Been a bit busy recently so not had much time to play with the bike, I have looked for some bits for her but I am amazed at how much third party manufacturers charge, so with the help of some of the guys from the forums and the Facebook page I am gong to try and use cheaper alternatives and when I say cheaper I mean Chinese etc rather than people like Touratech and Altrider. One example of this an ancillary light set for my bike is anywhere between £299 to £430,So with some advice form other riders I have ordered a set of LED lights for £26 just need a relay and a switch I'll let you know how this goes. Headlight guard over £100 from China £19 again we will see how it goes.
Anyway last weekend Lorni wanted me out of the house for a while she recommended that I go and have a look at Denia which isn't too far from here, I fired up Tyre and worked out a route trying to avoid bigger roads.
I am having all sorts of problems with my sat nav if I import a route as a track then convert it to a trip everything is fine but if the route imports as a trip then I have a problem in that it just doesn't seem to work. Oh well Denia wasn't that far so I made my way tot he Port where you can catch a ferry to the Balearic isles, and fortunately park for free.
As you can see I had to fight for a parking slot, I did have a taxi driver come over and start talking about the bike in rather good English he owned a VStrom and also does a lot of touring and we compared notes on the two bikes. He told me that in another 4 weeks I would struggle to get up the road let alone find somewhere to park. The views were good though.
By the time I had arrived in Denia, early afternoon the temperature had shot up I mentioned this to Lorni who later sent me a screen shot of the weather app for that day and yes I was right it was hot well hot for me anyhow.
Remember this is still Winter and that temperature would relate to a decent summers day in the UK phewww!. I did get a snap of the castle also I noticed that every road to my right ended in a dead end with the sea and the beach right in front of you.
Denia along with Javea which is next door is supposed to be on of the "go to" places in Spain but! what I found was a town that looked tired and if I'm honest a bit run down the outskirts are nothing more than row after row of holiday flats and I think they look terrible and even a little depressing, maybe it's because the place is still empty and not everything is open yet, the season starts in a few weeks time, I will go back later in the year and maybe I will change my mind.
I did mount my Go-pro on the bike to take some video but for some reason it didn't work, when I got home I found all my batteries were just about dead and it is a Hero 3 so ancient by today's standard, I looked up what a new one cost and was suitably shocked at the over £400 asking price for a new Hero 7 , so again thanks to some advice and a little research I am trying out an alternative which gets very good reviews and costs less than a quarter of a new Go-Pro, again we will see how this pans out.
As you can see I had to fight for a parking slot, I did have a taxi driver come over and start talking about the bike in rather good English he owned a VStrom and also does a lot of touring and we compared notes on the two bikes. He told me that in another 4 weeks I would struggle to get up the road let alone find somewhere to park. The views were good though.
By the time I had arrived in Denia, early afternoon the temperature had shot up I mentioned this to Lorni who later sent me a screen shot of the weather app for that day and yes I was right it was hot well hot for me anyhow.
Remember this is still Winter and that temperature would relate to a decent summers day in the UK phewww!. I did get a snap of the castle also I noticed that every road to my right ended in a dead end with the sea and the beach right in front of you.
Denia along with Javea which is next door is supposed to be on of the "go to" places in Spain but! what I found was a town that looked tired and if I'm honest a bit run down the outskirts are nothing more than row after row of holiday flats and I think they look terrible and even a little depressing, maybe it's because the place is still empty and not everything is open yet, the season starts in a few weeks time, I will go back later in the year and maybe I will change my mind.
I did mount my Go-pro on the bike to take some video but for some reason it didn't work, when I got home I found all my batteries were just about dead and it is a Hero 3 so ancient by today's standard, I looked up what a new one cost and was suitably shocked at the over £400 asking price for a new Hero 7 , so again thanks to some advice and a little research I am trying out an alternative which gets very good reviews and costs less than a quarter of a new Go-Pro, again we will see how this pans out.
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