Here's how it went;
I met up with Gerry for an uneventful ride to Portsmouth ( 1 road rage incident and a coffee stop notwithstanding.......) lots of rich folk with their expensive playthings waiting to board the ferry.....
Side stand or centre stand
Cookie, Darkhorse and Springer had elected to bring their old clunkers (sorry classic bikes...) which were respectively A Moto Guzzi 850 Le Mans, a BMW R80/7 and a Triumph Bonneville, much discussion ensued; will it break down? will it leak oil? am I mad? And that was only the 1200 riders
The rest of our group (staying at La Pisa) comprised;
Me-1200 GS Adv, Gerry-1200GS (also known as "the narrowboat captain"), Johnnyboxer-1150 GS Adv, Oscar-1200GS Adv, Joybringer (Mark) 1200 GS Adv, Trippy- Yamaha TTR 600 (I think) and Cookieboy-R80 G/S.
It was very warm in the belly of the ship and tieing down bikes and unloading luggage was thirsty work so, with the luggage dumped in the cabin and after a quick change it was time for a quiet afternoon drink..........
Darkhorse made the rule that to leave the round you had to buy two-there were 9 of us and no-one dared leave (Johnny shandy pants excepted)
Numbers were down for evening dinner, those of us that were able to leave our cabins enjoyed a fine meal washed down with (in my case) a couple of G&T's
Next day, following a peaceful and calm crossing, Santander loomed into view
A convoy of bikes left the busy town, a fuel stop was needed for the bikes with smaller tanks once we had left the town, the narrowboat captain sailed by as the rest of us pulled in for a pit stop..............a brisk pace ensued, it was great to see the older bikes being ridden briskly, I soon learned that I needed to make no allowance for them to keep up
We stopped for a late lunch at the seaside town of San Vincente de la Barquera
Fed and watered we continued, we had a meandering and scenic route to Aniezo just outside Potes, I stopped for some pics of the group.....
Cookie and the Le Mans
Darkhorse on the R80
Oscar;
Johnny;
Ferret;
We rode through the Gorge on the CA281 to the dam, up the hairpins and through the tunnel in the pic and onward to La Pisa, more pics;
Springer aboard the Bonneville;
Cookieboy on the R80 G/S
Joybringer;
After some of the bikes were stopped at a Police roadside check point we stopped to re-group......
We'd arrived;
More soon, just going to check I haven't burnt the dinner................
I met up with Gerry for an uneventful ride to Portsmouth ( 1 road rage incident and a coffee stop notwithstanding.......) lots of rich folk with their expensive playthings waiting to board the ferry.....
Side stand or centre stand
Cookie, Darkhorse and Springer had elected to bring their old clunkers (sorry classic bikes...) which were respectively A Moto Guzzi 850 Le Mans, a BMW R80/7 and a Triumph Bonneville, much discussion ensued; will it break down? will it leak oil? am I mad? And that was only the 1200 riders
The rest of our group (staying at La Pisa) comprised;
Me-1200 GS Adv, Gerry-1200GS (also known as "the narrowboat captain"), Johnnyboxer-1150 GS Adv, Oscar-1200GS Adv, Joybringer (Mark) 1200 GS Adv, Trippy- Yamaha TTR 600 (I think) and Cookieboy-R80 G/S.
It was very warm in the belly of the ship and tieing down bikes and unloading luggage was thirsty work so, with the luggage dumped in the cabin and after a quick change it was time for a quiet afternoon drink..........
Darkhorse made the rule that to leave the round you had to buy two-there were 9 of us and no-one dared leave (Johnny shandy pants excepted)
Numbers were down for evening dinner, those of us that were able to leave our cabins enjoyed a fine meal washed down with (in my case) a couple of G&T's
Next day, following a peaceful and calm crossing, Santander loomed into view
A convoy of bikes left the busy town, a fuel stop was needed for the bikes with smaller tanks once we had left the town, the narrowboat captain sailed by as the rest of us pulled in for a pit stop..............a brisk pace ensued, it was great to see the older bikes being ridden briskly, I soon learned that I needed to make no allowance for them to keep up
We stopped for a late lunch at the seaside town of San Vincente de la Barquera
Fed and watered we continued, we had a meandering and scenic route to Aniezo just outside Potes, I stopped for some pics of the group.....
Cookie and the Le Mans
Darkhorse on the R80
Oscar;
Johnny;
Ferret;
We rode through the Gorge on the CA281 to the dam, up the hairpins and through the tunnel in the pic and onward to La Pisa, more pics;
Springer aboard the Bonneville;
Cookieboy on the R80 G/S
Joybringer;
After some of the bikes were stopped at a Police roadside check point we stopped to re-group......
We'd arrived;
More soon, just going to check I haven't burnt the dinner................