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Old 24 Jan 2010
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Talking Hi from Switzerland!

Well what to say first.... Hello!

My name's Guillaume I'm 25 and I discovered motorbiking in semptember 2008 just as a try, had an opportunity to get a cheap 1989 Yamaha DT 125R (which did scare the little jesus out of me more than once :P) and since that... I hooked on it badly.

I started to dream about long trips since 2009's Dakar and my poor old 125cc went for bigger trips within switzerland (12 000km in a year isn't too bad for such a small bike with stock seat ).


So now here I am, gonna gather a bigger bike for bigger trips! (morrocco and Scotland this year) but the bike's choice gonna be in another subject

Thanks in advance for all the precious info that I might read here around!
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Hi and welcome! Enjoy your trip to Scotland and if you're passing Leeds en-route and need a place to stay, just give me a shout...
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Thanks for all your warm welcome guys and gals!

hope to see some of you somewhere sometime, with a preference of "not too far from our bikes "
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