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Afternoon all,
Myself and a buddy of mine have interest in doing a Morocco trip with the Mick Extance riding school in Jan 2019
See-
http://mickextanceexperience.com/moroccan-tours.ph...
Unfortunately, they have sold out of slots for all of the Jan 2019 tours.
There appears to be alot of other places that do a similar thing, but i have no idea how to gauge one against the other.
Does anyone have any experience or recommendations of other places offering a similar thing? Doesn't necessarily need to be Morocco.
I have limited motorbike experience, and no off road motorbike experience. The Mick Extance trips have the advantage of a day in Wales included in the price to learn the basics.
My friend has off road experience and significant on road experience.
Thanks
Matt
Myself and a buddy of mine have interest in doing a Morocco trip with the Mick Extance riding school in Jan 2019
See-
http://mickextanceexperience.com/moroccan-tours.ph...
Unfortunately, they have sold out of slots for all of the Jan 2019 tours.
There appears to be alot of other places that do a similar thing, but i have no idea how to gauge one against the other.
Does anyone have any experience or recommendations of other places offering a similar thing? Doesn't necessarily need to be Morocco.
I have limited motorbike experience, and no off road motorbike experience. The Mick Extance trips have the advantage of a day in Wales included in the price to learn the basics.
My friend has off road experience and significant on road experience.
Thanks
Matt
I've no experience with this, only to say a mate of mine did a trip with several other blokes. He says it was an amazing experience, except for the numerous tourist traps & people trying to sell stuff or 'guard' your bike whilst you're visiting the souk. He said it was annoying as f
k & when he finally manged to decline these 'offers', the vendors would become extremely rude & sometimes violent. Be careful.
k & when he finally manged to decline these 'offers', the vendors would become extremely rude & sometimes violent. Be careful.
Lol. What utter bks.
I've been to morocco over 20 times. Been to many parts of the country, never once had any violence towards me. Just be polite and move on, they're trying to earn a living. As for guarding your bike, that's what they do, they should have a city permit hung around their neck, if so they are the official parking attendants.
Find a good firm and enjoy the trip, it's an incredible place on a bike.
ks. I've been to morocco over 20 times. Been to many parts of the country, never once had any violence towards me. Just be polite and move on, they're trying to earn a living. As for guarding your bike, that's what they do, they should have a city permit hung around their neck, if so they are the official parking attendants.
Find a good firm and enjoy the trip, it's an incredible place on a bike.
Not done it on a bike but done Marrakech and Agadir for a 2 week holiday, no issues whatsoever.
Found the souks extremely friendly, nobody was aggressive or abusive and we spent 3 days just wandering round. First day we went with a guide who of course took us to his friends' shops but we did all our shopping on the other days just used the tour to acclimatise ourselves.
Found the souks extremely friendly, nobody was aggressive or abusive and we spent 3 days just wandering round. First day we went with a guide who of course took us to his friends' shops but we did all our shopping on the other days just used the tour to acclimatise ourselves.
They will be two very different trips.
Enduro will take you largely offroad and for the trips I have been on, you will definitely need some previous offroad experience, unless you can find a booking where everyone is a novice, otherwise you will struggle to keep up. I've been on trips where there have been people who've never ridden off road before and they can sometimes have a miserable time of it. Then you have choices between a tour where you follow a guide, to a tour where you are given a GPS device loaded with the day's route and you set off and ride the route on your own/with your mate(s). A support truck will follow behind the slowest person to mop up any issues. Whilst this allows for slower riding, you still have to be able to complete the day in reasonable time, otherwise you'll find your bike on the back of the truck and you sweltering inside it! Enduro tours tend to be more back-country, you'll see little towns and hamlets but less of the big cities. Some operators take you out onto the Sahara, and some take you to the massive dunes which are amazing to ride (when you first see the dunes you think "ok, bit of a sandy hill, and then someone will ride off and get to the top and you'll see this tiny speck of a person on a bike and realise the dunes are ten times bigger than you thought!).
On an adventure bike you'll probably cover high distances, with some high speed on road and also some offroad, depending on the operator. More likely to be guided than not. You'll need to be comfortable with riding a big ADV bike at least on some loose stuff but less likely to out in to the wilderness navigating 3ft boulders in a dry rive bed than on an enduro.
All IME, others may have different tales to tell!
Enduro will take you largely offroad and for the trips I have been on, you will definitely need some previous offroad experience, unless you can find a booking where everyone is a novice, otherwise you will struggle to keep up. I've been on trips where there have been people who've never ridden off road before and they can sometimes have a miserable time of it. Then you have choices between a tour where you follow a guide, to a tour where you are given a GPS device loaded with the day's route and you set off and ride the route on your own/with your mate(s). A support truck will follow behind the slowest person to mop up any issues. Whilst this allows for slower riding, you still have to be able to complete the day in reasonable time, otherwise you'll find your bike on the back of the truck and you sweltering inside it! Enduro tours tend to be more back-country, you'll see little towns and hamlets but less of the big cities. Some operators take you out onto the Sahara, and some take you to the massive dunes which are amazing to ride (when you first see the dunes you think "ok, bit of a sandy hill, and then someone will ride off and get to the top and you'll see this tiny speck of a person on a bike and realise the dunes are ten times bigger than you thought!).
On an adventure bike you'll probably cover high distances, with some high speed on road and also some offroad, depending on the operator. More likely to be guided than not. You'll need to be comfortable with riding a big ADV bike at least on some loose stuff but less likely to out in to the wilderness navigating 3ft boulders in a dry rive bed than on an enduro.
All IME, others may have different tales to tell!
YVW.
I just re-read your OP and saw the bit about "doesn't necessarily have to be Morocco", in which case I can heartily recommend ToroTrail in Spain. Lyndon will cater for all abilities and will also provide tuition if needed. He offers enduro trips in Spain and in northern Morocco (you won't get down to the Sahara, you'll be playing in the area from Ceuta down to Chefchaouen mainly) and he also does Moroccan ADV trips under his Toro Adventure banner.
You stay in his villa north of Malaga. Check his website for all the pics and details.
His trips are all guided, not GPS on your own.
If you do book, tell him Mark P who knows Greg sent you
I just re-read your OP and saw the bit about "doesn't necessarily have to be Morocco", in which case I can heartily recommend ToroTrail in Spain. Lyndon will cater for all abilities and will also provide tuition if needed. He offers enduro trips in Spain and in northern Morocco (you won't get down to the Sahara, you'll be playing in the area from Ceuta down to Chefchaouen mainly) and he also does Moroccan ADV trips under his Toro Adventure banner.
You stay in his villa north of Malaga. Check his website for all the pics and details.
His trips are all guided, not GPS on your own.
If you do book, tell him Mark P who knows Greg sent you
I did Morocco with a few mates, we went with wilderness wheels, It was epic, up into the high Atlas Mountains, part of the old Paris Dakar route through the Sahara, riding in huge sand dunes, we were bksed at the end of each day, but had great hotels to recover in each night.
Just do it, it feels like you are a million miles from Europe, I enjoyed it so much I took the family back the following year and we toured in a land cruiser with a Tourag driver
ksed at the end of each day, but had great hotels to recover in each night.Just do it, it feels like you are a million miles from Europe, I enjoyed it so much I took the family back the following year and we toured in a land cruiser with a Tourag driver
Rawwr said:
andburg said:
Agadir
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