When/Where/Pics was the last time you rode your bike ?

[Dodgy69]

That's the overtaking lane init.

[Tricky]

Day before yesterday- on the lanes of Southern England with the boys, the amount of rain we've had made it very interesting and hilarious on some of the climbs , all added to the fun , a cracking day albeit with a certain key member of the Jolly-Boys gang missing







Still, the upside was it meant we didn't have to call mountain rescue this time @crust
( only joking old boy, you were missed - hopefully, the last time you were out with us wasn't your last ever )


Anyway, has been a very different last week and Christmas for me this year one way and the other, and a day puffing and panting on the trusty orange thing was the perfect antidote.

I'll get in early and extend my very best wishes to everyone here for a great day and night tonight, and a healthy and prosperous 2023 with lots more fun to come- cheers!

[Dodgy69]

Destination...

First ride for a few weeks, about 100 mile done on the GWA. Went to the Ponderosa cafe on the Horseshoe pass. About 10 bikes in all so fairly quiet, had a cuppa and moved on.

The roads...

Bloody treacherous, plenty of floods hiding some nasty potholes, Where there was no floods, there was crap. Steady goes was order of the day. Was sunny first thing, but by the time I'd pissed about 10.30 ish, the rain had arrived, but gear on, bike out ,so no going back.

Gadgets...

Heated gloves on, but wasn't very cold, just giving them a little ride out. New Cardo packtalk bold was on it's maiden voyage, managed to get radio on and music from phone. Need to play about with it a bit more, lots of button pushing in special sequence to do stuff.

Back home...

Almost stopped raining, bike covered in shit. In for a bailey's coffee, then bike wash and recharge the gadgets. Much enjoyed.

[scottyuk]

Last day before resuming work and the sun was shining so had to go out for a few hours. Loads of crud on the roads and lots of flooding.

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I decided to turn back at the ford (1ft deep and quite fast moving). I had a swim in the summer and didn't fancy a repeat in 5C temps.

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The ride back home was a nightmare due to the low sun!

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[Skub]

Fuck that shit.

[Supermofo]

Fuck that shit.

Yeah that. I drove to Colchester to some friends for new years and even on the way home (it rained all the day before) there were deep shite filled puddles everywhere and loads of bastid potholes, hundreds of em Gonna be fun on the bike come spring

[Felix]

The ride back home was a nightmare due to the low sun!

Certain time of the year and day driving up Leith Walk in Edinburgh is like that. Double as bad if wet. You have lights, traffic, pedestrians to contend with. Its hell, i would rather ride home in snow and ice

[Yorick]

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[Yorick]

Them cliffs are 2,000' vertical. Awesome and pics never do them justice.

[Bustaspoke]

I managed to get out for a steady spin on both of my bikes earlier.making the most of the mild weather & a break in the clouds
More rain & showers forecast for the next few days..
First ride of the year





There's a lot of water in those fields,at least all the road salt's been washed away. At one point I thought 'oh,it's starting to stay lighter until later in the afternoon',then when I got home I realised the clock on the Suzuki's dash was still set to summer time

[ZRX61]

All I've done this year so far is fire the ZRX11 & ZX11 up for a few minutes today. Don't want to have to deal with the faffery of gummed up carbs.

[Skub]

It looks nice,but it's damn cold. Still,that's the cherry bust on 2023.

[Yorick]

Yesterday

[The Spin Doctor]

It looks nice,but it's damn cold. Still,that's the cherry bust on 2023.

Is that a V2 launch site?

[Skub]

Is that a V2 launch site?

The town of Larne is full of rockets,so maybe not surprising.

[Bustaspoke]

Seeing as I'm on a midweek rest day & it's stopped raining for what seems like the first time in weeks I took the SV650 out for a spin.
I was going to take a photo at the local windmill but,I would have had to ride down a muddy track...
That stone post is the ancient Hob Cross https://lancashirepast.com/2018/02/26/h ... ancashire/




Blue skies!

[ChrisW]

That stone post is the ancient Hob Cross https://lancashirepast.com/2018/02/26/h ... ancashire/

I have a lovely memory from when I was a teenager of walking down that lane with a girl on the way back from a party at around midnight

[Count Steer]

It looks nice,but it's damn cold. Still,that's the cherry bust on 2023.

Is that a V2 launch site?

Or are you just pleased to see me?

[Bigyin]

Bit fucking nippy this morning at 0715 and had to de ice the other motor to get the bike out for the ride to work …. Saw some poor bugger go arse over tit while walking along the frozen footpath …. Giggled quite a lot then tried to forget about the possibility of black ice

[ZRX61]

A shit-ton of pics from today:

https://ibb.co/album/BLpGMH?sort=date_d ... ek=sqs0yJx


There would have been a lot more, but I didn't take any pics of the 50+ Ducati's & Bimotas.