Whitby and Pickering

A Sunday morning blast to Whitby was planned, and along for the trip were myself, Zippy, Papa Phallus, Fruit'n'Barley and Pathfinder. Fuelled up we set off toward Guisboro, just outside Marton we were at a set of lights waitng to move off when up in front there was a thick cloud of smoke coming from the front of the queue, we knew there were a few other bikers there and we thought one of them had done a burnout when pulling away from the lights, as we got closer we noticed a puddle of engine oil on the road, ouch, a huge Kawasaki cruiser thingy was pulling away from the lights when it's engine shat itself dumping oil over the hot exhaust (that explains the smoke then). Once through Guisboro we headed over the moors road to Whitby, this is a great road, not super technical but very busy and timing your overtakes keeps things fun and interesting without being dangerous, we all arrived at the Whistlestop cafe with big grins on our faces.

Checking out the other bikes at the cafe, we noticed a pair of SP2's, rare enough to see 1 never mind 2 together, oddly enough along for the ride with these two behemoths was an Aprilia RS125, oh well, must make for an interesting ride.

After a bit of a break we decided, advised by Pathfinder, to take the road to Pickering. Another cracking moors road, undulating and flowing with stunning views. While we were taking our time and picking our overtakes carefully I took a look in my mirror and noticed one of the SP2's coming up behind me, no careful overtakes for this guy, followed shortly after by the second one, they sounded fantastic i want one, another quick glance in the mirror and there was the RS125 right behind me, "no way" i said to myself, he overtook me and the other guys in our party. There was no way i was having that, so , I waited for a gap in the traffic pulled out and shot past the little Aprilia only to pull in again when traffic got heavy again, once again the little stinkwheel overtook us all, this was getting embarrassing.

Once more traffic cleared and we soon dispatched the RS and headed on back to Birk Brow via Hutton le Hole, where we stopped for an ice cream, the roads back to the A171 Whitby road were bumpy, almost empty (apart from sheep) but loads of fun and a little scary.

All in all it was a great run out with Pathfinder showing us a few cracking roads that were new to us and will be visited again in the near future.

Bungle