2015 Spring/Summer Biking Plans

wazza300

wazza300

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What are your new year plans? rideouts/destinations ect

wouldn't mind an ocuk run somewhere with some of you lot:eek: ;)
 
Spending as time as possible on a "proper" bike :D

Would love to do a summer euro trip, already have a basic route set out/in my head which is doable over a long weekend, plus trips over to Wales/peak district/lake district/Scotland.

This will be my first summer on a big bike so I'll be making the most of the extra freedom!
 
a mate and I are looking to do Nottingham to john O'Groats down to lands end the back up to notts where we live.
we are setting a week to do it, its not about just getting on the bikes and doing it as soon as, we will be having little waypoint to places we want to see, on the way.
 
Got the TT booked in June, and planning a euro trip with my son when he finishes his GCSE's. Probably Austria, but also fancy Norway if I can get a few more days.

Other than that, hopefully a few short breaks to Wales and Scotland
 
wales will do me if I can find time to get down there,it does hurt your ass though long journeys,

can never tire of the roads and coastline down there
 
Was going to do a Euro track day with my mate early Feb, but funds are lacking at the mo so am going to have to do it another time.

Will more than likely heading to Europe, either Alps (again) or South of France, July/Aug/Sept time, tie it in with a MotoGP race somewhere, just an idea my mate had.

Main thought I've been having is to let the CBR track bike go and convert my GSXR for track days. It was going to be my winter project, but again can't do nothing until I got a spare bit of cash.

Not much else really, just ride when I can!
 
Crowze said:
If things work out as planned, riding the Caponord to Nordkapp.
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Fantastic - I've found the other UK Caponord owner! :D

I was lucky enough to enjoy two trips out to Belgium this year, and April next year I'm taking the Caponord a little further - all the way down France and across northern Spain.

Day 0 Thursday – After work rendezvous at J4 of M25 (66 Miles), then head to Portsmouth for overnight ferry to St Malo (85 Miles)

Day 1 Friday – St Malo to Cognac (357 Miles)

Day 2 Saturday – Cognac to the foot of the Pyrenees – Argeles-Gazost (240 Miles)

Day 3 Sunday Pamplona – 184 miles up and over the Pyrenees

Day 4 Monday 249 miles to Bilbao alongside as many lakes and rivers as we can find, and maybe a few mountains too

Day 5 Ferry from Bilbao to Portsmouth

I'd love more time in north Spain, but none of us can spare any more time off work :(

If we have time, we'll try and get another 5 day trip in autumn, if we can work out timings and a route to give us two full days in the Alps.

I've put 3,000 miles on my Caponord now since summer and I'm really starting to love the old girl and work out her quirks. However, the 2015 Multistrada demonstrators will be in showrooms soon and that looks like a serious fun bike to tour on...

EDIT - I've just properly read where you're planning on going. That will be an amazing trip! How are you doing it? We briefly looked at it, and figured we'd need two solid weeks to get the best out of that scale of journey, and even then we figured that if we did Norway on the way up we'd probably have to come back via Sweden on some of the more direct roads. We wondered if getting a ferry over to Denmark and then another straight over to Norway would be the easiest start to the route - less biking miles but a higher proportion of interesting biking miles, if you get my drift.
 
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The_Abyss said:
Fantastic - I've found the other UK Caponord owner! :D

I was lucky enough to enjoy two trips out to Belgium this year, and April next year I'm taking the Caponord a little further - all the way down France and across northern Spain.

Day 0 Thursday – After work rendezvous at J4 of M25 (66 Miles), then head to Portsmouth for overnight ferry to St Malo (85 Miles)

Day 1 Friday – St Malo to Cognac (357 Miles)

Day 2 Saturday – Cognac to the foot of the Pyrenees – Argeles-Gazost (240 Miles)

Day 3 Sunday Pamplona – 184 miles up and over the Pyrenees

Day 4 Monday 249 miles to Bilbao alongside as many lakes and rivers as we can find, and maybe a few mountains too

Day 5 Ferry from Bilbao to Portsmouth

I'd love more time in north Spain, but none of us can spare any more time off work :(

If we have time, we'll try and get another 5 day trip in autumn, if we can work out timings and a route to give us two full days in the Alps.

I've put 3,000 miles on my Caponord now since summer and I'm really starting to love the old girl and work out her quirks. However, the 2015 Multistrada demonstrators will be in showrooms soon and that looks like a serious fun bike to tour on...

EDIT - I've just properly read where you're planning on going. That will be an amazing trip! How are you doing it? We briefly looked at it, and figured we'd need two solid weeks to get the best out of that scale of journey, and even then we figured that if we did Norway on the way up we'd probably have to come back via Sweden on some of the more direct roads. We wondered if getting a ferry over to Denmark and then another straight over to Norway would be the easiest start to the route - less biking miles but a higher proportion of interesting biking miles, if you get my drift.
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We do exist, just hard to find :D - it's actually a group run being set up by a Capo owner in Norway (here). Current plan is to take the ferry to Holland, ride over to Kiel and take another ferry to Gothenburg, I've not thought much about the route back yet but I've got 4 weeks off pre-approved so there are lots of options. My priority at the moment is to make sure both me and the bike are up to the job - the Capo has thrown nearly every known fault at me so far, which is a bit frustrating but on the other hand it means it'll be perfectly reliable and not break down in the Arctic circle :D.

A lot of people have recommended northern Spain but 5 days is very tight, shame you can't get 5 weekdays off so you can have the weekends either side as well.
 
Might look at doing some long day trips this year too, south Wales and the peak district are both around 3-3.5 hours away from me, leave early (6/7am), explore the roads including several stops for grub/coffee then head home around 4/5pm. That leaves 6 hours to enjoy the roads/places. 350-400 miles to get there and back plus another 150 miles exploring, so say 500 miles over 12 hours, on a cb400? :eek::D

Might have to build myself up to that short of trip though :D

Of course there's always northern France, the Chunnel is only half an hour away from me so that's a nice easy trip. The one downside of living in Kent, all the properly good roads up north/Wales are hours away - it's the same distance to the Alps as it is to the Scottish highlands for me.
 
TallPaul_S said:
Of course there's always northern France, the Chunnel is only half an hour away from me so that's a nice easy trip. The one downside of living in Kent, all the properly good roads up north/Wales are hours away - it's the same distance to the Alps as it is to the Scottish highlands for me.
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That just sounds like the perfect excuse to get to the Alps!
 
Crowze said:
We do exist, just hard to find :D - it's actually a group run being set up by a Capo owner in Norway (here). Current plan is to take the ferry to Holland, ride over to Kiel and take another ferry to Gothenburg, I've not thought much about the route back yet but I've got 4 weeks off pre-approved so there are lots of options. My priority at the moment is to make sure both me and the bike are up to the job - the Capo has thrown nearly every known fault at me so far, which is a bit frustrating but on the other hand it means it'll be perfectly reliable and not break down in the Arctic circle :D.

A lot of people have recommended northern Spain but 5 days is very tight, shame you can't get 5 weekdays off so you can have the weekends either side as well.
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That trip looks brilliant - just read up on a linked thread on avrider from the chap who did Holland to the North Cape and back. I'm sure the Capo will not let you down - 3,000 miles on mine since I got it and, aside from the expected issue of being impossible to ride smoothly under 30 mph, it hasn't skipped a beat and has only needed unleaded, not even oil.
 
All depends on how the house buying goes andhow well the mrs's business starts up. If all goes well I will have a bike for the summer ( I will cry if I don't)
 
I'm going to do this route (or similar, open to suggestions) in two days on my own in the spring, staying somewhere cheap overnight:

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Might come back through Ludlow and the Shropshire Hills rather than Worcester! I might also take in more of Snowdonia on the outbound leg.
 
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^^ ive pretty much done that exact same route apart from heading back toward Dudley when I reached barmouth

travelling along the coast from colwyn down to barmouth has some great scenery/roads

EDIT: you''ll do it in a day:D think I clocked up 400 miles or roundabouts but my ass ached after
 
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Might do a John o' Groats trip in the summer (I'm in the Midlands so it's something like 1200 miles total plus a bit more as I won't be doing motorway all the way). Depends on money though - I'm probably leaving work to go to Uni in the next few years, so need to save :(
 
wazza300 said:
^^ ive pretty much done that exact same route apart from heading back toward Dudley when I reached barmouth

travelling along the coast from colwyn down to barmouth has some great scenery/roads

EDIT: you''ll do it in a day:D think I clocked up 400 miles or roundabouts but my ass ached after
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In a day is possible, sure, but there's some scenery along the route that's not to be rushed ;).
 
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