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Re: Out and about 2022
« Reply #135 on: July 26, 2022, 06:01:39 AM »
Nice corner of a DS by the Morgan and i wonder if that was a real lotus mk1.
I agree nice Bently but not a "blower"

Yes, it is a real Lotus mate  ;)

If you have a look back up the page to Boston Bike Night, the gold FS1E was found by the new owner dumped in a skip. You get barn finds, shed finds but, that is a very good skip find  :o
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Re: Out and about 2022
« Reply #136 on: July 26, 2022, 10:57:25 AM »
Went for a ride yesterday and ended up at a little classic car show at Doddington Hall near Lincoln. Free to get in and the coffee was great. It was arranged by the Masons. Lots of Harleys there. Its getting very worrying now when I see cars that I owned in the past that were quite new are now classed as 'classics', such as a VW Scirocco 😂

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Re: Out and about 2022
« Reply #137 on: July 26, 2022, 12:18:59 PM »
Another Highland Fling:

Super Cub trip to Kinlochbervie

Supposedly trying to reduce the number of bikes in the shed, I (rather) foolishly ended up buying a 1995 BMW R100 RT Classic, so decided that I might move my CBF600 SA on to a friend nearby who had asked on a few occasions if I might sell it to him.  Having had a few decent runs out on the BMW - including a recent 1200 mile trip down to Yorkshire and Lancashire, I realised that the Honda could go to its new owner, Les who later asked if I fancied a trip down to Kinlochbervie and on to the extreme west point at Sheigra - a place he had had on his 'bucket list' for many years and this would be his first longish ride on his new acquisition.
I elected to take the C125 Super Cub, well outclassed in size and performance by the CBF 600 but with many single track roads with passing places and the World and his wife in hoards of camper vans, I was not too worried about the mis-match - we wouldn't be riding fast anyway.
Ferry tickets bought, bikes checked over and fuelled up, it was time to get up at silly o'clock for the 15 mile ride to the ferry terminal in Stromness and the 6.30 sailing to Scrabster.

Off the boat at just after 8, the initial ride along the north coast was into a head wind but progress was adequate and we stopped for a bacon roll and a drink at a lovely place in Tongue, just before the link road across the Kyle.  We both refuelled in Durness by the Smoo caves, which was 25p per litre CHEAPER than a fellow motorcyclist had paid earlier the same day in Inverness on his ride up.  It cost me £5.50 to brim the 3.7 litre tank on the C125, whereas the 600 had consumed £17.50's worth over the same distance.

Stopping in Sheigra at the end of the road overlooking the Atlantic, Les had at last fulfilled one of his 'long term ambitions' - a result!  As I was sort of 'timekeeper' and bearing in mind that we had the return ferry booked at 7 o'cIock that same evening it transpired that we had already used up about 4 of our 9+ available hours and rather than hammer along a different but longer route back, perhaps it might be more prudent to retrace our steps - the views are stunning whichever way you travel those roads.  This would give us more time to enjoy the ride and include another food stop, so we made once again for that excellent cafe in Tongue.
The C125 has a digital fuel gauge like many modern bikes - with 6 blocks showing full, down to 1 for 'reserve'. This single block eventually starts to flash, and I have yet to find out just how far you can go before the inevitable happens.  As we both carry extra fuel - a whole litre in my case!, I was not concerned about running dry on this relatively new machine, hopefully still having a clean tank.  In the event the last block started flashing about 30 miles before the ferry but I easily managed to get beyond that point and into Thurso to re-fuel and even then, could only get 3.2 litres into the 3.7 litre tank.  So I still haven't managed to ascertain the point at which I might have to walk!  This necessity to carefully plan routes where fuel would be available would not be a challenge for anyone living in more populated areas but we are at the rather quieter, sparsely inhabited northern end of the British Isles!

We still had sufficient time to stop for a coffee at the 'Weigh Inn' at the Scrabster turn off, where we joined a whole group of Czech riders touring on modern Indians - on a dozen or so bikes, before heading along to the Hamnavoe for our return crossing.  All in all, a very pleasant day out, covering just over 250 miles, which is now the furthest I have ridden the C125 in one day and considering the many single track roads with so many pauses in passing places, I'm quite confident that distance could be exceeded if you so wished.

Ian

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Re: Out and about 2022
« Reply #138 on: July 26, 2022, 05:31:42 PM »


  loved the DS estate,  Safari,

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Re: Out and about 2022
« Reply #139 on: July 26, 2022, 06:10:55 PM »


  loved the DS estate,  Safari,

  Hereford M & T were Citreon dealers in the 70s

 

Away from thread topic, but a famous one for those that watched the sidecars at races

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Re: Out and about 2022
« Reply #140 on: July 26, 2022, 07:07:36 PM »
So were Mead and Tomkinson Gloucester, i got to work on all the upturned snails(2cv)

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Re: Out and about 2022
« Reply #141 on: July 26, 2022, 10:36:26 PM »
So were Mead and Tomkinson Gloucester, i got to work on all the upturned snails(2cv)
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Re: Out and about 2022
« Reply #142 on: August 03, 2022, 07:41:57 PM »
Out at biker night

Drum and Monkey, Upton on Severn

Great crowd



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Re: Out and about 2022
« Reply #143 on: August 09, 2022, 10:19:51 PM »
Took the bike for a run,

Into mid Wales, and Snowdonia

Route from home to Borth,just north of Aberystwyth,

Machynlleth to Mach loop, were various air forces do low flying practice

On to Portmadoc, them home

Total distance, 273miles,

New significant number

As you can see, the scenery is like Norfolk and the Lincolnshire wolds

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Re: Out and about 2022
« Reply #144 on: August 10, 2022, 06:39:04 PM »
Out at Cotswolds bikers nights

Cold Aston, just south Bourton on the water

Warm evening



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Re: Out and about 2022
« Reply #145 on: August 11, 2022, 01:04:59 PM »
Great looking countryside there John and nice weather. Happy days!
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Re: Out and about 2022
« Reply #146 on: August 15, 2022, 02:55:53 PM »
Out on the two 550/4 mongrels today. Blimey,  it was hot. The only benefit I can see for riding in temperatures like this is that the hot rubber sticks to the hot roads exceptionally well, which made for some great racing. I let Trigger win,  its just easier that way 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Re: Out and about 2022
« Reply #147 on: August 15, 2022, 04:36:54 PM »
Lovely background Julie  ;)
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« Reply #148 on: August 15, 2022, 04:48:12 PM »
Lovely background Julie  ;)
Haha,  totally unintentional to take a pic of the ladies toilets and the Cafe at Willy Woods Steve, 😊😊😊. I was sitting over in the shade on the grass and though as I hadn't put anything on Out and About recently,  I will do it today 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Of all the fantastic places we ride,  I agree, the background could have been better 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Re: Out and about 2022
« Reply #149 on: August 18, 2022, 07:00:31 PM »
Went to see Ted today, (MccabeThiele), managed to get a front wheel puncture 35 miles into the trip. Green flag saved the day and eventually got there 3 hours late and a 160 mile round trip, (had to do one part of the journey twice!). [ Guests cannot view attachments ]
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