TET Great western trail

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TET Great western trail

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Hi al did at bit of this at weekend have to say it was really good a fair bit of road between the lanes but most back roads
The TET trans European trail is a mix of road, fire roads and gnarly off road trails. Theres a massive 37000 km in Europe ! They have a website and a FB page and all the gpx filesare downloadable
So I did approximately 250 miles from my place down towards Plymouth and back with a overnight stop wild camping
I will hopefully doing some more circumstances allowing πŸ€ͺ
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Muddy bugger!! Looks like you enjoyed yourself
Glad to see that 690 out and about again.
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It was a good couple of days if a little damp πŸ˜‚
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I recognise that ccm also.
Glad to see it's back put being enjoyed after . . . . .
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The ccm was brought out of retirement 😁 but has had supermoto wheels on all summer πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚
This is one reason I got the drz more crashable and much less to break and engine pretty bombproof
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Looks great fun
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Wild camping, in devon! You are brave.

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When I get some time πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚
Got bmw school the Yamaha testing new T7
Then possibly holiday in Spain/France
Then possibly Bulgaria might do some work as well πŸ˜‚
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Don't forget the two weeks isolation after Spain.
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A great way to have some fun :-bd The TET has its own website - https://transeurotrail.org/ - and there's a free app that can be downloaded which then allows you to download GPX files of the route to your chosen mapping app (Memory Map, Wikiloc, Google Earth, etc) for loads of countries across Europe.

The main underlying ethos of the TET seems to be to get people out into the scenic, rural areas using where possible trails or green-lane's. Which puzzles me slightly when you look at the route in Devon & Cornwall (which, Devon at least, has an abundance of green-lane's) as it seems to be predominantly tarmac based. It is understandable there has to be a trade-off between covering distance Vs the slower pace of green-lane's, but one wonders if whoever set the route initially wouldn't have been better off doing something like combining the Exeter & Lands End Trial routes as a base point. Still gives the opportunity for great adventure though 8)

There is a facility to update routes, though I'm not sure how it works or what the criteria for amendment are?

It should also be borne in mind Dartmoor is the only place in the two counties you can legally wild camp, unless you seek the landowners permission before doing so.

For the UK, at least, you also need to check the legality of the route before setting off (TW2, definitive maps, etc) ...... We've followed large chunks of the route in Wales, and I know for sure that a couple of those lanes (Happy Valley & Strata Florida) have temporary closures on them at present :-bd
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Looking at doing some of the gwt over a long weekend soon. Looks like a lot of fun!
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Busy getting the new drz ready to do some more myself want to do it from the start and do all of the GWT
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What does the DRZ need doing to it?
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Me being me loads πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚
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Waiting for a new carb 39 flat side brrrrrap πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚
And that’ll do for a minute πŸ€”πŸ€”
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Tart
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