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posted September 08, 2006 05:30 AM
 Edited By: spam on 8 Sep 2006 06:33
South America part 3- The road to Abancay- Dec 03/04
This post was originally an email sent to our friends and family during our travels in South America Nov 2004-Feb 2005- please see the "The next big adventure.... and the previous one..." thread for more details...
The road to Abancay- Dec 03/04
Hi gang,
This is Scotts recent post to a motorcycle forum (www.bikeland.org)..... so here's what we've been up to for the past few days.... apologies to the non-biker people.
We left Nazca and stated up to a place called Puquio in the west side of the mountains. We climbed from 300m (1000ft) to aprox.4000m (13000ft)!!! in 100km!! It was awesome. Switch back after Switch back with short sections of medium curves. This would be a top ride on a grunty sport bike, like a Ducati or KTM 920 or a VTR. One or two gears straight up! As it was I haven't changed the stock jetting yet so the old DR600 was a bit wheezy but did a commendable job with 45kg of gear hangin' off the back. Although power was down, all of the trucks (maybe 8 total, like nobody on this road!) were having a hell of a time! I could have gotten off and pushed the bike on by. After a wheezy night for ourselves at 3300m (needed a midnight coca tea to get through the night), we started off down a nasty water-trough dirt road that only lasted a couple a kms and then on to good pavement again. Guess what, another perfect road to a plateau with the same kind of riding. The only problem was that the plateau happened to be at 4500 freaking meters!!!! This was a long straight cruise with some bends that would have your Busa or your ZX10 topping out at whatever speed it could possibly attain at this altitude. Too bad you can´t feed a bike Coca tea. We stopped at a festering little roadside cafe at 4400m and drank more tea and ate papas frites as close to the sun as either of us have ever been. Good times. After holding the throttle rocker open with one finger for a couple of hours, the road started to head down again, and fast. With the same amazing curves, but this time with some warmer weather and sunshine to add to the phenomenal riding. We had to stop and take pictures of these unbelievable corners heading down into the lush green valley, which leads to the town of Abancay. Good thing the ride was great cuz the town sucked. We are now in Cusco, eating good feed, heading out towards Macchu Pichu to see if its true what they say about these Peruvian masons. Leaving the bikes in Ollantaytambo, half way there where the road ends and only the train carries on.
Cheers all,
Scott and Pam
Spot Sagot... its like Where's Waldo for bikers....
Heading up
Some corners had more traffic in them than others
Heading down...Brand new road
I think this pic was taken looking straght down from where the last one was taken
Stopped to take a breather and look over the edge to see what's coming next... still a long way down!!
And at the end of a great day of riding, we spent the night is what was probably not the cleanest hotel
And Sagot got to check out the All-New Peruvian "RTM" in town- the R was made to look a lot like a K with a flat top...too funny
  
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posted September 08, 2006 09:20 AM
OMG! i wanna do that road! too many damn nice places in the world to ride, too little time.
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