The sun was shining and Scott did a Stirling job navigating with his Tomtom through some fantastic bypasses and backways with little or no other traffic (though we did have to over take a tractor or two)
Passing through a wooded area Scott and Lorne both saw a stag in the trees!
It really was a great run.
And most peculiarly, after a couple of hours my engine seemed to relax and run normally. 45 mph on the straights, pottering through the villages. Even I began to relax.
We drove on until 7:30pm and stopped in the town of Aubusson where exhausted we simply googled for the nearest campsite.
We had a right to be exhausted (and with saddle-sore arses - we'd just riden for 5 hours continuous. We'd covered a total of 198 miles today
What a great day. It just.goes to show that it really is the journey and not necessarily the destination. At least this time you're not trying to catch a train like last time.
ReplyDeleteI still fancy the contact breaker/timing as a possible source of Tim's problem. How's Scott's gear change ?
The gear change still feels like it has a handful of gravel in the handlebar selector. You sort of get used to anything after while and as long as I got the revs right it eventually changed down OK (1-2-3-4 was perfect, 4-3 was bad, 3-2 awful and 2-N-1 slightly less awful.
ReplyDeleteMy scooter has a non-standard gear set apparently, so I'm not sure if it's knackered. When I rode Tim's the gear change was much lighter than mine has ever been, so I think time for someone who knows what they're doing to look at it.
It still made it. Yay!