A Random Ride Pics Thread.... Post 'em up!

[grog]

Just checked mine, on 21.2 litres Hooli, yours is 333ks. Mine wouldve done 380 on same amount. No, its not running lean.Runs perfectly.  Yours is 45mpg, mine 51. Always been same last 10 yrs. No idea why, i thought with your colder temps yours would be better than mine.   

[Irish in Oz]

I have to agree with you Grog, my K7 in Oz did more that's why I have been looking at it.

[Hooli]

Just checked mine, on 21.2 litres Hooli, yours is 333ks. Mine wouldve done 380 on same amount. No, its not running lean.Runs perfectly.  Yours is 45mpg, mine 51. Always been same last 10 yrs. No idea why, i thought with your colder temps yours would be better than mine. 

Dunno, i make it near fifty mpg I'm getting. Which is the best it's ever done really, when it was new to me I got about one sixty / one seventy miles to reserve, now it's one ninety to two hundred. I might be riding a bit slower but I don't think I'm that much slower than before.

shrugs

[Tally]

I was out and about the other week when I got to 188 miles when it dropped onto one bar but then I came across an esso station just outside Banbury and decided to fill up there and then rather than go on to the next one and risk running out of fuel. All A roads, riding briskly where possible and obeying speed limits in towns and villages obviously. Btw mines a k7fe.

[AndyB]

Well ...I've been out everyday on mine for the last 6 days......and it has a £29 a day V power habit......and absolutely no where near what hoolies getting.....in fact.....I'd say half     

[Irish in Oz]

I only do this ride during the week because there is very little traffic.
Torr Head Road, Co. Antrim, N.Ireland.
Seth's place in the background.

[Rynglieder]

Well ...I've been out everyday on mine for the last 6 days......and it has a £29 a day V power habit......and absolutely no where near what hoolies getting.....in fact.....I'd say half     

Yes, it's getting a bit scary filling up in the UK with these prices at the moment, I used to use premium fuels regularly but it's only every thrid or fourth tank-full now.

[Rynglieder]

07/05/2022 Woodchester Manor (C.139 miles)

As the GTR had recently done the run to the National Memorial Arbouretum to meet up with m'colleagues from the GTR forum the GSX got the gig this time. I think I'm also being mindful of a forthcoming trip to France and wanting to conserve the GTR's tyres a bit.

Now I have time on my hands for riding I'm finding that there's a lot of repe tition in the roads that I'm covering, especially close to home – there are only so many directions you can chose to turn at the end of your drive (in fact as I live at the end of a cul-de-sac I have no choice at all). I've bitten the bullet now and decided to spend the first hour of some rides on a motorway, it's not enjoyable riding but it gives a chance to get out to somewhere new as a starting point for some proper riding.

And so it was that I came to belt down the M5, past Glouscester where I had been a couple of weeks ago so that I could exit at Brockworth and start to dig straight in to the Cotswolds. I parked the bike up in Painswick as it is a pleasant little town to search out a coffee and having catered for that need continued on some lovely roads through and out of Stroud.

The destination chosen for the day was Woodchester Mansion near Nympsfield. The mansion is owned and operated by a charitable trust and sits inside land managed by the National Trust so it was a case of tracking down their car park – I didn't enjoy this bit, a long loose gravel drive that had un-compacted and over large stones that were sending the wheels of the bike in any direction but the one I was trying to point it in.

Once the bike was secure I was in for a three-quarter mile walk along a woodland drive down the valley to the Manor. Woodchester is a Victorian pile in the neo-gothic style that was never finished as the owner had run out of money. The roofed shell of the building stands and it is watertight but very little of the interior is anywhere near finished, still it was interesting to see what might have been... Not for the first time a scaffolder had got there before me to spoil my photos.

The walk back up to the bike was more challenging being uphill and I have a few health and fitness issues at the moment but I made it back with some time to spare for a return ride home leaving the motorway out.

[Tony Nitrous]

I was going to get the bike out this morning but when I realised I'd have to get the ice off the Ute to move it first I decided to head back indoors for another coffee.

[Kiwifruit]

That's global warming for you Tony.

[Irish in Oz]

Mid week ride again.

[T250]

Wednesday Bude bike night by the canal, last week was a lot busier probably over 100 bikes, perhaps yesterday was too hot...strange saying that in Blighty 

[Tony Nitrous]

[KiwiCol]

Funny looking sun Tony . . .

[Hooli]

Is it a snowflake alert on the built in web browser?