Portugal 2007: Fifth Annual HU Travellers Meeting

Góis, Portugal, 24-26 August, 2007

• Meeting Location - Where is it?
• Other Accommodation
• Information about the area
• Rides
• Local hosts, information

How you can help - put up a few posters! (English and Portuguese) updated Portuguese version!

The Plan

The plan is simple. Show up on Thursday or at the latest Friday afternoon, meet people and setup. Travel Presentations and Tech clinics are planned throughout the meeting, starting Thursday night.

2007 speakers so far:

• The Achievable Dream
  • Grant and Susan Johnson, Canada
    Learn from Horizons Unlimited's founders and 11 year round-the-world veterans everything you need to know to ride to the next country or the next continent. Sound scary? Get the inspiration and information so YOU can hit the road! In two parts: 10-12 and 1-3PM.
• Fix that flat! How to change a tire anytime, anywhere
  • Grant Johnson, Canada
    How to prevent flats in the first place, and fix them when you get one. Grant's changed thousands, and will show you all the secrets to make it easy. The best tools and how to use them for tube and tubeless tires. Hand's on practical and tire changing contest for beginners to experts!
• Prep your bike for the long trip!
  • Grant Johnson, Canada
    Is your bike ready for long distance travel? Grant will conduct a hands on assessment and discussion of bike set up and prep, looking at YOUR bike.
• Photo Composition for Travellers
  • Grant Johnson, Canada
    The one everyone SHOULD take, but no one does... We all want to take great photos of our trip - so why don't we? This easy clinic will transform your photos from boring to fabulous! There may also be an advanced class if enough interest - bring 10 photos on a USB key or SD card for discussion.
• Riding Gear - what works and what doesn't
  • José Fonseca, Portugal,
    Sponsored by SPIDI.
• Portugal goes to the USA!
  • Henrique Araújo, Portugal,
    The adventures and misfortunes of Portuguese bikers in the US
• First-Aid for Motorcyclists
  • Anatilde Ramos, Portugal,
    The more common injuries suffered by bikers, how to avoid them and how to act in the unlucky event of suffering one
• Around the World!
  • Carlos Azevedo, Portugal,
    Até ao fim do mundo (RTW in several legs)
• Orienteering
  • Filipe Elias, Portugal,
    Everything you need to know about orienteering (in Portuguese)
• South American journey
  • João Pedro and Américo Cardoso, Portugal,
    From Buenos Aires to Ushuaia

2006 speakers (to give you an idea of what we expect):

• Grant and Susan Johnson
• Tito Baião and João Pedro,, Portugal, Australia and East Timor, on Saturday
• Antonio Bras and João Menezes, Portugal, trip to Guinea
• Henrique Araújo and J. Cacho, Portugal, will present USA from Coast to Coast
• Filipe Elias, Portugal, will do a presentation on how to use a Compass, how to read a Map and to use a GPS.
• Carlos Azevedo, Portugal, South America
• Joaquim Silva, Portugal, Discovering Timbuktu
• Antonio Queirós, Portugal, The Green Hills of Great Britain and Eire
• José Fonseca, Portugal, will do a presentation on riders gear, sponsored by SPIDI
• Luis Lorenco, Portugal, "Mauritania, 'one sand-world, two wheels' or in Portuguese 'Mauritânia, um mundo de areia em duas rodas'
• How about you?? Let us know if you have something to show! Volunteers wanted for these and any other subjects you'd like to talk about! It's easy and fun, and we'll help you out.

There will be slide shows Friday and Saturday night, so come early and make it a great weekend!

Ciclo Vale do Ceira (local dealer) will support us, supplying technical services if needed.

Rideouts

Schedule

You can help!

If you have a few minutes, please download one of these two posters - (Adobe pdf format) and print off a few and hand them round your club or your local bike shop or anywhere seems like a good place.

(You may need to right click and choose "save target as...")

2007 Poster in pdf format, in English (890kb) full colour A4

Thanks for the help!

The Meeting Location for 2007

Parque de Campismo de Gois, the web site is www.goiscamping.com 

Camping is included in your registration fee!

The town of Góis is near Coimbra (ca. 40Kms) and about 200Kms north from Lisbon and 160Kms south from Oporto.

Click the map above for a high quality version.

Entry gate to "Parque de Campismo de Gois"

camping area

grounds

on the grounds

The meeting room