Hi folks,
Yesterday we went on a long awaited exploratory route I had been planning for many days. We had joining us at last minute David, a friend of us that owns a Honda Revere but puts her anywhere, regardless if it's muddy, rocky, etc.
So, off we went, 92 Dommie, my 03 TA, and David's Revere (NTV). From Barcelona we made our classical routes, going north, and after 100 Kms of pretty known roads we decided that it was late so we had to hurry in order to arrive at the starting point of the track at a reasonable time, to buy food and drink for the day to eat up there in the mountains. We took the fast way and arrived at Ribes de Freser at 1pm.
The track is a little known route that mostly 4x4 and quads do, but a normal bike and not finicky owner can do, rolling at 10 km/h. So for a 40 kms track we headed. I only took pictures at the place we had to stop, eat, have "siesta" (spanish habit), and then go back. Ahead of where we stopped it was impossible to continue due to long and deep packs of snow in the track. Probably if it wasn't so late, and we really HAD to pass them, we would have passed each bike among the 3 of us helping, because like 4 or 5 kms further it looked as if snow was less harsh. This was at about 2.100 meters high.
http://picasaweb.google.com/miramifoto/RutaHaciaTregura#
There are 2 pics I especially shot for XRV's TA owners!
I have discovered that Google Maps considers half of this route as driveable, in the Maps point of view! Well, it was not a difficult route at all for the Dommie an TA, but after deciding to go back and redo the track backwards, David's Revere suffered a lot, because the beggining of the route was a steeeeep slope of sharp rocks, so now it was downwards, braking, every plastic of the bike rattling, rocks knocking the sump, imagine...
more pics of Dommie's owner: http://picasaweb.google.es/suzenako/RibesDeFreser#
Ah! If anyone would like to have this route in .kml format (google earth's) I'll gladly post it.
Yesterday we went on a long awaited exploratory route I had been planning for many days. We had joining us at last minute David, a friend of us that owns a Honda Revere but puts her anywhere, regardless if it's muddy, rocky, etc.
So, off we went, 92 Dommie, my 03 TA, and David's Revere (NTV). From Barcelona we made our classical routes, going north, and after 100 Kms of pretty known roads we decided that it was late so we had to hurry in order to arrive at the starting point of the track at a reasonable time, to buy food and drink for the day to eat up there in the mountains. We took the fast way and arrived at Ribes de Freser at 1pm.
The track is a little known route that mostly 4x4 and quads do, but a normal bike and not finicky owner can do, rolling at 10 km/h. So for a 40 kms track we headed. I only took pictures at the place we had to stop, eat, have "siesta" (spanish habit), and then go back. Ahead of where we stopped it was impossible to continue due to long and deep packs of snow in the track. Probably if it wasn't so late, and we really HAD to pass them, we would have passed each bike among the 3 of us helping, because like 4 or 5 kms further it looked as if snow was less harsh. This was at about 2.100 meters high.
http://picasaweb.google.com/miramifoto/RutaHaciaTregura#
There are 2 pics I especially shot for XRV's TA owners!
I have discovered that Google Maps considers half of this route as driveable, in the Maps point of view! Well, it was not a difficult route at all for the Dommie an TA, but after deciding to go back and redo the track backwards, David's Revere suffered a lot, because the beggining of the route was a steeeeep slope of sharp rocks, so now it was downwards, braking, every plastic of the bike rattling, rocks knocking the sump, imagine...
more pics of Dommie's owner: http://picasaweb.google.es/suzenako/RibesDeFreser#
Ah! If anyone would like to have this route in .kml format (google earth's) I'll gladly post it.