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Offline bobbyfromnc

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

https://youtu.be/wxTlPcyrrIg
« Last Edit: December 01, 2015, 03:19:48 PM by bobbyfromnc »

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Re: Hadrians Wall MotorBike Tour in UK
« Reply #1 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

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Re: Hadrians Wall MotorBike Tour in UK
« Reply #2 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.

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Re: Hadrians Wall MotorBike Tour in UK
« Reply #3 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!

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Re: Hadrians Wall MotorBike Tour in UK
« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2015, 10:09:51 AM »
 "I guess that's why it's called Hadrian's wall"  :laugh: Love this guy  :thumb:

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Re: Hadrians Wall MotorBike Tour in UK
« Reply #5 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.

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Re: Hadrians Wall MotorBike Tour in UK
« Reply #6 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.

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Re: Hadrians Wall MotorBike Tour in UK
« Reply #7 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:
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Re: Hadrians Wall MotorBike Tour in UK
« Reply #8 on: December 06, 2015, 10:58:40 AM »
So where did the Picts go?
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Re: Hadrians Wall MotorBike Tour in UK
« Reply #9 on: December 06, 2015, 01:38:04 PM »
Lovely country up there - but best seen on foot.

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Re: Hadrians Wall MotorBike Tour in UK
« Reply #10 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:

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Re: Hadrians Wall MotorBike Tour in UK
« Reply #11 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:

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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.

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