2010 motorcycle tour - 7 days - 1,585 miles
Gillingham - Berwick upon Tweed - Fort William - John O'Groates - Inverness - Carlisle - Gillingham
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Day Six - 23.07.2010 A short day - couple of junctions down the M6 then across the North Pennines on the A66. Then pick up the A1 down south. The A66 was clear and a joy to travel. I needed fuel so peeled off on the A59 and went to York. The traffic in York was mad - felt like parts of London. Lots of daft students on push bikes. Rode past the National Railway Museum . Hey it's free entry - excellent.... then they want £9 to park for half a day. Screw that - got back on the A59 out of York, stopped for lunch at a garden centre. Some light traffic on the A1 south. Weather was good and I arrived at about 3:45pm. The Travelodge at North Muskham is a strange place - but it was nice to have another soak. Total mileage for the day - 195 miles.
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Day Seven - 24.07.2010 Another short day - had a lie in then left late. Just a run down the A1, A14 and M11. Encountered a lot of traffic and had to split the lanes until Cambridge. It cleared then until I got to the Blackwall Tunnel approach - again I had to split the lanes - which wasn't much fun as knobby aresholes kept encroaching to block the gap. Still made it back for just after 2pm. Total mileage for the day - 176.4 miles.
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Don't know what it was that hit me.... lucky it wasn't in the visor. |
Another fuel stop. |
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Taken at Lynch Wood Business Park - was going to get a shot in the carpark at Bike Magazine but it was a bit bland - this is much better. |
Odometer reading at the end - 27,191. That's 1,585 miles in total. Total fuel costs - £164.83 across 12 fuel stops (£13.74 average every 160 miles). |
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