When this is over. Where are you taking your bike?

[Nigel]

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Here for Latte

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Here for bacon butty
Full time work as site supervisor at a school and as nearest town is 7 miles away can't be arsed to get Tracer out so I cycle at the moment.

[Richard Simpson Mark II]

Richard, you could always set off the shops and once getting there and seeing how dodgy the anti -social distancing was turn back
Just a thought

Hope you are doing well BTW

Feel great, thanks. Could do with a 'sport' mode switch on the pacemaker, mind.

A cable on the garage door broke today...so I've wrestled the thing shut, but think perhaps fate is telling me not to ride the bike, yet.

Loads of bikes on the road today, and interestingly , all the emergency ambulances parked up at the local hospital, looking like there was nothing for them to do. Mind you, this is Cornwall, and most of the population are socially distanced anyway.

Stay well, everyone.

[IanB]

Glorious Ilkley Moor

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[SHarper]

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Your desire to visit Ilkley brought these posters to mind.

[DavidS]

I’m trying to work out whether you can just hear bikes more now the traffic is so drastically reduced or a number of bikers are taking the proverbial.
As I have spent most of the lockdown in the garden, the same bikes keep going up and down our country back road, maybe three or four times a day each way (although it is a bit of a cut through between villages) and we hear a fair few on the main road. My gut feeling is that it’s about 50/50 between essential and going out for a ride.
My poor bike racked up 230 miles when we left for South Africa at the end of Feb and that is where it has stayed. It hurts to walk past it every day though.

[Richard Simpson Mark II]

I had to go into town yesterday to get some bits to repair the garage door.
A far higher bike to car ratio than normal, including a Harley, and a Ducati V4.

[Treadtrader]

I needed to go to the local village shop yesterday, about eight miles from the farm I live on.
I took the bike out to give it a run, first time in weeks.
Passing the service station just outside the village I noticed a group of four bikes on the forecourt, maybe they all work together?
There also seemed to be more traffic then I’d expect.
Looking at the dash clock I’d been out for half an hour, then noticed the clock was still set to winter time, might as well leave it at that!
When we’re eventually let out will there be anywhere to go? How many hotels, b & b’s and campsites will reopen this year? Here or in Europe?

[DavidS]

A neighbour is stuck in Portugal. Don’t cry too much has he goes out there to his ‘winter’ house.
He was due back just after the crackdown but had three flights cancelled. They are pondering driving back but only have a little Suzuki hatchback and there are no hotels to stop on the way.
An extra irony is that he is a caravan and motorhome trader but only in the UK.
I suppose I could volunteer to drive one out for him.

[flamair]

I needed to go to the local village shop yesterday, about eight miles from the farm I live on.
I took the bike out to give it a run, first time in weeks.
Passing the service station just outside the village I noticed a group of four bikes on the forecourt, maybe they all work together?
There also seemed to be more traffic then I’d expect.
Looking at the dash clock I’d been out for half an hour, then noticed the clock was still set to winter time, might as well leave it at that!
When we’re eventually let out will there be anywhere to go? How many hotels, b & b’s and campsites will reopen this year? Here or in Europe?

Europe - I'd say isn't happening this year.
I think visitors will be permitted, but you'll have to do 14 days in quarantine, which effectively means you're not welcome as a tourist as yet.

UK.. still too early to say. Probably things will open slowly. My view is if the government say it's ok.. All self catering properties will be booked up solid in days in all the popular areas. I'd say September though before that's likely. 2020 is a right-off now in my view.

Frankly it'll be easier to just do days out this year. Hope I'm wrong.

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[Magnon]

There’s a bloke in our village, not sure who he is, who goes past our house up the hill doing at least 120kph, knee down round the bend (we’re in the 50kph zone). He’s been doing it for months, long before lockdown and still does most days now. When he comes back down the hill he’s going slowly and wearing his ’ecole de moto - instructeur’ tabard!