Picked my mates kids up from school yesterday on the bike so he looked cool 🤣😎

Spent the afternoon gently day drinking and then cooking steak on a stone in one of the village pubs 👍

Today/tomorrow, I have a sheared bolt to attempt to get out of the mower, bookshelves to plan and build, a handlebar ...

I find earplugs a massive pain. Got some custom moulded ones were were better than the foam ones, but they still made my ears ache after a while, and so I often rode without.

Recently I've been using Loop, which are great - easy to fit, comfortable, and work.
But I've just been influenced into ...

Very short half hour ride to the seaside, spending the night in Roses, it's a lovely little resort. Dipped my toes in the med and now it's beer time.

I think I'm gonna start making my way back west tomorrow, planning on San Sebastian Wednesday night to be within striking distance of the Santander ...

KungFooBob wrote: Fri Jul 10, 2026 10:34 am This section of 260a is flipping amazeballs, the altitude makes it a little cooler too. You just have to watch out for mohos in the middle of the road.

I got my toe down there. One and only time. Nearly shat myself

I can't believe you didn't pop in to see Noggin.


Me neither :lol: :lol: :lol: I didn't realise Sunny was with Mac so hoping she'd get in touch and also texting Mac thinking that was a different group!! :lol: :lol: :lol:




I can't believe you didn't pop in to see Noggin.


We were going ...

Yup, life's too short to be a greeny, so I'm going back to fire spitting ice engines with pops n bangs, as is befitting of a man over 60! :thumbup: Driving gloves and polyester trousers may or may not follow... :?


https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/298478566465?_skw=mustang+GT&itmmeta ...

Oh, and twice my fuel tank got down to 10km left 😱 Both times I filled up I got 10.9 litres in 🤣

That was the biggest issue tbh, but given we needed to stop to drink fluids, it was also a non-issue. It became a standard Cardo intercom question 🤣

Other than that, the luggage weight probably ...

I love food. I have a fairly balanced diet, but still. I lost a stone last year by counting calories in the My Fitness Pal app.

It meant I didn't have to cut anything out, just balance stuff. E.g. if I wanted to drink a bottle of wine, I had soup for dinner.

I put 6 pounds back on post-Christmas ...

Pirahna wrote: Wed Jul 08, 2026 9:14 am I can't believe you didn't pop in to see Noggin.

We were going to try to!
Honestly we we're so knackered with the heat, I couldn't get my brain into gear to plan it

Got back from my nine-day (ten if you count the UK leg) trip to and around the Alps on the 390.

Genuinely had no idea how touring on the baby Duke would go, given I've always done that kind of thing on bigger bikes, but it was SO MUCH FUN.

Epic trip (with MAC and KillaHedgehog, plus a couple ...

Sounds like a fantastic trip, incidents are part of it. 😁👍 My biggest bother these days is HEAT, time of year is a vital consideration these days. 👍


It was proper epic. When it dropped below 40 we acclimatised pretty quickly tbh - lots of hydration and ice-cream stops!

Two of the group had ...

FIN

I was really pleased that I could keep pace with the lads on their massive adventure bikes most of the time, (some random at a fuel station on Monday came over to tell me how impressed he was that I'd come from from the UK on it when "most people come on adventure bikes - pussies").

I'm also ...

Day 9:

Headed off to the Chunnel early. Got one an hour before we were booked, then M20 > M25 > A5 back home.

Day 8:

The last leg before the Chunnel home - blasting back through Luxembourg/Belgium/France. I can't believe how quickly it went 😭

We decided to have a long day and do some fun roads in the morning through Luxembourg, before hoofing it along motorways for the second half of the day to end up in ...

Day 7:

Today was more of Germany - heading up through the black forest riding through the 31 degree Germany/France borders - lots of lovely Black Forest bends, although we didn't stop for photos at all...

Shout out to the B48. What a road.

Camping on the banks of the Mosel River in Germany again ...

Day 6:

We started off by doing the remaining planned famous passes in the Swiss Alps - Nufenen (which at 2478m is the highest pass entirely in Switzerland) and Gotthard. Gotthard is cobbled, which makes for interesting hairpins!

The Swiss Alps are insanely stunning. So we started to make a point ...

Day 5:

Another long day (Italy > Switzerland, with four of the five Swiss passes planned).

We left Italy via the St Bernard pass, up over into Switzerland. The view from the top was the inside of a cloud, we could just about see the cross on the island in the lake 😆
And then it absolutely threw it ...

Day 4:

A pretty long/eventful day.

Started with a lush early morning swim in the lake, left the campsite by 8am, patisserie for breakfast and then on the road.

We rented an apartment in Italy for the night, as it was going to be a fairly long day and likely to be raining when we got there.

Some ...

Day 3:

More fun French roads today, including Ballon d'Alsace, Route de Joffre and Route des Crêtes.

Ending up at a campsite on a lake in France. More post ride swimming ensued.

Lots of technical roads, lots of overtaking performance cars (including a very nice Porsche and a few Audis etc) plus ...

Day 2: the start of the fun roads

Today was half Germany half France, lots of big sweepy forest bends through the mountains, and down into Alsace, where it somehow still managed to be hotter than the surface of the sun. So much fun.

A cycle race closed a key road at the start of the day and made ...