We're just heading to Andalusia soon to stay for a length of time and ride as many roads as we can....especially the Sierra Nevada, it's gorgeous.

It's an amazing place to ride.

It does make the journey a bit more of an accomplishment to be fair! If you can afford the time I'd spend some time off the toll roads to experience some rural France, and Bordeaux's a nice city.

talked me out of riding through france going this sunday :)

Tell me about it, three years of progress and the GoPro was recording at double the framerate too!

Chrus600 Colours are much more vibrant too! Are you thinking of putting the GoPro on your helmet or will you stick with the more streamlined Drift?

lalex954 I'm keeping the Drift on there for now, I might stick a mount on my helmet for pure riding videos. The Drift is a much better option as a helmet camera, plus I have the mic for it.

It's definitely like a mini Nevada in a lot of places, except with far more twisty roads. I'm planning on doing that loop sometime next year and my XJ6 is proving itself perfectly suited to riding in Spain.

Pretty apt description! The best part is how little traffic there is compared to southern England where you really have to go out of your way to find road where you aren't stuck behind a horse box for 10 miles! Will give you a shout if I'm down that way for you to spill the beans on your secret roads :D

Finnoctane It'd be a pleasure, fine sir!

Terry Cox seems they love to go around on the outside........even if their exit is 4th or 5th....

've just come back from a short trip to Portugal and thought it was ace so no doubt he'll have a tonne of fun. I ride the new Diversion, a 2011 model to be exact, it's perfect as a budget tourer.

Tell me about it, it's a route I want to avoid next time. The Pyrenees, the Alps and what's in between is definitely awesome though.

Technically yes, being under the EU law for it. As with a lot of dodgy things bikers might do, you're only potentially going to get busted for it if you've been caught doing something else. I've never heard of bikers being pulled over for this rule in Spain, but a foreign plate, especially one from outside of the EU, could spark some police interest, but I'd say it's very unlikely.

@@Chrus600 i can confirm, even do you are supposed to have a ECE Approved helmet and ECE approved gloves, no one really check it, unless you crash then our ensurance will probably dont pay for that beacause it wasnt ece approved. However, if you plan to come this year i suggest having at least ECE approved gloves, has the law has change recently in that matter and police probably will check from time to time these few first years to make sure people do change to propper "legal" gear. Other than that, its ok to have no ECE approved gear (jacket, pants, boots, not mandatory yet, which is isane, but...). If you come, have a nice time here, and drink many water, is very hot sometimes, specially on the south, and be safe :)

I've yet to see it, but I've also heard this!

Call me a scaredy-cat Brit, but the idea of wearing an open face puts images of my jaw coming off when it hits the tarmac through my mind!

@@Chrus600 yeah that's a good argument which I counter by the heightened risk of coming off in the first place due to impaired visibility. A chacun son choix !

Arguably more than half of the reason, and an excellent username good sir 😂