Well. Once upon a time,
The day started as normal. Woke up got ready and left the house. The arrangement was to meet Oli at his for 9:30. So I'm rolling down the M25, Got to Oli's for 9:30 pretty much on the dot. Stopped for 30 minutes to have a drink and some pancakes which where lovely.
So we set off for the ride, Oli was leading with his "Trusty" satnav guiding the way. He logged a route from a previous ride out with Phil so we just were following that. First part of the ride, Brilliant, the route plan worked a treat and had some good roads with some good pace. Stopped at the first stop by a little cafe were we stop with Phil quite a lot. We were thinking this route app is working perfect. Took us down all the right roads. So we stopped at this little cafe, I myself had some lemonade and Oli had some tea.
So after the pit stop we got on our bikes again and started to do the next leg of the journey, Which didn't go so well. The route planner must've thought we didn't make it to the next "Checkpoint" so it was taking us in circles. We went past the cafe we stopped at 3 times in the space of 15 minutes. After many stops on the side of the road Oli managed to figure out the problem. So off we go again, Minor technical fault but all sorted. After about 30 minutes of riding we stop on the side of the road again. Route planner has stopped working again. After 5 minutes on the side of the road we just figure to get rid of route planner and use TomTom's app with the "Winding route" option. Which worked out really well. It took us down all the roads Phil used to get to our next stop somewhere near Southwold I forgot the name of it. Lovely place right by the sea, Which is where we stopped and I had another lemonade.
So, Our final leg of the journey, We thought as the TomTom app worked so well with the "Winding Route" option we figured why not use it again to get back to Oli's. This part of the trip wasn't so good. After many, many miles on single track lanes, pretty much dirt track lanes it was horrendous. Gravel everywhere and dirt everywhere around these really narrow roads, Fair play there was some nice open stretches but the majority of the time it was single track lanes. We then came to a Ford. Was only 0.3 on the metre scale so it wasn't high at all. What we didn't notice at the time is it was covered in Algae. Oli went first through it I noticed he slide a little bit, I was closely behind, Sadly, I slid also and dropped the bike right in the middle of the ford, Soaking wet and bike down in the middle of this ford it wasn't a good time, Oli came to the rescue and helped me lift the bike up, I had no chance doing it by myself I was sliding all over the place as it was so slippy. Luckily there is not much damage at all, Bent rearset, scratch on the engine protector cover and bar ends as far as I can see. We decide, let's not do the "Winding Route" anymore as it was just taking us down all these single track lanes, So we then click "Most direct option" me and Oli were so far in the middle of no where the "direct option" saved us 5 minutes. After riding for another 45 minutes I'd say we finally got back to Oli's. My trousers had dried off mostly on the way back but my feet were still soaking. So shoes and socks off put them in the sun and then enjoyed a lovely Beef dinner with Oli and his family, Great food once again I'd recommend it to anyone.
Just about to depart from Oli's house to get home as I didn't want to miss Love Island, Socks were still soaking wet, Oli kindly offered me a pair of his socks to wear back as there is nothing worse than putting on or wearing a wet pair of socks is there? So I have now added to the sock collection a pair of Ralph Lauren Polo socks
All in all was a great day out and a day not to forget. I thoroughly enjoyed it and hope for more in future
Cheers guys
The day started as normal. Woke up got ready and left the house. The arrangement was to meet Oli at his for 9:30. So I'm rolling down the M25, Got to Oli's for 9:30 pretty much on the dot. Stopped for 30 minutes to have a drink and some pancakes which where lovely.
So we set off for the ride, Oli was leading with his "Trusty" satnav guiding the way. He logged a route from a previous ride out with Phil so we just were following that. First part of the ride, Brilliant, the route plan worked a treat and had some good roads with some good pace. Stopped at the first stop by a little cafe were we stop with Phil quite a lot. We were thinking this route app is working perfect. Took us down all the right roads. So we stopped at this little cafe, I myself had some lemonade and Oli had some tea.
So after the pit stop we got on our bikes again and started to do the next leg of the journey, Which didn't go so well. The route planner must've thought we didn't make it to the next "Checkpoint" so it was taking us in circles. We went past the cafe we stopped at 3 times in the space of 15 minutes. After many stops on the side of the road Oli managed to figure out the problem. So off we go again, Minor technical fault but all sorted. After about 30 minutes of riding we stop on the side of the road again. Route planner has stopped working again. After 5 minutes on the side of the road we just figure to get rid of route planner and use TomTom's app with the "Winding route" option. Which worked out really well. It took us down all the roads Phil used to get to our next stop somewhere near Southwold I forgot the name of it. Lovely place right by the sea, Which is where we stopped and I had another lemonade.
So, Our final leg of the journey, We thought as the TomTom app worked so well with the "Winding Route" option we figured why not use it again to get back to Oli's. This part of the trip wasn't so good. After many, many miles on single track lanes, pretty much dirt track lanes it was horrendous. Gravel everywhere and dirt everywhere around these really narrow roads, Fair play there was some nice open stretches but the majority of the time it was single track lanes. We then came to a Ford. Was only 0.3 on the metre scale so it wasn't high at all. What we didn't notice at the time is it was covered in Algae. Oli went first through it I noticed he slide a little bit, I was closely behind, Sadly, I slid also and dropped the bike right in the middle of the ford, Soaking wet and bike down in the middle of this ford it wasn't a good time, Oli came to the rescue and helped me lift the bike up, I had no chance doing it by myself I was sliding all over the place as it was so slippy. Luckily there is not much damage at all, Bent rearset, scratch on the engine protector cover and bar ends as far as I can see. We decide, let's not do the "Winding Route" anymore as it was just taking us down all these single track lanes, So we then click "Most direct option" me and Oli were so far in the middle of no where the "direct option" saved us 5 minutes. After riding for another 45 minutes I'd say we finally got back to Oli's. My trousers had dried off mostly on the way back but my feet were still soaking. So shoes and socks off put them in the sun and then enjoyed a lovely Beef dinner with Oli and his family, Great food once again I'd recommend it to anyone.
Just about to depart from Oli's house to get home as I didn't want to miss Love Island, Socks were still soaking wet, Oli kindly offered me a pair of his socks to wear back as there is nothing worse than putting on or wearing a wet pair of socks is there? So I have now added to the sock collection a pair of Ralph Lauren Polo socks
All in all was a great day out and a day not to forget. I thoroughly enjoyed it and hope for more in future
Cheers guys
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