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Posted: 19:28 - 15 Aug 2017 Post subject: |
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Not very exciting but nice to get out today.
No pictures of the trip as it was just a short blast from Ipswich to Colchester and back.
More of a Jaunt to clear the cobwebs out of my head and the bike.
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I been spending a lot of time with my Chinese pos and this has been neglected a little bit.
After today, I know why I haven`t sold it , she does well for a little four-stroke 250 twin.
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Posted: 19:46 - 17 Aug 2017 Post subject: |
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Another bimble about. Started as a warm, mostly sunny day.
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Did a couple of back roads I haven't ridden before, down by Loweswater and out towards Ennerdale:
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Can't seem to capture the colour of the heather-covered hillsides:
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Then someone stole my sunshine, and it got cool and cloudy
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But just before the sun disappeared completely, shot of the day? :
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RhynoCZ wrote: | @ chickenstrip & MarJay
UK looks so nice, it's just like the Land of Beer, but without the 35°C summers and -20°C winters. |
The down side is we get lots of rain, all year round, as one low pressure system after another sweeps over us from the North Atlantic. Summer here tends to come in dribs and drabs; a few days of sunshine here, a few there. Winter tends to be similar, but more rain. We also get the jet stream winds sitting more or less right over us most of the time. If it goes north, we get sunshine. If it goes south, we get rain. Guess where it likes to be mostly? ____________________ 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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chickenstrip wrote: | The down side is we get lots of rain, all year round, as one low pressure system after another sweeps over us from the North Atlantic. Summer here tends to come in dribs and drabs; a few days of sunshine here, a few there. Winter tends to be similar, but more rain. We also get the jet stream winds sitting more or less right over us most of the time. If it goes north, we get sunshine. If it goes south, we get rain. Guess where it likes to be mostly? |
We suffered two showers, one Monday morning (when the forecast said torrential all day) and one Wednesday on the way home back in England. The weather in Wales was far better than we could have hoped, and it was the ideal riding temperature. We had a grand ol' time! The roads are smooth and well surfaced (apart from the one or two sections of surface dressing we encountered) and generally traffic free. I can't remember as much consistently good riding short of my tour in Scotland in 2005. Wales is a lot nearer to me, so I think that means we'll probably return at some point. ____________________ British beauty: Triumph Street Triple R; Loony stroker: KR1S; Track fun: GSXR750 L1; Commuter Missile: GSX-S1000F
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MarJay wrote: | Wales....The roads are smooth and well surfaced (apart from the one or two sections of surface dressing we encountered) and generally traffic free. I can't remember as much consistently good riding short of my tour in Scotland in 2005. Wales is a lot nearer to me, so I think that means we'll probably return at some point. |
Oh, you're preaching to the converted here! I like it better than Scotland for pure riding enjoyment. Until I moved up north, I was in Wales almost every sunny weekend for about two years, riding there from Oxfordshire; couldn't get enough of the place. ____________________ 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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Blimey I really am getting out and about on the bikes this year.
Today I had a couple of bits to do, so I chose a random village to go to the local shop.
I ended up around Otley in Suffolk, a nice little village with some SWeeeet B-roads around there
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Then onto the next village of Gretingham
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Back along more sweet B-roads to Ashbocking and then on to home.
The sun shone and there were very very few cars were I was.
I found out when I got home that the plastic chain guide that protects the swinging arm had come lose
The metal fixing that keeps it in place is tack welded to the swinging arm and it had worked lose.
Four bolts undone and after a practise weld on some thin metal, I was able to do my own tack weld in situ
A large bucket of water was close to hand just in case I set fire to the bike
Everything went back together as it should and one happy Peppers
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Matlock Bath today...
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I meant to post up pictures from last weeks ride from Bled but forgot.
We left our apartment in Bled fairly early as it was forecast to rain in the afternoon, immediately out of the town you get into these tiny villages with roads that are too narrow to let cars through in both directions and houses are built up right next to the road.
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From there we went to Spodnje Gorge which was more of a green valley? I was expecting something more..... Steep sided.
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There was a lovely fresh tarmac section of road with a few hairpins at the end of it but it ended in an industrial estate type area so we turned around and aimed for Bohinj Lake instead. This took us upwards through pine forests and was stunning! I wish I had my camera taking video rather than stills.
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We brought some sammiches along with us so enjoyed them on the beach. The water was lovely and cool which was very refreshing as by that point it was starting to get really humid.
Lake Bled
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We got back, had a shower and were getting ready to walk back to Lake Bled when the heavens opened and it rained hard. Then a crack of lightning that was too close for comfort so we opted for a beer instead. Top day, would do again!
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From Bled we rode to Ljubljana for a few days of doing the tourist thing. We are now in Verona and heading to Interlaken tomorrow for more mountains and bikes. ____________________ Theory test - 19/8/09, CBT - 11/10/09, MOD 1 - 16/8/10, MOD 2 - 27/10/10
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We ended up camping at Lake Bled about a week and half ago, Slovenia was a complete surprise for me, I had no real expectations of it, but I totally want to go back at some point and explore more.
If you go back through Austria checkout https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Gro%C3%9Fglockner+Hochalpenstra%C3%9Fe/@47.11742,12.82745,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipOpun12O3Yoay8xavSmWkDKWN0RXRmJFdG2owH_!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOpun12O3Yoay8xavSmWkDKWN0RXRmJFdG2owH_%3Dw129-h86-k-no!7i3648!8i2432!4m8!1m2!2m1!1sslovenia+meuseum!3m4!1s0x0:0x4e8ac687f588861d!8m2!3d47.1173946!4d12.8274822
Although it cost 25euro to do the pass, which is a total rip-off for us as it was in fog/rain/hail with about 10m visibility...
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Start of going up the pass.
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At lake Bled, tried to take some photo evidence to convince the mrs, that these machines are multi-purpose and yes I could use on for the garden.
It was super busy though, we had to go back down the road for a less busy camp-site than on the lake. Quite amusingly watched the most stereo-typical GS-rider walk into the 'German B&B' on the edge of the lake too, Full 'ADV' GS, schuberth helmet with full intercom, Matching BMW clothing to his GS. ____________________ Previous : 09 Vanvan 125| 02' Sv650s || Current: 1999 Xj600n | 1992 DR650 RSE | 2005 Fazer 1000 |
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Good work with the pictures everyone! always good to see people out and about on the bikes....
Not my bike, but I did somewhat stupidly ride around in Bali. Educational.
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Seem to be getting out later and later. Left at 2pm, usual destinations.
Cool kids on the block:
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Wasdale Head, Scafells and Great Gable in the clouds:
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Wastwater screes:
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Still hiding by the time I got round to Birker Fell:
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On the Wrynose Pass, getting late, getting cold:
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Had hoped to catch some nice sunset shots, but I forgot to charge the camera and it decided at this point it'd had enough
Fish and chips in Keswick and a ride home in the dark. ____________________ 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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Good work Chicken. Certainly put some decent miles in this summer! ____________________ Riding: Yamaha MT-09 Tracer Occasionally Riding: 08 Suzuki SV650, Potato: 2011 Yamaha YBR Custom.
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Nice little bimble out today, more exploring the back roads. Found a couple of good bird watching spots, so bit of a bonus.
Views for days.
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arry wrote: | Wasdale Head still one of the most haunting places I've ever been. That's largely because every time I've been the weather has been terrible; but there is something about the blackness of that water as you come through into the clear and see it for the first time. |
Haunted might be the right word. Ghosts of dead divers? Or gnomes...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9834292/Diver-goes-missing-near-underwater-garden-in-deepest-lake.html
England's deepest lake at 79m too, so no wonder it can look a bit black. I've never been there in bad weather, but have seen some interesting weather effects there. It's what draws me back to the Lakes again and again. My favourite I think is Ennerdale in the autumn, although you can't get a vehicle in to where the views are at; have to walk a few hundred yards from the car park. Much like Wasdale, there's really only one view, of Pillar in this case (one I've yet to climb - don't know if I'll ever be fit enough again now though ), but watching the light change on the fells and the autumn trees...it's a mesmerising place, great place to take the camera:
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