We've just spent 3 days riding around Chile,from our Santiago base.
So here's just a quick report for anybody interested.
I'm composing it using Twatatalk so will have to do it in bits as you can only upload 4 pics per post.
We arrived on Thursday,and after a night on the town,met up for brek and then Uber'd to Ride Chile to pick up our bikes.
I was to use an F800GS and my mate a G650,as that's all they had left,but would prove to be perfect for what was install.
Bikes came with Peli cases and a tank bag,along with locks and spare tubes and tools.
The plan for day 1 was to head up the old Ruta Antakari to spend the night in Combarbala.This would be about 250 miles ,of which probably 100 would be dirt roads/tracks/paths !!
After Cabildo we entered the first of many ancient tunnels.These buggers are single track ,with a dirt floor,sometimes wet and very slippy,unlit and no passing place.Just about ok on a bike as you can lean in and let a car pass but if car meets car,then one will have to reverse sometimes miles !!!
After that first tunnel,the road turned to dirt and would stay that way for about 100 miles with just the occasional bit of tarmac.
Bye bye tarmac !!!!
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So here's just a quick report for anybody interested.
I'm composing it using Twatatalk so will have to do it in bits as you can only upload 4 pics per post.
We arrived on Thursday,and after a night on the town,met up for brek and then Uber'd to Ride Chile to pick up our bikes.
I was to use an F800GS and my mate a G650,as that's all they had left,but would prove to be perfect for what was install.
Bikes came with Peli cases and a tank bag,along with locks and spare tubes and tools.
The plan for day 1 was to head up the old Ruta Antakari to spend the night in Combarbala.This would be about 250 miles ,of which probably 100 would be dirt roads/tracks/paths !!
After Cabildo we entered the first of many ancient tunnels.These buggers are single track ,with a dirt floor,sometimes wet and very slippy,unlit and no passing place.Just about ok on a bike as you can lean in and let a car pass but if car meets car,then one will have to reverse sometimes miles !!!
After that first tunnel,the road turned to dirt and would stay that way for about 100 miles with just the occasional bit of tarmac.
Bye bye tarmac !!!!
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