Knocked out 687miles on my LCR 1200r. Jed to Harlow, across to Northamptons sleepy Farthingstone and back to Jed. Amanda missed a spiffing day out. I managed for once to be going the opposite way to all the road collision closures, A1, M25 and M1 that I encountered. I can advise however that despite the bikes mechanical excellence the headlamp is as much use as a chocolate tea pot.
Oh and I saved £11.5k in the process. Not buying a van that I went purposely to buy. So to comfort myself i am going to buy some Arai bonce adornment.
Now for an Irish victory in Cardiff tomorrow and fingers crossed for England not to be England at Twickenham.
Edit, forgot to add, there were hold ups on M1 Northbound , Bedfordshire and the barstewards have narrowed the lanes so much so that filtering was impossible.
Fiat Panda.
Fiat Scudo (with speedblock, pipe carrier, reversing sensors, reversing camera, tow bar, some new rust and Fake Plumber logo)
started out with nothing, still have most of it left.
Paul wrote:Sounds like a good ride despite the fruitless attempt to buy a new van.
Cheers,
Paul
Not exactly fruitless Paul, despite some frustrating traffic conditions, and pitch black riding for the last 48miles I actually enjoyed
my first ride . Got to see our eldest and helped her resolve an issue. The failed attempt to buy a quality used van was not exactly something i can blame myself for, it was not up to the standard i was obviously expecting. I suspected the van had been clocked, it was wearing different tyres to the ones shodded at the factory. 3 replacement tyres at 28k? on a 3year old vehicle. There was something pathetic about the tyre gloss that had been smeared on as well. Why do they do that?
BLACKAL, GTF.
Btw. Scotland blew a massive victory opportunity at Twickenham.
Fiat Panda.
Fiat Scudo (with speedblock, pipe carrier, reversing sensors, reversing camera, tow bar, some new rust and Fake Plumber logo)
started out with nothing, still have most of it left.
Paul wrote:Sounds like a good ride despite the fruitless attempt to buy a new van.
Cheers,
Paul
Not exactly fruitless Paul, despite some frustrating traffic conditions, and pitch black riding for the last 48miles I actually enjoyed
my first ride . Got to see our eldest and helped her resolve an issue. The failed attempt to buy a quality used van was not exactly something i can blame myself for, it was not up to the standard i was obviously expecting. I suspected the van had been clocked, it was wearing different tyres to the ones shodded at the factory. 3 replacement tyres at 28k? on a 3year old vehicle. There was something pathetic about the tyre gloss that had been smeared on as well. Why do they do that?
BLACKAL, GTF.
Btw. Scotland blew a massive victory opportunity at Twickenham.
Aye, truth obviously hurts
'15 R1200GS TE
'06 R1200S
'04 BCR
Yam SR 500 long term restoration
wanna win the lottery and ride my bike
