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To all interested (worldwide)... it's showtime again.  The 2008 Euro-Rally next year will take place in Northern Italy from Friday August 1st to Sunday the 3rd (or 4th if you want to stay another night). Put this in your calendars. I have a few locations/venues in mind spread between Como, Lecce/Mandello del Lario (Moto Guzzi factory area) and Lake Garda (see map). I am planning to visit them in November/December to check them out again. An idea of numbers will be welcomed so that I have a better idea when visiting. Any member wishing to join me on the recon trip please feel welcome. Regional map ...  ... and more specifically:  For those interested, an indication of some of the distances to Milan are as follows (taken from Sonymap Route Planner - Europe): Calais - Milan 1093 km / 679 miles. London-Milan 1.257 km / 781 miles. Knivsta - Milan. 2091 km / 1.300 miles. Gdansk to Milan. 1549 km / 962 miles. Bielefeld to Milan. 977 km / 607 miles Athens to Milan. 2102 km We have received the following commitments from various contacts: Triumph - Greece. They will be supplying us with a comprehensive list of spare parts for our bikes (in case of emergency etc.). At the moment they include: CDI, coils, throttle/clutch cables, battery, light bulbs and fuses. Any other items someone may think necessary - please advise so that they can be added. Peroni Breweries. A contact there has pledged 300-350 Nastro Azzurro beers - free of charge. De Agostini have pledged up to 50 very elegant pieces from their collection (hopefully engraved) as souvenirs for all attending members - again free of charge. I have contacted Moto Guzzi (yesterday) to see if we could perhaps visit the factory (or at least the museum) on the Saturday ride. I foresee two problems though. 1/ Factories close in August in Italy and 2/ It is on a weekend. Anyhow let's see what they have to say if/when they get back to me. We can always pop down to Monza for a quick race around the track. Further info (venue details) following recon trip. Who's in?
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Sounds great Thanassis! We're hopefully in. What's 2091 km? Bengt and Anki 
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It's the distance calculated by Sonymap Route Planner from Knivsta to Milan. I didn't use Autoroute because it doesn't feature some Balkan countries (e.g. Macedonia and Serbia) and took me the long way round (almost via Tokyo) . It would be great to see you again.
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A contact there has pledged 300-350 Nastro Azzurro beers - free of charge.
 Getting flashbacks of Asendorf -06 sunday morning....
This will be a great Eurorally!
.... i´m in!
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Well Lake Garda is supposed to be very nice Thanassis.
No matter what I will be up for this one..
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He!! I just wanna go on the recon trip with you let alone do the rally. I will again definitely have to investigate the possibility of attending again. It all depends on the time off I need to take for riding back here. I have this crazy idea of wanting to ride up to the arctic circle or something in the June'ish timeframe and me and Wojo had discussed a New Foundland trip at some point. We'll have to see how things go. Would really like to meet and hang with our European brethren.
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If I quit my job and ship a bike over, can anyone hook me up with a job afterwards?
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Thanassis. As it stands at the moment, we will be there.
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If I quit my job and ship a bike over, can anyone hook me up with a job afterwards?
Don't know about the job but you can kip at my place ... just no 'sleep walking' in the night, ok? 
What am I thinking of, you'll be a foreigner in the UK, you're GUARANTEED a job, a house, benefits ....!! 
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Looks good Thanassis. Should be looking to add two more to your list 
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Sounds great Thanassis! We're hopefully in. What's 2091 km?
Bengt and Anki
Sorry Bengt, I had a slow moment there ...
What's 2091 kms?
Hmm ... a real blast?
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Im in ..............   Come on people, the last 2 years have been a blast.. Lets try to make the 2008 Euro Rallie the biggest yet.. 
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Sorry Bengt, I had a slow moment there ...
What's 2091 kms?
Hmm ... a real blast?
...and a sore but happy butt...
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I'm in & Jackie will be riding solo on her Bonnie P.S Thanasis can you get one of your contacts to supply loads of ear plugs, so some of us don't get our beauty sleep disturbed
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Had a telephone call off Mal, and told him, he's up for it as well.
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Me and Sabine will be there  regards, Nick
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P.S Thanasis can you get one of your contacts to supply loads of ear plugs, so some of us don't get our beauty sleep disturbed
Too late boy!
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1054 miles from Fleetwood to Lake Garda
1015 miles " " Mandello del lario
979 miles " " Milan
Hope we are stopping en-route guys
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planted the seed in the wifes mind already 
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me and Wojo had discussed a New Foundland trip at some point.
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Oh, and I forgot little "m" was in on those discussions too. (lowly groveling on ground begging forgiveness) 
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Oh, and I forgot little "m" was in on those discussions too.
(lowly groveling on ground begging forgiveness)
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Hope we are stopping en-route guys
Ray, im guessing we will leave Dover / Folkestone thursday morning 7-8 ish across to france and camp somewhere thursday night to split the journey up. then it depends wether people stay til sunday or monday and return to the UK tuesday or wednesday. I will proberbly do the extra day... more chill out time...
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Hope we are stopping en-route guys
Ray, im guessing we will leave Dover / Folkestone thursday morning 7-8 ish across to france and camp somewhere thursday night to split the journey up. then it depends wether people stay til sunday or monday and return to the UK tuesday or wednesday. I will proberbly do the extra day... more chill out time...
Thanks Dave will talk more about it when we meet up in May, but will probably stop the extra day, long journey for an old man
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Hope we are stopping en-route guys
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geez thanassis, Italy... You'll have to commute from home every day to get your mileage up to your usual standards!
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Hmmm....1630.6 km's for me from Southern Spain. Work commitments permitting I could quite fancy this one.
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Nomad, Do it! The last 2 Eurorallies have been a blast and the race to Italy next year will be wort some buttburn and fatigue  1720km for me from south Sweden Johann
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Recently emigrated from the U.K. to Spain and had to bring the bikes down to the new villa. 2090 km's on the BA...flew back to the U.K. .....one nights sleep, got on the wife's bike and did the same 2090 km's again. One week later, got into my car and drove the same 2090 km's, then flew back....and on the day the final move was planned the wife flew over, the furniture went in a van.....and I drove the wife's car down, another 2090 km's !!!! 1600 km's will be a walk in the park !!! Will definitely try and make this one !!!!
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geez thanassis, Italy... You'll have to commute from home every day to get your mileage up to your usual standards!
Yes, it seems it's the only way to do "The long way west" ... unless I can come up with another way (via Moscow perhaps?).
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I'm in & Jackie will be riding solo on her Bonnie
P.S Thanasis can you get one of your contacts to supply loads of ear plugs, so some of us don't get our beauty sleep disturbed
Ear plugs eh? I didn't think of that ... I'll get right onto it!
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planted the seed in the wifes mind already
And so have I.
It'll take a bit of sorting...and we're goin to have to be extremely nice to the Grandparents for several months, failing that I'll have to try and find a leather papoose! Never say never
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Also suggested it to the wife as well as we watched Ewan and Charley do what I think would be the same route to Milan, lake Como and the Guzzi factory lastnight on long way down. seems to have taken them two days to get that far but I guess they where waiting for the two 4X4s and the helpers and the doctor etc.
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I watched it to, sure wetted my appetite... cant wait... 
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I watched it to, sure wetted my appetite... cant wait...
What??? You want to go to Cape Town now?
I think you are .... er ... OK ... I'M IN!!!
Only provided that we do it the right way down i.e. the WEST coast (like I did back in '88/'89).
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Cape Town
Does that mean i have to take an extra week of from work then???
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Only provided that we do it the right way down i.e. the WEST coast (like I did back in '88/'89).
The Mrs would divorce me..  go on count me in
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Thanasis, it would be nice for me to be in the position where i could dissapear for a few weeks... have really enjoyed the last 2 euro meets and am really looking forward to next august...
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What a great evening to find Euro Rally thread again !
Big big marks on my calendar August 2008 card.
There,s no reason to withhold Beata & Me and meet all of you again.
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Great Pawel! Will be nice to meet you and Beata again Johann
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