A great dentist, terrific bloke and biker, with 75 bikes in his garage. A real local hero and the best dentist I ever had. He will be sadly missed around these parts....
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Have just ordered some 100w H7's for my RT.... (not strictly road legal though, but on country lanes at night they could be a life-saver). Slightly concerned about the additional heat over the 55w...

Had not noted the wasted spark before.....interesting!

This one is a hoot....

I just bought a 1200RT, and decided to tart it up with crash protection. So, after looking around I bought the touratech engine bars, and also the Wunderlich "sissy" bars...

These are probably not much use in the UK (certainly not this summer!) but I just came across them whilst looking for gear for a tour of Spain/Andalucia coming up shortly. Have not seen them before...

Well I MIGHT be.....but its our wedding aniversary. Woiuld be serious negative brownie points.... hmm....

Back home again now. What a great trip, even if it was wet-weather romper suits for the whole week, the roads, scenery and company more than made up for the perpetual dampness, and the odd glimmer of...

Ok, bike all packed & ready to go! (bit light on the front end ;-))

Jason, Scorch - cu sunday morning 11am at the Green Wellie!
(Jason, is your mobile still ending in 303?)

Cheers,
John

So Scorch...is your Scottish half the upper half or lower half? Apparently, DEET down your underwear stings a bit [:D]

I think sticking to the coast as we are for most of the time should help! between us, i reckon we've got just about every midge repellent ever invented!

Dawn and dusk, i reckon its got to be long...

Anyone got any tips for dealing with the midgies? This article is a little off-putting....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/outdoors/articles/midge/

Ive got some 100% DEET, bugpatches, 2 other...

https://f800riders.org/forum/picture.php?albumid=462&pictureid=2634
Brian is ready to go!
(no one told him they have food shops in Scotland..... Provisions for the whole week, full tool kit inc....

Now THAT's a hairpin! I see you got your own back on a few of the cleggies!

Wow, check out these pics of the pass over to Applecross! Can't wait!
http://www.lochalsh.com/beallach/index2.html

Ok, suggested itinerary (having filled in the blank day!) is as below:-
Och aye trip
Itinerary:
Friday
John: leave work 12:30, Bristol,
Gloucester 1:15, quick change, eat leave Gloucester 2pm,...

Jason/Ross,
Good to meet up today... when I got back though, I found we'd missed a night! Can you PM me your email addies and I'll send you some info.

Cheers,
John

100,000 ft sounds a lot till you work it out....just under 19 miles. Guess there must be a bit more to it than that??

what a great trip! Gotta go there next year. Later this year though, I'm doing a weeks tour of Andalucia on a GS1200.......... be interesting to see how it feels against the F800st. Doubt I'd ever...

Nay botha. See you week tomorrow!

Could do....it is a 220 mile round trip for me though, and haven't done the H-Cafe before. Any particular reason?

Ok then, saturday 10th July, H-Cafe, midday, confirmed for planning meet, John/Ross/Jason (and anyone else who just wants to meet for the fun of it).

John

OK, will be working in Bristol on the friday morning, so could do the 200 miles up to your place by 3:30-ish, bite to eat, then head up to Anan/Gretna/Dumfries for about 7-ish? Happy to duck the...

whoops...yes, meant sat 10th

Can we confirm sat lunchtime on 11th at H-cafe for a meet then? Can bring laptop with map software so we can drop in POI's and arrange a route.

sorry guys but yes, he talks as much as he writes!
I've test packed the maxia top box, and managed to get the tent, pillow, sleeping roll and bag into it....so that leaves a pannier for other gear &...