Well, today I took the train up to lovely Nuneaton to get the GS500 - took a few minutes to get used to it, but took to it pretty well.
Got to the M6 and really opened it up - and fcuk me, the acceleration !!! :o (if you’d been riding a SR125 for the past 3 months you’d understand where I’m coming from) I was lauging out loud manically inside my helmet !!! Journey home was really boring and windy, M6 and M25.
Sods law I’m on babysitting duty for most of tomorrow, so I did manage to take a quick spin this evening and see what was up at High Beech, and the answer was lots of motorbikes !! Was in a rush (and didn’t know anyone) so just road through and back again.
Off to a drink up down the road soon so that will probably be my weekend’s riding over, but I am leaving it on a happy note, after having passed my test and picked up a decent pair of wheels !!!
Will have to make more of an effort to clear time to go on some rides !
High Beech has been a meeting place for years.The tea hut opens up and you’ll get people there all day,some just sit and talk,others will meet there and go for a ride or stop there after a ride for the"god that was close" discussion.
I go there for a tea and a fine piece of cake or get my daughter a lovely fat bacon roll.Might even pop up there today before the rain comes
they sure are, better off heading up to waltham abbey/broxbourne, not too far from HB,theres a part called the crooked mile, its actaully about 4 miles long but its fairly twistie,nice road to ride
Haha just looked on Google maps to find out where Crooked Mile is, and a couple of weekends ago I was out on the bike and actually went round the roundabout at the bottom of Crooked Mile, but doubled back onto Sewardstone Road.
Will definitely give it a go, should only take me a few minutes to get there !
On the way back towards W/Abbey there is a particularly nasty dip in the road after a left hander that if you take it too fast will have you out of your seat big time
used to live on the crooked mile, just as you leave the roundabout the first left hand bend, pretty sharp, mine was the white house on the corner…only sold it a few years ago.
I love the Crooked Mile ! Such a great road when the sun is shining, but there are a few holes and unfortunately a few chavs who like to drive up your behind
Glad your pleased with the bike, looks really tidy, I have a friend with a GS500 and she loves it, wouldn’t swap it for anything.
High Beech is cool, you don’t have to know anyone, if you hang around long enough people will talk to you just have a wander and look at the other bikes, people will say hello.
We haven’t been up for a couple of weeks. I find if you put an LB sticker on your bike, there’s bound to be someone who’s a member that will chat to you.
yeah the crooked mile is nice to ride, theres soem other roads my mate (coronagixxa) showed me,its off towards harlow then back round and through epping-if that makes sense!
the CM itself has good and bad bits some o teh tarmac is nice and smooth and other bits have that horrible tar banding. i know that dip, makes me belly go!
that might even have been were we was? if you take the broxbournne turn off on the CM then straight down to the lights, right at teh lights and follow it? is that the way?
blinding roads anyhow, good practice for me being a newbie, only overcooked one bend
well if i see a TL or VTR at that pub i’ll pull in
Well done and enjoy the extra power youve got, Youll get bored with that and want something bigger eventualy but dont run before you can walk. The bike youve got is great to learn the basics on and before long youll be ready to move on. Saying that If like me you just use it to commute keep hold of it for the commute and get something later to enjoy yourself on
