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Posted: 00:03 - 24 May 2020 Post subject: |
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Met up with Arry at Ides Hill / Sevenoaks and went via B-roads down to Beachy Head which was blowing 300mph winds up top.
We left after a short while due to frost bite and pneumonia. Luckily defrosting on the way back by riding through the only bit of rain to hit the South East in 10 weeks. It was big fat rain and roads were flooded as were our crotches.
Quickly developing trench-foot and trench-nut, we fired ourselves towards a bit of blue sky and stopped as steam billowed off the concrete.
Couldn't stop laughing at a ridiculous day.
Bikes are mega
195 miles
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Get one of those nodding dog toys and stick it to the screen. Job done ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Well, it was, it was a case of playing mother goose, out with the goslings again today, over to Ellesmere, via the Raven, there and back, the nipper's friends first 100+ mile rideout, only the 3rd on her 125...
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Coast to coast on the DRZ, via Hartside and the passes at the lakes. 240 miles, absolutely fooked today ____________________ KTM 990 SMT & Suzuki DR-Z 400 SM |
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Posted: 10:18 - 27 May 2020 Post subject: |
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Back out of slumber, awoken to the mighty BCF by a PM so thought I might as well update what's gone on with me.
Firstly, I took the KTM somewhere nice out in the lanes to get some pictures of it:
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Cos then it got sold. Gone, but not forgotten - some really good times on it, including Linconshire Wolds, Norfolk twice, Dorset coast, a couple of others I'm sure. 4 years was enough though, I need to own something that's a bit more.....forgiving.... of my spazmicated body these days. |
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Starting to get that feeling with my GSXR |
Hard this getting old lark isn't it
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Comfort, don't care about speeding, ride on most terrain, cheap enough to fix don't care about battering it, lets you enjoy the scenery. Crap enough by any measurable metric, you stop caring about measurable metrics and just ride the thing.
I think it's the motorcycle equivalent of dropping out of the rat race, moving off grid and giving to everyone trying to sell 200BHP that requires more electronic aids than the Space Shuttle ever did.
Church looks like a lovely setting. I have some unwanted family Colchester way so if the Essex countryside is all that pretty may venture up there. |
Agreed on the Enfield score - still the best thing I've done in my biking life I think. On paper I should absolutely hate it, but then on paper I should absolutely hate my missus but in reality I only find her mildly cretinous.
That place isn't a million miles away from Colchester - it's in Mundon, and it is very much Enfield Territory out there. Small lanes, pretty villages. The wider area is known as the Dengie Peninsula and there's a sort of circular route that gives a decent hour's riding and a decent cafe called The Cabin down in Burnham
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There's lots of good riding to do in Essex but you do have to search it out - the roads around Finchingfield are really good when the traffic is quiet. |
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Back on the Byeways yesterday afternoon. Had to get from Tidworth - Devizes for something work related. Mileage on tarmac would be 40 round trip, I manged 70 over almost 3 hours . I thought I could remember routes I last did over 10 years ago in a Warrior, turns out I just got super lost.
Giving myself a half day today so may go re-explore this area.
Every single plank wobbles on this bridge, it'll take 80 ton but even on a bike it feels like it's collapsing behind you as you go over.
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Plain is full of random little groups of buildings. Army uses them to train. These ones are actually the last place I ever did a Company attack back in '09. I got held back after we went through to play enemy for the next lot, was handed a GPMG and told I wouldn't be the one cleaning it
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This slope was much steeper than the photo lets on. The entire surface felt like it wanted to slide down alongside the bike and it had a really annoying series of stepped bits near the bottom that had me worrying about wrecking my sump. Ended up pretty much idling down, controlling speed on the back brake. No idea if that is the right way, I have no real off road experience I'm just making this shit up as I encounter it.
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Did you fall off?, no? , then you must be doing it right . ____________________ I am the sum total of my own existence, what went before makes me who I am now! |
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I’m going to have to go back to old school and use a camera with a card , that can then be loaded onto my laptop.
I can’t do pictures onto here using my mobile phone
Anyhow! Today I did take the Hyosung GT250r out for a buzz.
Ipswich to Manningtree and back via the back roads.
The weather was just right and the roads were not busy.
The new exhaust is maybe a tad to loud, but that’s something to be dealt with later.
I blew the cobwebs out of my head and happy Pepperami is happy ____________________ I am the sum total of my own existence, what went before makes me who I am now! |
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Took the R1 out for an hour yesterday evening telling myself I'd take it easy but before long I was "making progress." I just missed an unexpected WW2 fighter practice-display at Duxford. I think it was the Sea Fury I could see from a distance but by the time I got there it had disappeared. Quite a few folk on surrounding roads watching though.
It must have been 8pm as I rolled through a local village so folk were out on the pavements clapping for key workers, but I felt like I'd just won the TT. There's a single-track road on the other side of the airfield which I often take. Then it was back on the A-road towards home.
Lovely evening. Seems to be a lot more insects about this year, judging by the bug splats. Fine weather? Less traffic? I dunno. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 3 years, 333 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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