Category: Trips and adventures

Some idiots fail to understand stop lights, fortunately I had the power to get past before he got into my lane.

The white car probably just made the amber, the car and caravan must have crossed on red, and as for the VW, he was on another planet.

The front camera angle isn’t wide enough to see the VW, fortunately I always look for traffic from the side, but he came up very quick.

Signed up for IAM Advanced Rider Training on July 09. I am now wondering if that was a bad move and might have been better with ROSPA.

Review here

A great ride into the peak district, just two of us this time. Breakfast at Woodside, Coffee at The Old Forge, Monyash, then onto The Bear Inn for a pint.

A great ride around Rutland, stunning views, great roads (if you ignore the mandatory pot holes). 146 miles in total.

Took a spin round some of the old local colliery towns during October, more for nostalgic reasons than anything.

Having spent plenty of my childhood days around Linby, Annesley, and Hucknal, I just felt the need to take a spin round some of the old Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire colliery towns. My ancestors and relations on my mothers side dating back into the 1700’s were miners around Derbyshire, Leicestershire and later Nottinghamshire.

The Pit Head at Clipstone still stands quite majestic, and I think is listed. There is not much left to see of the other collieries, which is understandable but still a bit sad that a massive part of local history has faded. Fortunately I managed to organise a tour of Newstead Colliery back in the 1970’s, it was quite an experience.

Collieries aside, the area north of Nottingham is a really nice place to ride, as long as you stay as much as possible of the A Roads.

Of course the ride ended at the pub to meet up with the Old Bikers, though they were not out for ride that day.

I will do it again sometime and take the camera.