It's here & now it's gone...

Christmas week came like a flash & now the New Year 2013 & has started, what a night we had in Doncaster..... Fancy Dress etc. I evan managed to get out on the GT Sunday before Christmas Day, just had a little mosy down to Clay Cross CMC Bikes, a Bacon n Egg Roll a Coffee then back to J&S in Doncaster for a look at there Comms Kit's for the Wife n Me. I've seen a neat little pair of Blue Tooth kits for £150 the pair. On Saturday 5.1.13 we are off up to North Yorkshire for the day via a trip to Huddersfield to take my GT seat to an Upholster who is gonna re-cover the seat seen as quite a few months ago I Damaged it getting off the bike at the petrol station putting 4 Slits in the Gel Seat Cover, hence we are going in the car. And also to bring you up-to speed on our Scottish Bike Tour, all the B&B's have been booked & a Special suprise for the wife at the stop in Pitlochry . We are having 6 nights stay, stopping off at Edingburgh, Fort William, Beauly, Golspie & Pitlochry in Scotland then a last night near the Lake District Carlisle then head home via the Lakes.. As the weather here starts to improve you see a little bit more action on the blog and also on Facebook.

Ace Cafe Burn Up....

Sorry about the delay & update on Phil & my trip to the Ace Cafe in Sept 2012 for there 19th Reunion. We met up early Sunday morning 9.9.12 at a Mcdonalds then headed south to the Ace Cafe in London, after stopping for petrol we arrived at the Ace, WOW there was Bikes & a hell of a lot of bikes & Bikers around. It was also the Brighton Burn Up, so prompt @ 10.30am the Police etc stopped all the traffic & woosh everybody was off for the journey to Brighton. God it seemed to take for ever to get there, 3 1/2 hrs to be correct and red hot weather (for a change. Once we managed to get parked up, we had a good old walk about taking loads of photo's which some of you can view at my Facebook page towards the end of the day the weather started to turn rather British again LOL so we made a bee line for the Hotel about 10 miles away, showered then out for dinner the zzzz's. On Monday it was breakfast in the local Little Chef then we started to make our way West towards to Whinchester then North to Oxford then home, good old trip, cannot wait for the next outing..

2013....Planning....

Well, been busy looking in to planning our trip to Scotland next year in the Month of May 2013.
At the moment we are planning setting off on Sunday 19th May and returning on Saturday 25th May
Both my wife Jill & me are going and as well is my pal Phil & his wife Min (Marion).
Heading out from Doncaster to Edinburgh day 1, Fort William day 2, Gairloch or Ullapool day 3, Golspie day 4, Pitlochry day 5, Back in to England for day 6 then travel home day 7.

Looking at going to see some parts of the Highlands we never got chance to see in May 2012 ie:- Dunrobin Castle at Golspie.
Anyway I'll kep you informed in the future of the pending trip....

And we're Off LOL....

Today we changed our plans & decided to go out on the GT this morning due to the weather forecast for rain this afternoon (as I type it's just started raining early evening), we was Tarmac bound for a place called Mains Gill Farm in North Yorkshire, stopped for fuel on route but it got rather Windy from the West as we made our way there.
We stayed at Mains Gill for quite a while and the Local MG club turned up with quite an Aray of old cars (see photos).
We decided to make tracks as they say for home via Richmond, Ripon & then stopping again at a place called Knaresborough for a cuppa, there was some lovely biking roads on the way to K/borough, we managed to get home without any rain at all apart from a few drops.
Today we covered 193 miles....









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From Canada

These 2 photo's was sent from my brother who drive's a truck over in Canada for ERGgroup.com . He was parked up next to this truck the other week & took these snaps of the Motorbike on the back of the unit.

Friends New Purchase.

A friend of mine Mr John Lewis from Holt in Norfolk, has just emailed me with a picture of a new purchase, he said he has been looking for something like this for a few weeks & finally he has found one, he is planning a short trip to Belgium & France in September.

If you look down the right hand side of my blog there is a 'Help The Heros' banner, it's john who did this trip....

Garmin Ride Out Sat 4-8-2012

We have had this little ride out planned a few weeks now after we managed to register on line for the Garmin Ride Out in Aylesbury, we managed to get 2 of 250 places, Lucky or what, also Charlie Boorman was coming down also, one of the riders from 'Long Way Round & Down' which he did with Ewen Mcgregor.

Anyway, I set out at 5.25am & rode down to Tamworth to meet up with Phil then off down the M42 a few junction's then stop off for some Brekki & a Brew.

Bellie's fueld up we got back on the M42 & down to the M40 heading South for Bicester for Petrol then on to the Garmin venue at Ducati at Aylesbury.

We arrived there early, had a good wonder around, got the Free Burger and drink LOL, I purchased a Givi top box (ex Display) it needs spraying GT Blue now.

We then met up with Charlie Boorman, had a good chat with him & took some photo's before heading back home, a good day's riding apart from the rain on the way back home.

Below are a sample of pic's I took today but you can see more on my Facebook page .





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Todays Route approx 318 miles return...