Month: April 2015

Lands End – The most western point of England

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Four days of Easter holidays (Friday to Monday) so I will finally take a little break from work and make my first bigger motorcycle trip. If everything goes as planned I’ll leave on Saturday and be back on Monday.

The plan is to go from London to Lands End, the most western point of England. I’ll be making stops in Leatherhead, Weymouth and Bude. In Leatherhead I want to get proper motrcycle gloves at a big gear shop since the ones I have are cheap short cuff summer gloves which are not very warm and don’t protect anything beyond the ankle plus they are too small for my hands.

Ideally I would make this a camping trip but since this is a last minute plan and I don’t have a tent yet I will be using lateRooms.com where you can get a relatively cheap B&B room very short notice.

 

Bike Cover

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To avoid the bike rusting in the sunny UK weather I got a sturdy all weather cover. It’s called Oxford Stormex and from what I’ve read it’s supposed to be very good regarding dampness on the inside. Unfortunately it doesn’t cover the bike completely when I keep both panniers and the top box fitted to the bike. Probably because of the tall touring screen. But this is the largest size they have so it’ll have to work.