Biking Plans for 2023

[cheb]

I'd settle for dry weather

You'll need to move to another country for that

Some decent periods of dry weather,then.

I'll settle for one dry day

[Cousin Jack]

The old bugger is off to Europe again!
Just signed up for a trip to the Pyrenees at the end of September. At my age I need to get these trips done before I fall off my perch.

[Scotsrich]

Probably the same plans as I had for 2022.

Try and get more miles under my belt.

[Supermofo]

It's pissing down in Felixstowe, Mersea isn't far away, it really is dismal out there today

Not today, god forbid I'd ride in this weather it's bloody horrible today, no I mean once the weather improves.

Don't think it will by the afternoon.

I don't think it will for another 2 months yet

I shoulda said for an afternoon in Spring!

[Dodgy69]

Not sure yet but possibly my mrs might go pillion for first time ever. Will give it a go and see what she thinks, but I reckon she won't like it, she's not a very out going sort and she may find it a bit scary. It would be good though, weekend's away etc.

Few trackdays, solo trips, find new roads, always summot to do on a bike. We will see.

[Bustaspoke]

Finally taking early retirement in February,I've been talked out of it twice but I've had enough now. & I'm 61 so it's time to get things done whilst I still can
I'm thinking of doing the NC500 in April as I've still not done it.
Going to South West Ireland for a week in May with my mates who did a Scotland trip with me this May,ferry's booked.
Planning a good Euro tour mid June - mid July,taking in some or all of,Wheels & Waves at Biaritz,revisiting the Picos De Europa,watch a couple of stages of Le Tour,do some of the Route Napoleon,mess around in the Alps for a few days & do the Stella Alpina near Bardonecchia,then back up to Brittany for a few days
Back to the Isle of Man with the same mates for the Classic TT / Manx GP. I really enjoy this meeting & two of my mates are finally joining me,ferry & campsite booked.
Back to Wales for a week in September.
I'm planning on taking the Street Triple to Ireland & the Isle of Man,the SV650S for the Scotland trip & the Euro jaunt.
I'm also going to get the XT600 motor rebuilt,I think it's sheared the crank
The FZ750 has just been 'awkward'' so it's been parked on the bike ramp for 3 years until I've had the time to get stuck into it...

[Taipan]

As a bike is little more than a commuter tool for me, I don't make plans as such, but if I still have the MT09 in the summer I'm pretty sure I'll sneak a day off and go for a random ride somewhere?

Problem I have is I've lost a lot of confidence on a bike over the years, so motivation is generally lacking. The MT has anti numpty aids on it and I'm kinda enjoying getting back into it, albeit with the spectre of damaging my mechanical knees at the front of my mind lol!

[KungFooBob]

I might do a tour of RTTL.

I'll require food and lodgings.

Route depends on who offers me a free bed/beer

[cheb]

I might do a tour of RTTL.

I'll require food and lodgings.

Route depends on who offers me a free bed/beer

Go on, I dare you.

[Flux]

No plans to change bikes, got Portimao TD booked for April, plan to use my Road bike more mostly by commuting to work. No plans as yet for any racing, but will renew my license and may do the odd round.

[weeksy]

I might do a tour of RTTL.

I'll require food and lodgings.

Route depends on who offers me a free bed/beer

Sure. Bring it on.

[Count Steer]

I might do a tour of RTTL.

I'll require food and lodgings.

Route depends on who offers me a free bed/beer

Then you can write a book about your adventures and the weird and wonderful people you meet. It becomes the best selling work of social anthropology of all time. You become rich and famous and are made Professor of Social Anthropology at Oxford and wear brown cords, brogues + tweed jacket with leather elbow patches and chew thoughtfully on a (never lit) pipe. You are accompanied everywhere by a gaggle of doting, beautiful, young female students who believe you are 'the Jack Kerouac of our age'.

Sharpen your pencils and get the tank filled.

[Beancounter]

Would really like to get my Caponord back on the road but it's still stashed away in a vacant industrial unit. Haven't even had the motivation to call any welders to see if the frame can be fixed. Don't even know if the engine turns over either so might only be useful as an anchor.

Quite keen to do some i2i courses amongst other things.

Hopefully get a couple of weekends away with the girlfriend, Scotland would be my first choice but very dependent on other things. The RT will get used the most with the GSA seeing daylight occasionally. The MT-09 is likely to sit in the garage making me feel guilty.

I'd like my girlfriend to look at some further training now she's got a year on a big bike but that's obviously her choice.

[Supermofo]

I might do a tour of RTTL.

I'll require food and lodgings.

Route depends on who offers me a free bed/beer

You'd have to be prepared to be bombarded with questions from a 9 and 10 year old, but happy to put you up and we could ride out in deepest darkest Essex, maybe we could entice some of the Essex/Suffolk lot out

[cheb]

I might do a tour of RTTL.

I'll require food and lodgings.

Route depends on who offers me a free bed/beer

You'll be needing this: https://www.calmac.co.uk/

[Demannu]

Try not to crash, been quite successful for a while now!
Put Kfb up for a couple of days!

[asmethurst99]

I’m doing an intermediate motorcycle maintenance course in Jan - as much for meeting people as anything else .
The CBR need the carbs looking at so that’ll get done and I might even put a decent shock on it.
Brief tour of my old haunts in Norfolk maybe (the child and his mum are not keen on camping so that’s my excuse )
More miles like every year.
Maybe meeting KFB ?

[KungFooBob]

You're all sounding a bit rapey, I've changed my mind.

[asmethurst99]

I might do a tour of RTTL.

I'll require food and lodgings.

Route depends on who offers me a free bed/beer

Then you can write a book about your adventures and the weird and wonderful people you meet. It becomes the best selling work of social anthropology of all time. You become rich and famous and are made Professor of Social Anthropology at Oxford and wear brown cords, brogues + tweed jacket with leather elbow patches and chew thoughtfully on a (never lit) pipe. You are accompanied everywhere by a gaggle of doting, beautiful, young female students who believe you are 'the Jack Kerouac of our age'.

Sharpen your pencils and get the tank filled.

Or a cross between itchy boots and million dollar bogan

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

You're all sounding a bit rapey, I've changed my mind.

Nothing liking waking up with the smell of Vaseline and the taste of Rohypnol