Where you been on your bike Today

[wr6133]

One of my underlings needed some stuff today, said stuff was delivered to me. So with 30+ degrees outside I thought it'd be rude not to turn the 46 mile trip in too 113 miles Luckily his stuff fitted in my seat hump.

Was worth the melting heat, roads were pretty clear and I finally killed off a pair of old sliders.

However on the way home on a local bit of tarmac, 2 mile straight, perfect visibility, top speed run kind of place, a bunch of what when I first saw them (very) far off looked like cyclists in a line, slightly closer became cyclists 4 abreast.

Out with the anchors, hello 2 blown fork seals.

You can see the circlip dangling
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[Moxey]

[Tdibs]

Hit some lanes in the peaks with a nice red sunset backdrop

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Not sure to keep the DR or not, its so-so
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Previous : 09 Vanvan 125| 02' Sv650s || Current: 1999 Xj600n | 1992 DR650 RSE | 2005 Fazer 1000

[Poseidon]

Went Scarborough way on today on the little CG... didn't get any pics of my bike there, but caught a few others, including this Guy...

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2002 Ducati Monster S4 (currently restoring)

[Copycat73]

[wr6133]

Dragged the winter bike out sooner than planned. Managed 2 hours early yesterday, early enough there was no traffic about. Did a few laps of a little thing I call the Wilts TT

Put a grin on my face. 6 months of a litre il4 and a big single, I've got used to low down torque and power pretty much idle - redline. This 600 il4 is black and white different, much to my amusement I kept floundering out of corners because I was forgetting to dance around the gearbox. Bikes is ridiculously comfy too, it's a la-Z boy with a 16k redline.

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[Tdibs]

Did a bit more of the TET route closest to me on the DR

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Home is the other side of the cloud front.... fun times

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Still not sure about that DR, Should have kept saving for the Tenere I really wanted
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Previous : 09 Vanvan 125| 02' Sv650s || Current: 1999 Xj600n | 1992 DR650 RSE | 2005 Fazer 1000

[Stevie GooGs]

220 miles round trip.

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Ride down to Gairloch was nice, then hit harr rolling in off the sea, looks cool but pretty cold

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Met up with some bikers from the Highlands.

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23 degrees, happy as a pig in
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Bealach Na Ba / Applecross (went the long way round as not done in a while)
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Heading back inland
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Cooling down and finishing off the day with a cold one.
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[Tdibs]

Beautiful mate! Hows the Ten for crunching road miles?
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Previous : 09 Vanvan 125| 02' Sv650s || Current: 1999 Xj600n | 1992 DR650 RSE | 2005 Fazer 1000

[Stevie GooGs]

Honestly, I never thought it would be the bike for me, but it ticks all the boxes at the moment. If your wanting a bike that can go up and down trails, ride well in single-track roads, has a bit of power and is very very smooth to ride then id say this bike is pretty much spot on.
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Current: 2019 Yamaha T7 -> 2015 KTM Superduke R | 2000 Yamaha R1 Past -> 2009 KTM 990 SM -> 2005 kawasaki ZX10r -> 2000 Honda CBR 600 FY -> 2002 Honda XLV 125 Varadero
Bike Pics! -> My Photography Website

[Moxey]

[Moxey]

Took the Fazer out for a good run today

Firstly to Stanhope with Chris and Oakesy (MT10 and H2SX)
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Oakesy had prior commitments so just me and Chris over the tops to Alston.
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Finally gave Nook farm cafe a look and met some lads from the rallies who we ended up tagging along with.
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Took the long backroads to Keswick (via Hallbank Gate all the way to Bassenthwaite)
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At Keswick filling station cafe
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Chris headed back whilst we pushed on to Ambleside, Glenridding then up to Hartside 'look out'
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Then on to home via Alston again and Middleton Teesedale.

Fazer is an amazing bike, feels good to be back on a competent machine after nearly 2 years of frankly crap projects (even though Vince on the F800 GS utterly left me standing on the B-Roads )

I genuinely think Hartside looks better off without the Cafe, the tea van there now was a damn sight cheaper and faster than that ever was.
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'I was too busy paying attention to pay attention'

[Irn-Bru]

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Also had a look out at the Nook Farm place, still much prefer the petrol station and the pasties myself Views are nice though, was mega busy when I was there. Lots of people seemed to be wandering off into the field up the hill.

Did Hartside, but turned off before Penrith and came back on ourselves heading towards Brampton on the mad little roads, then on to the A689 towards Alston. The amount of gravel on the single tracks was unreal as usual, expected after the rain recently I suppose.

Heard the speed camera vans were out and about so, went from Alston to Lanchester nearly entirely on single tracks, tried to find the route just now on Google Maps but too easy to lose track so gave up
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[Copycat73]

[Moxey]

Played a little game today, something I've been planning for ages, called it Castle Attack, basically visit as many Castles as possible (our area has an abundance of them!).

First Witton Castle (where I should have been dying on the grounds this weekend from alcohol poisoning but unfortunately not to be )

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Next was Walworth Castle (funnily both me and Kieran worked here 10 years ago as waiters, nice to come back and stick the V's up at the place )

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3rd was Raby Castle, difficult to get close to anyway and more so today as it was an Alfa Romeo gathering, wasn't paying £15 just to get close for a shot.

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4th Barnard Castle (ruin, blown to pieces by Cromwell I believe), place was heaving so were lucky to find this secluded spot for a photo.

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Next just down the road was the little known Bowes Castle, very quiet so we sneaked the bikes up close.

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Then a long slog up the dales to Stanhope which technically has a castle (renaissance era tarty house really).

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Then a good chunk of the way up past Allenheads (photo in the woods) to Langley Castle near Hexham.

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Aydon Castle ruins near Corbridge next

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Lastly Lumley Castle near Chester Le Street, not a very photogenic location lots of trees.

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Still loads of sites left for the future (Alnwick, Bamburgh, Richmond etc), started to rush towards the end of the day as running short of time (4 hour ride turned to 7 hours due to Kieran riding no faster than a C50 soon as it got wet up the Dales ).

Think in future I'll go solo.
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Current: 02 FZS 1000 Some Bike Pics...
'I was too busy paying attention to pay attention'

[Stevie GooGs]

Run with a few biking mates in the Highlands.

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Bike Pics! -> My Photography Website

[arry]

[arry]

[arry]

Bit of a mission yesterday. Sort of my fault although I'm not taking all the blame.

A while back I found a place called Chappel about 50 miles up the road. It's a nice little village on the Colne river but the specific reason for going there was to see the Viaduct:

https://services-media.propertylogic.net/website/1519054450/Area_Guides/about-chappel-wakes-1.jpg


So off I trotted and eventually..... success

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However, it wasn't without its challenges. Firstly, I'd plotted the route some time ago and devised that I'd do it on the Enfield, so I planned in the lower speed, single track sort of stuff because the Enfield is really at home there. The BM - yeah, less so Secondly, I didn't stop to look at the route again before I started off (otherwise I'd probably have changed it) and ended up going 10 miles out of my way in a slightly different direction, second guessing what the sat nav was going to do. Thirdly, the sat nav didn't take into account a couple of road closures that had me chasing diversion signs and THEN heading straight back to the problem area as the nav wanted to hit the waymarker not realising I wanted to move onto the next one

Also had a rather interesting experience coming through the single track stuff with a blind left hander. Moved over to the middle/right of the track for visibility and as I got visibility of things moving towards me, ducked into the left and hugged the verge, came to a stop. Yeah, Team Sky Wannabie MF's coming the other way 3 abreast, furthest right hit the brakes and had nowhere to go - just clipped my mirror and shoulder on the way through What on earth they'd all have done if there was a car coming is beyond me

110 miles ish total (about 15 of those lost). Just ticked over 5000 miles on the BM, so that's ~1550 since middle of July. Not bad.

[ThunderGuts]

Decided fairly randomly to ride to Emley Moor Transmitter for sunrise on Saturday; this involved being on the road for 5am on Saturday morning with SLR, tripod etc. all strapped to the bike. It was a pretty rough ride there - rain, dark, wind, but dropping over the Pennines towards Holmfirth saw the clouds pull apart like theatre curtains revealing a fantastic orange glow on the horizon. Living on the west side of the Peaks I don't normally get to witness sunrises as they're blocked by the hills until the sun is relatively high, it's the sunsets we get, so this was quite a treat. I need to sort out the SLR photos properly, but the below is a quick 'phone photo showing me parked up taking the photos. It was pretty special and made the early start worthwhile.

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[arry]

Wow

Please do post the SLR pics when you're ready

[ThunderGuts]

Yep I will do; I was actually a little disappointed I think with the light on the tower itself; the haze/cloud on the horizon dulled the intensity a bit, but the flipside was the sunrise itself was mighty impressive!
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TG.

[Moxey]

[arry]

Mine will get through the 500ml the sight glass takes in about 900 miles the way I'm riding. In order to keep it topped up I'm adding oil every other ride

Luckily I've got all my luggage sorted now and have ~100L of storage so that should be enough to carry my oil around with me if i go touring - I'll send my gear ahead by Fedex

[wr6133]