MONTIE ZOOMER

Keen as mustard, that best describes the Mrs. and her new bike, she woke me up early today, and we were off riding around by 11AM. We can’t go too far at the moment because we don’t have the bikes paperwork yet, but there are some nice back roads around here, plus I want her to have a go off-roading, nothing difficult, just dirt roads.

We bumped in to Mick in town, he was on his  way to our house for a coffee, we said we were off riding around for a few hours then we will be back at home, Mick decided to go to the garden centre and prune his Bonsai’s instead.

The first test of nerve is the old bridge over the Dalaman river, the loose gravel is quite deep in places.

Once across the river we stopped to pose for photos.

Just a little further along the river bends, this also another nice place to stop and take photos.

We rode along the dirt track about a mile from the bridge, following the course of the river. A few Turkish people  occasionally come down here fishing, Montie only weighs 160kg and behaves very well on dirt and gravel.

Stopping yet again for photos, this time by the river, it really is pretty down here.

After all the pretty posing photos we  had a ride back to Dalaman and then on to Serigermie.

I noticed the Sunflowers are not very tall this year whilst we zoomed along the back roads. The top speed on a Mondial mct 250 rather depends on the size and weight of the rider, for me being of the larger land Mammal variety, the top speed was 110KPH, whilst Linda being just slightly slimmer than me, Montie should propel her along at 120KPH easily.

I had another try at over the shoulder photos, but I am still finding it difficult to do, and so is the auto focus.

Came back sun burnt again, and also,  as usual we forgot to take water along with us, still nice ride around and a little taste (More to come) of off-road riding for the Mrs.

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~ by travelswithmymotorbike on July 12, 2009.