Not new member but new to the area!

[basketcase]

Hi basketcase here, just moved down to Somerset and was wondering how many of you peoples are about this area? I`ve seen a couple of sohc 4`s through the village, both very nice. A 400/4 and a 500/4. Does anyone fancy showing me the local rideouts, nothing too fast (!) just a sunday meander through the lanes.
Cheers Nigel.

[SteveD CB500K0]

Somerset is a big place Nigel.  Be more specific?

Steve

[basketcase]

Tell me about it!! Only been down here a month and have managed to find 3 different ways out of Taunton....none the correct way home! I live about 8 miles south of Taunton, 4 miles north of Wellington a small village called Milverton. For now anyway. Have bought a place in Oake but it needs a load of work so staying with the daughter for a few months. Oake is the next village so not too far away. There is a great little place for bike bits just outside of Taunton, near junction 25 of the M5, bitsforbikes I think it`s called. Helped me out when the split link broke on my Matchless. Hoping to meet up with Florence, who lives nearby.

[florence]

Welcome to Somersetshire.

The Vintage Motorcycle club (Devon Section) organises a run over Exmoor which takes a lovely route and I have been meaning to go on it for years but never get round to it.

I usually ride....... to the shops or into Devon for work, I don't ride for leisure as it were.

I haven't seen another 500/4 since I saw one in Bristol in 1998.  The bike belonged to a French couple who were touring England, but sadly the gearbox failed and they sold their machine to a local bike shop. 

I do not know of any other SOHC bikes in the area.  The only person I know with a bike has a Laverda Jota.

[Bryanj]

\if you want to wave tonight i will be delivering a load of Britvic to lee mills tonight!!

[basketcase]

 

[SteveD CB500K0]

Bryan drives a truck...

[basketcase]

The only thing that comes down these lanes are tractors....at 2am!!!Combine harvesters with a million watt spotlamps in the fields opposite and 3 tractors running alongside... Bloody countryside!!!
 I`ll still wave..hope that you`ve good eyesight!

[K2-K6]

I've been out on that bike run a couple of times and it was a very good day out, well worth puting in your calender for the future.

Usually in July I think? and lots of interesting stuff out and about, pre 78 brit/italian/older jap stuff. I went both times riding a friends brit twin (changing gear with brake and the opposite) and had a brilliant time.

[hairygit]

ooh arrrrr, don't complain about tractors if you live in the country, you'll be moaning about the smell of cowshit in the air next! Biggest problem we have in the country is horse shit, right on the apex of a bend where you want your front wheel to be on the racing line! Mind you, horses taste good with chips peas and mustard On a more serious note, down my way (Junction 30, M5) I have seen many wonderful old sohc bikes, a real mint 400/4 in yellow, a 500/4 in dark green with original pipes too If you want to come down sometime, we'll arrange a ride out, Taunton is less than 30 miles away, so very close really!

[Bryanj]

Lee Mills is a place nearly in Plymouth and if you buy the pepsi/tango/etc from a machine its delivered from there by a firm called KNDL

The fun bit is the 28 Tonne of cider out of Shepton Mallet on the way back

[basketcase]

Not complaining about the countryside....just the noise!! Thought that I`d escaped that!! Smell? Always blamed the wife`s cooking for that
Cider.....probably the wrong part of the country to move to as I`m not much for the taste! Did all of the cider reach it`s destination??!!
When I eventually manage to get the K3 running half decent I`ll take you up on the offer of a ride out, the more the merrier! My local ride out used to be the Cat and Fiddle road, from Buxton to Macclesfield. What a road!! There`s me giving it my all, on my Honda, and all of the sports bikes passing me as if I`m standing still! But just to rub salt in a cb250 passed me .