GPS and autocom in Spain

[ballistic]

When you say "crossing the white line" does that mean you can't turn left across the road if there is a solid line in the middle? sounds daft!! I would be interested to hear as I will be travelling there next month....

A bit too late a reply for you, sorry, but it may well help others in the future...
Yes, "crossing the white line" does indeed mean that you shouldn't cross it to reach a filling station, or whatever, on the other side of the road.
Two of us did exactly that a couple of years ago. There were two bike-mounted policemen sitting at a tee-junction about 100 metres up the road who watched us do it. Bear in mind that this was out in the country, in the middle of nowhere, with no other traffic on the road at all. Whilst we were filling up, they rode down and parked next to us, we thought they had just come for a nose around the bikes and a chat
They proceded to write out two tickets... even taking us out into the middle of the road to point out the solid white line over which we had just ridden. The fine was €100, but we were given a 30% 'discount' because we were EU citizens... who says it doesn't pay to be a member of the EU?
Throughout all of this, they spoke no English whatsoever and me and my mate Paul said as little as possible, apart from the usual grovelling "sorry" and "excuse" etc., which didn't work at all!
Just as we were leaving, the more senior of the two 'officers' came up to me and said in perfect English "If you go to a foriegn country, you should learn the language first". I suspect that he was a bit miffed that our command of Spanish was not up to his command of English or, probably more likely, he was listening to what me and Paul were saying to each other, under the assumption that the policemen didn't understand English. Crafty bugger
The next year we did a tour of Europe which took in 20 countries... do you think I learned 20 different languages before I went?

 

[(RIP) Shenzi]

We rode some of the N260 earlier in the month (fantastic, going back!), both bikes had bike to bike, GPS and intercoms. On two occasions they were looked over by bike cops, no problems at all! On the second occasion they watched us switch on the GPS and plug in the intercom leads then checkd the road for us and waved us out! No probs, I think it was all bollox about them being illegal.

 

[Pauly S]

gps

HI all.
we have completed 3500 miles odd in april this year hurtling, and mean hurtling round france and spain in 9 Days inc 200k off road.
We even got helped by the spanish police in a fuel station cos we couldnt get any fuel, what can i say , really helpful, they saw all our bikes which were fitted with gps and bike to bike and ipods and so on.they couldnt have cared less, as long as we were behaving ourselves.
I think you can read and worry too much sometimes, the best thing is to just get out there, behave yourself on their roads(what the eye cant see etc) and just do it.
Sometimes people worry too much about the ifs, buts and maybes.
Looking on that spanish driving website ,it mentioned you have to wear a fluro jacket when you get out of the car, what tripe, didnt see a single fluro on any driver or passengers anywhere.
Life is just too short, its not a dress rehearsal, live it, ride!!!.