Re: Specialone pop's his 'laning cherry!
 

+1 (not that it stops me taking the VFR down inapropriate roads but the ones with deep ruts tends to bottom out the fairing). ;)

Druid

Re: Specialone pop's his 'laning cherry!
 

I'm thinking about SORNing my enduro due to lack of time at the moment.

If you guys decide to head out over this way for the day, let me know and I'll sort out the tax.

Re: Specialone pop's his 'laning cherry!
 

You tell us Rob we'll come over.
Col has gone through loads of map area and found places of possible interest which we are gonna check out in the next 2 weeks or so.

Phil

Re: Specialone pop's his 'laning cherry!
 

Hey Rob, I sat 'til 3am the other morning searching Warwickshire on that Trailwise site you sent me, 3km at a time (long process!).

Contrary to my previous research on the web, it seems there are unsurfaced lanes we can ride on that are not BOAT's. So I found a list of about 6 different sets of lanes over this way, in a line Eastwards from Worcester to Southam, that according to that website we can use.

Specialone and I are going to check them out when we get the time, you'd be welcome to join us. It seems that there are unsurfaced roads that are shown on the OS map as "other routes with public access", that we can legally use.

I documented them all in Word so I could print them out, if you PM me your email address, I'll send you them all in PDF.

Re: Specialone pop's his 'laning cherry!
 

I thought you would have known that it's not just BOATs you can use ;)

Old Git sold me a towball for the car so I can transport the bike again so let me know when your going and I'll pop over.

My mate Marcus lives on the ridgeway, about 20 minutes from salisbury plain too if you guys want to head off out with us sometime.

Re: Specialone pop's his 'laning cherry!
 

This what we should be trying, it wont be me 'testing the water' either ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPo7C7zLvQQ&NR=1

Hey Col, did you see my Vid from yesterday?
I know its a little boring but it was my first go ;)

Re: Specialone pop's his 'laning cherry!
 

No, honestly I didn't. I did a load of research on it on the web, because I enjoyed my Mexico stuff so much, but I was still living in Scotland where apparently there are next to no BOAT's, and the websites I was reading suggested this was all we could ride that that there was practically NO legal greenlaning in Scotland. So I concluded that there was no point in me buying an off road bike. I even joined off road forums and asked questions there, the answers concurred.

When I moved down here, and the SV was off the road so withdrawl symptoms dictated that I needed a winter hack and off-road bike I bought the XT600, thinking there were plenty of BOAT's I could ride in the Peak District and Wales.

Re: Specialone pop's his 'laning cherry!
 

Looks like you`re really enjoying the bike.... great pics and looks really good fun.

PS: Tell Claire that yes varifocals are weird and take some getting used to!!

Re: Specialone pop's his 'laning cherry!
 

I am atm, really different experience and when Me and Ralph find some new lanes to explore it should be a laugh.

PS Claire, she laughed and said she hopes your cold is better :)

Re: Specialone pop's his 'laning cherry!
 

lol... yep is lots better now thanks tho I did have a week of work! will look forward to seeing Claire again on a rideout some time.