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The rest of the week looks pretty crap weather wise so I decided to get out for a short ride on the T700 once I'd finished the shopping ? So as Wales is still out of bounds I decided to ride some back roads in Somerset, a couple of trails , dip my toe into Dorset and then head back home. The roads are still fairly quiet if you stay off the main routes , just a few quarry lorries to get past around Frome. After crossing the A361 at Nunney, I made my way up Gare Hill, through the forest and onto the first couple of trails. The trails are still pretty dry, not much mud about at all which suited me fine as it was only my second time off road on the Yam.... I came across this structure in a field just off the lane, it looks like some sort of old crop store, I can't imagine it was for livestock as the roof would be much lower... I pressed onto the next lane before coming out onto the B3092........ After passing through Bourton I was now in Dorset and went further south to Fifehead Magdalen. Here I turned west and over the River Cale which was really low...... Now I started to head north and cut through the back roads to avoid the traffic in Wincanton and Castle Cary, after passing through Bruton I stopped at the top of the hill near Milton Clevedon to have my sandwiches and coffee from the flask. At the bottom of the hill is what looks like an old drove road, these were used in the past to drive cattle, sheep etc to market. You can tell it's a drove because of the width between the fences............ Once I got to the top of the hill I crossed the A361 again but heading north this time and made my way across the Mendips to Wells. At Wells I continued across the Mendips until I dropped down to Chew Valley lake where I stopped to take some more coffee from my flask..... It was only 15 miles to home from here so I skirted around the very edge of Bath and then back home. It was a good ride and I just get more and more impressed by this bike everytime I ride it

Yes, still waiting for borders to reopen. Managed to scrape some MT07 pegs around the northern twisties last week though, so not hating life too much ?

Sounds like the twins are ripe for persuasion, can there be any better sign than fighting over the next chance to go for a ride? Of course if you were here in Asia you'd just line up the whole family on your Honda Dream and off you'd go, probably with a couple of chickens to boot. I am always available to be a bad influence, however may be considered geographically undesirable at the present time

Hi My name is Michelle (aka: The Grasshopper) Welcome to Grasshopper's Ride, the adventures of a mild mannered, middle-aged bookkeeper on a motorcycle. Highlighting the beautiful Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada. ------------------------------------------- Let's start with an Intro! With my bike down for repairs, I have a bit of extra time on my hands. So I have prepared a trailer for my YouTube Channel, Grasshopper's Ride. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChWHkOm8ZDUQ8XzdHkbM9ng?view_as=subscriber Have a watch, it's silly, funky and just good fun on two wheels. Have a great week everyone! I'll post other videos here for your viewing pleasure. Unless everyone starts throwing rocks at me, then I'll quietly retreat back into the forest again.....lol

Photochop, Julian would have a field day with that one

Nice ?

I was looking through some pics for a froggy farceburke page and thought you migt like to see thm here, though some of you saw them back in 2015 on Maximumbikes, so you may pass your way. The pics are from a ride I did in september 2015, I rode with a group from Auxerre up to Sixte Fer A Cheval on the Saturday and when they turned around to ride home on the Sunday, I headed off on my own. The plan was to ride the Grimsel, Furka and susten passes in the day, finishing at Lauterbrunnen in Switzerland overnight and riding home from there, via Belforet and the Autoroute on the Monday. the day got off to a bad start with a flat rear tyre. I think a pinched tube when having the rear tyre replaced a day before leaving so I lost a lot of time furking about with that and then riding gingerly as far as Chamonix before making a decision as to whether to continue on alone into the swiss alpes, or turn for home and ride the autoroute where I had garanteed air pumps at regular intervals and easy assistance if required. The tyre seemed to be pretty much holding pressure when I checked it at Chamonix so I said "Furkit" and kept going. up towards Martigny looking back to Chamonix and Mont Blanc I had lost so much time in the morning that when I got to the junction of the furka and Grimsel, it was clear that I no longer had time to do all 3 passes in the day and get to Lauterbrunnen before dark ( september, swiss alpes, 1500m plus altitude, in the above pic I had stopped to put on winter gloves already and it wasn't midday yet, so I really didn4t want to have to ride at night with the temperatures involved) After much soul searching I decided that I should skip the up and back trip up the Grimsel pass and push on to the furka and sustenPass and complete the loop round the Jungfrau to Lauterbrunnen as planned. so I turned my back on the grimsel pass that had been on my bucket list for years ( i'll obviously have to come back) and headed east up the Furka Interlaken The Jungfrau, from Lauterbrunnen. The Campsite handyman lent me his compressor the next morning as my back end was flat again. It had survived all day previous with no problem... Riding in Switzerland on the secondary roads rather then the autoroutes is a slooow business and I averaged only 50 odd km/h all the way from lauterbrunnen to the border, but once back in France I hit the autoroute at Belfort and it was a long booring run home checking the rear pressure at every fuel stop.

we get hurt on the easy stuff. you know, when you arent paying attention. This time we were really focused as the road bent to the right, just at the bottom of the snow. If you went left, it was a good 1000 feet or more before you would stop rolling!

Id need electric nad warmers for chit like that

We're now into Phase 3 in our region of Spain so we've got mobility across all the provinces of Andalucia. So we're getting there!

I shall work on it as soon as the snow melts? Gimme a yell when ytou're out this way and maybe we can ride a bit or meet up for a beer.

it was very odd, i'd had it 17 years and done over 100000km on it. i do sometimes wish I'd kept it but not realistically.

Fantastic........that took a lot of work! ?

That was really cool!

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ehem... I have 3 teenage daughters, looking for someone to persuade them...N0 1 has kinda lost interest and is off to uni this year, N0's 2a and 2b being twins, haven't done so much pillion as N01 did cos once they were to big to fit in the panniers, they just fought about who's turn it was so I kinda gave up... I am slowly weaning Madame back onto the passenger seat now that the girls are big enough to not kill each other if we leave them alone for an afternoon. I was impressed to see the number of girls riding the other day when we went out though, it looks like the next generation will have more female riders.