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Unlike other bike trips I didn't take many photos.
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Roads - mainly good (got zapped).
Weather - mainly good but horrendous conditions on the way up.
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Locals - good. Filtering is a breeze when so many use mirrors. White vans are still the quickest vehicle to follow through the Trossachs.
Ale - ale.
Reliability - good apart from an aftermarket voltage warning light that succumbed to the drenching on the way up and briefly made my heart sink until i pulled over and double checked it.
Ale - Aye, I'll 'ave another.
Group dynamics - Mainly ex colliers in their late 60s, most ride like complete twats although we did have an I.A.M chap who helped a couple of new to it guys.
Ale - Fuck it I'm already pissed so another won't make a difference
Group riding - hilarious for the usual reasons..dodgy overtakes..back end slides...(un)intentional wheelies.... getting lost and not informing those who blindly follow...pulling over in unusual and often dangerous places...getting bored and blasting past the rest of them...getting lost...repeat when you find them on whatsapp.
Ale - Where is Dave's brandy bottle?
Health - Most of us have decades of manual labour under our belts so nothing was mentioned as it would show weakness. (me bad arm is fuckin' murdering).
Food - 2 of the lads (ha-ha I called them lads!) could open an expensive restaurant and it was roadside fayre when out n about.
Attractions - I personally wanted to ride-ride-ride so left them to it on a few occasions, but did Falkirk wheel with them.
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Dropped in at chickenstrip's place for a natter and brew (lovingly prepared cheese n pickle butty that sustained me whilst I tonked-it back home).
Ale - spoils of war.
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HT, lovin' your work!
Looked boss as f*** too
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End of the drive...
Tinkered for the morning... got myself all ready to go for the afternoon, literally got to the end of the drive and the heavens opened.
Sulked for the rest of the day till work in the evening. ____________________ Riding: Yamaha MT-09 Tracer Occasionally Riding: 08 Suzuki SV650, Potato: 2011 Yamaha YBR Custom.
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Went to the watercress festival. Yup, it was as fun as it sounds. Kept the Mrs happy though.
Went home via Ropley Train station / watercress line, saw a few steam engines... Average day was had, but with some nice riding in between.
Didn't drop it today either, so that's a win.
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Ride out for lunch today, with various stops for bird / wildlife watching. including a pretty cool up close encounter with a red kite pulling apart its dinner.
Weather was
Stop at Loomies for some Marmite on toast and can of Rio.
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Lambs...
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On Friday, went with Arry to Norfolk. 780 miles all in.
Mega roads included: A1065, A148, A134, A1075, A1088, A1062, A149, A143
Started off a bit wet
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The welcoming committee were there to greet us
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A few beers in the evening and the next day was splendid, as were all up to today (Monday).
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Saturday was spent doing a giant figure of 8 around north Norfolk and Thetford. Some fantastic roads, with minimal traffic compared to peak season. Still plenty of Police who seemed to take an interest in us.
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More beers in the evening and a visit to the local beach next morning in search for coffee.
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Off to Cromer and then to Norfolk's Motorcycle Museum. Proper cool little place, nice guy working there. Lots of interesting bikes.
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Chased back across the coastal road, showing the local whipper-snappers how its done.
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More beers that evening.....and a mahoosive slice of cake due to (the second time) missing the kitchen serving time for dinner.
Then off to Muckleburgh Military Collection
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Then struck camp and fired ourselves at the scenery once more, this time for home. But not before Arry showed me some of Essex's finest roads, which were fantastic.
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Great company, roads, weather, beer and food. Good times!
Thanks Arry
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Shit, for a moment there I thought you meant 780 miles in one day! Now, that would have been worth some
Tip: next time you want coffee, try a coffee shop. Sand and pebbles don't make a very good substitute, I find
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Just out and about locally today randomly going down roads that I haven't gone down before. Lots of nice roads and nice scenes to be seen.
Add to that plenty of stops for bird watching, turned out to be a nice day!
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Some of the SE headed for the Peaks on Friday. We adopted a SW member for the trip in the form of Petalbriefs. Who assimilated into the group very quickly, adopting the default position of taking different exits on roundabouts and melting reg/reg wiring with the A-Team getting it sorted in double quick time (we have previous).
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Hartington Hall was nice enough and the staff were very friendly.
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By chance there was a beer festival in the village, so we cracked on from 5pm (rude not to). Enjoying varied cask ales, BBQ and live music.
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A giggle of an evening, which coupled with zero sleep, resulted in a VERY shaky start to the next day. Fortunately a full-english helped, followed by some focussing miles over the peaks with 10 meter visibility. It was a bit grim. There was brief talk of a mutiny.
Stopped at the Wye Bridge House in Buxton for caffeine and sugar, where GroovyLee got his knee and shoulder down
The mizzle started to clear and we fired ourselves into the living room of a young Mr HT
Who's warm smile was enough to re-heat us, along with some excellent fresh coffee
After admiring his incredible collection of (without going into too much detail, internet innit) music, lovely garden (Julie's work), his MV (big red was hidden) and playing with his adorable dogs. We proceeded on our mission to hoon, making sure to piss off his neighbours before we left in a booming, tooting, buzzing, howling gaggle of vtwin, IL3 and IL4's.......HT's neighbours are probably used to it.
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They say an army marches on its stomach. We didn't do much marching, but had a fantastic pub lunch anyway and nearly recruited another member into the squad as the waiter saw the error of his ways and wanted to join our cool gang......albeit, very briefly.
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The scenery was starting to reveal itself and it just got better and better.
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We went over to Blue John Cavern and sat below Mam Tor, basking in sun and success.
Haroman666 was an excellent tour guide with many (two) Wikipedia facts to feed the mind.
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Haroman666's booming VTR had clearly been down this road before
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Onwards to do Snake Pass and end up at Ladybower reservoir
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Followed by a nice pub dinner and a few more drinks.....which continued on at the hostel bar until the shutters were pulled down on a mostly excellent weekend.
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The peaks were stunning and I'm definitely going back
As ever, the company was top notch, plenty of giggles and obscenities, with many surprises, new places and smiley faces.
Thanks to everyone, as ever, lovin' your work
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^^ Good work, with a nice little write up and pictures! ^^
Would love to get involved next time ____________________ Riding: Yamaha MT-09 Tracer Occasionally Riding: 08 Suzuki SV650, Potato: 2011 Yamaha YBR Custom.
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 360 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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