Easter pics - Glastonbury run/Southend run

Great pics, looks like a good rideout.

Best clean that bike today Law

Some more Pics of Monday, compliments of my phone

Originally Posted by Law

Everyone else is superfast!! example, I had trouble keeping up with Stu and Dan on twisties on the way home.

Don't try and keep up - your speed will come with experiance on the bike. I ride with guys of 30 years experiance (my old man and his mates) and never try to keep up - to do so is a death wish! Instead, I'll go a bit faster than I would on my own, but slower than them. This way I'm learning, but I'm not about to plant myself in a hedge going faster than I can handle!

Matt

true words Mr Alpinestarhero.

Originally Posted by alpinestarhero

Don't try and keep up - your speed will come with experiance on the bike. I ride with guys of 30 years experiance (my old man and his mates) and never try to keep up - to do so is a death wish! Instead, I'll go a bit faster than I would on my own, but slower than them. This way I'm learning, but I'm not about to plant myself in a hedge going faster than I can handle!

Matt

True. I didn't try to keep up on the twisties, the bike doesn't handle well with panniers anyway.

The scary moments were:

Glastonbury - hitting a cats eye when I turned to early on a right hander, went wide and put the brakes on. Looked in the mirror and saw a NSR right up my backside.

Southend - Went into a left hand bend, squeezed the brakes mid corner to slower speed and saw Dan large in my mirrors again. I could have leant over more and actually made the corner but wasn't happy with the bike's handling that day.

Another one was Cazza overtook a car and I looked ahead and went for the overtake. The car moved right over the centre line so I hesitated a bit and slowed a bit going wide for more room. As I was going past him there was a oncoming white van that flashed his lights a lot at me. Got in with a couple of car lengths between me and the van.

Not particularly happy about having to filter/weave through motorway traffic at high speeds with panniers.

I'm very critical of my riding and don't like making mistakes.

Oi Treacle. Leave the pies alone.

yea- Pies are my job ..


he dont look like a pie eater there..! he is quite svelt

just re visited that pic-- its the little pot wok thats appearing on the usually thin spiderman that needs attention.!!




I don like it..