LM #27 WEST MIDLANDS

Sundays trip out, up to the Classic bike show at Stafford then home via a RBR landmark in Birmingham. My first run on motorway with all the luggage boxes on the bike (although not loaded) no probs, they didn't fall off and the bike didn't weave all over the road....
The nearest famous place to LM#27, Nanjing,UK, a strange twist of fate to see the red flag flying over the factory gate where "Red Robbo" once precided!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Robinson_%28%22Red_Robbo%22%29


LM27 or a cashpoint or ..... ?


Classic Motorcycle Stafford show pics:

Warwickshire & Gloucestershire

The video composition below was supposed to cover the latest updates however some feedback suggests that it isn't liked on s l o w old PC's or indeed newer ones running MS VISTA so a standard report:-
After a bad week (healthwise) and with all the good weather, I was determined to get out on a ride on Sunday albeit only a local trip to visit the Warwickshire and Gloucestershire Landmarks. The Warwickshire landmark was in Kineton, although I lived there for a year I couldn't actually remember seeing it before. Strangely enough it seems to have disappeared in the picture below (complying with RBR rules) but there's me wearing the PINK vest again!
The Gloucestershire LM was the Wellington Aviation Museum at Moreton-in-Marsh, although I'm not ex-services or a plane spotter I decided to cough up the £2 entry and have a look around. The museum is small but crammed with a wide variety of artefacts mainly related to a military aviation theme. During conversation with the proprietor and another visitor, I heard tale of the latest must have fashionable furniture, coffee tables made from glass topped jet engine turbines, which supposedly once saw supersonic service in Concorde (check out EBAY for secondhand Concorde parts should be lots now the fleet is being scrapped tehehe)
Moreton is a typical small Cotswolds town with several souvenior, antique and crafts shops, most of which are open on Sunday. It's also got plenty of eateries for Sunday lunch or afternoon tea, my lunch was at the ASK restaurant, an "upmarket Pizza/Pasta house" part of a chain which has grown from the original set up by Adam & Samuel Kaye in 1993 to over 180, no complaints...good simple food and friendly service in pleasant surroundings.

The Vanishing Kineton Landmark...and John.

DCUK

Door handles for Pistonheads

Yorkshire> Wensleydale

Waiting for a Time Lord....or has auNTy V broke down?
http://www.outofoblivion.org.uk/record.asp?id=94

Skyline

Maybe not the "skyline" many of you were expecting!
This photo of the Teesside skyline was taken on the way to one of the North Yorkshire Landmarks [#52]

Northumberland

County of many castles: LM # 32 was near Alnwick so a few pics from that area:



When you can't find a landmark, the rally allows a reduced score providing you've evidence that you visited the place/area the landmark is supposed to be in, hence these two pics. You can guess that I came close to not finding LM 32 however Lady Luck came through and I spotted it on the one last run around the area!

Bristol Bus, powered by a Gardner 6 cylinder diesel engine, over 50yrs old and still in service albeit in semi-retirement on the Alnwick sightseeing route.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Lodekka

1st 2007 RBR mistake

Must not forget my card at the landmarks, must not forget my card at the landmarks, must not forget my card at the landmarks, must not forget my card at the landmarks, must not forget my card at the landmarks, must not forget my card at the landmarks, must not forget my card at the landmarks, must not forget my card at the landmarks, must not forget my card at the landmarks......

PINK vest

The Pink vest arrived in time for use on my Easter Weekend RBR activities....thanks Jon & Tony & Redoakdirect.

(Edit from Tony : John- Remember from now on we want evidence of you wearing the vest on/near every landmark, Carry on the good progress and GOOD LUCK! and a couple more photos so we can see the vest in detail...)

My Easter weekend combined the RBR with family visit in the North East. The journey up allowed a lunch stop at Squires biker cafe.....2 1/2 hrs...oops good cheap food, friendly people, and lots to see.

http://www.squires-cafe.co.uk

A Very Nice 2 Stroke at Squires....

And memories of teenage lust for men of a certain age...

also made my first 2007 RBR mistake, the control card was left at LM 53 in Yorkshire...

ACE weekend

ACE day out

Saturday I joined a Yamaha Diversion club run to the Ace Café London on a pink HONDA! My first visit there, great friendly atmosphere, good food and plenty to watch.

I also met Jim from the Honda NTV owners club/forum there (http://growell.proboards49.com/ ) his words not mine:
"Stuck a few bob in, I ride an NTV! if you can sit on your arse for hours on end on one of these, then I can get off my arse and support you!"
a big thank-you for his generosity.

Sunday was the start of the Round Britain Rally, an early start due to staying at a friends near Bedford meant the Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire landmarks (LMs) were visited before the blustery run up to Cambridgeshire for the RBR 1st day meeting at LM#5, the William Harley Memorial sculpture in Littleport (original home of the Harley family). There was a good turnout, a wide variety in both the machines used and the riders. Having already done 2 landmarks there was no hurry to press on, so plenty time to enjoy the whole atmosphere and to chat with some of the "veteran" entrants and listen to their advice.