Fair play to her - mini Scotland tour

[HarryHornby]

My wife's best mate (the one I tried to hook you 'orrible lot up with a while back) passed her bike test the other week.  At present she's still got her 125 Varadero but is going "big bike" shopping soon - and yes, I've mentioned a Fazer to her....... LOTS


Anyway, I digress, work has been tough recently so she's taken some leave and has ridden to Skye from South London on her 125 


First day she rode to Glasgow and stayed over.
Second day she rode to Skye via Loch Lomand and For William, she's now spending some time bimbling about in very mixed weather.  Says she's loving it.


Blooming fair play to her, all that way, on her own, on a 125!  I'm not envious at all, honest!

[BBROWN1664]

She must be mad.
Good luck to her though.

[gicut58]

Tell her you can get a good bacon butty here: https://www.kinlocheweservices.co.uk/
I went there just based on the web site photography.......

[Grandma]

Brilliant, good girl a proper biker
[/size][/color]No stopping her now[/font]

[slimwilly]

Awesome, hope she survives

[Hugh Mungus]

Now that's a road trip. Riding a 125 for long distances is great fun (I rode my CB100-N to the other side of the country just for fun when I was 18) it's only when you've ridden bigger bikes that you think "Bugger that."
Of course she will come home and be addicted to long journeys, the Varadero will be gone and she'll be touring Europe before you know it.

Tell her you can get a good bacon butty here: https://www.kinlocheweservices.co.uk/
I went there just based on the web site photography.......

Now I have viewed the website I want to ride that road! Bacon butty as well...
I will be taking the Fazer next year. Oh, and the wife 

[tommyardin]

My wife's best mate (the one I tried to hook you 'orrible lot up with a while back) passed her bike test the other week.  At present she's still got her 125 Varadero but is going "big bike" shopping soon - and yes, I've mentioned a Fazer to her....... LOTS


Anyway, I digress, work has been tough recently so she's taken some leave and has ridden to Skye from South London on her 125 


First day she rode to Glasgow and stayed over.
Second day she rode to Skye via Loch Lomand and For William, she's now spending some time bimbling about in very mixed weather.  Says she's loving it.


Blooming fair play to her, all that way, on her own, on a 125!  I'm not envious at all, honest!

As you said fair play to her, not easy on a small bike .


I did a similar trip in 1966 on a BSA Bantam 175cc single pot stroker.
From Fernhurst in Sussex to Portmaharmack in the North West coast of Scotland 703 miles, the biggest killer was not being allowed on the motorways as I was a learner.
The old Billy Bantam had a top speed of about 58 MPH with everything in your favour, but in reality suitcase on a rear carrier,you had a job to average 35 mph, slight incline and the old Bantam was down to 27-28 mph.
I had no bikers clothes, I wore baseball boots with plastic bread bags over them, a pac-a-mac, some big old fashioned leather gauntlets and a scarf, no crash helmet, could not afford one and it wasn't law therefore not fashionable. I rode for about 20 hours and slept for about 6 hours in a lay-bye in a pile of granite chippings with my mac over me just outside Galashiels, the following day rode on for another 6 hours to Kircaldy and the following day completed my journey. I wanted to die, no really I was so tired that I could hardly keep my eyes open, I was soaking wet, freezing cold and very, very miserable.
Fernhurst to Galashiels 421 miles that's an avarage of 21 MPH metering in stops for a pee and a cafe stop.
Galashiels to  Portmaharmack 282 miles (With an overnight stop) that is an average riding speed of 18 mph, them focking mountains and and windy terrain make one hell of a difference especially with bloody great trucks going by you, although the worse bit was feeling them up behind you waiting to overtake you, make me feel very small and insignificant The other thing I noticed was that it hardly ever stops raining on the North West coast of Scotland, and the temperature is not exactly Mediterranean. So as I said at the beginning of my ramblings FAIR PLAY to her, she has balls.
There is no way on earth would I ever think about a journey like that again, not even on my Fazer.
I drive up to The Lake District in my car and that's enough for me.         

[tommyardin]

Brilliant, good girl a proper biker
No stopping her now

FFS sake! Now you want to try somewhere windy that is the place to go, 300 plus feet below you is the sea crashing into rocks and you can get wet from the fine mist/spray from the sea standing near the edge of the cliffs.

[Simon.Pieman]

I met this lovely lady at a Horizons Unlimited meeting earlier this year. She's done 54 countries and had rung up over 50,000 miles on her little Yamaha FZ150.


dhttps://www.google.fr/search?client=safari&channel=ipad_bm&dcr=0&source=hp&ei=w0fzWYHKFcXNwAKc-aiICA&q=anita+motorcycle+muslim&oq=anita+motorcycle+muslim&gs_l=mobile-gws-hp.3...5669.14332.0.14642.24.23.0.1.1.0.206.3590.0j22j1.23.0....0...1..64.mobile-gws-hp..0.21.3252.3..0j41j46j0i46k1j0i22i30k1j33i160k1j33i21k1.0.AzwctWWqUlw

[tommyardin]

The link above is a dead link and goes now where on my computer

[unfazed]

https://www.google.fr/search?client=safari&channel=ipad_bm&dcr=0&source=hp&ei=w0fzWYHKFcXNwAKc-aiICA&q=anita+motorcycle+muslim&oq=anita+motorcycle+muslim&gs_l=mobile-gws-hp.3...5669.14332.0.14642.24.23.0.1.1.0.206.3590.0j22j1.23.0....0...1..64.mobile-gws-hp..0.21.3252.3..0j41j46j0i46k1j0i22i30k1j33i160k1j33i21k1.0.AzwctWWqUlw

There you go Tommy
 

[Simon.Pieman]

https://www.google.fr/search?client=safari&channel=ipad_bm&dcr=0&source=hp&ei=w0fzWYHKFcXNwAKc-aiICA&q=anita+motorcycle+muslim&oq=anita+motorcycle+muslim&gs_l=mobile-gws-hp.3...5669.14332.0.14642.24.23.0.1.1.0.206.3590.0j22j1.23.0....0...1..64.mobile-gws-hp..0.21.3252.3..0j41j46j0i46k1j0i22i30k1j33i160k1j33i21k1.0.AzwctWWqUlw

There you go Tommy
 

Thanks for that. This link is a bit better.




http://www.globalwomenwhoride.com/2014/04/motorcycling-legends-anita-yusof/

[slimwilly]

Horizons unlimited  , tell me more

[Hugh Mungus]

https://www.google.fr/search?client=safari&channel=ipad_bm&dcr=0&source=hp&ei=w0fzWYHKFcXNwAKc-aiICA&q=anita+motorcycle+muslim&oq=anita+motorcycle+muslim&gs_l=mobile-gws-hp.3...5669.14332.0.14642.24.23.0.1.1.0.206.3590.0j22j1.23.0....0...1..64.mobile-gws-hp..0.21.3252.3..0j41j46j0i46k1j0i22i30k1j33i160k1j33i21k1.0.AzwctWWqUlw

There you go Tommy
 

Thanks for that. This link is a bit better.




http://www.globalwomenwhoride.com/2014/04/motorcycling-legends-anita-yusof/

A very interesting read.

[Bretty]

It's probably been mentioned on here before, but go on youtube and watch c90 adventures. Ed March rides a Honda c90 halfway around the world from Asia (Malaysia?) back to the UK. It looks epic fun!

[Bretty]

I'm currently in Vietnam (waiting at an airport). It's amazing what a 125 can do! Here's a few, one carrying a washing machine!!!

[tommyardin]

https://www.google.fr/search?client=safari&channel=ipad_bm&dcr=0&source=hp&ei=w0fzWYHKFcXNwAKc-aiICA&q=anita+motorcycle+muslim&oq=anita+motorcycle+muslim&gs_l=mobile-gws-hp.3...5669.14332.0.14642.24.23.0.1.1.0.206.3590.0j22j1.23.0....0...1..64.mobile-gws-hp..0.21.3252.3..0j41j46j0i46k1j0i22i30k1j33i160k1j33i21k1.0.AzwctWWqUlw

There you go Tommy
 

Thank you X 

[midden]

My wife's best mate (the one I tried to hook you 'orrible lot up with a while back) passed her bike test the other week.  At present she's still got her 125 Varadero but is going "big bike" shopping soon - and yes, I've mentioned a Fazer to her....... LOTS


Anyway, I digress, work has been tough recently so she's taken some leave and has ridden to Skye from South London on her 125 


First day she rode to Glasgow and stayed over.
Second day she rode to Skye via Loch Lomand and For William, she's now spending some time bimbling about in very mixed weather.  Says she's loving it.


Blooming fair play to her, all that way, on her own, on a 125!  I'm not envious at all, honest!

You mean the one you instantly dismissed me from (apparently due to her not really wanting a nice lad) 
Well done her........ to think she could've had a touring partner 

[fatbloke62]

one lady I've always admired is architect Elspeth beard who in the early 80's and in her twenties  was the first woman to ride around the world on her own ,she wrote a book of her travels and a tv program followed

[robbo]

Just finished Elspeth Beard's book. Got to take your hat off to her without a doubt., Didn't know about the tv program, maybe it's on youtube somewhere, will have a search.

[maddog04]

this thread is useless without pics (of her)

[tommyardin]

Elspeth, what a little beauty

[maddog04]

I didn't mean a pic of Elspeth, I meant one of the lady who's rode the world.....ooer mrs

[HarryHornby]

Update..... she did 1400 miles in 5 days!  AWESOME, but best news of all, she's looking at Fazers for her first big bike..... a new LOFO in the making!  :-)

[midden]

Elspeth, what a little beauty

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