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Whit Monday ride
After a long break, here's another ride report from England.I'm still searching for a good XS11,I thought I'd found one last week but just got there too late. In the meantime I'm riding round on the TDM900, another Yam, but missing 2 cylinders.We started yesterday at 08:45 and got home at 19:00 hours, managing to cram in 330 miles of quiet twisty and dry roads across the Pennines (hills/mountains in the north of England).If any of you want to follow the ride on a UK map it went from Bolton near Manchester through Slaidburn to Hawes via Settle, and then up close to the old border with Scotland at Hadrians Wall.Back south through Stanhope (for lunch, including a soup so thick you could stand your spoon up in it, so I did),Leyburn and Sedbergh, stopping at Devils Bridge for a brew to watch the local youth jumping 50 feet or so off the old stone bridge into the aptly named River Lune. There is a deep but narrow channel under the bridge,with submerged rocks on either side.I'd rather take my chances on the Yamaha.........
I arrived home exhausted but content, and cleaned the visor for the fourth time that day, the insect population took a bit of a battering, apologies to any Buddhists out there.
Is there anything better at putting a big grin on your face than riding a good motorcycle on good roads with good friends? The next big trip is a weekend in south west Scotland in early August with the same group - Dumfries and Galloway is the name of the region, Rabbie Burns country. I can't wait.
I arrived home exhausted but content, and cleaned the visor for the fourth time that day, the insect population took a bit of a battering, apologies to any Buddhists out there.
Is there anything better at putting a big grin on your face than riding a good motorcycle on good roads with good friends? The next big trip is a weekend in south west Scotland in early August with the same group - Dumfries and Galloway is the name of the region, Rabbie Burns country. I can't wait.
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