Picture and description of your best motorbike ride this year..

[Dodgy69]

Jeez... when you see him next, tell him not to bother visiting Shropshire.

[MyLittleStudPony]

I haven't got any pictures but I were out on t'KTM390 Adventure when a couple came past on big, new, sports Ducatis.

I kept up with them, following pretty close, thus pressuring them into making a series of dangerous overtakes, all on a little single cylinder dirt bike with a top box on it.

I'm not saying I'm anything special but they were shockingly weak in the corners.

[mboy]

Jeez... when you see him next, tell him not to bother visiting Shropshire.

Was that aimed at me...?

We were already in Shropshire when Sam binned it... On the road from Cleobury Mortimer up past Kinlet towards Bridgnorth...

I think a lot of the guys that had come from further afield for that weekend weren't used to their bikes actually moving about underneath them on the gravel we all take as a given in the border counties. It's also why I stick with 90/10 Adventure tyres despite having no real intention of going off road on my bike, as on much of our local roads, there's a good proportion of muck and gravel even in the summer, that sportier tyres don't deal with as well.

[Dodgy69]

Whoever binned it, but as you say, it was in Shropshire. Shropshire roads are shite.

[mboy]

Whoever binned it, but as you say, it was in Shropshire. Shropshire roads are shite.

Shropshire roads are ace!

You just need an appropriate attitude, riding style, bike and tyres...

[Dodgy69]

and a pothole radar.

[Scootabout]

I had several good trips last summer. Here's one example from Wales. The ride leader just happened to have a drone in his pocket:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/RJXrnCGd1hAiWK2XA

[Scootabout]

Might not work unless you open the link in a new tab.

[The Spin Doctor]

Devil's Staircase was stunning that day, and nobody else out on the roads made for an epic ride!

Thought I recognised it

[Bigyin]

I always do my usual trip across to wales to meet the RTTL posse at Pembrey and avoid the motorways trying to find alternative ways of getting there which are more enjoyable.

This year i also got an invite to meet up with some of the old VD Easter tour lot from Yorkshire who were doing a Wales weekender ..... it would be rude to decline

So one very very wet Thursday in May i rode from my place on the Norfolk coast up to Yorkshire to meet up with Abel at his new place and spend the night there. 5 thunderstorms, flooded roads and i arrived at his place with hail battering down with him and his soon to be wife Jade laughing out the window. The following morning all the bikes were packed up and readied for the trip. There was going to be 2 groups as Jade was leading the ladies group on a more direct route and Abel leading the blokes group who would be taking a longer route but higher speed riding. We met up with MAC and KHH, formerly of VD, and a couple of others Sean and Darren. Everyone was on big ADV bikes carrying camping kit but the pace was fairly quick right from the off and i settled into group riding again as i havent done it in quite a few years. The ride across was superb with the usual mix of goat tracks and fast roads Abel always manages to find and the drop off marking was spot on allowing good progress

All set up at the camp site where we met up with another face from the past, @Beancounter, who joined in with a few beers and some good food all ready for the following morning that started misty



The weather soon cleared and for the rest of the weekend we had sky splitting sunshine and lovely welsh tarmac to play on despite the efforts of the usual killjoys.





All in all i covered about 1000 miles over the weekend in all sorts of weather and in superb company both off and on the bikes. Much shite was talked, many beers had and lots of meat consumed

Bike needed a bit of a clean by the time i got back though as the Welsh fly population took a major hit

[Sunny]

This year i also got an invite to meet up with some of the old VD Easter tour lot from Yorkshire who were doing a Wales weekender ..... it would be rude to decline

I miss the Easter tour It used to be a right laugh

[gremlin]

Nada, nichts, zilch....

And I didn't even get away to Italy this year. I'm not particularly feeling the love of biking lately.

[Skub]

Nada, nichts, zilch....

And I didn't even get away to Italy this year. I'm not particularly feeling the love of biking lately.

Not much to love at this time of year in the UK.

[gremlin]

Nada, nichts, zilch....

And I didn't even get away to Italy this year. I'm not particularly feeling the love of biking lately.

Not much to love at this time of year in the UK.

I think it goes a bit deeper than that. I'm using the bike for commuting at the moment, and that's about it. Bit tedious. I've tried rallying some friends together for a couple of weekends away, but it's like herding cats.

How am I supposed to strike a wind-swept and adventurous pose atop a mountain with these hurdles in my way?

[Skub]

Nada, nichts, zilch....

And I didn't even get away to Italy this year. I'm not particularly feeling the love of biking lately.

Not much to love at this time of year in the UK.

I think it goes a bit deeper than that. I'm using the bike for commuting at the moment, and that's about it. Bit tedious. I've tried rallying some friends together for a couple of weekends away, but it's like herding cats.

How am I supposed to strike a wind-swept and adventurous pose atop a mountain with these hurdles in my way?

It's just an extra chapter in your life coaching book.