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tarmacburner2 Silver Wing Guru
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Number of posts : 1099 Age : 70 Location : Cleveleys, Lancashire, England Points : 6459 Registration date : 2010-03-27
![European Road Trip Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: European Road Trip Mon Oct 10, 2011 3:17 pm | |
| Found this on another scooter site. Very interesting article.
http://www.go-faster.com/SS100.html
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![European Road Trip Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: European Road Trip Mon Oct 10, 2011 5:48 pm | |
| Very interesting article...I seem to be following in his bike tracks, except that we now have motorways and very few border checkpoints. All the places bring fond memories. |
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MikeO Site Admin
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![European Road Trip Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: European Road Trip Mon Oct 10, 2011 6:18 pm | |
| No border checkpoints at all in Western Europe - I have to remind myself to take my passport when we ride to Sluis as it's over the border in Holland. Quite recently we rode into France on a back road we passed through an abandoned border-post. It was very eerie. |
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Waspie Silver Wing Guru
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![European Road Trip Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: European Road Trip Mon Oct 10, 2011 6:19 pm | |
| I too found it very interesting. Love the atmospere of the old black and white pics. Loved the bike gear too! |
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"Hi Yo" Silver Wing Guru
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Number of posts : 2940 Age : 75 Location : Winnsboro, Texas, U.S.A. Points : 8483 Registration date : 2010-02-17
![European Road Trip Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: European Road Trip Tue Oct 11, 2011 2:37 am | |
| Thank's for sharing. If you sit and think about it, that must have been an amazing trip. The time, the places, and the machines. I really liked the two little boys looking on as they repaired the puncture. They probably went to bed dreaming about what they had seen. |
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Meldrew Visiting Curmudgeon
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![European Road Trip Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: European Road Trip Tue Oct 11, 2011 5:42 am | |
| After WW 2 food was rationed in the UK until 1952 so it was probably still a luxury for them to brew tea when they fancied it. All this shirt and tie wearing is rather strange too, and any clothes washing done en-route would have been tedious, all heavy cotton and wool clothing by the look of it Even getting their photographs developed after the tour would have taken a couple of weeks back then. I've seen photos of other bike tours from that era showing bikes being loaded by crane onto cross Channel steam ships, and the riders wearing a mixture of tweed jackets and army surplus.
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john grinsel Curmudgeon
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![European Road Trip Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: European Road Trip Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:07 am | |
| Very interesting. And I think the Brits had currency restrictions at that time.
I didn't get to Europe until 1958----bike touring fun then---I had no money and often slept where I stopped. Sometimes gas could be problem as gas stations used to close for breaks. Lunch cheap bread and piece of meat, luxury soup at the train station. |
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![European Road Trip Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: European Road Trip Tue Oct 11, 2011 3:57 pm | |
| And what may I ask was the purpose of your visit to Sluis, Mike O?
I remember making detours from Belgium when dashing back to the Channel ports for one reason only - and it wasn't to take photos of the undoubtedly pretty buildings and canal etc! |
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MikeO Site Admin
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![European Road Trip Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: European Road Trip Tue Oct 11, 2011 4:12 pm | |
| Coffee and toiletries - they're cheaper there. I know what you're thinking - we have a s*x supermarket just up the road. |
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