I've stayed in Portpatrick on a bike trip a few years ago, and had a meal there with Hugo and RA5 the first night in Scotchland last year - it's a nice place
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I've stayed in Portpatrick on a bike trip a few years ago, and had a meal there with Hugo and RA5 the first night in Scotchland last year - it's a nice place
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Houses are cheapI've stayed in Portpatrick on a bike trip a few years ago, and had a meal there with Hugo and RA5 the first night in Scotchland last year - it's a nice place
but their chesterfields are a funny colour 
Braefield Road, Portpatrick, Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, DG9
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£580,000
Check out this 8 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove
8 bedroom detached house for sale in Braefield Road, Portpatrick, Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, DG9 for £580,000. Marketed by Slater Hogg and Howison, Ayr
Another tip: if you get to the owl's Nest and it's rammed with bikes (as it often is) keep going to Llangadog and have a few spins up and down the Black Mountain pass because everyone else in the cafe is probaby heading there and you'll likely have the place to yourself.Tip if you go to the owls nest make sure you are very hungry
I did this a few years ago. I'd planned an early morning trip from Cwmdu to the BMP with breakfast at the cafe on the way. Got to the Landovery by 7:30 am and the road outside the cafe was full of bikes and all the tables taken so I pressed on. Only met two cars and a van on the mountain road which looked like locals communting to work. By the time I'd done about five return runs to Brynaman and back again (cattle grid to cattle grid) and the rear brake fluid in my 990 SMT was getting to near boiling point from all the trail braking, the first bikes started to arrive so I called it a day and headed back towards Llandovery. I met convoys of bikes heading for the mountain and the cafe was almost empty when I got there. Result.
Great tip , but unfortunately the Council saw an opportunity not to be missed, they have littered the BMP with fixed speed cameras now
The roads can get very dirty round there...Great tip , but unfortunately the Council saw an opportunity not to be missed, they have littered the BMP with fixed speed cameras now
I knew a bloke who was bombing along at a decent pace when spotting a transit van with a camera in the window up ahead he was reminded that he needed to pull over and take a leak. He draped his gloves over his number plate to stop them falling in the mud but forgot to put them back on again when he remounted and rode past the van... It happens.
He remembered his mistake once he'd rounded the next bend so he stopped and retrieved his gloves, which were fortunately still there, and proceeded on his way, so all was well.
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That's all great in the end, having a good partner makes all the difference. Sounds like an amazing trip planned, no doubt it will be. One day I hope to do the same.Not my Wife's Modus operandi thanks jasus... she would always push me to mix with my mates and despite raising 3 kids together in the worst of times she always made sure I would get either a biking holiday in or a ski holiday in with the boys saying i burst my balls working and deserve it... i have never been an easy bloke to live with and very inflexible so I have never done a city break with my wife instead like last week she would head off and do the cultural stuff with a friend she trained with 35 years ago ....she's never pissed and moaned about this.. earlier this year we had some pretty scary news with my wife's health resulting in a full hysterectomy to deal with the big C with a great outcome
.... I think this has profoundly affected us with me more than herself willing to admit how scared we really were... she asked me on the fone last week would I do a trip to Northern Spain with her as she would really love to visit a couple of vineyards
Damn, that's a nice house for a decent price, though I know shite about the location. Could have more trees. Y'all don't realize how lucky you are, most, like 98-99% of the buildings here are crap. Hardly anything worth going to here in comparison IMO.Houses are cheap
Braefield Road, Portpatrick, Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, DG9
Guide Price
£580,000
Check out this 8 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove
8 bedroom detached house for sale in Braefield Road, Portpatrick, Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, DG9 for £580,000. Marketed by Slater Hogg and Howison, Ayrwww.rightmove.co.uk
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Stranraer in general is quite run down since the loss of the ferry terminal. It's potentially a very nice part of Scotland but it's economy is impoverished, unemployment is quite high and it has numerous problems, so house prices are cheap. And it's pretty isolated from the rest of Scotland so earning a living there can be a challenge. For cash buyers with the right personal circumstances there are bargains to be had.
My milk cheque comes from Stranraer but I wouldn't want to live there.
Does your milk cheque bring all the boys to the yard?
And how do their lives compare with yours?
^No, you've lost me.
Someone post up that Kelis song please
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And strangely, the poles supporting the cameras appear to be very flimsy, and seem to break in a very clean line. Then the cameras have a little lie down.
I was riding behind a couple of lads through Weardale one day last summer. I didn't know who they were but they couldn't have been locals because they failed to spot the 30 mph sign as they approached Westgate and sailed into the village at somewhat above the maximum legal speed. Ahead of them were a group of locals in hi-vis jackets who appeared for some reason to be filming the traffic with a sort of hand-held camera devise. As soon as these lads spotted them both their bikes simultaneously suffered some mysterious mechanical failure and they were obliged to pull over onto the pavement and institute enquiries with their onboard tool kits.
It being a warm day, naturally they removed their jackets, hanging them over the back of their bikes where they wouldn't inconvenience pedestrians, and proceeded to tinker.
The hi-vis'd traffic enthusiasts had gone when I came back through half an hour later after completing my regular Teesdale loop. The lads were still there but their mechanical investigations must have been successful because they were now preparing to leave also. So a satisfactory day all round really.
It being a warm day, naturally they removed their jackets, hanging them over the back of their bikes where they wouldn't inconvenience pedestrians, and proceeded to tinker.
The hi-vis'd traffic enthusiasts had gone when I came back through half an hour later after completing my regular Teesdale loop. The lads were still there but their mechanical investigations must have been successful because they were now preparing to leave also. So a satisfactory day all round really.
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30 miles on mainly single track roads this evening. Loads of bugs in the air.
I came back feeling invigorated and ready for a beer.
I came back feeling invigorated and ready for a beer.
Noticed my bsck tyre looked a bit funny, was completely flat - found a big fat hole in the bastard 
and it was down to the wear markers to boot new rear tyre time....
and it was down to the wear markers to boot new rear tyre time....
Noticed my bsck tyre looked a bit funny, was completely flat - found a big fat hole in the bastard
That’s lucky…if it needed changing anyway
An auld boyo round here used to say, “why pay for a full tyre and only use 1/3 of it?”Yeah, I was thinking it's a little worn in the middle
Today i had a phone call from our own @RA5 , sorry if i sounded vague dude i was half asleep. I then went out on the Enfield to Winchester to go to Robert Dyas for a sink plunger and sink unblocker. My bloody washing is in the washing machine as i can't drain the water out, as it's blocked it fills the sink up with water!! Bloody windy out today and not as warm as yesterday but better for tomorrow, Harley day at Sammy Millers.
. I then went out on the Enfield to Winchester to go to Robert Dyas for a sink plunger and sink unblocker. My bloody washing is in the washing machine as i can't drain the water out, as it's blocked it fills the sink up with water!! Bloody windy out today and not as warm as yesterday but better for tomorrow, Harley day at Sammy Millers.
Took the R1 for a run up to Seaways on the Brid road this morning as a few mates were meeting to go to the Race the Waves meeting on Bridlington Beach.
Was going to have a coffee but the queue was too long so when they headed of I came back home for Coffee and Toast as I had planned to head to Harrogate on the bike to check out 3 areas where there are interesting apartments for sale - traffic was crap in Harrogate and my poor clutch hand is paggered just like Waynes right hand must feel on a busy day
I only found 2 of the apartments, one was not where it should have been, and the one way system in Harrogate is as confusing as fook - I went one way using my spider senses and ended up totally at the wrong side of the town, not realising I must have crossed the main road I was looking for could have been a slip in the matrix I guess 
Was going to have a coffee but the queue was too long so when they headed of I came back home for Coffee and Toast as I had planned to head to Harrogate on the bike to check out 3 areas where there are interesting apartments for sale - traffic was crap in Harrogate and my poor clutch hand is paggered just like Waynes right hand must feel on a busy day
I only found 2 of the apartments, one was not where it should have been, and the one way system in Harrogate is as confusing as fook - I went one way using my spider senses and ended up totally at the wrong side of the town, not realising I must have crossed the main road I was looking for
could have been a slip in the matrix I guess