Annual hoilday on the bike (Tiger 1050) with the old man on his wobbley wobbley BMW GS 1200 with mother on pillion.

Late in the evening about to leave for the over night boat from Belfast to Liverpool, and no my mother isnt short its just im a gaint!!!!




Waiting for the ferry


Liverpool while everyone else sleeps (5.30am is not a nice time to get woken up with a bing bong the breakfast bar is now open, but we will not be docking for another hour!!)


Breakfast of a coffee, donut and crisps you brought from home.....healthy....questionable


Dry roads but it was blooming cold


Had to be done


My lunch, very tasty


Hmm Cold, but the road was still suprisingly dry and grippy


Some really nice bits of countryside around the Snake Pass


Old school bit of engineering


hmmm ive still another 400 mile to do on this, hope it doesnt rain tooooo much


My unlces newly bought Tiger 800 (he flew from Glasgow to Luton, we picked him up, road to Maidenhead, he bought a bike and then we ended up here for a feed!!)

Nice buell



Nice old soon racer

Now you cant go the ace without a feeeeeed and heres what i got


AND


Yes i was hungary, hadnt eaten since 7.30am it was now 2pm.

More to come......

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Nice pics, sorry I wasn't around to meet you but I am still on crutches since Xmas.

Brands Hatch BSB and yes its.....RAINING


Cant go to motorbike race and not sit on a few bikes. Tenere even feels small now!!! I think i need to stop growing. Make Thomas in the orange fluro jacket, so gald he brought his company car down it was put to very good use as a shelter was the great weather


One of the cleanest XTR's ive seen in a while, used as a return the racer to the paddack bike


Some of the racing at actually happened












That evening another feed with a few of my relatives. Left to Right, Me, Nana, Mother, Wendy (Aunt), Adrain (Uncle). Old mans taking the photo


I think this is Whitestable but nice coast and nice weather


On the pier at Dover, getting cool again, but still sunny as ever


Old man orders steak and chips with a side order of 3 (yes 3) fried eggs, and i get pie and mash, which turns out to be half a pie and a bucket of gravy. Was all good


Somewhere along the coast near whitestable


Pose


The big 88 taking in the coastal views


On the way back up to Stoke on Trent, pulled into a service station off the M1 for a break, mate Thomas rings me out of the blue asking where im at and by any chance is it the blabhlabh service station. Randomly thomas had pulled over for a pee and a lolly while heading home from work, saw the bikes out front and put two and two together!!! How random is that


Overland Trail Tours for 1 days off roading, this time i had to hire a Yamaha WR250F as i didnt have the XT660R. Class days off roading that i would recommend for any one, cheaper though if you bring your own bike. couple of piccies



more to come

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Sorry to here your on crutchs fran, didnt even know that (havent been on the forum for a while due to work). I will get to meet up with you some time

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Are guide Ian as Boyd the guy who runs and normally guides you was doing modifications to his house (as he said or the wife would )



Old man having a wee sit down after a rough trail


Having a wee tea/coffe at ians house after some long rough off roading



Pee stop and time for a photo, lovely sunny weather and we mostly dodged the showers


A trail there felt like it went on and on, but you just had to focus non stop


Ian coming back after he went to put the side stand down on the KTM and found it wasnt there!!!! Bolt had sheared off but lucky enough he got the sidestand again.



Close up of Ian after the steep down hill steps


Yes playing in the water as my feet where already ringing wet, too many oh big puddle splash ah wet feets


Yes that is snow in the back round and there where a few sections where you had 20m of snow covering the trail, very slippery or you just sunk in and had to power your way out.


And finally an action splash photo of the old man


All in all a great days off roading but my god to you feel like youve been 3 rounds with a boxer the next day. (yes i am unfit)

Thats it for this trip, next is the lakes and the the IOM TT for a week....Cant wait.

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Nice write up Max, thanks for sharing

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