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6 of us set off Saturday morning for a weekend in the Beaujolais, it wa going to be a laid back one cos the nutjobs of the usual group were otherwise occupied so there was only us sensible ones left... The first leg was from a mates house in Vallan ( 'bout 10 minutes from mine) down through the well known riding area of the Morvanand into the Charolais region south of here. As we were not actually straying far from home we took a meandering roundabout route which ended up at La Clayette for lunch. Being just south of Charolles, it was eviden that charolais steak was on the menu. the restaurant was easy to find, "opposite the Chateau" this was a coffee stop in a sleepy burgundy "one horse town" This was like 10 AM and the temp was just starting to get warm, around 25 ish (c) By the time we stopped for lunch we were vying for space in the shade at the bike parking and it was a solid 30deg C The chateau has belonged to the same family for the last 300 years, but was built in 1380, so a little over 100 years BEFORE colombus set of to get lost... themorning route: The afternoon route dropped south as far as Tarare, before winding back north east to Tramayes and again was planned to keep pretty much to the back roads. the route down as far a Tarare: Having had an excellent lunch of prime charollais steak and chips we lazed about a bit befor getting moving and reached Tarare around 4, temps well up around 35 C we were looking for shady roads... At tarare I jumped off from the group as I needed to sort a problem for by bro in law in Lyon and my plan was to nip across to Lyon, sort the problem and then jump on the autoroute north from there to meet the others at Tramayes around 6 30 pm when they should also arrive at the hotel. so my route looked like this I got to bro in law's in under an hour and sorted what needed sorting ( and had a bit of a mank at the care staff as he's got an expensive high tech cooling fan in his room but no one had thought to turn it on for him... not really their fault, there are almos no permanent staff now so they're all agency staff and know fuck all about anything and care a little less...) The temps in the city were up in the 40's so I wasn't hanging about longer than neccessary and rapidly got the F out of there ( I don't like cities at the best of times) Getting out or Lyon northwards means either going all the way around to the east or going through the Vaise and then the Fourvieres tunnels which is like the dartford crossing but with french drivers... not exactly fun at 5pm on a saturday evening and though I was able to filter through the worst of it thanks to a local bike who I let through and then tailed, by the time I got through the peage onto the A6 proper i was ready for some air so trusted the "Coyote" navigator to warn me of any speed traps I wound the bike up and didn4t get overtaken till I was pulling off at Macon ( for info, on the autoroute, apart from the automatic cameras that are well signed, the police are only really interested in anyone doing over 150km/h real speed cos less than 20km/h over the limit is basically a 45€ fine and 2 or 3 points so not worth their while) so I kept it around 150 t0 155 on the speedo, which is 145 to 150 real, you take of 5% which gives about 142 - 145 and your'e well within the "less than 20 over" bracket... so I got to Tramayes in time to grab the room with the best shower and grab a beer from the bar before the others arrived. Lyon -> Tramayes ( and no it didn't take me an hour and 9 minutes...) The hotel was nice and clean, had a well stocked bar, which we underetook to de-stock in a fairly methodical manner, and a good kitchen sunday morning dawned after a hot night only really disturbed by a bunch of drunken old men giting up to piss out all the beer they'd consumed that evening... oh, wait a minute... that was us... Oh yeah, and the gunshots at 04h30, that definately wasn't us... Usual continental breakfast, coffee and lots of it, croissqnts, breqd and jam etc we rode northish from there via Mont st Vincent where we stoppoed for coffee at the village fete that was seting up as we arrived, very genteel it was too and the views... https://www.burgundy-tourism.com/natural-sites/le-mont-saint-vincent the church here is 11th century so a good 200yrs OLDER than yesterdays castle Only 10 am but temperatures soaring again so we were all grouped in the shade How d'ya fancy a front door like this? then onwards towards Santenay where we pulled up in the main square at midday and aced the last free table at the better of the two restaurants. Believe it or not I had fish and chips We'd been riding through vinyards all morning with evocative names like, Mercurey, Rully, Santenay, and so forth, Les vendanges ( grape harvest) oficially started last weekend and so were in full swing with tractors and grape waste strewed liberally all over the roads, which made for some acrobatic cornering manouvres fron some of the group. The afternoon was a fairly straight forward run home across our usual playground and our lead rider who had meticulously planned the route thus far expressed a desire to follow for a while rather than lead and made the mistake of sending me up front. Well, the days of the group waiting for me and the transalp after a particularly "fun section" are definately over and my revenge was well and truly exacted Autun, chateau chinon, planchez, quarré les tombes for a beer, avallon and home The section Autun, chateau Chinon, planchez is one that parisians will ride 2 hours down the autoroute to get to and 2 hours autoroute home having ridden it, that is how much fun it is. Sorry so few pictures but i wasn't leading so didn't get to choose when to stop, and when I was leading I was having too much fun to stop, and it was too hot anyway. Highest temp was 37.5 degC as we rode through Autun. about 700 odd km over the weekend I guess.8 points
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Just when you think Marcel might be losing his grip on TOTY he pulls one out of the hat!5 points
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Back when I worked @ a bike shop, a particular customer who was tight with the owner came in for a new tire on his PC.... But before I could take a wrench to it, he proceeded to use up the rest of the old tire's life....right there in the parking lot....SmokeShow from HELL!! 'Twas quite obvious just where the bike shop was in that neighborhood...4 points
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He is one of the true gentlemen in MotoGP. I don’t often say this about spaniards4 points
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It seems I am a taxi driver today, a school run, a commute to work, and repeat at 3pm. I hope they fix daughters car sharpish, all this driving interfere,s with my busy schedule.4 points
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And I've got a lead via his old school's Facebook Group. A couple of people remember him. Waiting for somebody who may have more information to come back.4 points
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My point exactly...it's not like Pete is oozing macheezmoness..riding with that gay ass honda...those feminine genes could have been passed down..3 points
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Hey have you look at the news lately ...2005 is a long time.. maybe your searching for the wrong sex department.3 points
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TBH Pete, it's a pretty sharp looking bike. But then again, I'm fairly biased as I was spoon-fed on Honda twins by my old man. It looks like it does the job well...& is easy on the wallet.3 points
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Nice report Chris Just one point of order, you went to the Charolais region and yet not one photo of the famous cattle , not even a photo of the one you had for dinner ...........2 points
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He's a helluva rider....It's awesome to see him looking happy.2 points
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@Pedro i hope your going to put your route up so i can point out all the great places you rode right by LOL1 point
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80+ mpg as well Scott! But these morons on here absolutely hate it for some reason!1 point
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No! When you're bumming round and existing off the Social you're not going abroad. But one interesting thing I found was that the people who went to school with him (all mid 40's now) have all led settled, normal, stable lives and have their own families now. None of them went on a path of self destruction like he did. So it wasn't his peer group leading him astray.........I made sure he got into the best school in Swansea to give him the best opportunities. And I got the other two into the same school (cos they had a brother there) and they screwed it all up as well. But that's down to their mother fucking their heads up. She joined Facebook 10 years ago to try and find them as well. Even mentioned me in case I knew! Which was pretty ironic because she's spent most of her life making sure I never had any contact with the younger two. I only came across the post a couple of years later by accident. She didn't look too good in the pic so her search could have been because her time was running out.1 point
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Yup i know all about it 30 doesn't keep me at 30 so 20 got no chance LOL, It's not going down well here at all but not every 30mph road is going to become 20 there is a little common sense with it, through the streets and built up areas will become 20 other roads will stay at 30 This is an example of whats changing by me, this road is going to stay at 30mph and this is going to become 20mph1 point
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If you’ve been looking for over a decade and turned up nothing then it’s probably time to face up to the idea that covertly isn’t working. Prepare a letter saying what you want to so it’s ready to send the second they’re located and go for it. Put your search out there on social media, contact everyone you know who has had contact with them and reach out to friends and family from the area. There’s no way they won’t have looked you up, even if it was a just a drunken google of where their dad is the curiosity will be there. The worse that can happen is your requests are denied so what have you got to lose? At least you can say you tried. Carry on with the ineffective methods you’re currently using and like you say time will run out. Sometimes being bold is the only way to go.1 point
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