649 miles.....

Home-Brighton & back again, in the day.

My arse feel like a cheeseboard & I have collected rather a lot of flies.

Had fucking hoot on the M25 & A1 coming home.

It was a 5 stop strategy

I might look for a gel seat, the one on the R1 is rock hard

There are some fucking ridges on the M25 near Enfield & Potters bar that
lify you off the fucking ground over 125mph.

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Nige,

'Candygram for Mongo'

R1

 

That'll happen.

 

Putnams Stadium Seat - 1/10th the price of an Airhawk:
http://www.putnams.co.uk/travel.htm
Looks shit I know , but no one can see it when your
arse is on it.

Steve

 

Pah! Something like 700 miles (Calais to Circuit Paul Ricard) in 16
hours, on a Honda NSR125.

 

I'm sure TOG did, too

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Nige,

'Candygram for Mongo'

R1

 

<Awaits for Champ and his Land's End run>

 

^^^^^^^^^^

Fucking journalist, you say?

 

'Asn't got 'is sub 'ed on, 'as 'e?

 

Dammit. Saw that just as I pressed 'send' and hoped nobody would
notice.....

 

We've just finished Nordkapp to Gibraltar (3443 miles according to the
SatNav track) in about 69.5 hours including 2 hours stuck at the side
of the road with an electrical fault which turned out to be a loose
battery connection. It wasn't on a 250 but will that do?

Kevin

 

That's one hell of an average speed given that Norwegian plod are
known to be a bunch of cunts.

 

Indeedy.

 

It's a bit like New Zealand though - lots of roads and not many
traffic police (well, in the bit we were in). I kept to the speed
limits in inhabited areas and had fun in the countryside without going
mad. Some of the roads, especially the E69 up to Nordkapp, are
excellent - long sweeping bends and fabulous scenery with reindeer
hiding ready to jump out into the road..

Germany was a hoot. We didn't know there were that many trucks in the
world let alone in one country but it was all flowing well.

I do have to admit to being absolutely knackered now; I think I must
be getting old.

Kevin

 

They're on summer holidays like most of the rest of us.

 

there certainly are, though the A10 northwards from Enfield to
Hertford is better for that sort of thing.

 

Just before the Potters bar junction, i hit one at about 140, it nearly took
me knackers off.

Exeter tomorrow, Brighton Tuesday & Dundee Thursday

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Nige,

'Candygram for Mongo'

R1

 

Lane 2, westbound between J24 and J23?

That's a cracker - I can even almost get the car[1] 4-wheels-airborne
off that.

[1] which I got back yesterday, but it's not quite right: goes, stops
and handles as before, but makes a weird "srch...srch..." noise when
low speed (<20mph) braking - no idea what that's all about, but it's
going to have to go back to the repair shop.