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Eh up lads, I've just woken up cracking weekend, great craic and a shame the TDM had a dicky fuel pump and missed the ride out. Airhead and myself still slummed in the pub drinking dark cider and watching the classic bikes go past (there was a local bike meet on but didn't sdvertise it) we even managed to get a Park run in at Bakewell strange event? - a cadilac with sirens on and a union flag blaring "who ya gonna call..." yes a ghostbusters vehicle then we had a silver van blat passed with a high reving engine in, lots of debate over what engine was in the van. Jason showing off his "lorry driver" accutriments ie a stove, dissed my little stove and then didn't have matches to light his (mine had a piezzo ignition) thanks to Finnerz for the great location to and for taking us to CMC at Claycross for the jap classic bike meet, some very tasty bikes there. thought i'd share some photos.............. 1st night in Pub, 2 singers, one sung the other just interjected with some awful catawalling, yea babeeee this is what you get if you ignore our requests, no place in the photo facebook watching the world (and bikes go past) PAul telling me to fork off, at Hassop station cafe after the parkrun camp site Claycross CMC - Tommy was looking for a new helmet XSS400 rat took Tommy to Hassop after Claycross, Austin 7 ride out https://imgur.com/crfkTKH thats all folks back to bed now

3000 in a week, surely? bloody soft as shite northerners, get on your bikes ya pansies....

I'll be down for that!

No just tagged along with the daughter. She swims 3-4 miles a week. Instead of waiting with a coffee I decided to get wet. only 15 or so lengths (improving). Made a big difference to my asthma though. I could barely go anywhere without my inhalers by last Christmas. In derby I actually forgot them and went the whole weekend without them.

To start off , glad your OK Tommy , to finish, a big thanks to Andy for my Glamping weekend , the bit in the middle , epic ride out lads even though we got split up at the end me and slice made most of our treck back through some epic mountain/tree lined roads . The beer was class the food I had was great (a chip salad) the entertainment was ! Well come on ? It was shit. The bike didn't have a hic up all weekend ( again) it must be down to the shampoo I use on it , I got home without getting lost thanks for the basic clear directions Andy , brilliant seeing you all again yous all made my weekend fantastic. P.s I farted in your tent finnerz ( twice).

Cheers Andrew, out on the pop mate

Just had to crack open a bottle of Kraken which was also a Christmas present as I've just heard that I am going to be a grandad again.

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the final day eventually arrives and Tommy has arranged Jimmy to come over and have some breakfast and to ride with us via his home top of some hill last shot of McCaig's tower Jimmy led the way to Inveraray. The Vital Spark replica in the backaground Droopy checking out his trump the boys mike and I need the loo At jimmy's house we had a nice brew by his lovely wife and the Waverly came past. I lived in Devon and the Waverley was based there for a while. The last ocean going paddle steamer nice view from Jimmy's Hoose we blatted along via Glasgow, refuling there and just took the motorway home into the wind, which was fine for my bike with a screen. Mike and Tommy struggled but we met up at the refuel stops. that's it. 1663 miles, £178 in fuel and priceless memories. If you havn't done it yet, what are you waiting for.

Left the military in January... I guess I missed the desert so much I went back voluntarily, currently over near Kabul. I'll be back in blighty in March, got something special hidden away in the unit for when I get back.

Glad you're OK Slice. What everyone says about driving standards really resonates with me. In my youth, I spent time working on speed limits, designing roads and white line schemes. In the '70's and '80's, we used "science" to determine appropriate speed limits and design white line schemes which prevented the main causes of accidents/incidents........Driver Frustration and Vehicle-Vehicle, or Vehicle-Pedestrian conflicts. Human beings come with an inbuilt perception of risk (self preservation) and behave accordingly. Speed limits and road element design used to take all of that into account so that traffic flowed freely, but safely and drivers didn't get frustrated into making dangerous overtakes. However, the ignorant Safety-Crats who have successfully created the "Speed Kills" myth, have created a society where the only "known" bad driving behaviour is to exceed the speed limit. Not using mirrors properly, hogging lanes, using mobiles, driving so slowly that you have 20 cars queueing up behind you are no longer considered unacceptable - there are virtually no traffic Police out on the roads dealing with these drivers, only officers in camera vans sat at the side of a dual carriageway targeting people driving at over 70mph - hence the only thing most people see as "bad driving" is Speeding. in times gone by, when rural roads had 60mph limits, traffic flowed freely and overtakes were minimal because drivers were content that their speed was "appropriate" to the conditions/risk and frustration was limited (this being approximately the 85 percentile speed for humans driving in those conditions with their risk perception). Imposing a blanket 50mph limit to make things "safer" (because only speed kills), now frustrates 85% of the driver population because they feel they are going too slowly for the conditions and the risk, prompting dangerous overtakes - it human nature to get frustrated when we can't do things within our "safe zone". Conversely, with the increased population and vehicle density in urban areas, speed limits, except near the odd school, have been left at 30mph or 40mph - which in many cases is too fast - and I now experience plenty of drivers who drive at less than 30mph in town centres, because they see the real risk in travelling at 30mph with lots of pedestrians in close proximity to their lane. In a pedestrian-vehicle collision, speed does indeed kill and dropping speed limits will definitely save lives - how about 20mph in every town/village centre where there are concentrations of pedestrian activity (I'd vote for that). In vehicle-vehicle collisions, the difference between a closing speed of 100mph and 120mph isn't going to cause a dramatic reduction in driver fatalities (driver will most likely die in either scenario) and having a car hit a pedestrian at 50mph will be just as fatal as one doing 60mph (or more). Somehow, we need to get away from the message that the only way to drive safely is to drive slowly and to get back to Policing our roads properly and teaching and managing the driver population to drive properly. in almost every situation we, as bike riders encounter, it's Bad Driving that causes accidents - that's what our Police and Government should be focussed on. Ironically, travelling back from Edinburgh on the A1 recently, we saw a big LED traffic sign with the warning message "Frustration Causes Accidents", showing that someone still understands the science..............but then shortly after, there was a speed camera at the side of the road, on a straight, wide, clear section of dual carriageway !!!!!!

headed towards Oban via skye we stopped at a few places along the way Torridon we were stuck behind a group of cars who couldn't get round a campervan. He pulled over as we were turning sharp left, to top that off, my front brake lever felt funnny and had to pump the brake to get it to work. Turned out a small torch used for checking my oil level jammed itself between the lever on occasion, Phew! strathcarron - Arrina this bull was not impressed at all stopped off near Applecross Inn called the walled garden, lovely in there till 3 bikers turned up the route over applecross was in scotch mist again vid of Tommy and mike down the Bealach Na Ba https://youtu.be/BW-zFRW26jM made it to Skye had to ride directly to Ardaser to catch the Mallaig Ferry Mike had a senior moment as he couldn't find his wallet to pay for the icecreams he promised us, he eventually dug down enough into his pockets to find the wallet Stoped off at Glenfinnan where HP fans can see the viaduct I also liked this "snow piecer" Glenfinnan Station Glenfinnan viaduct Ballachulish Next stop, Oban. Tommy's old haunt. had a great meal in the Italian Tommy went off to do some personal stuff so Mike and I were forced to take a tour of the distillery Oldest and smallest in Scotland. Is was a great tour and had 2 glasses of whisky with a keepsake all for the sum of £10. Oban grew around the distillery rather than the otherway round We also got a ferry ticket to Mull as we were spending 2 days here to recuperate before going home The ferry was to Caraigmure and nothing there whatsoever, a bus can take you to Tobermory for £11 return which was more than the ferry, we wisly spent that at the inn instead nice internal feature, anchor and chain for foot rest then the next ferry back Oban Chocolate cafe chilling after a day of not riding and watching the setting sun just captured this we all called it a night, then Tommy says if I still wanted to go to McCaig tower, was about 11:45 and I thought sack it, let Mike go to bed. So we were a little pished I put this on Facebook live and Mike was watching it he thought we were tucked up in bed Last day tomorrow

day 4, left Mey and headed for Dunnet the most northern point on the mainland, a lot of scotch mist around can you tell what it is yet? Anglo/chinese relations starts with Droops stop off in Tongue in Lairg Aparently the new home for space travel. Haggis pastie with tatties and neeps in too young family cycling from Hamburg to Shetland, rather you than me Loch Eriboll those rocks on the other side came from USA a few milenia ago vid of another group gpoing the proper way round the NC500 https://i.imgur.com/gaaWago.mp4 stop off in Durness Smoo caves Elf and Safety gone mad topping up the amber nectar in Durness. Bernie came bouncing around the corner on his Goldwing combi and stopped to have a chat Scourie Lochinver view from the digs fish were jumping in the loch whilst we were having dinner

Ok, this is only going to be exciting to me but:- Today is the day I have lost a full 10kg. No fancy diet, no fancy exercise just cut out the crap and started swimming once/ twice a week. At work I would have a box full of cherry tomatoes and grapes instead of choky bars and crisps. So from the end of last October to now, I have gone from 94kg (hardly a porker at 6ft) down to 84 kg, that's over a stone and a half in English. Or equivalent to around 5% hp gain, for freee

Good news boys,, the long range forcast, is high pressure building in from the north, same as May, from sunday 24th, june, 20+ degrees for 2 weeks,,,,,

Father's day is coming, my kids have both chipped in and ordered me the exact same helmet that I decked at the weekend, apparently they were struggling for ideas, what a good Dad I am helping them out.

Beautiful example one very carful owner (the one before me) to the best of my knowledge she’s never been Dropped ( well not before I owned her) very fast in a straight line ( not so good on corners but will take a lot of punishment & bounces really well) brakes are shit hot as long as you remember to use them (yesterday after a ride out I touched them and they really were shit hot, honestly I burnt my finger. This bike really is bulletproof and pulls like train ( as mentioned earlier in a straight line) this add was inspired by the conversation in pub last night, thanks guys no silly offers please!

Had a brilliant weekend lads, believe it or not I enjoyed almost every minute thanks to you all for acting so quickly stopping the traffic and helping me and my bike back to an upright position and for not taking the piss (well not till we got back the pub anyway) but I’d have done the same for any of you guys, probably with the addition of a few photos all I can say for those you who didn’t make it this weekend is you missed a cracker, big thank you to finnerz for organising it, well done mate great job.

Home safe and sound, Great to see you all again, loved the ride out, especially the single track. The fast twisties were good but would of been better if we stayed as a group (finners pace-maker) then I got lost, I didn't mind as it was only 20mins from the end of route. I didn't enjoy the camping - I never sleep. Roll on the next meet,,,,,,, somewhere new again, what ye think ?? Long summer of riding yet so get out there,,,,,, I may blast down to Pilninggas area just for the day sometime. Ps. I was getting brave on my Tractor Tyres on route home in the roundabout's.

I had planned to do my own "Long Way Round" and do Moscow then California in one day, but roadworks and problems with my support team meant I just did the one ? ? Just reading through the whole thread again. I am in Tenerife until 6th July. I'm back at work but off on Rest Days 13 - 16 so could possibly make it up to Oban on the Friday

Corrected that for you.?

Let me guess, he had the flowers and you had the rose in your lapel

I would suggest a first post asking for advice on a 5 year old thread won't get much action. If you had a look round the site first you would see that the general etiquette is you post in the new members section before launching in asking a question. And take the time to fill in some details about yourself in your profile. Lazy.

Being true to my screen name: 50 quid is awful cheap for a running sr engine. Buyer be VERY aware.... They don't die, they can take biblical amounts of abuse and keep running and can cover truly ridiculous mileages for such a small bike. 100000 miles is by no means impossible. Ball bearing crank so that is near indestructible, similar bearings to my TDR and that makes 5X the hp at higher rpm. Not sure on the head, they may be white metal. Did you ever clean/check the oil filter while you were messing, something is wierd here. Unless you have found the holy grail of an unreliable sr. Even Grouch couldn't kill one of these engines.

LOL, Went out on the bike today, rolling down the dual carriageway in a world of my own at around 60 a car slows opposite as were braking for the roundabout. Out of the window the muppet in the passenger seat shouts.. quoting here... " Awww flat out, go get a proper bike i could go faster on a pushbike" 3 lads (heavy on the lads, barely out of school, if at all) in a crappy Renault something, could have been a Vauxhall. So round the roundabout and i stayed with them. I could have lost out if it had been a sporty something but there was a 'black box fitted' sticker in the back window (by daddy no doubt) so i pulled up behind em and stayed there.. 50, 60, lots of looking out the back window, 70 I'm still there. That's a proper 70 too because my spedo is gps so he must have been looking at 80 odd on his clocks when his bottle goes. So i drop a gear and blast past giving him the finger as i go. The look on his face. Plenty of people mistake it for a 125, generally to there loss.

what a cracking evening, so I set off around 5pm to Wray near Bentham. I rode via Sabden, Sawley, Slaidburn and through the Trough of Bowland into Wray. 80miles to get there and 2 hours(ish) Here's a few photos looks like Scotland with the twisty Road not a soul in sight ubiquitous selfie bit busy, it was rammed. had a hog roast barm not much left of the whole pig too so they must have done some trade. one of those Chinese Ajs, looks good though, only 125cc and a picky of me at Rivvy over the tops

Glorious 14 degrees today,,,,,,Rd ,,,painted All one colour,,,,, @ Arbroath Harbour,,,

1st long run of the year today, down to see my Mum in Portsmouth. I kid you not my face aches from the grin I had, no more stopping in traffic just "excuse me" happy bastard coming through.

Bet they didn’t have to worry about fuel stops though,probably done it on one tank

So you ARE expecting Steve..

Looking forward to this, I’ve been wanting to do it for as long as I can remember, it would be great if we could meet up with Blackhat & Jimmy at some point on our travels Drewpy is coming with me to Oban now, originally he was heading back to Perth last day but now we’ll be in Oban from Thursday 12th till Saturday 14th if anyone fancies meeting up let us know

Its not the fact it needed paying. When people stump up the money its showing they will be there.

Creepy will be like quasimodo ," with his fooked hip,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Jimmy you’re only saying that cos he rides a Triumph

Yea, we did have a good un weather wise. I love it, wife hates it hot. You can imagine the disagreements, fans on/off, windows open/closed, too hot to cook etc etc, salads day after day

Yeh NSD, been the best summer since 1976, Did a few longish trips, ticked of the list, ,but our summer ended fist week in Aug,, i noticed you lot down south had high temps right into Oct,,,

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Hi guys we’ve had a brilliant first day, great run up, done a bit more green laning (no prizes for guessing who got a run of the green) it’s becoming a bit of a habit now. then I managed to drop it from a standing start 10 feet from the Scottish border, not fell off in Scotland yet though but it’s early days yet I’ll keep you posted. Knockhill was fantastic an excellent day in the end looking forward to tomorrow we’ll be leaving around 8:30 Blackie it would be great to see you if you can make it

Is that your boat from a few years ago

We were over on the Isle of Mull, yest, 30 degrees, lovely, i hope it holds for you,. https://i.imgur.com/125TrUI.jpg https://i.imgur.com/fSV4IJA.jpg The Corron Ferry, , we camped next to the light house in picture, spectacular, and i saw a Whale, in that stretch of water, while walking early morning,,

Rode him to mot first time out on road nervously on Road with no numberplate on vin insurance by adrian flux. Passed. That's one heavy pig.

And what's your address again John (says the scouser) Oh and never more true than in Scotland, west is best

Hi and shit, this was all working properly when I published it and tested it. Turned it off for now whilst I investigate it. This is an absolute pain but I'm being forced to do by the new GDPR regulations, or I risk a €20 million fine!

Imgur not working on this site .now ..?

Excellent, I've been looking at some routes for us on the Saturday