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This one but mine was £24.99...Although this listing has ended...Simon already had one and had used it with other ppl,so i got the same one.... 

Your item is just the accessories...

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BOBLOV-BT-S3-Intercom-Motorcycle-Helmet-Bluetooth-Headset-Intercom-FM-Radio-/352852840036

Had pleasant ride up in the fog and mist, and the cool weather, but being layered up before hand is all good,

Up to Portsmouth at a steady pace, into Mc Ds near the port,
Simons chicken nuggets came with a Big Mac as an extra, so i had that with aswell with my Big mac meal..

Fuel station is next to the port entrance so filed the tank uo there, both bikes are using roughly the same amount..

Monday,,,sunny all day...
Of the boat, 20/30 mins, road then on to lanes all day,
50/50% all day, fast green lanes. Mostly small back roads joining the lanes up, brilliant day. No badgers. One puncture 3rdish lane. Lol. Mousses all the way... Both on michelin trackers tyre.. Best days riding for month's..!!!

Monday!!
Website doesn't like 5mb photos,

The phone decides the sizes.

There just loading all the time. 

So an update that ends badly..

Wedensday,
Overnight rain makes the trails very slippery and i fall several times,( nothing unusuall there then ),
in one spot i lose the bike and it goes right into a slippery bog of clay gloop with shale missed in for effect...

One hour later after removing all the luggage,laying the bike on its chain side ( more on that ) and dragging the front wheel around just to point it towards the track,
i am only feet away..The clay is that soft our boots sink up to the tops.and it sticks like poo to a blanket and your lifting several kilos of clay each time attached to them.

I am too knacke@ so ride it out,so Simon gives it all the wellies he can muster and he gets it out.
Bike is plastered in the stuff,so its off to find hotel accomadation and a bike wash first...and ourselves !!

Washed the bike off,notice the pads have worn out,,,brand new before trip aswell,,,not good..into a hotel,we are the only occupants after a local phoned the closed hotel...!

bike dealer close by according to mr Garmin.

Thursday...raining

Into said bike dealer,no can do,.
He rings ktm in Orleans.. it wasent close,yep they can fix it..siesta time 12 till 1400 hrs..!!!
off we go in the rain..Simon collects another puncture 300 mts from the dealer.....no problem,not quite flat so go there to sort it out...

Its siesta time,but a person comes out or from Mc Donalds as Simon is fixing the puncture,He knows all about the problem,we look down and notice some chain rollers have dish shaped
so new chain required aswell ,We have a discussion and Simon says the Tet is mud on down from where we left off,so we elect to return back to Le Harve,but do the tet in reverse from our monday nights accomadation..Ferry booking changed..Pay the dealership they fixed it,one mechanic did come out and tell Simon i had a puncture,till he explaind i was running mousses...

Thursday..
Up brekkie and on the Tet in a mere 2mls..
Have a slight fall but ok....bit further on and travelling at a not too fast a speed i have another in a lane.Shooting pain in the ankle...
Simon lifts the bike of me as i cant move,mentions that the bits look at a funny angle,but i can walk...just,rotate ankle just,wiggle toes yep...

So after abit of RnR off we go for more lanes,but it becomes obvious to me that i cant put any pressure on the ankle joint.
so we abandon this and head to the port,into a car wash on the way up,ankle not to bad,swollen but okish now...wash the mud off to look presentable to pc plod,
Fill with Mc Ds and then petrol....
we both aggreed not ro remove the boot till on the ferry.No french hospital for me just incase.....
Booking office.tick...customs...Haa no starter working,Simon was first through...i,push the bike away,go find simon,eventually elect for a tow start,bike fires up and
i leave it running.atleast an hour or more later its just us left...swear words going on...

Hobble to the cabins,no lift,escalator not working either.3rd deck up to the 6th,chuffing long way
boot off,yep its swollen but not black,,so just a bad sprain then....

Time to get off,bike starts on the switch,we both agreed that he should head home straght away..for another matter...
i get home around 1300 hrs,ankle hurts but not that much but its still hurting though...Hospital naa..leave it another day...

Sunday..
Tiverton hospital,,,
xray confirms i have broken it...Darn....or something like that...
The nurse said..THAT BY LEAVING MY BOOT ON SAVED IT FROM FURTHER DAMAGE...

ALSO FROM ME,GET GOOD QUALITY BOOTS,MINE ARE TECH 7s,so saved me from further injury...now have a 6/8 weeks recovery...

A BIG THANKS TO SIMON MY RIDING BUDDY,WITHOUT HIM I COULD NOT HAVE MANAGED.....HE NEVER ONCE MOANED AT ME...well he might under his helmet....
CHEERS SIMON...YOUR A STAR

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The long muddy one was where we had to drag the bike from,

boulder field was on the TeT line...

Picture heavy posting, the river was to deep to cross plus a hole in the middle repaired by simon. 

The first picture, is where section eight joins section one, we go right to travelling down through France 

Good report Mike, bit of an epic .........  Sounds like it will be June next time for less mud 

Tough luck with the break 

DorsetSteve wrote:

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We're planning on doing that in May. Also from Le Havre. Hopefully it will be a bit drier.  How far in miles did you manage each day?  Did you pre book hotels before you left home?

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 Miles,

not sure as we stopped around 3/30 ish each day and started looking for a hotel..

Hotels.. 

Nothing booked, Simon rang the first hotel as it looked closed, lady came out and let us in 50 no brekkie, just us two. 

Second night, same again but there was a motel close by, 55 i think, probably spent all in 100 there all toghther food and lodging.

Third night.

66 and no tea cheapest the tourist office could find was 88...!!

Mc donalds for tea.

Fourth night, same again, 

A local rang the owner and she appeared at the door.., food at a Chinese opposite.. Us two only again.

Fourth night, back at the motel again. But wiser on the costing. In opinion, camping will be a lot cheaper, with booking hotels your time limited to getting to an end point,

Section eight is dead easy in the dry, as section one would when dry. 

If anyone wants more info, pm me a number so we can chat.. 

Thanks for sharing Mike 

Sorry to hear about the ankle mate, tuff luck dude, epic adventure though, photos look good 

speedy recovery 

Cheers for the info on your accommodation.  We're planning on a loop using 8, part of 1, then part of 5. So, Le Havre to Dieppe, then on the road back to Le Havre for the ferry.

Not interested in camping. Too much kit, too hard on the ageing body, and weather dependant.

Unlike you, we're hoping to pre book our accommodation, although that has it's own drawbacks.  We're also finding it hard to find places in the right location that suit our needs (secure bike storage being the main issue).

Can anyone suggest something near Dreux, and also Beauvais that they have experience of?  It's a long shot I know!

This point is where section 8 meets section 1,corner of a wood...sec 1 comes in from the left side around a forest to the right to carry on down..

You do need the latest mapping as the end point has moved from the last time Simon did it..some tracks have changed aswell..

I down loaded the gpx routes a couple of months ago.  I've been creating my route by "overwriting" sections of the TET 8 (all of it), 1 and 5 (parts of them). Do you think that's the latest version?

Should be fun as I will be on this 

I hope the ankle isn't too painful Mike 

Trev and I are taking bikes over to Brittany in May (probably road riding only) and I think there may have been some law changes. Did you put reflective stickers on your helmet, carry a high viz jacket etc?