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Bendy
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PostPosted: 11:42 - 14 Jul 2006    Post subject: Jon B Scaring Thread Reply with quote
Yesterday, I followed the pink line from my auntie's house in Aberdeen back to mine in Bracknell.

Strangely, my bum didn't get sore til the last 50 miles. Smile
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numark1
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PostPosted: 11:52 - 14 Jul 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Why did't you fly?

I go from heathrow to aberdeen £70 return from heathrow with ba

or easyjet from luton for about £45.
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Suzuki
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PostPosted: 12:00 - 14 Jul 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Why didn't you use the M6? Untill you get to Birmingham the M6 is a far quicker and more scenic route.
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Ninja
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PostPosted: 12:01 - 14 Jul 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thumbs Up Bendy, you've gone into my Top Ten!

excellent ... nice ride?
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jay12329
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PostPosted: 12:08 - 14 Jul 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Woot i'm the most northan on bendys map. \o/
Nice work bendy, i thought lincoln to bracknel was bad enough!

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Suzuki
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PostPosted: 12:11 - 14 Jul 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
jay12329 wrote:
Woot i'm the most northan on bendys map.


Except for "Ali"??? Razz
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dainesefreak
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PostPosted: 12:14 - 14 Jul 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Cor, did you rise from the North Sea like the (Wo)man from Atlantis?
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PostPosted: 12:17 - 14 Jul 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Gosh that is a strange route.

I know Glasgow isn't the nicest of places but that's going a bit far!! Razz
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Bendy
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PostPosted: 12:20 - 14 Jul 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
markcatate wrote:
Why did't you fly?


Cos I wanted to take my bike. I've flown plenty of times, the CBR doesn't fit into the overhead lockers.



Suzuki wrote:
Why didn't you use the M6?


Cos I wanted to go round the A1 coast road. I like the cement factory and the nuclear power station.
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jay12329
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Suzuki wrote:
jay12329 wrote:
Woot i'm the most northan on bendys map.


Except for "Ali"??? Razz


She doesnt count.
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Bendy
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PostPosted: 12:30 - 14 Jul 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
In other news, I dropped my bike in a petrol station in Stracathro while pushing it forward to lube the chain, but a nice lorry driver helped me pick it back up again.

I also discovered that you can get 8 pies, 4 butteries and 3 sticky buns in the underseat storage of a ZRX1100. This alone makes me want one.

And finally, a 120 mile round trip to Craigellachie to buy discounted shortbread may not make great financial sense, but was fun nonetheless.
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PostPosted: 12:31 - 14 Jul 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
thats one long ride Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 13:55 - 14 Jul 2006    Post subject: Re: Jon B Scaring Thread Reply with quote
Bendy wrote:
Yesterday, I followed the pink line


You're not the only one on BCF who follows the pink line you know. You'll be posting hair-dyeing tips next... Rolling Eyes
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Bendy wrote:
...8 pies, 4 butteries and 3 sticky buns...


mmmmm.. butteries. Greatest Scottish invention EVER

Good job you can't get em down here otherwise I don't think I'd ever eat anything else
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Walker
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PostPosted: 16:53 - 14 Jul 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
I did Lincoln to Cromarty Firth area, that hurt, a lot. And same here, the last 50 miles tend to be the worst, felt like someone had put a knife between my shoulder blades!
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Adam_P
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PostPosted: 17:12 - 14 Jul 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Bendy wrote:
markcatate wrote:
Why did't you fly?


Cos I wanted to take my bike. I've flown plenty of times, the CBR doesn't fit into the overhead lockers.



Laughing Laughing


Suzuki wrote:
Why didn't you use the M6?

Bendy wrote:

Cos I wanted to go round the A1 coast road. I like the cement factory and the nuclear power station.


And besides, the single carriageway bit once you drop off the A1 north of Newcastle is a lot better (more fun!) than slugging up (or down) the M6!

Edited to add: How long did it take you in total Bendy?
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PostPosted: 17:41 - 14 Jul 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Bendy wrote:

I also discovered that you can get 8 pies, 4 butteries and 3 sticky buns in the underseat storage of a ZRX1100. This alone makes me want one.


Yes we referr to my mates one as "the millenium falcon" and the underseat storage as "The docking port". A quite astounding amount of kit can be cached therein, including, as it turns out, all the utensils and ingredients needed to make a chicken jalfrezi with pilau rice from scratch (including all the herbs and spices, a board to chop them on and a cast iron frying pan to cook in).

I also preferr the A1 to the M6 on the bike.

Lots of Truvelo cameras which means a) they can't get you on a bike on account of being forward facing and b) The police don't bother setting up speed traps because it is already covered by the cameras.

There is also that place in a laybye just before the roundabout that does a damned good chilli burger.
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Bendy
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PostPosted: 17:52 - 14 Jul 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Adam_P wrote:

How long did it take you in total Bendy?


I left Aberdeen at about half nine and got back to Bracknell at about half seven.

Since the weather was nice and I wasn't in any hurry, I took decent breaks when getting fuel or just cos I felt like it. Nice to sit on a clifftop right on the coast eating a pie in the sunshine.

As a consequence, I didn't feel as knackered as I usually do when driving it. I'd go as far as saying that at this time of year, the bike's a better way to get there, not significantly faster but more pleasant, the time being lost in breaks rather than sitting in jams or getting stuck behind tractors on the single lane bits (I usually go that route by car too, the coast road gives you something to look at after all the motorway miles).
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ncrn
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when i get a bike thats not a 125 i'd like to do something similar to see my grandparents, except id be going to elgin which is a bit further north and a bit of a treck thru the mountains.
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LUXY DJ
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PostPosted: 09:31 - 15 Jul 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Shocked KIN ELL!

how many stops & fill ups in total?

& was you on own aswell?
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MarJay
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PostPosted: 12:13 - 15 Jul 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sounds Good Bendy,

I'm slightly dissapointed I couldn't go! Smile

Glad you had a good time! Very Happy
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PostPosted: 21:54 - 15 Jul 2006    Post subject: Re: Jon B Scaring Thread Reply with quote
bazza wrote:
Bendy wrote:
Yesterday, I followed the pink line


You're not the only one on BCF who follows the pink line you know. You'll be posting hair-dyeing tips next... Rolling Eyes


she's allowed to dye her hair because she is a girl
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Adam_P
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What, and blokes aren't?

There goes my grey covering plan then... Laughing
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just for men Thumbs Up Wink




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PostPosted: 23:09 - 15 Jul 2006    Post subject: Reply with quote
I done a similar route today in reverse!!!!

I got the bus to Kent over night, picked up my new bike and rode 450 miles from Kent to Motherwell....


And my erse and every other bit of me was hurting big time!! 6 months off a bike does that too you... Embarassed
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