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

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Magnon wrote: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!
Absolutely love it...

If I've learned one thing touring in France over the last 20 years it's that you don't speed in villaged/towns/hamlets. I stick rigidly to all the limits in such areas.

The idea of a moto ecole instructor doing that is rather amusing..though not if you live there I guess...Image

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flamair wrote: Sun May 03, 2020 11:13 am
Treadtrader wrote: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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It’s all very well hopefully planning bike trips, but most of us have families that will want a break. I agree, without Flights to other countries UK places are going to be rammed with family’s, rightly so.
Nearest town to me is Stratford upon Avon, no tourists, all pubs and restaurants closed, talking to locals their future looks bleak.
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Treadtrader wrote:
flamair wrote: Sun May 03, 2020 11:13 am
Treadtrader wrote: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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It’s all very well hopefully planning bike trips, but most of us have families that will want a break. I agree, without Flights to other countries UK places are going to be rammed with family’s, rightly so.
Nearest town to me is Stratford upon Avon, no tourists, all pubs and restaurants closed, talking to locals their future looks bleak.
It's dreadful.

It's the hidden killer here.

Covid has taken over and become the sole focus. This is an illness that 80% of us only have mild symptoms We do need to protect the vulnerable, but permanent lockdown is not the answer. Keep the vulnerable safe at home with logistics in place to help them and let the rest continue with their lives.

Otherwise the indirect toll from this will be huge.

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Looks like New Zealand / Australia are off the options list for travel in the near future, for "outsiders":

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-52540733
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I'd imagine most places will be off the options list for a while, even internally. I suspect we'll have other more pressing issues to deal with, like Jobs, prices, short term shortages and the second spike. With 95% of fatalities over 55, and obesity being a noted risk factor, it's not just the over 70's that are at risk. Hopefully things will recover, but most likely the economy will take many years. With many materials sourced in one country, manufactured elsewhere and shipped round the globe, I would expect that recovery to be slow starting and prolonged, in part driven by staged returns that are out of synch.
At least pretty well all countries are affected, so we really are all in it together although there are those who are looking to leverage this to their advantage.
And we'll need to make our own infrastructure more robust for the future.
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It looks like the ‘just in time’ production principle may need a rethink.
Even prior to this it was clear the UK needs to be less services reliant and look to get back to expanding science, engineering and manufacturing.
It seems that shopping, eating and drinking are our specialities at the moment. ;)
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DavidS wrote:It looks like the ‘just in time’ production principle may need a rethink.
Even prior to this it was clear the UK needs to be less services reliant and look to get back to expanding science, engineering and manufacturing.
It seems that shopping, eating and drinking are our specialities at the moment. ;)
Absolutely.

But, I'd imagine things will spin over quicker than you may imagine, providing the dozy twonks in charge realise that fixating on one thing at the expense of absolutely everything else will result in the same result as ignoring the former..

Time will tell.



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Back to basic.
Sleeping bag and tent.
Drive on the countryside.
Stay by lakes and nice views.

No cities, no huge places.
Just relax and enjoy.
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My Mother's day gift was a day of riding the trails with some friends! First time on the bike in a long while and it felt soooo good! Though I'm pretty beat up today LOL. I have a lot of experience on track and pavement riding but not quite as much in the trails! Good fun though :D can't wait to do it again soon!
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