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Easter Trip
Annual hoilday on the bike (Tiger 1050) with the old man on his wobbley wobbley BMW GS 1200 with mother on pillion.
Late in the evening about to leave for the over night boat from Belfast to Liverpool, and no my mother isnt short its just im a gaint!!!!:toothy3: http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4060098.jpg Waiting for the ferry http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4060100.jpg Liverpool while everyone else sleeps (5.30am is not a nice time to get woken up with a bing bong the breakfast bar is now open, but we will not be docking for another hour!!) http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4070101.jpg Breakfast of a coffee, donut and crisps you brought from home.....healthy....questionable http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4070103.jpg Dry roads but it was blooming cold http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4070106.jpg Had to be done http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4070108.jpg My lunch, very tasty http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4070109.jpg Hmm Cold, but the road was still suprisingly dry and grippy http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4070110.jpg Some really nice bits of countryside around the Snake Pass http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4070112.jpg Old school bit of engineering http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...P4070117-1.jpg hmmm ive still another 400 mile to do on this, hope it doesnt rain tooooo much http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4080121.jpg My unlces newly bought Tiger 800 (he flew from Glasgow to Luton, we picked him up, road to Maidenhead, he bought a bike and then we ended up here for a feed!!) http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4080125.jpg Nice buell http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4080126.jpg Nice old soon racer http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4080131.jpg Now you cant go the ace without a feeeeeed and heres what i got http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4080135.jpg AND http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4080136.jpg Yes i was hungary, hadnt eaten since 7.30am it was now 2pm. More to come...... |
Nice pics, sorry I wasn't around to meet you but I am still on crutches since Xmas.
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Brands Hatch BSB and yes its.....RAINING
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4090140.jpg Cant go to motorbike race and not sit on a few bikes. Tenere even feels small now!!! I think i need to stop growing. Make Thomas in the orange fluro jacket, so gald he brought his company car down it was put to very good use as a shelter was the great weather http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4090143.jpg One of the cleanest XTR's ive seen in a while, used as a return the racer to the paddack bike http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4090144.jpg Some of the racing at actually happened http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4090147.jpg http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4090150.jpg http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4090154.jpg http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4090157.jpg That evening another feed with a few of my relatives. Left to Right, Me, Nana, Mother, Wendy (Aunt), Adrain (Uncle). Old mans taking the photo http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4090169.jpg I think this is Whitestable but nice coast and nice weather http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4100176.jpg On the pier at Dover, getting cool again, but still sunny as ever http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4100183.jpg Old man orders steak and chips with a side order of 3 (yes 3) fried eggs, and i get pie and mash, which turns out to be half a pie and a bucket of gravy. Was all good http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4100184.jpg Somewhere along the coast near whitestable http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4110185.jpg Pose http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4110187.jpg The big 88 taking in the coastal views http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4110190.jpg On the way back up to Stoke on Trent, pulled into a service station off the M1 for a break, mate Thomas rings me out of the blue asking where im at and by any chance is it the blabhlabh service station. Randomly thomas had pulled over for a pee and a lolly while heading home from work, saw the bikes out front and put two and two together!!! How random is that http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4110193.jpg Overland Trail Tours for 1 days off roading, this time i had to hire a Yamaha WR250F as i didnt have the XT660R. Class days off roading that i would recommend for any one, cheaper though if you bring your own bike. couple of piccies http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4130201.jpg more to come |
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Are guide Ian as Boyd the guy who runs and normally guides you was doing modifications to his house (as he said or the wife would :headhack:)
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4130204.jpg Old man having a wee sit down after a rough trail http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4130206.jpg Having a wee tea/coffe at ians house after some long rough off roading http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4130208.jpg Pee stop and time for a photo, lovely sunny weather and we mostly dodged the showers http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4130212.jpg A trail there felt like it went on and on, but you just had to focus non stop http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4130214.jpg Ian coming back after he went to put the side stand down on the KTM and found it wasnt there!!!! Bolt had sheared off but lucky enough he got the sidestand again. http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4130216.jpg Close up of Ian after the steep down hill steps http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4130217.jpg Yes playing in the water as my feet where already ringing wet, too many oh big puddle splash ah wet feets http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4130218.jpg Yes that is snow in the back round and there where a few sections where you had 20m of snow covering the trail, very slippery or you just sunk in and had to power your way out. http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4130221.jpg And finally an action splash photo of the old man http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...5/P4130223.jpg All in all a great days off roading but my god to you feel like youve been 3 rounds with a boxer the next day. (yes i am unfit) Thats it for this trip, next is the lakes and the the IOM TT for a week....Cant wait.:unibrow: |
Nice write up Max, thanks for sharing :WellDone_OROQR1:
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