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A pleasant meal was had along with a nice cold pint of Adnams.
The bike behaved well and we are getting to know each other  .
A small tank is actually a blessing as it means you have to get off the bike to re-fuel sooner rather than later and that saves my bum 
My first 100+ miles trip with the bike and no problems, yay!
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Adnams are one of my favourite breweries
That's what I don't understand when people complain their tank hasn't got a range of twenty gazillion miles. I always need a bit of a break after about 100 at best anyway.
Think I'll pop down to Keswick tomorrow for lunch at the Filling Station cafe
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| pepperami wrote: |
I've told you a billion billion times not to exaggerate  |
Ok. I always need a break after about 97 miles at best
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Now that I have got the hire bike, I took it out to meltenjoy the nice weather.
Went up the small roads into beacon hill and along the south downs, then the A212 after a drink at loomies.
In amongst that, I also took a couple of detours to get the picture challenges, only to be beaten to the punch, twice. Oh well, all good fun.
https://s20.postimg.org/ebsb0zivh/IMG_20170619_183831.jpg
https://s20.postimg.org/5ussq2e6l/IMG_20170619_185141.jpg
Anyone got any exciting bike rides planned for the week?
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This is fast becoming my favourite thread on here; actual bikes being actually used and norra lot of bickering  |
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A bimble around the Lakes. Filling Station cafe for a breakfast butty (in the afternoon ) first. Then down by Thirlmere to Ambleside, down to Windermere (against my own advice ), back up Grisedale to Ambleside again, over the Kirkstone Pass, along Ullswater, then caned half a tankful on the motorway home.
Getting difficult to find original shots now. White skies in all the shots today 
Just down from the Kirkstone Pass, Patterdale side:
https://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b550/nicknicklxs/DSCN9826_zpsjqy79hfb.jpg
https://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b550/nicknicklxs/DSCN9827_zpsslsz6nxh.jpg
https://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b550/nicknicklxs/DSCN9828_zpsqpo7nvre.jpg
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To the MOT station:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4252/35058550400_23cb9aa3a1_c.jpg
Because the MOT ran out today and I only noticed last night because it's also due its tax and the system wouldn't let me complete it because the ticket wasn't valid
Anyway, the good news is - it passed with no bother; not sure how it could have failed TBH, since it was pretty much ride it round in a circle, check the brakes stopped it and the horn worked. May just as well have issued the ticket blind.
Bad news is; every time I go for an MOT it pains me to see how few miles I've managed. Why on earth I have two bikes is beyond me. Need to sort that out, big time. |
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Bad news is; every time I go for an MOT it pains me to see how few miles I've managed. Why on earth I have two bikes is beyond me. Need to sort that out, big time. |
I've already blown most of the money I got from the sale of the Striple on riding the Fazer 
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Best of both worlds really. I got to put 4000 miles on the Triumph, then recycled it to do the Euro trip
I'm also lucky in that I'm unemployed (  ) and can grab any decent day to get out for a ride. This idyll will end before long though.
Otoh, even when I was in full-time employment, I typically managed to put 10k miles on my bikes (and only very short commutes), so yes, you're not trying hard enough 
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Yeah see there's the thing; commute for me is by train and where there's a city, there's alcohol, which generally means I don't go for a ride in the evening either. I am going to change that by going out tonight, mind. Not sure where yet or on which bike, but I'll grab a few pics when I do |
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| arry wrote: | there's alcohol, which generally means I don't go for a ride in the evening either. |
And there's another memory
I drank the proceeds of the sale of my H2 (about 1700 quid iirc) Can't remember if that method of recycling was as much fun though 
I also wasted the best part of three years in Germany in an alcoholic haze, and even when I did have a bike out there, didn't make the best use of it that I could have. I learned the lesson from that though, hence all the riding I do now.
I don't ride much in the evenings, but if you have the energy after work, now's the time
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| arry wrote: | I don't go for a ride in the evening either. I am going to change that by going out tonight, mind. Not sure where yet or on which bike, but I'll grab a few pics when I do |
I also decided I don't go for a ride in the evenings enough either, so put that right tonight too.
Lanercost Priory:
https://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b550/nicknicklxs/DSCN9837_zpsfqchl6rv.jpg
I wasn't going to pay to go in, so that might have been a private road I parked on 
First sighting of Hadrian's Wall on tonight's ride:
https://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b550/nicknicklxs/DSCN9843_zpsxxvaayk5.jpg
At Birdoswald:
https://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b550/nicknicklxs/DSCN9845_zpsqaygruem.jpg
I think that's Steel Rigg in the background:
https://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b550/nicknicklxs/DSCN9857_zpsvczjj1oz.jpg
I got there just as it closed, but again, I wasn't going to pay to look at the remains of the fort, as there's often not enough to make it worth your while at these places, but there was a footpath down by the site, so got a bit of a look:
https://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b550/nicknicklxs/DSCN9854_zpss5pzwgxl.jpg
Which confirmed there wasn't much to see.
It was still bleedin hot at this point, so headed up to the Hartside to cool down again. Some blasts from the past turned up:
https://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b550/nicknicklxs/DSCN9862_zpsl2elk75k.jpg
https://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b550/nicknicklxs/DSCN9866_zpsfeaqr3tu.jpg
https://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b550/nicknicklxs/DSCN9869_zpstokd9kyv.jpg
Then down t'other side through Melmerby, and a blast up the M6, but when I got back to Carlisle, felt like going a bit longer, so headed to the Solway Firth at Port Carlisle:
https://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b550/nicknicklxs/DSCN9873_zpsjjrvn6jz.jpg
https://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b550/nicknicklxs/DSCN9880_zpsfczwpvdp.jpg
But started to get eaten by midges there, so finally headed for home. It was like someone was throwing handfuls of bugs at me as I went, such that I thought it was raining at one point!
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I fear you might have outdone me there |
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| arry wrote: | I fear you might have outdone me there |
I will not be beaten!
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OK, so, not today, but more a compilation of the last few days ..
Sunday 18th, did the bikers breakfast at Halfpenny Green on the Mash
https://www.staffsbiker.co.uk/staffordshirebikersbreakfasts/ First time down one of these. Also used the ride out to give my nephew a bit of a ride out experience on his 50cc scooter !!
https://cdn.bcf.44bytes.net/files/mash_xy-400_roadstar_2015_20170618_halfpenny_green_1.jpg
Then Tuesday evening, decide to try the new meet at the Blythe Inn
https://www.theblytheinn.co.uk/ near Uttoxeter, went on the ST7
https://cdn.bcf.44bytes.net/files/hyosung_st7_2016_20170620_the_blythe_inn_1.jpg
Stopped off for photos at a couple of places on the way back ...
Just outside Blythe
https://cdn.bcf.44bytes.net/files/hyosung_st7_2016_20170620_blythe_1.jpg
Chartley Castle, the bright grey sky not so good for photos ..
https://cdn.bcf.44bytes.net/files/hyosung_st7_2016_20170620_chartley_castle_1.jpg
And .. the Church at Weston
https://cdn.bcf.44bytes.net/files/hyosung_st7_2016_20170620_church_weston_1.jpg
Then, yesterday, took the scenic route home from Leicester, and decided to take a photo at Blithfield reservoir, this, on the CF650, as that's now my main commuter bike, and this was on the way home to Wolves from work ..
https://cdn.bcf.44bytes.net/files/cf650tr_2015_20170621_blithfield_lake_1.jpg
...... A quieter day today, and this evening is out as gimmer sitting !!
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| Copycat73 wrote: | | chickenstrip wrote: |
Getting difficult to find original shots now. |
try Kielder forest ... not that much difference in the millage from you. |
Yeah, I have been there once, and no doubt will go again sometime. Thinking of doing the A701/702 loop again soon - had crap weather last time I did it, so might get something next time.
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