London, Warwick, Derby, Grassington, Loch Lomond, Aboyne, Edinburgh, Glossop, London on my Ducati Multistrada. With a cheeky five days soaring over the Cairngorms thrown in for good measure Things I have learnt so far : - don't put it in Sport mode with one passenger and no luggage setup when your Mutley is loaded to the gunwhales with panniers, a top box and a tail pack. He'll flop into corners and the more coarse throttle will make it harder to keep at a good angle. - do test your newly installed iPhone charger - do sit forward, grip with my legs and lean forward a bit more like a sportsbike position to get the weight over the front - it's going to bucket it down tomorrow :-(
I'll be at Aboyne tomorrow to meet my glider and syndicate partner. Currently in a pub in Croftamie after an incredible but challenging (for a newbie) ride through the Dales, Lakes and Glasgow. You guys fly??? You know about wave!!!!?? No one knows about gliding let alone wave!!!
BTW anyone who hasn't ridden Kirkstone Pass - drop everything. Quit work. Get on your Ducati and ride it. Repeatedly. I regret only doing it once but I had to press on. Incredible road.
Kirkstone Pass is one i have not yet done. Get yourself to Wales though. There are plenty of similar roads like that there.
700hrs under hangliders, 1000 hrs flying gliders, 250 hrs paragliding and about the same paramotoring. I've spent most of this summer switching between paramotoring and riding my Mutley. Apart from trips abroad, most of my touring has been in southern England. I had planned to spend a few days in Wales the other week but it didn't work out. There's so much to do and little time to do it! Kevin
That's a hell of a lot of flying. I've been gliding for 10 years and i've only got about 400 hours or thereabouts. Do you not work or did you start young? Or are you 170 years old? I got to Aboyne at about 4pm after an incredible run along the A93 from Loch Lomond. Mind blown. Shame that it's been awesome flying all September but the hour i arrive the weather caves in and it's going to be junk all week. Lol!
An interesting point that i was contemplating quite a lot yesterday. Thankfully the second B&B I stayed at the host made me completely at home and between her, her three year old daughter, a very cuddly cat and two interesting guests, I got some quality socialising done, which prevented me from going totally mad I don't know too many, i.e. any, people who wanted to ride up to Scotland on the scenic roads in October and then go gliding (or sit around contemplating how much rain the sky can really contain as the case is), so solo was the only option.
60 hrs on hang gliders and 160 hrs on gliders, I used to live 10 mins from Aboyne and had a half share in a DG300 there. I moved away in 1997 and didn't continue, it took me many years to lose the urge and even now I still remember it fondly. Once you have flown gliders you see the sky and it's many different clouds in a completely new light. I now live 20 mins from Kirkstone Pass, in fact it used to be on the school run so I know it extremely well.
@johnv near aboyne? possibly watched you fly, when't up there a lot. where you there when the doctor got knocked of his bike pulling out of the hospital grounds?. getting in to some superb of the tourist trail roads there.
