Date: 03-11-25  Time: 20:17 pm

Author Topic: Good day for it. Did you go out today ?  (Read 2742 times)

simonm

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Good day for it. Did you go out today ?
« on: 03 March 2013, 06:54:41 pm »
Knocked up a nice 75 miler and in the process dropped my average mpg from 50 to 46 (I'm getting in to the swing of this :-).


My route was Market Harborough -> Melton Mowbray -> Bingham -> Syston and A47 back to Market Harborough.


Put a big smile on my face.  £9.37 in fuel well spent.


Did you go out today ?, what was your route ?

stevierst

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Re: Good day for it. Did you go out today ?
« Reply #1 on: 03 March 2013, 07:38:07 pm »
Did about 150 ish miles with a group of guys on various bikes ranging from Fazer thou, BMW gs1200, Tiger 1050, a Mille streetfighter, and my fz1.
Went to Glasson dock, then to Lancaster, on to Windermere, kirkstone pass, A6 to shap, then back through Lancaster, and home to Blackpool.
A truly mint day out. Threw up the foc-u salute a few times, but no replies unfortunately!

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Re: Good day for it. Did you go out today ?
« Reply #2 on: 03 March 2013, 08:19:58 pm »
Took mine out for its first proper blast of 2013 yesterday, about 60 miles and some nice flowing A roads to play on  :D :D :D :D :D

simonm - love the B6047, it's a cracking road  :)

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Re: Good day for it. Did you go out today ?
« Reply #3 on: 03 March 2013, 08:32:38 pm »
Did a 50 mile check ride for my IAM. Calne, Bishop Cannings, Marlbourgh, M4, Royal Wootton Basset, Lynham and back to Calne.

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Re: Good day for it. Did you go out today ?
« Reply #4 on: 03 March 2013, 09:29:30 pm »
did a 60 miler through the brecon beacons then back down to s,e wales bit nippy.

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Re: Good day for it. Did you go out today ?
« Reply #5 on: 03 March 2013, 09:47:46 pm »
Went to my first ROSPA meeting today - a nice blast round some Cambridgeshire villages in the cool morning air!  Even thought a short run of ~30miles it left me with a big grin!  :D

simonm

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Re: Good day for it. Did you go out today ?
« Reply #6 on: 03 March 2013, 09:49:30 pm »
simonm - love the B6047, it's a cracking road  :)


I do enjoy it.  Often :)

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Re: Good day for it. Did you go out today ?
« Reply #7 on: 03 March 2013, 10:18:48 pm »
Me plus several other foccers all went down to Dungeness from the Oakdene Cafe as part of the London Foccers meet :D

Probs hit about 240 miles in total for the day

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Re: Good day for it. Did you go out today ?
« Reply #8 on: 04 March 2013, 12:45:30 am »
Went to a Group Ride Leaders training session, followed by a demo ride out.

The session was well attended, which is good, since I was the one organising it! :)

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Re: Good day for it. Did you go out today ?
« Reply #9 on: 04 March 2013, 06:52:43 am »
Yep meet some lads in Bury then had a nice run through the trough of Bowland, Caton, Devils Bridge, Hawes, Ribbleshead, Settle, Gisbon, back to Manc lovely

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Re: Good day for it. Did you go out today ?
« Reply #10 on: 04 March 2013, 07:14:05 am »
saturday was better weather than sunday, but around 9 degrees.I am scrubbing in tyres on both my bikes, so did about 250 miles this weekend.
Love the feel of new tyres!
I have a local runaround southam and banbury which is mostly B roads, but very flowing.That was saturday srun,....... Did the B6047 yesterday, after a refreshment stop at Uppingham. I do recommend the burger van there, he does great tea, and great rolls too. Not greasy , very clean place. Its a regular stop for me as its a superb ride from Rugby across country.Highly recommend the road from Market Harborough to Uppingham, going through Medbourne. Cracking road with some excellent views too.

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Re: Good day for it. Did you go out today ?
« Reply #11 on: 04 March 2013, 07:45:28 am »
I enjoyed good weather on sunday, but on the half a horsepower bicycle. :)

Fuel cost me around 10 euros (lots of beer and sandwitches). It was a nice day.  :)

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Re: Good day for it. Did you go out today ?
« Reply #12 on: 04 March 2013, 06:25:31 pm »
Too much salt on the roads for my liking. 40 hilly miles on the push bike as well for me.