RE: Ride out around Trough of Bowland/North Lancs/North Yorks on 26th September, 2021 - 2

Fun watching the Hairy Bikers on TV last night, they were in the Trough of Bowland and it looked fabulous for riding, have fun on Sunday!

Zitat von Boxerboy im Beitrag #16

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Fun watching the Hairy Bikers on TV last night, they were in the Trough of Bowland and it looked fabulous for riding, have fun on Sunday!

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Chris, if you do arrange another run sometime I’ll do my best to attend. My wife had back surgery yesterday so I have no chance this weekend, she deserves all my attention.

Zitat von Boxerboy im Beitrag #18

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Chris, if you do arrange another run sometime I’ll do my best to attend. My wife had back surgery yesterday so I have no chance this weekend, she deserves all my attention.

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I was planning to come along but I've been reminded that I have another commitment on Sunday.

Sorry chaps but I have bailed out on this occasion.
Normally I'm not bothered by fuel supply problems but it's three hours up the motorway for me, and I don't want to spend half the weekend queueing up outside petrol stations or looking for stations that are still open despite the recent panic buying. I had free cancellation on my hotel room up until midnight last night so that's what I did.
Hope the ride goes ahead as planned and without disruption.

That’s a very good point - I need to fuel up and will need to fuel up again for a week’s commuting so if I struggle to get fuel this evening or in the morning I may have to pull out too…

Just back from a recce of parts of the route on the F800GT (in part to check that there had been no creep to the road closures I noted last weekend)

MESSAGE IS: the Shell station at the Meeting Point is open and has plenty of petrol. I filled up there after my recce (and filled a 10 litre can while I was at it). I checked the position with them. They had a delivery yesterday morning and have plenty of petrol. No way will they run out before tomorrow morning. Oh and there were no queues.

To be on the safe side I will also arrive tomorrow with a couple of 5 litre cans (i.e the 10 litres mentioned above) in my top box. The R1250RS is already fully fuelled.

So you should be OK Colin. I suggest you just need to head for the slightly more pricey PFS like Shell (and preferably not those on a trunk road with a high volume passing trade). If you have any problems take some of my 10 litre reserve.

P.S. There are also another two Shell stations near the end of the run! I have not checked them out given the info above.

Chris

Even my local Sainsbury's PFS was still selling early evening today.

Of course if you go for the cheapest price you are likely to have to queue.

Chris

Zitat von PlacidoD im Beitrag #23

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So you should be OK Colin. I suggest you just need to head for the slightly more pricey PFS like Shell (and preferably not those on a trunk road with a high volume passing trade). If you have any problems take some of my 10 litre reserve.

P.S. There are also another two Shell stations near the end of the run! I have not checked them out given the info above.

Chris

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Thanks for a great day out Chris on some roads I’d not explored before.
Colin