Featured What you been doing with your TRIUMPH today??

Really classy. Did you get the lid done yourself?

 

Yup, it was a bit of a disaster, I put on too much paint but came out looking alright

 

Looks like an A1 job, mate!

 

A gentle pootle up the Yarrow Valley from Moffat towards Selkirk past St Mary’s Loch. Part of a previous GMU route? Sunshine all the way.

 

Don't know that area, really. Only ever been up the A74. Looks lovely.

 

Took the thruxton down into Shropshire for a spin. Not many bikes out today, I guess it was a bit to hot for many

 

Beautiful, @crispey! I also like the white stripe with gold pin striping. A very striking combination and a gorgeous bike.

 

Is that what they call "sunshine" where you live, Callumity? It is a beautiful area, though, I'll give you that.

 

"Sunshine all the way"

 

You just beat me to it, Sandi.

 

That was me being ironic - the UK had wild electric storms and torrential rain last night.

 

How were the roads then? When we get big rains here the roads tend to have lots of areas covered in sand and it makes for some treacherous riding conditions. I suspect you may get branches and things in the road but my bet is not much sand based on those beautiful green rolling hills!

 

Sorry, I'm unfamiliar with the terms "torrential" and "rain", Callumity.

 

I'd say the same except for our monsoons. I think those big storms may be where the phrase "when it rains it pours" came from. Unfortunately we are in a major drought this year and have had only one storm so far and we're weeks into monsoon season. This morning in the newspaper I saw the term "nonsoon" coined to described our monsoon season thus far.

 

Not very exciting, but I’ve been commuting to work on the bike this week. Dodged rain all week till this evening, but not to bad. I could get used to this!

 

Yup some cracking roads and scenery around there, I’ve done it a few times, Pissing with rain, raining and blazing sun all were great!

 

Rode home from Normandy. 159 miles to Dieppe then ferry to Newhaven and a 286 mile ride to Keighley.

 

Rode home from Normandy. 159 miles to Dieppe then ferry to Newhaven and a 286 mile ride to Keighley.

 

To answer your question directly, the roads were far better than I expected. I had stood in my porch the night before watching spectacular lightning as the storm rolled slowly north and rain fell.....but not that much. It turned out we were on the Southern edge and far, far more rain fell 30-200 miles North causing flooding and landslides (tragically including a fatal derailment). Some places recorded 4.2” and more in a couple of hours.
I did an anti clockwise loop to the South and the watercourses (including the Tweed (World famous salmon river?)) barely showed any fresh water. The roads were washed but dry with the odd damp patch or mud from logging operations. Only on returning North did I pick up a stream (burn!) that drains the Pentlands (hills immediately South of Edinburgh) in spate (flood!).

 

By eck as like, that were a good step!