Well what an eventful ABR rally once again, across Salisbury organized, by Mr Sex god himself, Mike :whistle:
Great company, great rides, great fun.
Ended up leading a harder small bike ride of 3, including me and i knew the other 2 as well as they come from Kentbyways FB group
I led off at my normal slow pace and we had great fun diving into puddles, swerving around 4x4's and basically trying to get lost. After about 3 hrs of that in 29 degrees of heat we reached our lunch stop, had a couple of cakes and a long cool drink.
We set off, without a care in the world, myself leading, then it all started going tits up. :pinch:
Riding down the road, I looked down at the sat nav for a second to see where we were going next and looked up, the car in front had slammed his brakes on. :pinch:
I grabbed a handful of front Brembo, they are really strong brakes on the CCM and that was it......
The front tyre slide out and i was on the deck, probably only doing 30, but landed on both knees.
Lying on the deck, I looked up and saw a car coming the other way so rolled out of its way...... he mounted the kerb and missed me, thank god!!!!!
This was the result of the little fall,
Damage to the bike was a snapped front brake lever.
Anyhow after dusting myself off and in a bit of pain, got back on the bike.
Now Dave was leading, cheers Dave, he had the route on his sat nav. I said I would take it easy at the back, as i was only running on the back brake.
We still had another 4 hrs of fun on the plains, I just used the back brake and the gears to slow down, I'm used to riding like that anyway as I commute every day through London.
Dave had a puncture an hour after the crash, so I had a bit of R and R whilst he changed his tube, for one that Robert had.... I repaired the puncture in the shade.
We then carried on, for another hour. We crossed the A303 and was heading for StoneHenge when we came across 7 other bikes all parked up on the byway. Most were GS's with trail tires, but the reason they had stopped was a clever guy with a Duke Multi 1200, with road slicks on decided it would be cool to go green laning. He had a big fat hole in his tubeless tyre and it was as flat as Mikes chest. Eventually his mates would come back with a plug for the tyre, so Robert sold the guy his mini RAC compressor to assist the pumping up of the tyre, as they had no tools whatsoever. We then continued as the rain started falling from the sky.
Several hours later we arrived back at the campsite the last group, around about 6ish.
Well at least we had an adventure.
My leg had a cold compress late at night in the club house and i also had a burger that had 4 different types of animal in it, it was mint!!!!
I then retired to the smallest tent on the campsite and died in my tent.
Mike Thank You for a great weekend, top man, I will be there next year.
Thanks to Robert Eagle for carrying every tool, under the sun, so we could fix almost anything out on the plains.
Thanks to Dave for leading in the afternoon, and for giving me and my bike a lift home, well he was driving past my house.
Here are some more pixs and a short video.
The Old teaching the Young
Well I'm taking a couple days off work, to let the brusing come out and the pain to subside.
Cheers si