Morocco: how can you NOT?!

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Looks great. Three of us are going there from 20th March for three days arriving via Melilla ( I think!). I really want to do a bit of what you have done which is getting off the tarmac and doing some Tracks. Can you please give me some advice of good areas you went through.
 
Via CEUTA..! glad I'm taking my satnav. So why do they call you Lost John... :)

KD - how far south did you get? Downloaded the 'hidden routes' from Tim Cullis' thread, and seem to be spoilt for choice re routes around central / north Morocco... Only got 3.5 days to play with so slightly limited. Vid on YouTube looks good...
 
Since you asked.........

It doesn't seem to have a lot to offer road riders in search of scenery 'n squirraly roads. Seems to be great for desert off roading period.

The vast majority of pictures posted are of trail bikes with a background of featureless dessert.
 
Since you asked.........

It doesn't seem to have a lot to offer road riders in search of scenery 'n squirraly roads. Seems to be great for desert off roading period.

The vast majority of pictures posted are of trail bikes with a background of featureless dessert.

That's probably because this is a GS site which are trailie type bikes:augie

A lot of the normal roads I rode would be fine for road bikes, and the tiz'n'tichka pass from Ouarzazate to Marrakech or visa versa would offer plenty of switchbacks.

And most of the scenery is stunning IMHO:rob
 
great looking trip.

Out of interest what are the gps units on your bike, looked like a garmin with a sunshield in the center but didn't know what was on the left, backup tomtom?
 
Since you asked.........

It doesn't seem to have a lot to offer road riders in search of scenery 'n squirraly roads. Seems to be great for desert off roading period.

The vast majority of pictures posted are of trail bikes with a background of featureless dessert.


You couldn't be further from the truth :blast
 
Weren't trollin' or nothin' mister.

But looking at all the ride reports that was pretty much the opinion I'd formed.


I suspect that may be because in the desert, it's easy to take pics.....you just get ahead a bit, stop, whip camera out and job done......on the fast twisties, you're more into the riding than looking at the scenery, plus its a lot harder to get good pics.

Have a look at Garfield's report in the Moto Morocco section, or Jalfrezi's...there are a few pics in there of some twisties IIRC, and most definitely some of some spectacular scenery..though the camera never manages to capture the sheer immensity of the place or the colours etc.

There are some roads that you get 50-80+ miles of superb nearly non-stop twisties on...so good that we've actually stopped at a garage at the end of a 50 mile section, refuelled and gone back to do it again before returning to the garage and continuing on to our night's destination.:JB


There's everything from near perfect tarmac with great cambers, open bends and 'point'n'squirt' fast flip-flap twisties to tight nadgery and technical hairpins and switchbacks where you go from good tarmac to loose gravel to rough tarmac in 100 yards, in case you need keeping awake :thumb2

It doesn't take much of a map reader to look at this pic and imagine that the scenery is rather special either ;)

(There's another 30 miles of twisties on the Marrakech end of that before you get onto some straighter stuff, and another 25 miles or so on the Taroudant side ;) )

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Come out on a trip and blow all those misconceptions into the gutter ;)
 
Since you asked.........

It doesn't seem to have a lot to offer road riders in search of scenery 'n squirraly roads. Seems to be great for desert off roading period.

The vast majority of pictures posted are of trail bikes with a background of featureless dessert.

The scenery is stunning & the condition of most of the roads seemed as good as we have over here. We found that once we went beyond Marrakech it was even better. I'm heading over on a Pan in a few months and am aiming to make the dunes again.

Baz
 


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