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men8ifr and Jamiextz,

You still thinking about a Morocco trip over christmas? I was thinking about the same trip. I am riding a BMW F800 GS. Long time street rider, but I did some motocross as a kid. I have been looking to get back into dirt riding and eventually some enduro racing.

At any rate, I am interested in a Morocco trio over the holidays, 2 to 3 weeks. I live in Wiesbaden (west of Frankfurt). I would love to ride down, maybe as far as Dakar. Do as much dirt riding as possible. I am not sure how long it would take to get that far and I would probably ride back. I am not too keen on shipping my bike back.

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Yes still thinking about it, no reply from jamie for quite a while so not sure about him. The F800 is probably my ideal bike and great for a morocco trip.

For 2-3 weeks total I think there's more than enough riding in Morocco and it saves border/insurance hassles etc not going into Mauratania, there's more tracks in Morocco as well.

Nothing is definate at the moment - dates, length, how to get there etc....
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Well, I am still interested in a trip over the holidays. I was thinking about doing a circle around the adriatic, kinda down Italy and then over to Greece and back up. I am not sure how to get over the Alps in Nov. Dec though. That makes me more likely to push west through France/Spain and then spend my time in Morocco. I figure I could get three weeks off over christmas/new years. What are you riding?

I am going to make a trip down to Faro Portugal for a bike rally in July. That should give me a good feel for how long/hard that part will be. Where are you coming from? UK right? You want to ride down or ship the bike?
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I'm still on the Green Aprilia Pegaso in the pics I posted on the first page.

Yes I'm in the Midlands - UK. Don't think I would ship the bike, too much $$$ I would consider driving, the last trip through Spain in March/April was still miserable with the cold and rain. Ideally if i had 2 other people coming from the UK and took 3 bikes on a trailer and shared costs this would be very cheap for me (and them)

Portugal is nice, - especially if you like coffee and cakes/pastries.

How do you get on with the F800? I guess you do a lot of miles!
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Yeah, I think shipping the bike would be a bit pricey too. For me, I think the ride down will be part of the fun. I just got my F800 a few months ago. I ride it daily to work and back and have done a few trips around Germay. I am coming up on 3000 miles on the bike, so I haven't done a ton of miles yet, but I am hoping to over the next year. I might try to go to the UK HU meeting in the fall and also going to do the portugal trip. So far I love the bike. Absolutly great with the only exception being the seat. The seat kills by ass after a few hours. I ordered some touratech parts, including a seat, so hopefully that will fix that.

Keep me posted on the Morocco trip. If you can get some others to help you with the trailer plan that would be great. If not, then maybe we can come up with another plan somewhere closer. I am only going to be in Europe for a few years, so I want to make the most of the time.

Are you going to the UK HU meetings? I can't make the one in June.
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Yes I was thinking of going to the June meet. If the trip still looks a possibility later in the year we could meet up at the fall HU meet if you're still going.

Have you been offroad on the F800 yet?
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I deffinitly wont be able to make the june meet. I have work commitments that I can't get out of. I know the dates for the fall HU meet is Septemberish. I might be able to make that one. My brother is coming for a visit during Sept, so dates will be critical.
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Hi ya
I may be well up for this kind of trip morocco offroad would be fantastic especially if you can pick up one of the raids like you said.
But its a long drive down and back about 3900/4300 = 6 days, I do a similar trip every year for work in a camper with my CRF on the back.
I could possibly carry 4 bikes down in relative comfort with passengers. the diesel cost would be about £600 depending on the rate and price of fuel at the time and the ferry is about £140 return then you have the toll charges if you pushed for time, France and Spain road charges are about 360 euros, The reason I am telling you all this is because just getting to morocco by road with a van/car and trailer is quite expensive. There is another way to get the bike down and that is to have them courierd to southern spain, about £140 each way and then fly down separately.
I dont mean to be a gloom monger but when people realise the cost they often have a change of heart.
I will be at Ripley over the weekend hopefully so if your still keen let me know and we can have a chat.
kind regards wozza
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What's the 3900/4300? What is your camper - are you thinking of taking the bikes on a trailer?

£740 excluding tolls is cheap - even for 2 people £370 each but is that 1 way?
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