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Fair play to her - mini Scotland tour - HarryHornby - 25-10-17
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 :eek
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!
Re: Fair play to her - mini Scotland tour - BBROWN1664 - 25-10-17
She must be mad.
Good luck to her though.
Re: Fair play to her - mini Scotland tour - gicut58 - 25-10-17
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.......
Re: Fair play to her - mini Scotland tour - Grandma - 25-10-17
Brilliant, good girl a proper biker 8)
[/size][/color]No stopping her now
Re: Fair play to her - mini Scotland tour - slimwilly - 25-10-17
Awesome, hope she survives
Re: Fair play to her - mini Scotland tour - Hugh Mungus - 25-10-17
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.
(25-10-17, 11:31 AM)gicut58 link Wrote: 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
Re: Fair play to her - mini Scotland tour - tommyardin - 26-10-17
(25-10-17, 10:27 AM)HarryHornby link Wrote: 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 :eek
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 :eek 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.
Re: Fair play to her - mini Scotland tour - tommyardin - 26-10-17
(25-10-17, 12:22 PM)Grandma link Wrote: Brilliant, good girl a proper biker 8)
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.
Re: Fair play to her - mini Scotland tour - Simon.Pieman - 27-10-17
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
Re: Fair play to her - mini Scotland tour - tommyardin - 27-10-17
The link above is a dead link and goes now where on my computer
Re: Fair play to her - mini Scotland tour - unfazed - 27-10-17
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
Re: Fair play to her - mini Scotland tour - Simon.Pieman - 27-10-17
(27-10-17, 06:27 PM)unfazed link Wrote: 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/
Re: Fair play to her - mini Scotland tour - slimwilly - 27-10-17
Horizons unlimited :eek , tell me more
Re: Fair play to her - mini Scotland tour - Hugh Mungus - 27-10-17
(27-10-17, 07:54 PM)Simon.Pieman link Wrote: [quote author=unfazed link=topic=23435.msg270520#msg270520 date=1509125229]
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/
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A very interesting read.
Re: Fair play to her - mini Scotland tour - Bretty - 30-10-17
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!
Re: Fair play to her - mini Scotland tour - Bretty - 30-10-17
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!!!
Re: Fair play to her - mini Scotland tour - tommyardin - 30-10-17
(27-10-17, 06:27 PM)unfazed link Wrote: 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.AzwctWWqUlwThank you X :kiss
There you go Tommy
Re: Fair play to her - mini Scotland tour - midden - 30-10-17
(25-10-17, 10:27 AM)HarryHornby link Wrote: 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 :eek
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 :rolleyes
Re: Fair play to her - mini Scotland tour - fatbloke62 - 30-10-17
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
Re: Fair play to her - mini Scotland tour - robbo - 30-10-17
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.