4 Bikes, 3 Days, 2 wheels and a shitload of fudge!

Black Knight · World Chat Champion Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Karma :

I had a little trip to the South West this weekend. Things couldn't have gone better, it was absolutely fantastic! Very Happy

I was at Squires fairly early Fri morning, that early nobody else was there yet!, not even Harry! Just sat outside wearing my Balaclava getting soaked through! Great! what a start Evil or Very Mad

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It continued to chuck it down until we got to leicester, got a little warmer and a little dryer. I'm glad it did as I was on the verge of turning round and going back home!
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Eventually got down to Exeter, We had arranged to stay in a Youth Hostel. Not somewhere I would initially thought of but a friend reccomended the idea so I thought I'd give it a try.
I'm glad I did. Beautiful location, secure, hot powerful showers, TV, internet and best of all cheap as chips.

If you go for weekends away a lot, its well worth looking into using them. The most expensive and luxurious being Central London, private rooms, tea, coffee, TV all in your room, breakfast included for little over £20. Bargain!
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On the Sat we set off for Lands End, started with quite a difficult B road right over the wilderness of Dartmoor. Had to watch out for the sheep!
Took some slow A roads and some fast ones but had big, big fun! I wasn't 100% happy with the bike before I went, was considering selling it as it didn't quite feel right. Not after this weekend, me and her did some serious bonding! Very Happy

Roads were brilliant, lovely and smooth, pretty much clear too when we got to Lands end. Weather was splendid, not a cloud in the sky! Very Happy

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Got hack to the Hostel around 9:30, Nick was reading the paper and snoring after about 4 min. Jimmy lasted about 6 and I soon followed after!
Lads weekend away, all in bed by 10pm! Laughing

Was hoping to do Wales on the return trip on Sun but decided against it as we were loaded with luggage and weather wasn't brilliant. Sad

All in all a great little trip, Hoping to do a few more. Very Happy

I certainly hope fuel prices come down a bit though! Evil or Very Mad

Pic of the trip goes to BigCat inavertantly doing the funky chicken Laughing

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Fudge anybody? Wink

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PsychoHippy · Jammy Git Joined: 02 Jul 2002 Karma :

Aren't you a bit old to be using a youth hostel?
Is it just a name, or is there actually an age limit?
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colin1 · Captain Safety Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Karma :

no age limit these days
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Black Knight · World Chat Champion Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Karma :

Method · World Chat Champion Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Karma :

Looks like a great weekend there mate!

Realy interesting idea about the hostels though - i plan to do a lot of weekends / long weekends away over the summer and spring time this year.

Camping is good but its a lot of extra luggage - what are the hostels like for people that actually stay in them? EG: Would the misses by ok with it? Wink

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Fazerkev · Scooby Slapper Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Karma :

Yup it was good stuff tho next time I'm doing 300 miles of motorway (with that nice A road 1/2 way for an hour), I'm going to spend more than 1 day there. I'm not aching that much today tho I suspect extreme3D is!
I've got a couple of interesting pics to add. Did you mention fudge? Mr. Green

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Keen · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Apr 2002 Karma :

so.... who packed the fudge?? who did the 'fudge-packing' as it were... Razz

sorry, someone had to say it

looks like a cool trip, landsend (to john o groats) is on my ever-growing list of must do tours Thumbs Up

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ph1l · Borekit Bruiser Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Karma :

Looks fab, i will prob do something like that wen i get a bigger bike then a 50cc Razz

NicM · World Chat Champion Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Karma :

Well what a fab weekend it was away. Though being the old git (28) I had to pay £15 for YHA membership. Got a couple of photos which are below from the saturday.

Those twisty roads to lands end were fab, and have re-kindled my love of the cat. The new continental tyres are great, would of thanked extrame3d for getting rid of my chicken strips Thumbs Up

but after he'd ridden the cat i cranked it over further on my own Very Happy

Must thank him for letting us ride the SV....very nice bike and very flickable Thumbs Up

Kev and I lost somewhere on the A38 north ish of truro:
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At Lands End in the car park
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Battle Comence at Pizza Hut:
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Battle Over:
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Tome you should of been there for the battle Twisted Evil

Black Knight · World Chat Champion Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Karma :

That picture does not do justice to the size of that picture, it was HUGE!

Just in case you didn't realise, that pizza wasn't to share betwen us, that was Bigcat's order alone! Laughing

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map · Mr Calendar Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Karma :

Rookie · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Karma :

Looks great, I really should take a trip down to Lands' End some time, I live relatively close to Exeter meself.

BigCat, where did you get that single seat cowl? Smile

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Fazerkev · Scooby Slapper Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Karma :

Just a couple more. I've left out a wet petrol stop in at Leicester but you can see the state of Jimmy's exhaust!
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He would've cleaned our bikes if we'd given him a bucket! (don't look that dirty on our pics)
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And the two stuffing their faces at Land's end with, yes, fudge had stuffed themselves with a monster dessert the previous evening:
Belgian waffles with clotted cream, icecream and fudge. and a fudge hot chocolate made with 2/3 clotted cream... you could see a sepertated white layer for heaven's sake!
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Black Knight · World Chat Champion Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Karma :

LMAO!

Fat ghets!
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extreme3d · World Chat Champion Joined: 27 Dec 2004 Karma :

I have to admit, if me and Nick weren't on the bikes, we were eating:

Let me see for myself that was:

Friday:
Large full English Breakfast at Squires.
Burger King Lunch inc dunking donuts at at service station.
Large and I mean LARGE meal at a pub in exeter followed by belgium waffles with fudge, ice cream and clotted cream and a clotted cream special hot chocolate - with a lump of fudge. Mints with the bill too!

saturday:
Youth Hostel all you can eat continental breakfast.
Huge 99 ice cream. We're not talking mr whippy here either, but a decent 5" diameter waffle cone with several scoops of chocolate and no, not a flake but a heavy stick of fudge instead Thumbs Up

Big bag of sweets at lands-end - £3 worth.
Pizza at Kev's Uncles house
More pizza at Pizza hut later....1 each not shared! plus garlic bread side order.
Got woken by Kev as he pulled up outside the hostel after visiting his dad - so munched on the remainder of the sweets.

Sunday
Another Youth Hostel all you can eat continental breakfast Thumbs Up

More Pizza for lunch from a Pizza hut express service station
Home... - large curry Very Happy

AND that's not including all the small snacks provided by Kev in the form of Aldi chocolate bars and a packet of choco digestives somehow squeezed under his fazer's seat Razz

Total calory content anyone... I dread to think Cool

Fazerkev · Scooby Slapper Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Karma :

You'd have been OK were it not for

My Uncle's "Can I get you Pizza and potato salad, picled onions with that tea.. and would you like biscuits with that tea" (we politely refused biscuits, only due to time constraints)

And then my 60g Lidl (snickers) bars

and yes the "there's some wieght to these" dark choc digestives
Lidl's great!

and the fudge everywhere.

Note to others: remember to bring a Kev and send him to a cheep cheep supermarket of Germna origin before your next trip to the south coast! Wink

By the way Fazers rock, I not only had them under my arse but also managed to fit that huuge tin of Fuchs Chain Spray Lube somehow, with all the other radios and malarky!
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Johnny GSX-R · World Chat Champion Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Karma :

Looks like a good trip, i'm jelous as hell guys.