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...a longer version where I meet another traveller,
and have to wait until I am a good bit past him before I can let rip otherwise the sand would have blinded him!

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October 4, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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Well hello travellers...

don't see many of these up here

I had to go very slow afterwards otherwise I would have kicked up a lot of dust...

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October 4, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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I like this weird little old settlement

So I thought I'd visit with my route tracker and draw a sausage

but I forgot how many times I had been round,
then took the wrong road out of it & got lost...

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August 30, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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A wrong turn rewarded!

Before I set off, I try to memorise my route; landmarks etc.

Can't use maps on my phone my speedo stops at 50!
[I would be really happy to trial a #BeelineMoto2 in Poland...]

anyway, got lost,
but 2 gorgeous unusual new-to-me shrines!

#MotoSky #OldPolishRoads #Kapliczki
August 30, 2026 at 6:16 PM
jmzed.bsky.social
...at 51 secs you can see the name of the village this half built road passes through

It is such a cool name for a village in the middle of a forest...

Śmiertny Dąb - The Deadly Oak! 😱

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August 30, 2026 at 5:27 PM
jmzed.bsky.social
Welcome to Poland...

they either f*ck up forest roads or half finish them

because this forest road was supposed to be upgraded,
they didn't bother re-scraping half of it & it is full of pot-holes & puddles, my headlight bulb blew on the bumpy bit!

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August 30, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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confused here... haven't been for a while
there used to be a legal forest track at this reservoir,
now there's a fence

seems the only route is to go onto bank of the reservoir where there are loads of people...

including a 'power ranger' putting a balaclava on in 26℃?

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August 27, 2026 at 11:40 PM
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Many Jewish Polish people lived here, milling corn & flax, 2 mills in the area were owned by Jewish Polish people.

Non-Jewish Polish people massacred them in a pogrom pre-1900, pre-WW1, there's a monument somewhere near an old synagogue

There was no Catholic church in the area.
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August 27, 2026 at 6:46 PM
jmzed.bsky.social
...the track was an odd route through fields leading me to another bridge I already know

an image of the odd route from my tracking app, some screengrabs and the bridge at the end of the track...

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August 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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Yet another even more rickety bridge,
bits of wood at one side and new repairs on the other
& a nonchalant motocross rider

The bridge led to a track I have never been down that opened into fields, there were plenty of tyre tracks,
I hesitated but then followed them...
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August 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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This bridge doesn't fill me with confidence at all!

It's a nice spot,
some old lad fishing and two kids on the swings, otherwise empty
Sadly an overflowing litter bin, at least people have started using them

#MotoSky #JMZrides #OldPolishRoads #RicketyBridge
a long wooden bridge with yellow metal barriers at either side, the surface is very uneven and the lengths of wood that span the width are irregular. A motorbike seen from the front sits in the centre of the bridge. through the trees on the right side a small beach can be seen next to the river. Trees surround the river and bridge a long wooden bridge with yellow metal barriers at either side, the surface is very uneven and the lengths of wood that span the width are irregular. A motorbike seen from the side sits in the centre of the bridge. through the trees on the right side a small beach & volley ball pitch can be seen next to the river. Trees surround the river and bridge a river reflecting clouds, on the left side a small beach with bbq/pizza oven and a wooden shelter. On the right lots of lush greenery, in the background tall trees a river with a wide variety of lush greenery either side
August 24, 2026 at 5:55 PM
jmzed.bsky.social
"There is a place which no one has seen
Where it's still possible to dream
An uncharted world which will be unfurled
Wander constantly by glistening streams"

Joys of having a motorbike,
see a track, take it, you can always turn round

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August 23, 2026 at 1:07 PM
jmzed.bsky.social
F*CKERS!

Well it is just a road / rat run now, sad

I can see due to yellow markers on other forest tracks that they are looking to restore other old Polish roads

better make the most of them while I can!

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August 22, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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A small vid of the foot bridge and weir

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August 17, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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I stopped at a very weird weir today

Complete with a wooden bridge & concrete steps leading into the river either side

No quite sure of its purpose,
...to deepen the river for swimming?

Plenty of little fish swimming upstream though...

[vid in next post]

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a wooden bridge across at river above a weir green coloured iron fencing around the entrance to bridge but only on one side of actual bridge on the opposite bank concrete steps either side of bridge lead to the river a view from the right hand side of the bridge showing the weir and the river foaming a view from the left hand side of the bridge showing the metal structure underneath the bridge many small fish swim upstream
August 17, 2026 at 8:13 PM
jmzed.bsky.social
Part of my journey to the airport
once main road to Częstochowa,
the building of the airport was a reason this road was neglected & a new one built

[Vid has an ACR tune: Rub Down, the journey was disjointed, lots of sun flares, seemed apt.
vid compression is crap]

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August 14, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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Aerial view of the rout from google earth showing the proximity of the old road to the runway

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July 19, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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A little trip down to the airport

The old road has been marked as a cul-de-sac now, once a busy thoroughfare, now overgrown with many prickly things!

Looking at how close the road came to the runway you can see why they tried to close it

Song Deaf Shepherd

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July 19, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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The western route still features on some French tourist road maps,
Despite Piłsudski pulling funding from many roads,

he left the Kruszyna to Kaflarnia open for a long time,

as Kaflarinia & the lakes to the east were the summer residence of the Lubomirski family...

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July 5, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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I have over 1.5 hrs of this trip but I'm not happy with the camera settings

I hesitate at some junctions because previously there were Red Circle / No Access signs, but they have gone.

this is my route from google earth.

the 2 roads are still classed as roads!
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July 5, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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Here we are, the track pre-solar farm and looking at the position of the wind turbines I'd say I took the image from a similar view point

#MotoSky #OldPolishRoads #SolarFarm
a field track in the centre the track is surrounded by long grass and crops on the horizon wind turbines and a blue sky a field track in the centre. on the left recently sown crops, on the right a new huge solar farm that is almost 1km in length. on the horizon wind turbines and a blue and cloudy sky
April 26, 2026 at 10:33 PM
jmzed.bsky.social
Well this wasn't here before*!

an enormous solar farm,
intriguingly on a track called Słoneczna / Sunny!

Some big skies today,
hard to believe we had snow early this morning.

[*will try and locate an image from this track pre-solar farm & post below]

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2 image collage. Top: a field track in the centre with motorcycle on the left recently sown crops, on the right a new huge solar farm that is almost 1km in length. on the horizon wind turbines and a blue and cloudy sky Bottom: a view of the solar farm from a distance taken through a zoom lens showing less than half of the farm a screen grab from google maps showing the track where the solar farm is located, the tracks is an old road called Słoneczna in Polish, which means Sunny in English 2 image collage showing fields and very big skies with heavy white / grey clouds and blue sky a landscape scene with a crossroad of field tracks in the foreground where a motorcycle sits. far on the horizon are forests and above a very cloudy blue sky with white & grey clouds
April 26, 2026 at 10:04 PM
jmzed.bsky.social
Great ride today lads!

More Storks,
some sunburn,
some side roads
two long forest tracks,
got lost,
dodgy battery,
& fuel anxiety...

& far too much bloody sand!

[found my way back using google maps in walking mode]

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two picture collage; Top shows a Polish village street with a motorcycle on the left next to tall hedges. at the centre of the image atop a lamppost there is a storks next with a pair of storks. The male had just returned and was feeding the female. Bottom image; a close up of the Stork's nest with both birds visible two image collage. Top image a motorcycle facing forward on a forrest track surrounded by lush grass and greenery. Bottom image: a motorcycle seen from the rear on a forrest track surrounded by lush grass and greenery two collage image. Top image: the view from the handlebars of a motorbike of a very sandy forest track that splits into two. bottom image: a deep sandy forest track at a crossroads two image collage of 2 screenshots from Google Earth Pro. Top image shows a recorded route through a forest in red that takes two wrong turns and has to double back. Bottom image shows the junction where the route should have gone left but instead went right
April 25, 2026 at 8:24 PM
jmzed.bsky.social
So now 'the man' has put traffic signs on this once forest track, that was once a main road, & is still classified as one, & looks like it will be again!

despite the high temp of 11℃ today
most of this track is in the shade & there were still patches of ice...

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a partially tarmacced road turns to mud as it curves left into the forest a motorcycle seen from the rear stands on the right of the image. Newly installed traffic signs are on the right side of the track a forest track covered partially in ice and mud disappears into the horizon a motorcycle seen from the front is on the left side of the track
February 12, 2026 at 9:24 PM
jmzed.bsky.social
Oh

Just found a really poor video of me going the opposite direction to the images 3 & 4 in the quoted post

The 'sport cam' cost pennies...

and you can see why!

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January 11, 2026 at 1:49 AM