A GIRLS TRIP / Riding around the NORTHUMBERLAND 250 / THE FINALE
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Hey Everyone,
In this video, I share the first part of my awesome motorcycle trip to Northumberland with my good friend Lillie. We are both passionate bikers and we decided to have a girls biking holiday in this beautiful area of England.
We started our journey from Bolton and rode to the Northumberland, which is one of the UK’s best kept biking secret locations. We found a lovely place to stay, set up our base and then went for a ride to explore the stunning scenery and roads.
We had a lot of fun and excitement on our bikes, and we also enjoyed the views and the fresh air.
This was a great start to our motorcycle adventure and we couldn’t wait to see more of Northumberland.
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Your enthusiasm knows no bounds, having fun in a most beautiful part of our country. How many go abroad and have never visited the North East and Northumberland, now you know what your missing. Great series of videos thanks Kate and Lillie.
Great video Kate and Lillie. Such wonderful scenery.
@UsernameKate
20 күн бұрын
Thanks Gary!
That musical interlude struck me as extra atmospheric and cool. Your friendship and shenanigans are always a joy to behold.
@darylneal989
13 күн бұрын
Agree. Choice pick of tune.
Looks like a beautiful place to ride, the ride over the Scottish border looks very similar to the southern highlands in New South Wales Australia.
Kate; you are lovely; road trips with Lily just perfection!
What a great trip 🏍️🏍️😃👍! Loved the map with the two bikes tracking your route, made me smile 😆.
Hi Kate Greetings from Perth Australia Both me and my better half who’s also originally from Bolton really love watching your vlogs I own a Kawasaki Z900RS and a BMW F900R which we both enjoy riding keep up the good work ride safely and more singing please loved your ABBA rendition
Loved it, loved it, loved it. Looking forward to the next mini series of you both.
Suggest you and Lillie next do the Crieff Cloverleaf, great scenery and great roads.
Thanks to you, I can see Scotland and the clouds in the sky and the view is wonderful😊
Absolutely brilliant video. I live up here and you did our beautiful county proud. Great work ladies 👏💪🏍️
Where ever you two go it'll be good,I look forward to it. ❤
@UsernameKate
20 күн бұрын
We have a sunny trip coming soon (or at least I hope it's gonna be sunny!) Hopefully I haven't just jinxed it 😅
@brendonchase9460
19 күн бұрын
@@UsernameKate yess! Another road trip
Hi Kate thankyou and Lillie for another brilliant video😊
@UsernameKate
20 күн бұрын
Appreciate you!
So let me see,.......two gorgeous girls, two fast bike's two girls who ride better than most men and a fantastic road trip!....... well done both 🎉🎉🎉
Thanks Kate and Lilly... enjoyed every minute... never a dull moment when you two are together 😂... ride safe
Loved every minute of this adventure kate and lily you're a tonic and a pair of comic's to boot the mad hair was ace 😊 how about the lake district and hard knott pass i mean for scenery and adventure its gotta be up there ,lily reminds me of a 1940's hollywood actress i bet made up in the era style she would look devastatingly beautiful ❤️ 😁 another avid fan of your channel kate 💥💥💥😁
@dukeofblonde
15 күн бұрын
Thank you!! I absolutely love the old Hollywood era so i'm flattered you think that!!
@johngray3585
15 күн бұрын
@@dukeofblonde so absolutely true lil take care beautiful lady 👍
Would like to see you do orkny and Shetland that would be a great trip. Keep up the good work.
Thanks kate and Lillie for a great 3 part video 👍, It's nice to see how much you appreciate great views kate I am the same. Good weather aswell. Take care, Best wishes Roy 😊.
@user-zl6em9ub5t
18 күн бұрын
Hi kate, I tried to order one of your t-shirts but it is saying put in a valid post code, I tried several times but it's not excepting it, don't understand why? Any idea why? Thanks Roy 😊.
Did a lot of these roads 10+ years ago. We also based ourselves out of Rothbury. Lovely roads and lovely people. Would love to do another trip up there, but maybe not on a GSXR600 K7 again! Excellent videos as always Kate.
@UsernameKate
19 күн бұрын
Thanks Adam!
Absolutely loved this mini-series. I've done a few of the roads around Newcastle, Keilder area, but not joined up, looks awesome. Also, my favourite MWay stop off at Tebay, by far best services in UK. Next journey, I could say do a loop of Yorkshire for Yorkshire day on 1 August, but, a bit soon. We could do it next year! (Love to meet Lillie). How about a tour of East Anglia, (bit flat), but It's a place I've never been but looks OK in Freddies Dobbs Vids. Thank You Girls, Ride and stay safe.
Luckily for us those roads are our playground for us in the N.E. Wonderful coverage Kate. Well done.
Really enjoyed this series Kate, reminded we have unfinished business with the Northumberland 250 as due to a 70 mile diversion and monsoon rain we had to abort that part of our tour. We rode on down to Whitby stayed overnight and then set of from Robin hoods Bay on the coast to cost run over to St Bees in Cumbria.
Loved watching your adventure
You make me realise how lucky I am living in the north east of England
@otaupdate3151
19 күн бұрын
We're on the same wavelength. A68 is the best A-road in the country. All bikers welcome but please, please,please don't bring your bloody camper van up here.
Hi Kate, How about doing the NC 500 again with Lilly? Another great upload 👍
Great series gals, reminded me of my time in the UK!
@UsernameKate
20 күн бұрын
Yesss! Glad you like it!
One thing i cant do is eat and then ride. Well done.
God you girls are making me want to take a road trip on the bike so bad! Beautiful countryside there!
@UsernameKate
20 күн бұрын
Do itttttt
Thank you for posting this series! I have made plans to do this trip myself for a couple of days quiet time later this year, weather permitting. The Haven looks super nice as a base.
@UsernameKate
19 күн бұрын
It's a lovely base 😊 hope you get good weather if you do go 😊
Always use this road going to England and back never get bored
@UsernameKate
20 күн бұрын
Stunning isn't it!!!
If this kind of riding is your jam then you two should book a riding holiday to New Zealand 👍🏼
@UsernameKate
20 күн бұрын
Imagine 😍😍😍
It's been great watching the pair of you doing the Northumberland 250 looked great fun 🏍️😎
Great team,how about you both go camping next time
Two nutty northern gals on bikes ❤
@UsernameKate
20 күн бұрын
As nutty as squiral poo 💩 🤣
What a great video girls can’t wait for the next one
Great little series that Kate, I'll have to add it to my to do list!
Awesome video! I really enjoyed that. Especially the headbangers in the wind. Music was good too. I am looking forward your next adventure. Best!
Never been to Tebay services, but from the TV it’s definitely worth a visit. Great riding girls, really enjoy the mini series. 😊😊
Great roads and views, cracking ride and vlog. 🏍👍👌
Great series Kate loved it, going to watch it again soon. Keep up the great work! 😊
Loved all 3 parts 👏👏, well done to you both 🤗😎
That is quite a view, and good weather to. Lucky.
I rode from Denver to Oklahoma City yesterday and today. It's so much more fun watching ur videos while I'm on a roadtrip myself. I lost a saddlebag. Now I look ridiculous with just one.
Loving these Kate... Always great to watch. 🙂
@UsernameKate
19 күн бұрын
Thanks so much!!
Really enjoyed these videos, Kate. Did the same roads last year and compared to the Peak District it’s so, so quiet!
North Coast 500 next?? That would be a big ride to complete. Enjoyed this ride Kate and Lilly. Many thanks 👍
Great videos over three parts, I really enjoyed them, you make a good double act. I agree Kate, you following Lillie makes the experience so much better for us viewers. I think you should push on next time into the Scottish Borders as we have some great bike routes with fast twisties. But basically anywhere where the riding is good ATB Big Dave Scotland
Fantastic video of the trip Kate and Lillie very funny and entertaining as usual
Absolutely amazing Vlog girls, unbelievably scenic 👌 I think you should head up the west coast of Scotland and your minds will be totally blown. Stay safe ✊
Great series of videos lady’s keep up the good work
@UsernameKate
20 күн бұрын
Appreciate you chris!
I did the Leigh 5 yesterday. It's 2.5 miles to the kebab house and 2.5 miles back home. Not to be underestimated but I managed it. 😅
Lincolnshire. See the Lancaster run at Eastkirby. Ride the wolds roads.
Amazing landscapes. Previously, I greatly underestimated the nature of Britain from the point of view of a motorcycle traveler. Greetings from Ukraine.
First time in Northumberland last autumn, wonderful trip and border crossing to Scotland, previously owned a Kawasaki z1000sx a great bike, thanks Kate n Lillie great video
Very nice tour you guys 😊. It might be a bit boring as it's on your "doorstep" but a tour of the Lakes is never dull.
@UsernameKate
20 күн бұрын
It's not boring, we loved this trip 😊
Great videos as always, thanks.
Great series of videos 👍👍
Thoroughly enjoyed watching your weekend trip series ! Makes me want to buy another bike now haha (side note, up here in ' Tu norf' if the village name ends in "Ham" we pronounce it "Jum" so Bellinghan becomes Belling'jum'... Just because we are awkward lol)
Love Northumberland and this was one of your best trips yet and still plenty to go at. The coast is amazing. The Scottish Lowlands are a treat themselves. I run from Sheffield up to Jedburgh sometimes, just further on from where you turned. breakfast at "Simply Scottish" .. just remember not to ask for a "Full English".
I enjoyed watching. A lot of my local roads, but never ridden them on a bike.
Great video and awesome scenery! As for whats next! Maybe a coastal round trip of Wales?
So glad you enjoyed our country side 🏍💨💨
Snowdonia 360 next 🙏🙏🙏
Nice roads and scenery 👍
Really enjoyed the trip
9:37....to your left, is one of the best motorcycle roads in the UK....the A6088 onto the B6357 😊 Oh. But then later, lo and behold, suddenly you're well along on the B6357 enjoying the descent to Saughtree Station valley lol. Some judicious editing, no less. You either double backed or more likely joined it at Cleuch Head coming down from south of Jedburgh or Hawick through Bonchester Bridge. The beauty of these roads is they criss cross and interconnect, with multiple ingress and exits. 🙂 Didn't think that was on the Northumberland 250, but glad you experienced it, all the same.
“Quack!” - birds? Must have been ducks then! 😁
Nice to see you up in my neck of the woods
Very good. Cheers girls.
A really good advert for the Northumberland and Scottish tourist boards! Would have been even better early June with the trees in full leaf. Next Wales or Devon and Cornwall on the B roads.
Way to go ☺️
Great area for riding, good video
I showed your videos to my sister who just happens to be doing that route in her Fiat 500 with her daughter………hopefully it will convert them to bikers after seeing them! 😉😆
@UsernameKate
18 күн бұрын
🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
After seeing your meals I think you have taken the "Give it the beans " to another level !
I would ride one hundred miles and I would ride one hundred more , with Lillie oh Lillie ❤
Another classic video, thank you. Just been on son’s 1000sx, sport tourer edition and what a bike. So smooth and refined compared to my 900RS, but not keen on riding position. Wrists and neck uncomfortable, I am 6ft so not really a short a**e😂.
@UsernameKate
20 күн бұрын
I was gonna say! Surprised you didn't get on with the riding position then read your 6ft! Cool to hear a tall person's perspective 😊
Great video👍🏼
Your next circular trip, from Glasgow, out past Loch Lomond across "Rest and be Thankful" to Tarbert, round Kintyre 66, back across to Arran on Claonaig ferry, circuit of Arran and ferry back to Ardrossan. Smaller version of NC500 with much less traffic,
Shame you missed out Blancheland. It's absolutely stunning scenery.
Great video Kate, btw its pronounced Bellingjam. I live around there. We did that exact route yesterday for a ride out.
@UsernameKate
10 күн бұрын
That's so wild, there's not a J in sight haha!
Another top video Kate and Lillie. Great road, great views and terrific commentary. Many thanks for sharing. So I've watched this series so what are the plans for the next blast with you both?
@UsernameKate
19 күн бұрын
I have a Belgium trip to go live with Lillie and my friend Wren, and we're off to seek sun in a few weeks! (Lord knows we can't find it here!) 🤣
Yet another fantastic trip series, especially with you two! Whens Hannah coming out again by the way? Never been anywhere near Northumberland but it looks totally awesome. Also, a note to say I love the wind noise as it makes everything more involving. TCFN 👍
@UsernameKate
20 күн бұрын
Need to get Hannah out of hibernation! Bit of a way off, but we already have some Halloween content being planned 🤭
Was you cooking popcorn 😅 lots of clicking / crackles , great scenery nice video 🏴 there’s a mountain road from the Elan valley across to Aberystwyth in wales it’s stunning and similar in places half a cow for lunch😅
Kate , and the most followers ...today i became the answer that Yamaha produce the r1 till dez. 2024 ... help ...help ...what is about BMW or Ducati or Honda does some assembly lines also end ??? (euro 5 , or other euro stuff "news" please ) i go only into a motorbike shop if the inspection planning need to , so my knowledge is "broken" ktm ➡️ no - way !!! a duke is at the controll-head with a cheap repair which i can spot some day's ... (does the rc390 also have had trouble with the wirings ?)
The border crossing is called ‘Carter Bar’, a lot different in Winter🥶. Just as you enter Scotland there’s a left turn to Hawick via Bonchester Bridge, amazing road…but you did do the great road from Bonchester to Kielder. PS. Jedburgh is pronounced Jed Borough😉👍
@UsernameKate
20 күн бұрын
Legend! We never knew how to pronounce it 🤣
@IanTed
20 күн бұрын
@@UsernameKate The local name for Bellingham is ‘Bellingjam’🤣 and there’s not only a place called Alnwick pronounced ‘Anick’ but there’s a place near Corbridge really called Anick. Sad you missed Blanchland as it’s lovely but you both certainly did justice to the rest, very lucky living up here.
@davidreed6817
20 күн бұрын
I road the Hawick to Bonchester bridge road last spring, you're right it's brilliant 😊
Lovely stuff...12:40 wild women of the forest isn't a rumour guys....they do exist. It's just knowing where to find them.
you could come to skye, or do the "not" nc 500. quieter and more interesting roads.
👍👍
Great video.. Just wondered if you've ever ridden the Jurassic coast ?
7:36 min. “It looks so different!” ????
Hey Kate how are you doing today looking forward to seeing this later on i love your vlogs especially when you are with lily duke of blonde more videos with the girls nothing beats seeing you on 2 wheels wearing your biker gear and your world famous swanky helmet and dark visor ride safe lovely 😍
Great video ... when you coming to Cornwall?????
Riding such landscapes on borrowed bikes? Very close to stealing! 😁
Those roads look amazing and looks like you had a cracking time. Would you buy that Kawasaki. I got stuck behind a learner car on that same road on my way back from Scotland 🏴 South Scotland is fun to ride around
@UsernameKate
20 күн бұрын
Yeah, I'd own that Kawasaki if I was after a Tourer! Cracking bike 😊 oh man, not stuck behind a car! 😫
@rlw85
18 күн бұрын
@@UsernameKate I really like the bike I’d consider one but I do love my s1xr
As you left Alnwick you rode right by my house without even popping in for a brew 😂
Carter Bar....exit to the north..!
Lily is stunning as are you obviously 😜❤
Very envious, was supposed to do it this week but the weather put paid to it?
@UsernameKate
20 күн бұрын
Weather has been CRAP! Summer is not summering
Ok 👏🎉👍 Kate 😽
you need to come down to somerset