The Ugly Bunch Normandy Invasion
We set off on Friday morning. Calling in at the Raven for breakfast on the way. Horobags and Bullet had got some cheap BT headsets from flabby. They spent about 10 minutes shouting ‘can you hear me now?’ at each other much to the amusement of the other patrons.
We had and fantastic ride down through Shropshire and turning inland towards the Cotswolds where we stopped for lunch at Buford. It was really great weather.
My NEXX XD1 keeping me fairly cool.
The roads were hot and grippy.
Heading towards Salisbury
Stow on the Wold was packed
We managed to stay as a group mostly. Some filtering was needed.
This is Burford
The bikes parked up in Burford
Bullet on his Crosstourer with custom graphics.
We did catch a little rain for a minute but it soon passed and we dried out in no time as it was so hot.
We got separated in heavy traffic in Salisbury which we hit at rush hour. I spent some time in a lay-by while the other caught up.
On the way in to Portsmouth we were about to get a bit wet.
Whats that up ahead. Clouds?
Lets all stop and get wet gear on then.
Good decision, but it’s about to get a bit worse.
Faaaack.
Mark pretending he’s having a good time.
We stopped under a Motorway bridge as it was getting dangerous. Another rider going the other way on an R1 did the same.
Still having a laugh though.
At least the pinloc was working….
5 Miles down the road it had stopped.
We stayed at the travel lodge in Portsmouth for the night. Sooty had a dry out on the Window cill.
Day 1 ended in a predictable fashion with Colin and Frank heading for bed around 11pm. Myself Horrobags and Bullet headed for the pub opposite and watched a covers band while having a nightcap
Or Ten….
