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Ha! Thanks mate. I know the feeling on the booze, when we rode to Austria, a few of us were supposed to head up the eagles nest one morning. A lot of jaeger the night before, we literally had a few blokes having to pull over and get their lid off to vomit because of the windy ass road.

OK, and how much was this one? If it wasn’t £8995 you’re doing yourself a disservice by potentially dropping 3k on a bloody diff repair!! I just think it’s a mental risk to think ktec are just going to get your invoice and say ‘thanks for sorting that for us, here’s £3k’

You’re mental. Take the refund. Find another. Why take the risk?

For sure! With everything being closed it did make me wonder about the viability of doing it with a tent.. ultimate freedom, but I definitely like the creature comforts that nice hotels provide!

For the record, this is the fourth ‘tour’ I’ve done, the other three I had no more than 4 hours rain across the whole. When the weather is good, there is NOTHING like covering ground on the bike. No traffic to contend with, no being stuck behind slow stuff, stop anywhere you want, it’s just...

Thanks chap, been a while since I’ve done one of these, the 10 picture per post limit made it far more complicated! 😂 You sir, can bugger right off 🙄 We did some fairly long days in terms of time even if the miles don’t look that crazy. Progress can be slow on some of the tiny roads as I’m...

Alistair was alright on his fireblade mate! (Mentalist)

I’d do the trip again, in a car (maybe). The thing that would do my head in is some of the smaller roads with passing points. On the bikes you can make progress, get past and crack on. In a car it can be ruined a couple of w*****s in campers.

It was the layers you cheeky b*****d.

Someone just liked my post, so it needs to go back to the top for 2021!

Thanks Terrance, I didn’t want to go too far into it! We should do another at some point, to somewhere it’s sunny. I don’t care if the roads are dead straight and flat, just as long as it’s sunny.

Look how jolly I am at John O’Groats! What more do you want man? And for the record, I had no idea where you were.. just ‘Scotland’. :giggle:

If I knew anyone with a cottage up there, I would have left the bike and flew home! Balls

Well this was the end of August, so I don’t think I could have gone for a better time. Being honest, no, I wouldn’t do it again on a bike. I’ve done two into Europe, and the weather has been superb. The real joy of being in Europe, is as long as you’ve booked with cancellations, if weather...

Day 7: Aberdour to Home Harrogate So, the storm definitely did blow in. Horrific is the right word. So horrific infact that I decided there was no way I was going to do the near 400 miles home. Thank god I didn't. I booked myself into a hotel about halfway, Harrogate. There's no photos of this...

Day 6: Nairn > Aberdour This was supposed to be the penultimate day for me, but the weather had other ideas (more on that later). Anyway, we packed up and jumped on the bikes, the weather was somewhat 50/50, but it looked like it wanted to hold out, so we hopped on the bikes and off we went...

Day 5, Continued: And then, onto John O'Groats. It was at this point I knew for sure there was something REALLY REALLY not right with this new helmet. The acoustics were worse than anything I'd ever ridden with, even cheap £50 units. By the time I got to the top of Scotland, my ears were, to...

Day 4: Tobermory > Ullapool Without a doubt (other than maybe day 1 where I was on my own), this was the worst day weather wise so far. From the moment we left the hotel, it just battered it down. So, here we have a real lack of pictures, and this is very sad, because there was some magical...

Day 3, Continued: Fortunately, upon arrival on Tobermory, the weather held up a lot better, light dusting of rain, but we had a great ride across the Isle of Mull. What a beautiful place: Few pics upon arrival: Typically, as the evening went on, the weather got even better. Once I'd been in...

Day 2, Continued: After fuelling up, we carried on riding until we hit Aberdour. The plan here was to check into our hotel, then drop the bikes at Willie's house, as this hotel had no good parking. Then go out for some food etc. Upon arriving at Willie's, all my worries about space being...

So we're all stuck at home bored, and I've been meaning to do this for some time. I saw something from @Daniel about wanting to do this journey in the v8's with his friends, so I thought I'd post this up so he could have a good look. The plan was simple, ride the bike to the top of Scotland and...

Christ almighty. Like giving a dog a sudoku book. That’s it, I’ve seen it all in 2020.

Surely if the Mrs has her own policy, and it covers driving other vehicles 3rd party, you’re sorted?

Not at all. If you were going to buy the s, maybe... but even then, probably not.

@Typhoon

Massively helped the resale no doubt

I went and bought a golf R with a mate from a firm somewhere around Cambridge. The salesman had a griff with sagaris (I think) wheels on it. Had done a conversion also, it looked amazing (although maybe not to purists?) I don’t know all things TVR enough to know what wheels you speak of... pics?

Beautiful purchase! Staying as is? Dare I say wheels could be better? Not sure if colour or style?

You may be able to answer my question then... I assume this garage has a dedicated power supply, so it’s not on the same circuit as your house plugs? And this still works? I assumed everything would need be on the same circuit? I.e downstairs power circuit or similar.

Apple brown leather. Same case I’ve always had.