Most of my trips are long rides not common for me to do 2,000 mile round trip regularly just to have a weekend piss up with a few mates and most of our Sunday rides involve 2 or more full tanks of fuel on back roads we try to avoid highways but sometimes you can't avoid them, my Norton has spent most of its life traveling and has clocked up a lot of miles on it in the 42 years of owning it but now I have semi retired it and the Thruxton is now clocking up the miles.
When I first brought my Norton new when I was 17 my mate Don who got me into Nortons and myself were the only Norton riders around, most of my mates got into Triumphs and Honda 4s a few years later Don's brother got out of jail (did a bank job when he was young) and he had the Norton bug as well but by that time Don started to get into building Triton race bikes but I kept true to Norton's, Don's brother Grame built a few hot Triumph street bikes that were pretty fast, but as we are all getting older the old Jap riding mates are getting the British bike bug now but a lot of them are also into the big Harlies, but they don't seem to want to do the distants that me and a few mates do, they talk about how good their Harlies are but they don't seem to want to prove it, they only seem to want to ride around our local area and only do one anual long ride where we all get together once a year that we been doing for over 40 years now.
I have all my traveling gear at the ready and can have my bike fully packed and ready to go in less than 30 minutes on any given day with camping gear, swag or bed roll as most call them and anything else I need for what ever I am going to do the only planning is where and for how long and even thats not always planned.
Ashley
