With a start at 0520 Andy Burnside and I set off North clockwise weather was dry and cold for the looong drag north to Glasgow once over the Erskine bridge the traffic was heavy past Loch Lomond up to the Green Welly then I got through Glen Coe in the dry a first for me, traffic was increasing and made life difficult getting to Ft William where a coffee and sandwich eased the hunger pangs I could have ate a dead scabby horse
Heavy traffic to Inverness that thinned out on the A9/A99 a good ride to Wick in heavy cross winds that got worst on the way back to Inverness Where I had to top the fuel off, I changed my bike last September from a BMW 1200 GSA with a 300 mile range to a new Yamaha Tenere 700 with a 200 mile range so it won't make wick to Edinborough in one go.
By this time it was heated jacket time as we left dreghorn south on the A1 we caught up with a massif wide load which took up the entire South bound carriageway
at 3 MPH where it was feathering the clutch to prevent it stalling if they had accelerated to 5 MPH I could have burbled along at tick over with the clutch out they had to negotiate two roundabouts which was fascinating to watch after what seemed like a lifetime (about three miles really) this enormous rig turned right in a gap in the central reservation with the police blocking the North bound carriageway then we were free to get to Berwick on Tweed for a quick top up for the last 167 miles back to Squires with the sun just peeking over the horizon.
With a return at 0306 it was a good ride in the dry and cold, I might give South anti clock a go next year where the route crosses at the Dartford crossing I live about two miles away so I might nip home for a quick brew
A big well done to all entrants and admin staff.
Heavy traffic to Inverness that thinned out on the A9/A99 a good ride to Wick in heavy cross winds that got worst on the way back to Inverness Where I had to top the fuel off, I changed my bike last September from a BMW 1200 GSA with a 300 mile range to a new Yamaha Tenere 700 with a 200 mile range so it won't make wick to Edinborough in one go.
By this time it was heated jacket time as we left dreghorn south on the A1 we caught up with a massif wide load which took up the entire South bound carriageway
at 3 MPH where it was feathering the clutch to prevent it stalling if they had accelerated to 5 MPH I could have burbled along at tick over with the clutch out they had to negotiate two roundabouts which was fascinating to watch after what seemed like a lifetime (about three miles really) this enormous rig turned right in a gap in the central reservation with the police blocking the North bound carriageway then we were free to get to Berwick on Tweed for a quick top up for the last 167 miles back to Squires with the sun just peeking over the horizon.
With a return at 0306 it was a good ride in the dry and cold, I might give South anti clock a go next year where the route crosses at the Dartford crossing I live about two miles away so I might nip home for a quick brew
A big well done to all entrants and admin staff.
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