... Just a note to say that this weekend is the Touratech Event in South Wales...  Using it a shakedown for the HUBB and trip to Croatia in June...   All the kit is in the garage - just have to sort it and discard it and then pack it....  I do try to pack light but it all goes wrong somehow !!!  Good job the big is big enough to take it !!!   David Chalton is going and I think Mark Haydock will also be there.. 

A visit to CW Motorcycles next moth should fix both the front discs and the money I thought I had to spend on the trip !!! Bugger

... Must sort out a another bike - Tenere XT660, KLR600 sort of thing - XRV750 are just so expensive now -

Next report from South Wales

….. Wow – that was a fabulous read – without doubt one of the best Motorcycle Adventure books I have read – and I have read many.   It is so very down-to-earth, extremely well written, factual without over doing it and full of wonderful imagery from a marvellous couple one of which is totally blind.   There is nothing over the top about it, just two lovely, wonderfully “ordinary” people (their word not mine – I think they are extraordinary people) riding the world on an elderly BMW R100RT.     We, and I include myself is this; spend so many hours talking and thinking about the right bike for the trip, the best kit, shall we go or not, solo or not etc, etc ….   It brings to mind a John Cleese training film I once saw – GOYA…. or Get Off Your Arse…….

When I was at Horizon Unlimited and I passed Cathy and Bernard on the steps as I was “on duty” in another hall and never did get to meet or hear them speak – I won’t pass up the opportunity again…

My humble advice is go out and get the book and then GOYA – as for me – I have 3 year before retirement and maybe a belated Gap Year..

..Off to the Races..

An early morning start from home, the weather was cold but promising for a good day at the races at the Prescott Bike Festival, just north of Cheltenham - the ride up to Salisbury saw a temperature of just -3 degrees. 

By the time I arrive at Prescott the weather was clear and about +9.   It was my first time at the Prescott Motorcycle hill climb festival and the organisation was extremely good.  Lots of parking, many trade stands, and load of bikes.    The first stop was to the tea stand for a hot drink and warm up a little.   I sat on the hill and watch the first set of bike make their way up the hill - some fast and some not so fast.....   Then lunch in the Bugati Owners Clubhouse - very nice (and warm)...  More wandering around looking at the bikes and stands and then more racing up the hill.

Met a chap who was the George Suttleworth (Speed Demon) look-a-like (aka George Formby) - I will leave you to look it up on the www.  Photo below

 

 

All in all a good day out and I will certainly go again next year.