OUT AND ABOUT 2024

[ozzybud]

I got the F1 out today for 50 miles on some nice Twisties!  Auburn Black diamond Road/Green Valley Road with the destination of Green River Gorge.Bike Ran awesome and it was Actually warm out! 72 F.

[Laverda Dave]

I think the F1's were always a nice looking bike especially in that colour (and of course, in yellow). Lovely open roads with some bends in them.

[Eldrick]

Another Day another Beach... getting lucky with weather again

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[Johnwebley]

Another Day another Beach... getting lucky with weather again

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Lucky you

Enjoy



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[Nurse Julie]

Lovely day out for a bimble around the Wolds.

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[K2-K6]

Another Day another Beach... getting lucky with weather again

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Looks a nice day out, is that Perranporth you're at ?

[Skoti]

Back roads jaunt across the border today.

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

Nice photo of the Town Hall

Austria my birthplace.

[Johnwebley]

Out and about

In the hilly part of Lincolnshire that the nurse never tells us about

OK,I maybe telling fibs

But it's a lovely day



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[Johnny4428]

Looks like a lovely part of the country there John!

[taysidedragon]

There were some beauties at my local bike meet on Wednesday. Shame about the jacket draped over the Duke.

[Johnwebley]

I thought I posted my wednesdays  night out

Next to the Severn estuary

With the bore at 20.10
PS,  I won the raffle

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[Athame57]

Now pour it into the petrol for super performance!

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

For the last two evenings I have had a few hours fishing at a local man made Lake that I only discovered by pure serendipity  about five years ago.

My BiL (Dave) told me the story behind a Pike that was on the wall of a pub in Tutbury in a glass frame for many decades. It transpired that a local lad who was a glass cutter at the Webb Corbett Factory (now flats) caught the Pike when out poaching with Dave one night in a brook near Hilton where there was a small pool caused by an old works dam. Circa 1968-70)

The lad Neil Wheal (sadly deceased) was also an amateur Taxidermist hence the Pike on display in the pub as he was at one time associated with a barmaid at the pub a stones throw from the old glassworks.

As I grew up close to this area I wanted to find out where this pool was as I only knew the Brook as it used to flood part of Hilton every few decades. I went onto Google Maps/Satelite and found this huge lake that you cannot see from any nearby roads except possibly from the newish (30 yrs?) A50 By-Pass.

I drove out to where I thought the Lake was circa 2019, the access road was gated with a lock & chain. I climbed the gate and walked about a fifth of a mile down the road to reach a lafge notice board that gave details of the fishing club that owned the Lake.

I duly paid my £35 a year membership I am now in my fourth year as a member - the price went up to £40 for 2024/5. It transpires that when they were building the A50 the Contractors dug out free gravel for use in the road construction. In the 1950/60s there were a number of Gravel Works in the Hilton Area with a nearby Concrete Works.

What was left behind after the A50 was completed were a few houses that were in the end not demolished but sold off leaving this one area of about 4 or 5 Acres of land with a big hole in it full of construction debris. A  couple of blokes from the Derby Area bought the plot and in a couple of years it became a private fishing club.

The place is full of wild life plus I saw my first ever Red Kite flying overhead a few years ago - probably out on a day trip from further north.

PS Could not load all my fishing tackle on the 400 so went in the car - does this qualify for Out & About.

Sutton Lane Lake by Macabe Thiele, on Flickr

[Laverda Dave]

I think the back story qualifies it for an Out & About Ted👍