Hi Jags,
I like the look of the old classic bikes, especially the Triumphs and the Jap bikes from the 70s (my era I guess), but I don't have the mechanical knowledge to keep them on the road. I have one of the newer style Triumph Bonnevilles (that I hardly ride now) and I have a little Yamaha Serow 250cc trailie style bike that I took on the ferry to France and then rode all through France, down to the Pyrenees and then crossed over into Spain and rode some amazing roads over there. Completed a couple of cols including Tourmalet and that little bike was perfect as long as you kept off the autobahns. Completed 3000 miles in 3 weeks and had fabulous weather the whole time until I got off the channel tunnel and it was raining in Dover. I camped every night and each evening I would look at a map and look for areas I wanted to see that were roughly 200/250 miles away and head there. Look around for a campsite or let the tourist office do that for me. Bit hit and miss sometimes the campsites were, but on the whole great and very cheap too. Whole 3 weeks only cost £600 including ferry/channel tunnel, petrol, food, camping and travel insurance.
Been doing a bit of rough calculation regarding the JOGLE trip in the summer and it is going to be far more expensive. How does that work?
That is without actually buying the bike in the first place.
Did pm alfie regarding what I presume is his bike, but no answers at all and they are away over next few days by look of it. I think I am going to have to fork out for new bike and have spent most of day researching all my option of parts for the bike (wheels, tyres, Tubus or Thorn racks, pedals aaaaaaahhhhhhh too many things to think about. I need someone to offer me a ready made bike with all the extras, in my colour, in my size, in my area preferably and for less than a grand
OK I know it's too much to ask. Will put the order in tomorrow I think. Bit more research to do, but for now I need to make the most of the sunshine and get out on my son's bike to keep up the training. Then I have to get the Dawes clean and sparkly ready to sell. I don't like to ride her now incase I fall off or damage her in any way. Now that would be typical. Was wondering about taking off the Tubus Logo rack that came on that bike, but then the Dawes wouldn't be worth as much.