set off at 4pm to meet with a friend at Tebay.
as its bedlam on the motorway (and shit) we head down the A6 and join M'way at preston, boring ZZZZ
here's my bike set and ready
damn windy out there and when we reach tebay, my Mike (cb750F1) was complaining of weaving on the truck ruts, i had no problems.
When in Tebay and waiting for Dave (VFR750) I noticed either Mike's back wheel was in a dip or he had a flat, guess what, it was a flat. Mike was real pissed off.
Dave turned up and we went round the carpark to find someone to lend us a pump as we could'nt find any puncture.
eventually we gave up and Mike called the rescue.
Dave and I went on via the A6 to Carlise and then Dumfries to the B&B we booked earlier.
we arrived at the B&B at 10ish and mike turned up 2 hours later to tell us that the rescue people had a computer crash and his details were lost. So he waited another 2 hours for the rescue to turn up!! any way we did 150 miles and mike did 40miles and the rest on a low loader.
I can recommend East Brae cottage B&B (http://www.eastbraecottage.co.uk/) as Jim (proprietor) loves company and will do anything for you (within reason) he took us in the car the next day to dumfries to buy a new valve and inner tube (just in case). he has an air compressor in his garage which we pumped up the flat tyre and it stayed up even when the valves was taken out!! go figure!
after a hearty breakfast including haggis MMM!
we set off for stranraer. 20 miles down the road Mike's back tyre goes down and we stop at a local garage off the A75
Mike outside the garage
local is happy to take off tyre but he thinks "how can it be fixed?" he is a bit bemused when we produce an inner tube!!!
Mike having a "moment"
so we set off agin and get 10 miles from stran when , guess what, he has another puncture!! now mike has given up and is swearing, shit this and shit that! dave and I carry on and Mike phones Carole Nash again for rescue.
Dave and I waiting to board the Ferry, there are a lot of bikes an mine is the oldest one there by a mile/s
we board the ferry and its amazing how much you can get in a ship
we get on board and set off. this is a 2 hour crossing so take our boots off and empty the deck with the fumes.
Mike phones, he's not going home, the breakdown recovery chap is a biker and knows the ATS guys (who are bikers) and is adamant that he will get the bike fixed. so Mike is getting the later ferry and will meet us at Bushmills and Coyles house!!
the last punture was from the last garage leaving the remnets of the whole valve inside the tyre between the inner tube, what a nob!!
do we reach Coyle's house?, will anything else go wrong as we are on 30 year old bikes?