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diggermanbob


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just back from riding the French TET from Rodez to carcassone , then across to Foix , then back to Cahor on as many GR routes as we could find , the two ttrs on the trip performed brilliantly and didn't miss a beat , just under 2k kilometres in 6 days of everything the French countryside could throw at us from fast flowing gravel trails to very steep wooded rock climbs , great little bike , image.jpeg



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Excellent!

Did you wild camp or B&B?

Also, what GPS system(s) did you use and did they work OK for you?

The reason I ask is that I have a couple of mates leaving to do the same on Wednesday and am looking for any last minute hints or tips wink

Brian



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Hi Brian , we camped a couple of nights and stayed in auberge and hotels and one night in cabin on campsite , we used Garmin Montana 600 with the TET download , worked very well , bit of road work on first leg from Rodez but fantastic trails , we were pushing on as the lead rider was on an KTM 400 exc , plenty of info for camping etc on the Garmin , Hope they have a great trip

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Brian , if you look on ABR site Phil one of the riders has started a ride report , might be some useful info for your mates.

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diggermanbob wrote:

Brian , if you look on ABR site Phil one of the riders has started a ride report , might be some useful info for your mates.

That is one busy site! 

Link here but you need to register to see it I think.....

Brian 



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Glad you spared us the uncut photos. How tough was it as I intend the Honda 500 build for this very stuff ?

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Hi Allen , most of the trails were easy enough , some very fast , we did have some fairly tough ones as well big rocks steep downhill over loose boulders , some steep climbs over rocks , one of these was shown in video clip on TET Facebook page , it shows me struggling to get the ttr over some rocks , what it didn't show was Phil had stalled his KTM getting over them which cause Steve to lay down with his ttr leaving me nowhere to go , I then had to start on a rocky bank to climb over the rocks !!!! A few keyboard warriors thought they could do better but have probably still got stabilisers on their bikes !!!! Knobs !!! Young man like yourself should be no problem 👍



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I bet you miss the rain .

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Could have done with a bit of rain it was 30 deg most days 



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