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Title: Hadrians Wall MotorBike Tour in UK
Post by: bobbyfromnc on December 01, 2015, 03:03:59 AM
I enjoyed this and thought you might as well...

https://youtu.be/wxTlPcyrrIg (https://youtu.be/wxTlPcyrrIg)
Title: Re: Hadrians Wall MotorBike Tour in UK
Post by: Old Jock on December 01, 2015, 03:55:19 AM
Thanks for that

Never done that road on the bike but quite a few times in a car.

Some of the dips if taken at speed are akin to being in an express elevator, you can actually feel the changes in G.

Bike wise a lot of it is long straights and few bends but I agree its real top of the world stuff, definitely worth a ride along and then there is all that history too
Title: Re: Hadrians Wall MotorBike Tour in UK
Post by: pikipiki on December 01, 2015, 07:25:06 AM
Know that road well, dangerous at high speed due to some of the dips and ability to hid vehicles from view. Also watch out for tractors.
Title: Re: Hadrians Wall MotorBike Tour in UK
Post by: vstevens on December 03, 2015, 09:46:02 AM
Fascinating!  One of these days ... I'd love to take that very ride.  Beautiful countryside!  Britain has always seemed a charming and magical place ...but  Of course, I've never been there!
Title: Re: Hadrians Wall MotorBike Tour in UK
Post by: oldbike54 on December 03, 2015, 10:09:51 AM
 "I guess that's why it's called Hadrian's wall"  :laugh: Love this guy  :thumb:

  Dusty
Title: Re: Hadrians Wall MotorBike Tour in UK
Post by: Doug McLaren on December 03, 2015, 12:20:16 PM
I live about 20 miles from the eastern end of that road and it is a favourite of mine. I was across it both ways two days ago, absolutely deserted, mind you it was chucking it down and blowing a gale but as luck would have it I was in my van.

Not only do you have to watch for tractors, you have to keep an eye out for people driving like this.

https://youtu.be/h-W6EZLEpik
Title: Re: Hadrians Wall MotorBike Tour in UK
Post by: handyandy on December 06, 2015, 10:03:09 AM
That video makes me want to go there. Now all I have to figure how to fund  the trip.
Title: Re: Hadrians Wall MotorBike Tour in UK
Post by: Guzzistajohn on December 06, 2015, 10:55:23 AM
Interesting place. The open countryside looks like Oklahoma with a wall. And Roman history. And Brits and Scots :laugh:
Title: Re: Hadrians Wall MotorBike Tour in UK
Post by: malik on December 06, 2015, 10:58:40 AM
So where did the Picts go?
Title: Re: Hadrians Wall MotorBike Tour in UK
Post by: nick949 on December 06, 2015, 01:38:04 PM
Lovely country up there - but best seen on foot.

Nick

Pennine Way / Hadrian's Wall 2012
(http://www.adamsheritage.info/images/thewall.jpg)
Title: Re: Hadrians Wall MotorBike Tour in UK
Post by: oldbike54 on December 06, 2015, 01:49:51 PM
Interesting place. The open countryside looks like Oklahoma with a wall. And Roman history. And Brits and Scots :laugh:

 There is a fella in Ft Gibson that has spent the last 20 years building rock walls in his yard , his name is Joe , or Bob , or Fred  :laugh: Wonder if a thousand years from now they will known as Joe's walls  :rolleyes:

  Dusty
Title: Re: Hadrians Wall MotorBike Tour in UK
Post by: nick949 on December 06, 2015, 01:58:17 PM
There is a fella in Ft Gibson that has spent the last 20 years building rock walls in his yard , his name is Joe , or Bob , or Fred  :laugh: Wonder if a thousand years from now they will known as Joe's walls  :rolleyes:

  Dusty

If he suddenly becomes the ruler of an Empire stretching from the Persian Gulf to the UK and including most of North Africa - perhaps. If not, he'll descent into righteous (and probably well deserved) obscurity like the rest of us.

Nick