New rider, first tour help please

[Dannyb2012]

Hi all, to wet my appetite for a bigger tour next year, I want to do a small 5-6 day tour from my home in north staffs in the next four weeks. My first tour.
Anyone suggest any good routes, destinations, blogs or journeys? I'm 31 and just done my cbt, planning my full licence spring next year so a complete beginner and obviously no motorways as it'll be a 125cc
Also happy to slum it, wild camp and I will be on my own
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New rider, looking to tour

[Casper]

Is it just me or are people getting soft nowadays? Mate, point the bike and get out and explore. I would finish a night shift and if it was sunny and i was off for a few days o would ride away into the sun and not be seen for a few days. No tent or forward thinking needed. Go and enjoy. BTW i was younger than 31 at the time.

[Dannyb2012]

I guess your right, that's what I'll do. Actually sounds much more appealing that way.
Thanks
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New rider, looking to tour

[Casper]

[Dannyb2012]

All good advice. I'm no novice to camping, staying warm roughing it just never done it on a bike.
Yea I'm just in the edge of the peaks so there is only one direction to head in to start with, into the hills, and ill just pitch my little tent wherever I can, wherever I get.
Should be fun.
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New rider, looking to tour

[pepperami]

Put some money in your pocket.

If the worst comes to the worst and you`ve been riding all day in the pissing rain, you can go and find a B&B or a hotel.

I also feel so much more comfortable on my bike now, knowing that I have break down recovery (RAC).
It gives me the confidence to just go!
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I am the sum total of my own existence, what went before makes me who I am now!

[Casper]

The one that gets me is when people say like, "1000 mile round trip, my bike will never make that" yet the bike will do 1000 trouble free miles round town over the next month or so. Nowt as queer as folk.

[Dannyb2012]

Again good advice, I like camping however good to have the option if its pissing it down.
Also, I don't know a huge amount about bikes yet, however people spending 2 years doing 30,000 miles, and even 125s being sold with sued with 20k on and more, I'm sure 1k mile round trip is no trouble for a reliable bike and fixable if something does go wrong.
That chap Oisin Hughes, from the Not Dead Yet series met a guy with polio who was travelling the world on ybr 125!!
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New rider, looking to tour

[ukdiceman]

Hi,

Grab a copy of Bikers' Britain: Great Motorbike Rides (AA)
ISBN-10: 0749573961
ISBN-13: 978-0749573966

Its got alot of routes and puts them together to make up 4/5 day tours around areas of Britain, should give you a few ideas, also places to stay and visit.
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FZ6 Fazer

[pepperami]

[CG Sam]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bikers-Britain-Great-Motorbike-Rides/dp/0749573961/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379103238&sr=1-1&keywords=9780749573966
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CG125, SV650S, CBR600F, GSXR600 SRAD

[pepperami]

Top banana
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[Dannyb2012]

Thanks guys, book purchased!
Although still undecided on whether to read it. I think the first piece of advice I was given may be the best, at least on our small island...."just ride!!"
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[spnorm]

The book is useful for exploring areas of the country you're unfamiliar with, but when I look at the routes from Yorkshire/Lancashire northwards there are always sections where I wonder why he's chosen main roads over much nicer B/C-roads.

On the plus side, it keeps numpties on sports bikes and the corresponding police attention off my favourite roads