I can really relate to this since my trip to Madrid! It is SO disorientating to get back on the bike and remember to ride on the 'wrong' side! Most confusing for me was turning at traffic lights or junctions and trying to figure out which lane to take! My trip to Madrid was fantastic and went without a hitch - Appart from dropping the bike flat on its side outside a french McDonalds -very embarrassing! And then breaking down with boiling water spilling out from the rad' at 10.30pm in a red light district of Nantes! Hurridly finding the first hotel with off street parking. AA was called next day to discover only a blown cooling fan fuse and thankfully no further damage - phew, good old Honda build quaility! I would really thike to thank everybody who responded to my post, it gave me some invaluable pearls of wisdom and made my trip a real pleasure! I'm just itching to do it all again now! The only thing I shall change next time will be to allow more time - 3000 miles there and back in 6 days has left the memory of much of the journey no more than a sore-necked 110mph blur! <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by PanEuropean:
My own experience driving on the 'wrong' side of the road (in the UK this summer) was that I was most likely to screw up and get onto the wrong side of the road (the side I normally travel on at home) when I would first pull out into traffic from a parking lot. In other words, when I had been off the bike for a while, and there was no other traffic around, and nothing to remind me that the circulation pattern was different.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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