7 riders met at Barton Grange Garden Centre car park near Bilsborough. It was a dull sort of day but we had to put on sunglasses to view Chris’s brand-spanking new Suzuki 250 Inazuma. It is very shiny. When our eyes had normalised, we set off up the amazingly interesting and not boring at all…. A6. When we arrived at Slyne Lodge Peter and Colin were waiting. Colin had decided to ride his most reliable bike, a Royal Enfield Bullet Electra, because it is ultra- reliable and never breaks down, ever…..
The 9 set off, and, avoiding Carnforth (as y’do) we rode up through Silverdale, emerging at Beetham on the …. A6. As usual we stopped at Milnthorpe for a break. We left the A590 near Grange and bimbled about a bit before crossing the A590 again a few miles west of Newby Bridge. Here Colin’s ultra-reliable Enfield decided that reliability wasn’t its thing after all and something broke in the clutch mechanism. We couldn’t fix it so unfortunately the big yellow truck had to be summoned.
The 8 carried on through Grisedale Forest, trying to avoid lots of Kamikaze walkers who obviously had never seen a motor cycle before. Much more bimbling down narrow lanes followed until we stopped for lunch at Grasmere.
After a pleasant lunch, we headed south through Rydal and Ambleside then after Windermere we left the traffic and rode down the Lyth Valley, eventually going through Levens Village and re-joining the ever entertaining A6…. After another break at Milnthorpe we rode on to Peter’s house in Morecambe. Jane welcomed us with tea and lovely cakes (lemon drizzle) and nice scones too.
Frank led us on a pleasant route back avoiding Lancaster (and any nasty new easy roads) to Caton and we re-joined the jolly old A6 again near Garstang.
Thanks Peter for a really good, well planned day out and also thanks to Jane for the excellent tea and cakes.