Bikers Britain - Lands End Loop by BMW R1200 GS Part 1
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- The latest of my tours around Great Britain from the book "Bikers Britain" by Simon Weir - This time I'm in the south west of the country riding the "Lands End Loop".....
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Welcome to the SW sir from sunny Dartmouth.
Enjoy your time over the border in (Celtish bandit country) Cornwall. Hope it was a stress free and enjoyable ride.
All the best.
Yes it was great fun thanks Sleepingdragon 1 - just need the Summer to arrive and all would be perfect!
Yes, a good bakery made beef pasty to keep you fortified & ballasted so the atlantic wind don't blow you over. Cream tea mid afternoon and you can take on anything.
...you're speaking my language Russ....
Why do you always start with "Hey or Hi kids!" ??????? :@(
Excellent as always. Thanks so much for continuing to share your fascinating countryside and wonderful commentary. Cheers, Craig
Wow, thanks Craig - it really is my pleasure!
How on Earth did you manage to retire so young and just enjoy biking? You lucky lucky sod LOL
I prefer fortunate…..hard work and having a plan was basically it….
Could you maybe use "bleak" to describe my home slightly less often? :D Haha. Glad you seem to have warmed to it eventually. :p
I love it down there...but it's certainly less bleak when the sun shines! Stay tuned for part 2 - I give it an easier time ;0)
Very nice, I'll have to get that route done. We are tackling the Scottish NC 500 in September which takes in John O'Groats. The route looks quite spectacular. 500 mile loop starting and finishing at Inverness. Get that one in your diary.
Sounds like fun - I must get up to Scotland and do that one...enjoy!
Good video as always. Where's the Arrow exhaust gone; you seem to have the washing machine part back on?
Well spotted David - I decided the Arrow was too noisy for longer rides, so I put the Zanussi back on.....actually I quite like it now!
Another great vid MF - you always motivate me to get out on my GS and do some touring. Lovely views. Been to Lands End before - I was very disappointed - too commercial and spoilt in my opinion. Nice to see you get wet for a change! Look forward to part 2. Picked up my S1000R on Monday - wow!!! Street Triple now gone. Kind regards, Jon.
Cheers Jon - You'll need to get that bike run in then...perhaps a ride to Lands End? Enjoy your new toy and ride safe....TMF
Thanks for another great video to a truly 'must go' destination. Please could you share which microphone you use in your helmet ? Thanks in advance 😀
....just a cheapo (£9) lavaliere mic from E-Bay taped to the inside of the helmet and plugged into my GoPro....
Enjoyed the video of my local stomping ground as I live in west cornwall, shame you didn't have good weather but hope you enjoyed the visit.
regards Phil
Hi Phil - yes great visit thanks, but would appreciate it if you can provide a bit more warmth for me next time :0) Cheers - TMF
as always TMF, lovely video, I love riding the coastal roads, did Ludlow North loop "ride 33" on the 17' july. love the smooth wide "A" roads with sweeping bends. That's the only trouble with some of these rides it's a 3 day camel ride to get to some of them, still can't have it all. bfn.
Yes agreed...cheers Peter - TMF
A very good video, which I enjoyed watching. i managed John O Groats this year (as part of the NC 500) and hoping to do your trip so as to get to Lands End in the same year. Have just bought a GS and wondered what you are using to mark 30, 60 & 70 mph on your speedo? I do have difficulty in seeing the GS speedo clearly compared to my other bike
I just have a label printer I bought from Staples and stuck those on the speedo - just gives me an "at a glance" view without straining my aged eyes!
My neck of the woods, I am from the most Southerly point The Lizard which is basically just across Mount's Bay from your side (lots of very nice views there try Kynance if you go that side again, also Cadgwith is a lovely little fishing village and the Helford River is always good to have a look at). Thanks for reminding me of home (as I live in Germany now!), it's not always raining there just most of the time and with such thick fog you can just about see 5 feet! Hope you enjoyed your time and if you are ever in The Lizard and fancy a nice pasty my mates mum owns Ann's Pasties then pop down to Lizard point to eat it and watch the world go by. Keep up the great work (you are making me want a 1200GS now!) and ride safe
Cheers Kevin - glad it reminded you of home. I've been to Kynance and the Lizard on several occasions and love it down there - can't resist a pastie either!
i like your tour videos. it is always fantastic to see foreign parts of our world. especially with the mighty GS 😉
thanks for taking us with you.
waiting for your next video
cheers Tom
My pleasure Tom, glad you like it - more to come....
Awesome stuff TMF! Very well commentated throughout. My wife and I went down one of try tin mines on our honeymoon :-) love Cornwall. I'm watching so many of these in the car whilst parked waiting for my wife to come of work that I'm running out of data :-0 I'll have to upgrade my phone contract lol
Glad it's of interest Richard - thanks for stopping by - TMF....
It may have been bleak, the hedges high and the roads twisty and bumpy, alas you were on a bike designed for those conditions!
Another enjoyable video, thanks for sharing it, looking forward to the subsequent vids of this trip.
Cheers
tony
PS the climate in Cornwall is actually the mildest in the whole of the UK ! Icy roads are almost unheard of in these parts!
Hi Antonoat - good to hear from you again! Yes I was a bit unlucky with the weather but a fun trip none-the-less and I do love the South West...stay tuned fro part 2 soon! Cheers - TMF
I love that area of Cornwall. I need to plan another visit myself, last time I stayed at White Sands, Sennen just around the corner from Lands End. I will look forward to part 2 - thanks TMF :)
Glad you liked it - I love Sennen cove, great spot (when the sun is shining!)....all the best - TMF
Excellent trip. I know some of those roads, as my brother lives in Cornwall. If you walk west from the Lavant mine you come to the Twin Crowns, two very famous engine houses. En-route, if you know where to look, there are some old Roman mines you can clamber about in.
Very interesting part of the world down there isn't it....
The countryside reminds me a bit of the Ayr countryside up here in Bonnie Scotland.
Yes similar weather too!
Have to add that I didn't realize Land's End was an actual place. Never knew about this area. I lve old ton toys though ha. Great tour sir! 👌🏼
Sure is! Cheers for watching Dave - TMF
Another cool vid. Did this loop myself but in the car :( What are you using to take your thumbnail pictures with they look epic!
Cheers - the photo magic is just my iPhone! ...getting good these camera phones eh?
How dd the bike perform ? Lovely part of England , Cornwall . I spent some time down there when the wind generators went up in the 90's . Did you get to Jamaica inn I wounder , tad off your route , but worth a stop for a beer , lol . As always , thanks for taking the time to video it for us .
Bike was great - never missed a beat....and no, I didn't make Jamaica Inn....thanks for the kind words -all the best - TMF
Road that B road from St Ives in 2017, the weather was a lot wetter than you had on your ride. Couldn’t see more than 50 yards in front at times. The joys of a British summer
I know all about that Darren! Thanks for watching - TMF
Great vids. I wondered whether anyone had done some video reviews of the bikers tour book and I'm glad to have found you had. Do you use any editing software after you have recorded the go pro video and audio from that Mic you mentioned earlier?
Thanks Mike, and yes, a lot of editing goes into the videos - I use PowerDirector on the PC...
How long did it take you to get to the start point? That was a days ride in itself mate! could've stopped off for a cuppa on your way back!
Yeah, it was a long ol' ride down - about 7 hours in the saddle to get to St Ives the day before....
18 degrees? that's the for cast for Sydney today, it's winter here.
....tell me about it, the weather in Blighty is pants....
Great Vid - Love the mix of facts and commentary.
Cheers - glad you found it of interest....thanks for stopping by - TMF
Great Video....Please keep up the great work....😁
Thank you - it's feedback like this that keeps me making them! Thanks for watching and for stopping by, all the best - TMF
As ever thanks again for sharing your adventures 😀
You're very welcome Stephanie - was a pleasure as always!
Welcome to my part of the country, hope you enjoyed your down here 😊
Yes had a great time thanks - some amazing restaurants in St Ives - you are very lucky! ...could do with more sun this week though...
Marvellous stuff. Top quality as always.
Thank you Mark...
I just wanted to see you pin it around a bend, let the beast loose
Not on this bike on these roads I'm afraid....I know I know, call me a wimp....
Really enjoying this series. We have toured Cornwall in the car in the 1990s when holidaying in Dorset and would to revisit the areas on the bike. I remember us trying to find the two Indian restaurants in St Ives! We did find them and chose one. I seem to remember that we did enjoy the meal. Funny though, we visit a typical Cornish seaside town and decide to eat Indian! I can imagine Land's End being even more commercialised now than it was back in 1998 when we were there. Ride safe.
+Biker Paul good stuff, glad you're enjoying the vids Paul, thanks for sticking with me! All the best - TMF
+TheMissendenFlyer It's easy to just subscribe to vloggers willy nilly but certain channels are extra special and yours is in that catagory. Keep up the good work. Ride safe.
+Biker Paul How very kind of you sir!
Many Thanks, Great Video
Cheers Bob - Part 2 coming soon!
love these long videos !! can't wait for part 2 Cornwall looks great for the bikes shame I stay in Scotland and have a 125cc lol may I ask what helmet you :)
Hi again - My helmet is an Arai Tour X-4 - without a doubt the best helmet I've ever had....see my review here >> th-cam.com/video/DJc4Q4kFbeg/w-d-xo.html
okay great thanks very much and thanks for a great video once again
the thumbnail picture look amazing!
Thanks - amazing what an iPhone can do!
is it possible to send me the pic for wallpaper? :P
At 3:51: "That's the Atlantic, keep going and you're in the US of A".
Not quite. Keep going and the next stop is Newfoundland's Northern Peninsula, about a degree south of the Viking Settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows :)
Sailing/flying straight west from any point in the UK, the next bit of land will be in Greenland, Labrador or Newfoundland.
Good point - you got me on a technicality! :0)
Hey, it'll be a good line for when you're in northern Spain, which is how far south you have to be to go straight west and run into the U.S. rather than Canada :)
Better weather than Cornwall too :)
surely depends on which way you point?
Thank you for this video. This area does not look much like Phoenix, Arizona in the U.S.A..Im currently on a my14 RT but thinking about returning to the GSA and this ride just encourages me to do so.Mind if I lay all the blame onto you if the wife should ask "why"?
Out of interest what is it about the RT that makes you want a GS back? I'm thinking about swapping out my GS with an RT when the time comes...??? ....and no, please do blame me if it helps....
+TheMissendenFlyer I have a disease when it comes to man toys. I have had 9 RTs since my first 2005 model RT and 5 GSAs along with a few other bikes thrown in for good measure.
I have one perfectly good bike then I think that I want another . I always come back to the RT though.
It's my height mostly that makes me want a GSA as I am 6'6".
Hard to go wrong either way but as I have gotten older I've come to enjoy being comfortable over being fast.
Thank you again for all of your videos. I enjoy them very much as it is a bit to warm here to ride during the day. 113f
Crikey! 113....I can only dream of such temperatures - been cycling in central London today and it was 22C....just right :0)
So, looking at some of your other soshul meeja stuff, your Missus was down there with you. Did she ride pillion or did you trailer the GS? You surely didn't go all the way back on the bike? :)
I rode the bike to meet up with the Mrs and Kids down there - they're still there - I had to ride back early to earn the money she's now spending! Long ol' ride!!
Top man!
I wish!
Not going to lie, I just love listening to the Uk accents lol.
Happy to oblige babe.....can I call you that? ;0)
Sure thang
...probably best not to encourage me :0)
What waterproofs have you got? I like the look of your jacket
Err the over jacket is made by Bering, a French manufacturer, my trousers are just cheapo over trousers from Mountain Warehouse....work though!
shouldn't the RST adventure gear be waterproof ?
It is if you have the waterproof liner fitted - which I don't in "Summer"(plus I'd rather stop the rain at the outside rather than having a sopping wet jacket albeit dry inside underneath the liner)...
Thank you.
You're welcome!
The Uk's most westernly point is in Scotland,.:) Ardnamurchan Point. The road out to it is great.
I would have thought if we're talking the UK then somewhere in Northern Ireland would make a claim on that....British Isles I would concede Scotland may have it....Great Britain, Lands End has it ;0)
Yeah Uk mainland (not including NI) is what I meant. :) Lands End is 20 odd miles futher east.
Is Great Britain not the same as Uk mainland ? :P
Yep pretty much - Great Britain is the name of the biggest island in the British Isles - i.e. the chunk of land containing England, Scotland and Wales....
The most westerly point on the British mainland is Corrachadh Mòr at 6 13 37.70"W (a couple of miles south of Ardnamurchan Point), Lands End is a poor 5 42 56.56"W. Out of interest Ardnamurchan Point has the most Westerly Lighthouse. If you decide to do the most northerly tip its not John O' Groats, dunes Head us the most northerly point on the British mainland with Duncansby Head the most North easterly.
Fair do's....
When are you putting part 2 up
Need to give this one a few more days to fester - expect it around the weekend.....
oh ok thank you for the quick reply
6:57 Ducati Multistrada orange van
Just looks like an orange van to me so I'll take your word for it EinkOLED!
The front design and lights (citroen relay) look identical to the multistrada.
I think your imagination is getting the better of you!
I live in St just!
I hope it's warmer there today than yesterday then! I rode home and it was 26 degrees at 6pm, it was 17 in St Just brrrggghhh.... :0)
+TheMissendenFlyer that's pretty normal for down here.. Haha, you get used to it after a while!
You certainly get around TMF, good on you. :-)
I try to make every day count (you wouldn't believe where I went the weekend before!).....
+TheMissendenFlyer oh do tell mr TMF?
Thought you might ask :0) - Me and a pal flew his light aeroplane to Majorca for the weekend - the longest flying trip I've yet done in a day, it was brill! ....oh and the weather was stonking! :0)
+TheMissendenFlyer wow that's amazing. How long does it take to fly one way? I have now idea what speed a light aircraft can cruise at.
Yeah it was pretty darn cool I have to say - perhaps I should have made a film out of it!! We cruised down at around about 130knots (150ish mph) - took us 6 hours flying time from Maidenhead to an airfield near Palma and no hassle with check-ins, airport security, baggage, etc, etc... :0)