Bikes not suited to the type of road

[Craig380]

We're on holiday in North Yorkshire, and on a walk we'd just walked back down an old cart track into the village. The track is tarmac at the village end, but after half a mile it quickly degenerates into a real goat track with a 1 in 5 gradient and nothing but mud and broken stones.

As we get to the bottom, three bikes turn up the track. First, an Africa Twin, then a Tenéré, and finally .... a Speed Triple. Good luck to him, I would NOT like to ride anything that wasn't a trailie / ADV bike up there!

[garynortheast]

Nick Sanders seems to specialise in inappropriate bikes - round the world on an R1!

[Sir Trev]

I remember seeing some of his videos.

Compare his experience to mine - riding over Barmouth Bridge on the way out from the BPW I may have picked a bit of the sand that was all across the path at the far end (that I thought both of us would crash on). Spannerman says that even though my chain is well lubed it has a tight link, so im a tad suspicious. Trumpets are possibly a bit more fragile than R1s

[garynortheast]

Originally Posted by Sir Trev

I remember seeing some of his videos.

Compare his experience to mine - riding over Barmouth Bridge on the way out from the BPW I may have picked a bit of the sand that was all across the path at the far end (that I thought both of us would crash on). Spannerman says that even though my chain is well lubed it has a tight link, so im a tad suspicious. Trumpets are possibly a bit more fragile than R1s

There was a lot of sand there, I don't recall seeing that amount on the bridge before. It certainly made the back end of the SV wriggle a bit!