Brief ride report....
Jay/Hans,
thanks for joining me on what turned out to be a cracking ride. From start to finish we clocked up 120 miles.
The airfield coffee stop not far from Wingreen has been noted for future ride outs to.
We also had the pleasure of meeting "grinningGSer", and another chap from bristol motorrad on the old shaftesbury drove, keeping us company until we passed a particularly gnarly bit of lane over behind salisbury race course. We did hang around for about 15 minutes, but figured you'd both seen sense and decided to turn back. It was good to meet you both.
Our route started out from andover, where we dropped down via a few lanes to the back of stockbridge, where we got onto the monarchs (?) way. this takes you almost to salisbury. At the end of this we headed south and over pepperbox hill, and on into Downton for fuel and a pasty.
From here we headed west onto the south plain, which is mostly trail, and nauturally takes you out onto the old ox drove, heading towards shaftesbury and win green. 2 minutes ride from win green theres an airfield that has a cafe, where we stopped for a quick coffee.
After the pitstop it was back on the bikes, up to the A30, where we picked up the shaftesbury drove heading back to Salisbury, on the way we met up with 2 shifty looking characters on 1200 GSA's, who tagged along until the race course
From the race course, we cut back across salisbury, and out on the A30, picking up a couple of trails that take you up to palestine, and then onto shipton belinger, where another trail takes you east, back past thruxton and then back into andover, where we called it a day.
i just wish i'd remembered my camera!
Nathan
