tod.branko_imp
Been there
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Although my CB1100 just stepped over 16000km (10k miles) it wasn't the real occasion. I just wanted to go for a ride. A few good riding buddies decided to tag along.
Morning weather wasn't promising, but in an amazing turn of events the humidity stayed high up in the sky and gave us great riding weather, temperature in mid-high 30s (°C)
Considering the fact that it wasn't humid we used the opportunity to ride the eastern costal road, and to visit a few nice places.
There is a small town in the northeast called Khorfakkan, used to be a Portuguese port in the colonial times, and then for a long time it was just a neglected little hard to reach cove cut off from the rest of the country.
In 2018 the ruler of Emirate of Sharjah decided to cut through the mountains and make a highway (85mph speed limit) to reconnect Khorfakkan with the rest of the country, giving us motorcyclists and amazing twisty road full of uphills and downhills, tunnels and hairpins. Shortly after that they started heavily investing in content that would attract tourists. So apart from the beach getting a full overhaul, they decided to restore much of Portuguese heritage, including the port, old fort, bunch of watch towers on the hill tops, and the last bit that we just discovered today for the first time, is what seems to be a old mountain village you can see on one of the pictures.
It is indeed a gem of the northeast coast. It's never boring to ride over there, especially not on a CB1100 with a bunch of good people
'14 CB1100 STD 5 speed
Morning weather wasn't promising, but in an amazing turn of events the humidity stayed high up in the sky and gave us great riding weather, temperature in mid-high 30s (°C)
Considering the fact that it wasn't humid we used the opportunity to ride the eastern costal road, and to visit a few nice places.
There is a small town in the northeast called Khorfakkan, used to be a Portuguese port in the colonial times, and then for a long time it was just a neglected little hard to reach cove cut off from the rest of the country.
In 2018 the ruler of Emirate of Sharjah decided to cut through the mountains and make a highway (85mph speed limit) to reconnect Khorfakkan with the rest of the country, giving us motorcyclists and amazing twisty road full of uphills and downhills, tunnels and hairpins. Shortly after that they started heavily investing in content that would attract tourists. So apart from the beach getting a full overhaul, they decided to restore much of Portuguese heritage, including the port, old fort, bunch of watch towers on the hill tops, and the last bit that we just discovered today for the first time, is what seems to be a old mountain village you can see on one of the pictures.
It is indeed a gem of the northeast coast. It's never boring to ride over there, especially not on a CB1100 with a bunch of good people
'14 CB1100 STD 5 speed
(yuck) We get our share in North America, including today in southern Ontario. Today will reach 40C with humidex. This is one contest a rider does not want to be proud about.
