Colombres Rally is ready for 2023
Motorcycle Sport & Leisure|January 2023
It’s no longer just a playground for old bikes, as modern machines are welcomed to their own event
Ian Kerr MBE
Colombres Rally is ready for 2023

If you like touring and exploring some of the best biking roads in Europe you will perhaps have heard, or already been to, the Picos de Europa in Spain.

Just on the doorstep of Santander, after a relaxing cruise down on a Brittany ferry you are there ready to enjoy the roads and Spanish hospitality.

For some years the Moto Club Indianos, based in Colombres just 50 miles down the coast, has been running the week-long annual Colombres Rally for pre-1988 machines at the beginning of October, with the recently formed North of Spain rally happening the week before and expanding the scope of the roads and places to visit.

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