Let's meet the team and their rides

There will be 5 of us going to Scotland. The team is listed below in accending intelegence but descending   

 

First we have Gavin Glitter.

Gavin a  mechanic and former child care assistant will taking a break from his part time job of pub singer to join us in Scotland on his much loved  Triumph Street Triple. Glitter, asked to say a few words for the blog started pounding his feet and asking if we wanna be in his gang his gang. We can only hope he is a man of few words on the trip.

 

 

 

 

Next we have Thingy McStranger known to his friends as Craig. Thingy has purchased himself a beautiful blue R6. A possible future classic, Thingy thought it would make a better investment if he cut the original exhaust off and instead fitted a modified baked bean end can and scaffolding tube down pipes. Lovely! Thingy, fairly new to the world of biking will be almost invisible on the trip having purchased himself a paint balling combat suit for the journey. You will hate us by the end of the trip thingy, it's ok, everyone does.

 

3rd on the list of merry men is Mark Stobart Breeze.

Stobart, who disguises his slightly effeminate career in flower arranging by telling "his mates down the pub" that he is a "roughty toughty" trucker is expected to turn up with a top box full of Yorkie for the crew to devour on the trip. His beloved K1200, aka  'triggers broom', is on it 54th set of tyres, 3rd engine, 12th clutch and 2nd lambs wool seat cover. Stobart's attempts to impress to HR department at Michelin on our last Scotland trip by running he rear tyre on the metal bands went badly wrong is the teams GPS having an encyclopaedic knowledge of the British road system

 

Richard Forsyth Edwards is the 4th member of the team. 

Forsyth, a medical Marvell who is basically a breathing corpse when not riding his slightly un

 

The team meet (well some of them do)

2/3rds of the team had a meet up this weekend. Richard Edwards Forsyth could not make it as Sunday was spotted dick and custard day at the home and he did not want to miss out. Gavin Glitter could not be arsed as he had some pictures he wanted to review on the internet apparently and besides he was saving to buy some puppies.

So we were left with a crew consisting of Mark StobartBreeze, Rob Stephen Hawkins and Thingy McStranger. 

Stobart turned up on his much loved K1200 a bike he has repaired so many times that he can change the clutch quicker than Marq Marqez’ pit crew, blindfolded, arms tied behind his back using only a desert spoon as a wrench.

Thingy McStranger tried to introduce himself as “Craig”....err don’t think so Thingy. The rest of the team had obviously missed the memo that we were all going paint-balling, this being the only possible explanation for McStranger being clad, head to toe in army surplus camo gear. Thingy's camouflage was slightly undermined by his bright blue R6 and the exhaust manufactured from recycled bake bean cans and old scaffolding tube.

 

The team were also introduced by Dave no surname. Dave no Surname was riding a nice red VRF800 and seemed to have a bit of an issue with not realising the rest of the team had actually hit the road, Stobart  retracing of our tracks a number of times to  catch him napping at the side of the road.

The team met at Prees Heath truck stop. It was packed as all of Shropshire seemed to have purchased a bike in anticipation for the one good day we were going to have in March. Stobart, being the expert truck stopper of the group decided that the Midway was too busy so we all went next door to a slightly quieter cafe. “The foods shit in here but its ok as we are only having a brew”. We sat in there for a good half an hour while we waiting for Thingys full English to arrive and then hit the road heading for North Wales.

With the sun on our backs and the dry roads as our playground we set off for the first real adventure of the year. That was England anyway, as soon as we hit the Welsh Boarder El Nino hit and we got piss wet through. We dived into the Pondarosa for cover and a warming cup of tea. Again we waited a short time while Thingy’s roast dinner was prepared and then hit the road heading our separate ways.

 

 Roll on June

We are at it again

After the success of our last Scottish adventure we decided to have another go. The team consists of

1. Mark Stobart Brease
2. Gavin Glitter
3. Richard Forsyth Edwards
4. Rob Steven Hawkins
5. Thingy McStranger

The route has been planned with military precision by Mark Stobart Breeze using the latest route planning software. Mark left the reproduction of the route onto the blog to Gavin Glitter who couldn't bother his arse to figure out how print screen worked opting instead to whip out his trusty SLR and take a picture of the monitor

When quizzed about the quality of the images below Glitter, a former glam rock singer now turned mechanic and child care assistant, blamed the fact that the flash had stopped rotating some time ago.

Day 1. Will be on Friday the 9th June and it has been suggested that a route through the Lake District should be planned with accomodation already pre booked.

Day 2. Difficult to tell from the image below but this is believed to belong somewhere in Scotland 

Day 3. Still in Scotland apparently 

Day 4.

Day 5.