road...Here's the exact bike I ride now and there are lots of them for sale (mostly with higher mileage) in Spain.
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Really any simple standard moto, 300 - 800cc, would do. We need somebody in Spain to set up a moto rental system for pilgrims either heading for the starting point or back to the airport from Santiago. Or for husbands/wives who don't want to walk... they could tour the countryside and meet back up every so often along the camino. :::Though logistics aren't probably as easy as they seem to me right now, after two glasses of wine (Faustino I, Gran Reserva):::
Sweet looking ride, perfect for your needs. I envy you having free storage for future rides. Also a pleasant experience, isn't it, becoming instant "friends" with bikers you meet along the way...?I thought I should follow up with my original post and let you know what we did. I went ahead and walked the Primitivo. Ian finished up by buying a monster big touring BMW in Germany. Not what I had envisaged at all! But it was very comfortable for a pillion. I flew to join him and we then had a bike trip for a few weeks around the Czech Republic, Austria, northern Italy and France. When we returned to Australia we left the bike with friends in Bavaria, Ian can use it again whenever I go walking in Europe. It is a bit far from Spain but we’ll probably sort that out in the future.
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