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Affordable rental in Malaga Andalucia Spain?

Hi. I've been a lurker thus far (although I still plan on posting my ride through northern Vietnam one of these days).

A buddy and I are planning on riding through southern Spain (mostly Andalucia) and possibly some Portugal and some Morocco. Was wondering if anyone has tips on where to rent bikes anywhere in southern Spain, ideally Malaga. We don't imagine doing a ton of off-roading, and would actually prefer cruisers like the old Japanese bikes or Triumphs, etc over the sportier bikes that seem to be so prevalent in Spain. Then again, we are in our early 30's and in decent shape so we're also not looking for huge hogs. Seems like most outfitters have newer BMWs and/or big Harleys and we're not as into those. Plus we're looking to spend as little money as possible on the bikes.

We're very open to more casual outfitters and would be totally OK with even just renting a couple of bikes from a person.

Anyone have any ideas on getting started for this? If the Morocco part would complicate things, we're open to skipping it this time around.

Thanks!
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Not many places will let you take bikes into Morocco. You could check out MotoAdvenTours.

Otherwise try PMing Dakota on this forum to see whether she has any pointers.
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Thanks (again!) Tim.

OK, we'll skip Morocco by bike this time. Anyone know of other places with bikes other than the ones I've come across so far?

http://www.gsheaven.com/
http://www.motoadventours.com/
http://www.imtbike.com/#
http://www.locoformotos.com/
http://www.torotrail.co.uk/
http://www.redtread.com/

These all look professional enough but they're all more expensive than we were hoping and the bikes are all much 'sportier' than we were imagining. Not really ideal but even if we had to rent some small (<250cc) thing, we would be open to that.

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