Yesterday I finally got to try out my FZ6 properly after doing all the upgrades, which was great fun!
It feels a lot nicer to ride now, although I need to get used to the change in feeling a bit more, especially since I've hardly done any riding for the past 4 months
I did one of my favourite routes which I call The Cloverleaf, because it involves four loops, sort of based around Loomies cafe.
I come out of Portsmouth on the B2177, but turn right for the run up to World's End and onto the B2150, then crossing the A32 to pick up a loop of nice little country lanes, back to the A32, up past Loomies (which was pretty busy) and up to the A339 to Basingstoke.
I turn off just before the M3 onto the B3046 down towards the Candovers, then "cut the corner" by turning left at Preston Candover and going down to Spiers Lane, before picking up the 3046 again through Alresford to New Cheriton.
Then there's a run along the A272 (passing Loomies again!) and head into Petersfield, but then turn left up Bell Hill and through some really fun hairpins at Little Switzerland, back to the A32 and south again.
Normally I'd stop off at Loomies at this point to get something to eat, but it looked too busy for comfortable social distancing, so I carried on down the A32, turning off just before the M27 for a run down Pook, lane, back onto the B2177 for a blast up the back of Portsdown hill
Oh and there was a Photographer (called The Right Bike on Facebook) taking shots on the A272, so I gave him a wave, although I realised afterwards I should have done the Foc-U salute...!