What Have You Being Doing With Your Non-triumph Today?

Much like Steve I tell Mrs Visor exactly the same thing and she feels exactly the same as you if you don't do it

 

116 miles around Loch Lomond National Park with my CL500 and my mate's cb500f, finishing in Aberfoyle for coffee and chat with the other bikers there.

 

Last Glasgow Bike Night of the season -


Good music -


And bikes big......


.....and small!

 

I wonder if that ccm made it home OK....if you think triumph keyless ignition is suspect. ccm is laughable. No wonder they folded.

 

Yesterday..... with a new pair of Mitas Enduro Trail fitted.

A day out on my own down a load of new unknown routes. Isn't it funny how you think you know your way around everywhere and then suddenly a nugget pops up offering somewhere new to go?

 

A few more pics.



Manor Farm for breakfast, actually a milkshake and a bag of crisps as the food queue would eat too much of my day, pun intended.





Bugger, disaster, the ice cream parlor is shut Thursdays

Great day out but I need to balance that back wheel as the tyre clamp makes 60+ unbearable.

 

Looks like the pier at Balmaha. Fished there many times and caught some decent Pike. It can get a bit busy in Summer though with swimmers and the boating brigade.

 

That’s an issue with the Peak District, you’re not allowed off piste onto open Moorland. In addition to the NERC act closing many routes, those that are left are fairly short and some pass through areas designated SSSI’s with the threat of a high treason charge and life imprisonment with hard labour being levied on anyone driving over any “rare” lichens or moss covered rocks. Pindale is such a place with vehicles restricted to the track itself which astounds me as it’s all old quarry workings and had the living crap blasted out of it in the past.

 

Totally agree, absolute nonsense.

Cam fell in the Dales, I knew the previous owner ( 1000 acres sheep farm).
I used to travel up last thing by Landrover, like midnight or early hours, and go rabbit shooting.
I'd trundle across the greenlane with the safety of knowing the farmer a few miles further on. A challenging lane in those days!

A while back, so I'm informed, this is no longer a right of way and so the logging people have built a gravel motorway to serve their purpose whilst the subservient minions are no longer allowed to travel this path.

Absolute joke!

 

A bit like @Pegscraper the place where I learnt all my off road stuff as a kiddie.

Fanny pit was a colliery in Yorkshire.

Now it's an SSSI

Did no-one tell them it's history?

 

Slightly off topic, the “Fanny pit” was a nickname we gave to a local pub on Friday evenings back in the 80’s. Just sayin’.

 

Fanny pit..... how could you come to any other conclusion ?

Absolutely loved it and set me up for my adult life

What a great place to get stuck on your own on a bike with grey clay,you either know it or you don't, when you're 15 year old and up to your knees in the stuff then its a wow moment but I didn't see it coming

Some lessons are learnt the hard way!

 

Autumn runout on the Bullet in East Devon.

 

Finally got some moto-therapy in today! I wasn't able to ride Friday so Steve and I planned a ride yesterday afternoon. We've gotten rain (finally!) off and on this week but when we mounted up it was sunny and not raining--at our house. We rode 2 miles to gas up, left the gas station, rode literally about 1/2 a mile and the skies opened up like I haven't seen in years! Neither of us had on rain gear so we beat feet back to our house. Of course, no sooner did we pull in the driveway (laughing our arses off) than the sun came back out. Go figure...

So today I was bound and determined to ride! Our Sunday ride was delightful with five of us out on a beautiful sunny DRY day! Russell was driving his Bronco as he's still recovering from his knee surgery. After breakfast one of my buddies agreed to join me to lengthen the ride. When he turned off I added another 30 miles or so. I really didn't want to stop! Tomorrow it's definitely Speedy's turn to get out. I haven't been on my Speed Triple RS for far too long. So fingers crossed for another dry day and more moto-therapy!



Steve was on his 2001 Fat Boy today. He recently had our mechanic yank out the carburetor that was in it when he bought it (Mikuni) and replace it with a CV Harddrive Moto carb. It runs WAY better now and doesn't spew a big black cloud in my face every time he hits the throttle.



There are probably about half a dozen Bisbee Breakfast Clubs now but only one--and the original--in the town of Bisbee which is about 100 miles southeast of Tucson.



This mural is a scene in Bisbee.



Our group today minus Russell (in the restroom) and me (taking the photo).



Hopefully tomorrow I'll be posting in the What You Been Doing with Your Triumph Today? thread!

 

LOLZ

Looks like you had a great day!

 

That we did, @learningtofly! The plan is to get out this afternoon on my speed triple with Steve for a bit of a ride. It's another beautiful day here!

 

Storm Amy had passed, so I headed off to Knockhill for the finals of the Scottish club racing series - the photos might have some motion blur, but you get the idea! Last photo is the sidecars presentation..... these guys really are crazy!

 

Those side cars take me back I remember going to oulton park as a kid in the early 70's not being much taller than the guard rail and seeing these blurs just passing by fast even back then

 

Yes, sidecars are mad and it sounds like you had a nice day out @ajc400
I used to know a few who had this weird obsession with them but what camaraderie they had in the paddock.
One had a GSXR 1100 outfit back in the day, obviously later they went to 600's so it was a while ago .

He once asked if I was interested in passengering but I insisted I stayed with the spanners.


Self preservation and all that.


A family quite local to me and often in touch in the 90's....
Rip Steve Norbury, after so many miles on the IOM only to succumb on a proper formal track. His dad was naturally devastated.

http://www.motorsportmemorial.org/focus.php?db=ct&n=8024

 

Today I took my Low Rider ST for a solo ride and some moto-therapy. Temps were perfect, no wind, sunny blue skies. Not a long ride (40-ish miles) but a fantastic, blow-the-brain-cobwebs-out ride and definitely therapeutic. Man, oh man, I just LOVE to ride motorcycles!

Tomorrow Steve and I are heading north to Prescott, Arizona on our touring bikes for a three-day two-night getaway.