Continuing - So what did you do to your bike today...?

[Mick_J]

It's an old age thing. 

[Hooli]

Yesterday I went for a little bimble around Wales with Moonie & his mate H, we also met AJ at the Ponder. 350 or so miles done, mine ticked over 126k and a beautiful sunset on the Cat n Fiddle to finish the day.

[Kiwifruit]

Great photos Hooli, looks like a cracker day.
Thanks for sharing 

[Hooli]

And today I sorted the dodgy fuse holder to the fag lighter under the seat which was the source of all my problems with the sat nav turning off at random.

[Globalrider]

Nice photos Hooli! Memories!!

Stan

[KiwiCol]

Cracking ride Hoolie, would have been a great day out for ya.

[KiwiCol]

Saturday I took mine to Kaikoura, while the mrs took her car.  Bike went fine but the road was shocking for a bike.  They have road works on stretches of road where no road works were required IMO. 
The road had recently been sealed and there was heaps of small loose stones still on top. That's bad enough, but combine that with sunstrike, meandering corners & huge trucks coming at you, it's not something I'd ever do again.  Mrs said her car was sliding around on the stones, said she wondered how I'd got on. (she was behind me by some distance)

The sunstrike was so bad, I was riding 1 handed with the other acting as a sun shade for about ½ an hour! and intermittently for the rest of the trip, I have an internal sun visor too.  Now imagine riding 1 handed, on shingle, into the sun, no road markings (only occasionally see the top of a cone) round corners with trucks & cars coming at you and dust everywhere & can't see!

In future, I'll not ride into the direction of the rising sun until it's way above the horizon.  Many parts of my ride up here yesterday were just bloody dangerous & had nothing to do with speed.

Dave, the section of road they've re-sealed is between Waipara & Greta Valley.   
I have a couple of choices in route home to avoid the deep shingle road works, so mulling these options at the moment, however, the sun won't be a hinderance today, so that'd be 1 less thing to manage.

[Andre]

Sounds like a horror trip. Glad you survived.

[Sweaty]

Looks like a great ride Hooli  & a nightmare ride for you Col, stay safe

[shanered6]

@Hooli nice pic of the pondarosa on the horse shoe pass before i move to Scotland that was my back yard nce to see it again 

[KiwiCol]

Came home from Kaikoura the same way I went up.  Sun behind me so no problem there & the shingle trap, well, all the vehicles traveling over it over the course of 2 days has cleared most of the stones into 'drifts' & there's only a thin layer deep in the tyre groves, so nowhere near as bad as yesterday.
Must be something about Sundays that brings out folk onto the main roads who obviously never normally travel on state highway 1. 60-80k on the open roads!  Huge tailbacks behind them & they just keep plodding along, blissfully ignorant of the frustration they're creating behind them.

Glad I was on the bike, few big overtaking maneuvers soon sorted that. 

[Hooli]

I had a little 170mile jaunt around the Dales today. It was a bit chillier than recently so I was forced* to stop here & stand by the fire while drinking a Theakson's Old Peculiar.

[Del]

I washed the bike on Friday and today I set about it - noticed when washing the frame had a few marks on it so went right through it with a small brush and the same paint I painted it with - then did the same to all the other parts - finally polished every part I could get too

its shining like a new pin - was too knackered to take any photos as it took me 4 hours

[turner]

Took wife out on a 160 mile trip to sunny Bridlington East Yorkshire, first ride out since a operation, she loved it . All good

[SheepDog]

I washed the bike on Friday and today I set about it - noticed when washing the frame had a few marks on it so went right through it with a small brush and the same paint I painted it with - then did the same to all the other parts - finally polished every part I could get too

its shining like a new pin - was too knackered to take any photos as it took me 4 hours

Hi Del - can relate to doing that. It is a passion.

Took wife out on a 160 mile trip to sunny Bridlington East Yorkshire, first ride out since a operation, she loved it . All good

Nothing is better than with your wife out and about enjoying the ride together and still each others company after all these years