Ride in the UK with GSers

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[BMWRich58]

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[lamble]

Thanks Rich.

Seems that you are the only one that liked the video, which is disappointing because it took me hours to train that cow to look at the right times!;)

Perhaps you need to ride a GS to appreciate a GS's aesthetic beauty.

[QSrider]

I like it too. Nicely done. :thumb

[dancogan]

Great video! Don't know how or why I missed the post in the first place. Looks like a fun and popular place.

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Went back and rode the last pass (where the Saab had halted progress) again today. Took some new footage, so I'll have to see what I can do. There's still one hairpin on Hardknot Pass that i haven't got right, so there's another excuse to ride it again.

Perhaps i should have put Video in the title. Any Mods picking this up, please can you add Video into the title.

[lamble]

I like it too. Nicely done. :thumb

Eric, that you should deem to lose your posting virginity to praise my video is far more than I can humbly accept. I thank you earnestly and hope your future posts bring you happiness, but that at the same time you will always remember your first time.

I will respect you in the morning, there's money for your taxi on the table, please be quiet when leaving, don't call me, I'll call you. Merci.

[tessler]

Excellent choice of music. Where's the beaten piano, I wanna know? :laugh

[Statdawg]

What challenging roads then I saw the bicycles.









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Ah yes there are always some hardy souls, with legs and buttocks of steel. I recently saw a programme about a Brit riding from Alaska to Ushaia by bike, a tandem. Twist was he had no one to ride second saddle, so had to meet people to help him pedal his way along. Took over 2 years and a few hundred volunteers, but he made it.

I doff my cap to many, including cyclists.

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Another attempt at Hardknott Pass, hopefully without a car blocking the tightest bend on the way down, this time...no such luck!

Anyway more of a realtime experience for you. No speeding up or slowing down the video.


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[lamble]

Excellent choice of music. Where's the beaten piano, I wanna know? :laugh

So I've had a Chinese version of a gorilaz track for the Hainan China ride. Ave Maria for Horizons Unlimited Meet in BC Canada. Art of Noise for Lake District Peaks, Ian Brown for a ride out with a HD group. I have an idea for a film to a French jazz piece, so I suppose I'm open to requests, so long as it's not what everyone else uses in the USA...you know what I mean!

[wuli959]

the result of running a bit wide looks unforgiving

[scoobs]

Rode the Hardnott years ago by accident- the lady at the B&B in Ulverston (Birthplace of Stan Laurel) said it was a shortcut!! Great fun 2-up on the old R80RT, my pillion passenger screamed all the way up and all the way down.
Also enjoyed the "Rye nose" (Sp?) Pass in the same area, have fond memories of my first trip up the Kirkstone Pass in Dad's 1956 Standard 10, sometimes a slow steady plod beats a sprint.
Cheers,
Ian :drink
P.S. Do they still make "Hartley's Fellrunner" beer?

[Statdawg]

Great job in film editing, I like the way you provided a blue sky in northern England. :laugh

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Ulveston Town Theatre has a statue of Laurel and Hardy leaning on the lamp post outside. For some reason the pic won't link.

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Wryenose is correct, although rye nose would imply a boozers conk and Rhino would suggest you were in a safari park.

Statdawg, you can't play ACGAS music in Lancashire, Herriot was a Yorkshire vet. That's like calling a Canadian, American, only much worse. War of the Roses and all that, very bloody and long. USA vs Canada wars...one about a pig on an Island over in BC (more Brit than Canadian) and the Canadians coming down and assisting in burning the White House, so little stuff compared to the War of the Roses. Tudor rose united the red and white roses of the two factions and lead to a great historical period for England, unless you were Catholic or fancied marrying a King, then not quite so good.
So, that music...NO!

Not sure about the Fell Runner pint, I have a feeling that having a few might lead to taking a shortcut of a different kind, with an edge, sky, slopes, metal, dirt, rocks, sheep, medic, undertaker, interface, being the result.

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Got another ride planned for this coming weekend. A ride through time...watch this space, or should that be time, or are they both the same thing? Discuss.

[John Brase]

Very neat. And a glimpse of a Morgan too.

John

[lamble]

Very neat. And a glimpse of a Morgan too.

John

I know, that Morgan was idyllic. Mr and Miss Perfect were in it. Now if only one of them had been poisoned and Miss Marple had appeared it would have been quintessential England..."muffin and jam anyone? The Vicar made it especially"

[LRider]

Funky!!

Thanks for sharing.........

[The_Veg]

So I've had a Chinese version of a gorilaz track for the Hainan China ride. Ave Maria for Horizons Unlimited Meet in BC Canada. Art of Noise for Lake District Peaks, Ian Brown for a ride out with a HD group. I have an idea for a film to a French jazz piece, so I suppose I'm open to requests, so long as it's not what everyone else uses in the USA...you know what I mean!

I thought that sounded like Art of Noise!

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I thought that sounded like Art of Noise!

Veg, would I sound too old f4rtish to suggest that much of today's noise is now 'artless' in comparison...would I, would I really?

Oh today's young posters, with their naughty language and a "street" vibe.

Art of Noise music sometimes crops up in adverts, as a backing track to some product placement, thanks mainly to some young ad exec who thinks it's cool to go "retro" and has "discovered" AoN, but they don't get any air play. Shame that.

LRider..."Funky"??? Oh I see. Canada. Celine Dion, Avril Lavigne, Nickelback, Rush...yes, okay. In those circumstances, I'll gladly accept your "funky" then.
Can I use it as a quote...UKGSers...nice work...BMWMOA...good job...Canada...funky...?

UKGSers have just made it their intro video for newcomers to the site by the way, as it represents a part of what ownership is about. So, I'm chuffed about that. I'll have to cut some footage together that includes a bit of off road and exotic travel, so that I can tick more of the 'what ownership and ownership aspiration is about', boxes.

What music track, style, genre, artist, do you think would best capture the essence of riding a GS?

[The_Veg]

Veg, would I sound too old f4rtish to suggest that much of today's noise is now 'artless' in comparison...would I, would I really?

No, you really wouldn't.

What music track, style, genre, artist, do you think would best capture the essence of riding a GS?

Now that is a difficult question, and I'm sure that the answers will be as different as the respondents. The first song that comes to my mind is Ghost Rider by Rush, but that answer carries some North American bias.

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Holed up in Seahouses in Northumbria, being battered by history and the weather. Had everything from Roman forts and temples, through Vikings and monks who wouldn't die properly, Henry VIII and his redistribution of monastic wealth, or theft, marauding Scots (it's a hobby they have) and a heroine lifehouse master's daughter and more castles than you can count on three fingers...so four.
If it had snowed I wouldn't have been surprised...it's a English Summer, all seasons in one day. And when I wasn't being drenched by rain, I was on a small boat and got soaked by the spray, just to get to a small island where 30,000 pairs breading puffins live, and guess what...they'd all gone, all 60,000. Not one left. I taste of sea salt.

I'll have pictures and video before too long, I hope.

Rush. Aren't they that Canadian band where the lead singer has a voice so high, that their target demographic is bats?