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This is a bit of an advanced/ideas thread for a 'big' trip next year. Thinking of doing another trip like Bodmin, a long weekend. 3/4 days in a location 200 miles or so away.
My thoughts were either Lowestoft/Norwich area, or Wales-Middle/West Wales.
Time frame i was considering is April/May or similar to this year end of August.
Throw some ideas around and lets get something going.
Plenty of time to make sure we are all free, available and time to save pennies.
Fallout
11-09-12, 06:49 AM
Yorkshire! Having visited Paul the 6th this year, the roads are epic. I'm not saying we crash his house, although he may offer, the lovely young scamp. But a camp site would be fine, and he can even furnish us with some uber routes.
The only downside is in order to make the trip up their interesting, we'd have to get quite creative and be prepared to ride all day, cos the M1 is pretty wank!
Vid of my trip up there this year. It's very long, cos there was a lot of good riding, but skipping through it will probably find highlights all the way.
dJjdzR2IsQ8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJjdzR2IsQ8
The Idle Biker
11-09-12, 04:50 PM
France is closer than Yorkshire and Bodmin. The roads are better. This place is great.
http://www.lamottebandb.fr/
You could consider this or you could just slag the French now?
Spank86
11-09-12, 05:09 PM
Been there.
Would happily slag off the fench but can't deny that the roads are good... In as much as they're emptier than England's at least.
Wideboy
11-09-12, 05:21 PM
and car drivers move to let you pass, France is well worth it. I did Normandy few years back and been meaning to go back ever since
i do like France and enjoyed riding over there. The French drivers are very courteous to bikes and the orad surfaces are good.
Saying that, in the West Country, even on the B roads the surface was amazing.
I think if we did France, we'd need lots of planning and a good idea of funds. Plus someone who speaks foreign ;)
Did a bit of France and Belgium this Sunday gone, Their roads are awesome!! £40 quid return on the channel tunnel and 30 mins later you are cruising the smooth tarmac the other side! well worth the trip!
Fallout
11-09-12, 06:34 PM
Ok, one rule: the further we go, the more certain we have to be of quality routes!
finding them is far better and more rewarding. Simply avoid larger main roads and take the B roads!
The Idle Biker
11-09-12, 07:33 PM
We couldn't even work out how to get back across the Thames from the AR, even though we had a Sat Nav?
I think following a road plan is a bit beyond us :confused:
not beyond me ;) Bodmin was a breeze! tell me where you want to go and i'll get you there . . . .
What about the full-on epic that hongman went for, and take the GM to the other GM in Scotland?
I had a great time in France. We were a bit further south though. Portsmouth - Caen gets you straight into fantastic roads in Normandy after a 6 hour crossing,
Much cheaper to do Dover Calais but the roads are not so good and it's a dull 2 hour ride from our patch to Dover too.
To be honest once you've got a passport and breakdown cover it's no harder doing Europe than Cornwall. If you wave your hands and shout slowly then not knowing enough French is not a major issue.
The Idle Biker
11-09-12, 08:12 PM
What about the full-on epic that hongman went for, and take the GM to the other GM in Scotland?
Hong is a unique force of nature, plus his bike has since popped apart like a clowns car :p
Spank86
11-09-12, 08:27 PM
I can jumble together a bit of French at times and understand a bit more.
Ridden there once before and it was fine, gotta agree that Calais and le havre are very boring areas but probably cheaper than Caen I'd imagine.
I'd also be fine with riding to Scotland, don't see any reason not to.
Wideboy
12-09-12, 06:50 AM
I took the fast cat from p'mouth to caen and I think it was 79 quid. A little bit of dual carriage way to get out of caen and itss good, we powered it down the carriage ways right across to west and then took the coastal route back to the port stopping at the beaches ect.
Only thing to note really is stay on the right side and speed camera's are grey and not yellow, hard to see but prerty much everyone warns you that they are there....... oh and British drivers, we were there just for 2 days and only time we had any road problems were with pi55y brits. Even the rioters (fishermen strike, hence ending up in caen) where happy to see us, in-between throwing molitovs and parading around tyre fires in the middle of the road their moods charged and were happy to see us, signalling for us to provide some light hearted one wheel action.
andrewsmith
12-09-12, 07:06 AM
What about the full-on epic that hongman went for, and take the GM to the other GM in Scotland?
This! Do it in 2 days up and 2 back
You'll have fun if you let the PM and esscose plan the route ;)
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Spank86
12-09-12, 07:24 AM
From past experience speed camera fines seldom make it back over the channel anyway.
N.B. Thats not a promise.
From past experience speed camera fines seldom make it back over the channel anyway.
N.B. Thats not a promise.
A policeman with a camera will march you at gun point to a cashpoint. Roadside cameras currently do not matter for UK riders although that is likely to be changing soonish.
When I was over one of the riders was saying that he was flashed so many times he could have produced a flick-book of his trip from the evidence had it made it over. I do however know people who still have bikes impounded in France waiting for court cases and others who are banned from ever riding in France again!
So in summary, today fixed cameras are OK, policeman with camera will nab you. Don't even try the " je suis sorry gendame mais je forgot mon speedo was en miles per hour" as they will just shoot you on the spot! Given we are all sensible law abiding riders it's all a but academic anyway.
Thunderace
14-09-12, 11:18 PM
This is a bit of an advanced/ideas thread for a 'big' trip next year. Thinking of doing another trip like Bodmin, a long weekend. 3/4 days in a location 200 miles or so away.
My thoughts were either Lowestoft/Norwich area, or Wales-Middle/West Wales.
Time frame i was considering is April/May or similar to this year end of August.
Throw some ideas around and lets get something going.
Plenty of time to make sure we are all free, available and time to save pennies.
Happy to go anywhere I know Holland and West Germany quite well, also if you want to go to Norfolk I know all of it very well and there are some properly nadgery roads and lots of swoopy stuff (all of it a tad flat but it is Norfolk).
If we went for August bank holiday we could go to the Fenman and pop over to sunny hunny for some chips and a coastal bimble, there are also some very nice roads round Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft and I could take you out into the Fen (where no-one can hear you scream).
Also could save cash on camping if needs be as my folks have a pretty big garden.
The Idle Biker
16-09-12, 08:16 PM
Nurburgring? or am I getting carried away?
Thunderace
16-09-12, 08:43 PM
Nurburgring? or am I getting carried away?
Happy with that I know the area and could possibly wangle some free camping in Elmpt.
widepants
16-09-12, 08:44 PM
you guys are welcome to my garden if Im still here
andrewsmith
16-09-12, 08:46 PM
I shall say what I posted earlier...
GM does GM VI next year!
The Idle Biker
16-09-12, 08:47 PM
you guys are welcome to my garden if Im still here
We could come and have a go at your neighbours :smt072. Thunderace has Guns!
Thunderace
16-09-12, 08:50 PM
We could come and have a go at your neighbours :smt072. Thunderace has Guns!
And knives! Big feck off shiny ones that look like they could skin a crocodile!:smt027
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