Motorbiking
"Biker" for me usually means motorbiking, though I also have a Marin mountain-bike...
My current motorbikes are a Honda CBR600RR ABS 2017 and a Kawasaki Ninja Z250SL.
Previously I have owned: Honda CRF300 Rally, Honda CBR600RR 2005, Honda CBR600FW, Honda VF750F, Yamaha FJ600, Suzuki GSX750EX, Yamaha FJ750, Yamaha XJ900, Kawasaki Z750 and I passed my riding test on my Kawasaki KH250.
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Great Langdale
Red Bank (25%)
Early ride in the morning mist on little roads of the Lake District, some with grass and gravel in the middle. My nippy Ninja Z250SL enjoying the steep hills and tight curves. Awesome views of the fells.Traditional pattern Belstaff leather jacket.
Lunch break stripped off in the sunshine with Samuel in his garden in Seascale, then shopping in a supermarket in Whitehaven, the port on the west coast of Cumbria. A fine sunset rounding off an amazing late-summer’s day out riding.
More photos: Red Bank, Wrynose and Hardknott - Lake District National Park
At the beach at Girvan, view of Ailsa Crag
Clatteringshaws Loch, Galloway Forest
Dumfries - New Galloway - Newton Stewart - Girvan - Stranraer - Corsewall Point
I’ve been riding to past Stranraer over what I would say is the other fantastic route in South Scotland, that’s through the Galloway Forest from Dumfries to Girvan. A route using the agility of the high-revving ZX4-RR with the lightweight Akrapovič exhaust and a minimal overnight bag. Up from Dumfries through livestock farmland, then a long ride through dumpy country with the road undulating and bending completely unpredictably, so no let up in rider concentration.
Ride up Hartside to Alston Moor to get to Carlisle the long way round. And practice the curves up Hartside.
Moffat Dale
Moffat
Ride round the renowned triangle of Moffat, Peebles and Selkirk in the Scottish Borders: A701, A72 and A708. One of the routes I had in mind when I ordered the ZX4-RR. Well worth the ride up from Cumbria; the biker gets a bit of everything on this route: open moorland, twisty lanes and couple of hairpins on the Devil’s Beef Tub up from Moffat. Biker meet points at Moffat and Loch of the Lowes though I enjoyed a pie, drink and Millionaire Shortbread Slice as a Meal Deal in the park on the bank of the River Tweed in Peebles.
Ride back from Seascale over Cold Fell in the west of the Lake District. I preferred the Z250SL for this over my ZX4-RR; I haven’t found any ride better for the small roads round the Cumbrian Fells.
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Alps Biker 2016
I'm riding light for a week on the mountain roads of the Alps. No laptop, although I do have my SLR camera but photos will have to wait till I'm back in Marseille..
I left Marseille for a long ride north via the Col de la Croix Haute (1179 m.) to Saint-Gervais under Mont Blanc. A bit of rain towards the end of the day which cleaned the Provence dust off my white leathers and boots but didn't soak me through.
