East Anglian Amble
Saturday was good.I post a bit on visordown.com and one of the guys there organised a ride-out from Red Lodge around Suffolk and Essex starting at midday. So I set off - leaving the kids home alone - at 11.00am and blasting down to Red Lodge. This mainly involved riding on the wrong side of the road as the A11 was clogged with bloody tourists and people whose lives have ended (i.e. drivers of diesel-fuelled people carriers).
One of my mates from the ZRXOC made it but left too early - the pace quickened (considerably) later with alleged speeds of 120+ in places (and I saw 150 and accelerating sitting bolt upright on my local closed road on my way home).
He also missed the most expensive soft drinks in the world evah at the Swan Hotel in Lavenham: £2.50 for my orange and grapefruit and £3.50 for a pint of lemonade (well syrup and fizzy water from one of those pumps) for a bloke with a SV1000 which was pulling some absolutely minging wheelies.
Photos from our cuppa stop at Finchingfield are here »
The woman in the tea shop was - ahem - rather attractive too ~;0)
I said my farewells when we got to Newmarket as I thought I should get home around tea time, but that meant missing out on a barbecue, more's the pity.
