RE: Lake District - 2

Looks very fast, must be the Lupin Blue bar tape

Zitat von GordonH im Beitrag #15

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[quote=Sanemancured|p15038]Do let us Northerners know. Glad to help out if I can.

Today I gave the RS a miss and took another bike out:

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Looks very nice. I'm still working on SPD footpegs for the RS...

Zitat von Sanemancured im Beitrag #11

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Living up here the Lakes are generally avoided. I rode the 'Fred' on the RS early in the year but it was quiet.

I was up around Reeth the other day, Buttertubs, Hawes, Ribblehead, Middleton in Teesdale, Alston, Hartside, Brampton, even got out to Silloth and was amazed how good that was. Yes the West Coast is really good too. I'm a Southerner but I've no wish to move back for the riding.

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Spent last week with a mate who lives in Carlisle hooning around The Borders and Northumbria. The Military Road, Jedburgh, Berwick, Bamburgh, Hartside Alston, the logging road from Newcastleton to Hawick and the Plenwellan Road near Haltwhistle among others.

Good news - my riding buddy has managed to reschedule some stuff, and now we're all set to continue planning.
Now if I could just find a few minutes in the day where I have the time to get everything sorted... ;)

Still, we have a month until we go, so should get everything squared away by then.

Thanks for all the route suggestions so far - keep 'em coming!

Three observations on the Lake District and surrounds:

1. Holy hell, the roads are EPIC! My friends and I spent a lot of time literally whooping in our helmets and cackling like mad bastards every time the front (or both) wheel(s) left the tarmac over the numerous undulations. The Lakeland passes were just bonkers in terms of gradient and hairpins, and we loved them. The Dales are basically a giant, paved motocross track for people who prefer their vehicles to be permanently airborne . And the roads in the Pennines are essentially just perfect race tracks that normal vehicles happen to be allowed to drive / ride on.

2. When it rains in the Lake District, it rains unlike anywhere else I've experienced in the UK. I think I may have stumbled onto the reason why everything is so green there. However, as one tea room lady in the Pennines said, "If you don't like the weather, just wait 5 minutes". For this reason, we essentially decided on a route every morning before setting out, determined by looking at online rain maps and heading wherever the fewest number of storm clouds happened to be. Unfortunately this is why I didn't get in touch with anyone to meet up while we were out there. We managed to avoid the worst of the rain for most of the week, apart from the journey up - where we all got absolutely soaked . Honestly, our waterproof gear just couldn't hold up under the deluge of water we were subjected to for most of the trip, and it took all night with the heating on full, and almost the entire following day of riding in sunshine before everything was finally dry again.
We also called the trip a day early, because of the torrential rain over the entire region on our last day for riding. We decided to pack up and head home on Thursday instead of Friday.

3. Every car driver in the entire region appears to believe that the speed limit is 25mph, regardless of which road they happen to be driving on. It was lucky we managed to avoid most busy roads, because another day of dawdling along Ambleside and Windermere to get to the good bits may have seen me heading up a clock tower with a high powered rifle.

Scorch

When did you visit your observations are so true

Graham

Zitat von midlife crisis im Beitrag #23

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Scorch

When did you visit your observations are so true

Graham

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I read your post and laugher Scorch. Next time let us know you're here.