It's all Islander's fault...

[MCW]

[cornish]

Do it!!!

Non-motorway travel is a better way to see things and if you're breaking up the journey by stopping lots don't see it as a long haul on a small bike but lots of little trips every day.

I did loads of miles on my RXS100. As long as the bike doesn't mind just enjoy it as a lovely trip to a fab place in some (hopefully) lovely weather. Bikes are about the journey not the destination and all that
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smile and be happy. . . .it gets right on everyone's tits!

[MCW]

[Islander]

Totally doable. I'd recommend coming up the west coast of Scotland. Take a tent if you like camping - there are some cracking sites.

A couple of caveats for you though. Seeing cetaceans isn't by any means guaranteed and you're unlikely to see the aurora in May. It'll be too light - its only a month from midsummer and the Sun just dips below the horizon for a couple of hours at that time of year.

The archaeology is available all year round of course and you might just strike it lucky with the wildlife. There's a Yahoo! group called Orkbird that keeps track of what's happening wildlife wise if you're interested.

[MCW]

[cornish]

[Islander]

[MCW]

[Islander]

Yep, you certainly won't be bored.

[Spudly]

[ocatoro]

cool list
i saw the northern lights up in overkalix in northern sweden. absolutely beautiful. probably would make a good road trip up there too. they get good weather once the snow melts.


question for everyone. with the poles changing.. will the northern lights exist? will the appear at the other end instead? will they exist with southern polarity in the "northern" hemisphere?


*there's already southern polarity appearing in the north... it's definitely happening.
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[Spudly]

[Islander]

[MCW]

I claim my thread back! Whatever happens to polarity, am not taking my baby Varadero to the south pole! Am interested in the science bit. Am more interested in who wants a cuppa en route...

[Spudly]

[Alpha-9]

Bucket lists are so cliché
Personally there's nothing interesting about seeing the northern lights to me, i'd get bored after 2 minutes

Seeing whales would be interesting although they're pretty horrifying to me, their giant freaky mass

I feel a raging thread coming on
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[Islander]

[MCW]

[MCW]

[Alpha-9]

[MCW]

[Spudly]

[hellkat]

I think a trip like that on a 125 would be cool, certainly intrepid.

Having to go on A roads ain't so bad, I prefer them to motorways on a little bike. Nowt wrong with pootling.

I've not yet devised a bucket list, there's loads I've not done, and many mates have gone further on bikes than I would ever have bothered to do. But I see life as an adventure, of which I've had a few, I suppose - so I am content with what I have done, anything extra at this point in my life would be a bonus. If I were to seriously consider bucket lists, then yeah, the auroras, maybe, and possibly some iceberg tourism. not given it much thought, I don't set out to do specific trips, although I admire people who do (Tatters and Joe - and Annabella (!!) spring immediately to mind)

I have to say, I never let a top box get in the way of getting off the bike. Getting on and off difficult size-and-shape bikes has done wonders for my gluteals. I have an inexplicable passion for tall bikes (mostly trailies, although my current bike is just a tall bike) ... so you'll never meet a fat old bird with as pert gluteals as mine *waggles eyebrows*

I used to use a sort of hopping motion whilst backing off the seat, LOL (come to think of it, still do) cos my ankles can't cope with long journeys any more, so by the time I get off, I end up looking like some crippled old pensioner hobbling about, kinda spoils the "urban warrior princess" look somewhat
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[hellkat]

[quote="inksmithy]
- I do it for the sense of perspective and the outright wonder.[/quote]
That's about the best reason to do stuff I can think of
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[Rogerborg]