Hello Peter. A wonderful storytelling ride. Brilliant! Those lanes are looking great too. Happy days on planet Peter 😄

@Lanes-Explorer5733

26 күн бұрын

Hello Jane. Thank you 👋👋. I am so pleased to hear you enjoyed this. I've received so many great stories from viewers from their own earlier riding days too, which is just wonderful. Just settling down to breakfast here on my own this morning as Mike returned home after breakfast yesterday. ☕☕

Talking of motorcycle tests. I did the old figure of 8 test in the seventies on a BSA C15. Half way around the test, a fire engine had pulled across the road completely blocking my route. The only options were to mount the pavement or to sit it out and wait for it to move. Thankfully I chose the latter; the examiner was waiting on the other side. As the engine pulled away he gave me a nod and I carried on with the test. The longest few minutes of my young life 😅

@timsatchell6713

27 күн бұрын

Did my test on a C15 in 75 😂

@Lanes-Explorer5733

27 күн бұрын

What a great story Marc. I love it. I can just imagine the scene. I don't remember having to ride in a figure of eight - that must have been a later addition to the test. Well done for making the decision to wait 👍

Bravo, Peter.

@Lanes-Explorer5733

25 күн бұрын

Thanks Tim

Great stories Peter. They got me thinking about my Dad’s BSA which, as you might recall, has been around since I was about 2 years old. Most of the photos and my memories of Dad owning the BSA are not as much of him riding it as working to maintain it. Not so these days. Our modern bikes are remarkably reliable and seem to need relatively straightforward servicing. I don’t carry more than the standard tool kit myself. It appears to fit most of the fastenings that could need attention on the road. You have reminded me to get a tubeless puncture repair kit though. I must get onto that! Anyway, that’s enough rambling from me. Time to turn in. All the best, Roy.

@Lanes-Explorer5733

27 күн бұрын

Thank you for your great comments Roy, as always. The 125 Bantams and the later 175s were really so reliable but you did have to keep them maintained regularly - that was my downfall in those early days as I couldn't afford to buy any new parts so just 'made do'! Not good.

A nice ride and some nice recollections of your early motorcycling days Peter. I'm still waiting for my memories of my youth to come flooding back......nope.....hasn't happened yet 🤔 Love from Spain, Garry & Ruby ❤🐕

@Lanes-Explorer5733

23 күн бұрын

Listening to your Tuesday ride last week it rather sounded as though you need a bit of a holiday away from the computer screen. I hope you aren't overdoing things again. We have a day of sunshine and light breezes here in anticipation of all day rain tomorrow. ☔ Peter x

@economicalrides

23 күн бұрын

@@Lanes-Explorer5733 I definitely need a holiday but it isn't going to happen ! I think that after this week I should slowly be able to start to get back on top of things 🤞 Thanks Peter, take care ! Garry

@economicalrides

23 күн бұрын

One positive is that my new helmet arrived at the end of last week and I was able to try it over the weekend. I'm delighted with it, so that is at least one less thing for me to worry about at the moment. I won't need to send it back, which is a relief ! 👍🏻 Cheers Peter, Garry

@Lanes-Explorer5733

23 күн бұрын

Now that IS good news. 👍

Hello Peter, thoroughly enjoyed this story telling ride, it's a powerful thing is nostalgia. With regards to tools, whenever I do a distant ride or a tour I always carry a basic tool kit, multi-meter and jump starter. Touch wood I haven't had to use them on my own bikes but I have carried out some running repairs for others including a recent fuse blowing issue on Paul's Honda 400 Four. The backdrop to this ride is lovely. Thanks for sharing your experiences and memories 😃👍

@Lanes-Explorer5733

23 күн бұрын

Thank you Dave. Ah yes the fuse blowing 400 4... I think Paul would be very sensible to get a Hunter, especially in Red but I'm totally biased. He'd probably want to keep the Honda especially now the side panel has been so lovingly painted Now that does sound like a useful toolkit - never though about a multimeter. No, I'll stick with UK breakdown recovery I think as I won't be leaving this country. A few tools are always useful though, just to tighten the odd loose mirror 😉. It was Jane that suggested I should be doing more story telling and certainly they seem quite popular - though not with my young Indian audience I suspect. Surprisingly two or three US viewers enjoy them. I always enjoy reading others memories so that's a big part of why I do this story telling. Many thanks for watching and commenting, Dave. Might we have some of your tales too? I hope so.

@Lanes-Explorer5733

23 күн бұрын

PS... I've planned a couple of of routes on the tablet to make it easier for me to see the mapping and it's also on my phone automatically apparently as it too is paired with the Beeline. So I'll only need to take my phone with me..

@MerciaMoto

23 күн бұрын

@@Lanes-Explorer5733 excellent, really looking forward to hearing how you get on with the Beeline.

I thoroughly enjoyed your motorcycling tale this week. It’s amazing when you’re young how much you just got on an did stuff, although I don’t have the memory of hot oil smell etc from the racetrack, I do have the taste of petrol from the road side!

@Lanes-Explorer5733

27 күн бұрын

Hello Dave and I'm pleased you enjoyed these youthful tales despite your being rather younger than others who enjoy these. I was chatting with a friend today and saying that you've recently discovered how you are relatively new to motorcycles but that you really enjoy riding. 👍

@daveanderson70

27 күн бұрын

@@Lanes-Explorer5733 I have bought a second hand GoPro from Revbomb (he’s on KZread) and a second hand Wingman of the Road tent from eBay is on its way. All ready for when me and Tom head out on our road trip, down the Fosse Way to the South West. Inspiration comes from unexpected areas but channels like yours are igniting a sense of adventure I last had 35 years ago.

Afternoon Peter, cars and bikes of old would breakdown at the drop of a hat. My father used to carry all sorts of tools plus big bottles of water (this was for his car) and motorbikes would also be subject to failing r overheating. I now have minimalistic tool kit, cable ties, electrical tape, puncture repair kit and a couple o spanners, thankfully modern bikes are far more reliable. Some great little tales of old Peter.

@Lanes-Explorer5733

27 күн бұрын

Thanks Alex. By contrast with the bikes, my 50+ years young Beetle has rarely given any cause for concern, is in everyday use still and has cost me very little over the 45 years I've had her. Will my Enfields be as good fifty years on I wonder 🤔

Great ride with great stories. As always watching your videos is time well spent. I was lucky and learned to ride off road on a make shift dirt track. What made it different then most was I learned to ride on my neighbors home built speedway bike that I purchased from them when I was 14. I didn’t know it was a speedway bike at the time just that it had a motor and two wheels! Speedway wasn’t a very popular sport here in the early 70’s. Lessons learned on that bike still serve me well today. It wasn’t till years later that I put two and two together. My neighbor always had Jawa’s which were very rare as there were no dealers. I learned that when he came back from the Korean War he stayed in California for a time and was a successful speedway racer for a few years! Thanks for the ride along!

@Lanes-Explorer5733

25 күн бұрын

Joe that's just such a wonderful story you've shared with me. I'm very much in awe of those experiences of yours especially riding a Jawa speedway bike. As you say they shape not only how well you ride but also your personality. I grew up among the bomb damage from ww2 in Portsmouth so we had plenty of practice climbing over rubble and twisted metal. No motorcycles that actually ran - we did share a seized up BSA and pushed one another around on it though over the great mounds of earth thrown up by bombs. Great fun. Do you know, as I read your stories those memories of mine came right back. Thank you 😊 Thank you too for taking the time to write of those experiences. Best wishes from the seaside here in the north west 😊

@JW-ym5yb

25 күн бұрын

Now that's a story worth repeating! Making the best of what you had!

@Lanes-Explorer5733

25 күн бұрын

@JW-ym5yb Yes I think next Thursday's has elements of that theme woven into it and I may well explore that in future ones.

Riding an old bike more than a few miles was always an adventure, a question of when, not if, it would go wrong. Much more fun than getting the bus though, as long as you were young and fit. Oulton Park for me by the way. Thanks Peter.

@Lanes-Explorer5733

27 күн бұрын

I think we call it 'character', Mick 😂😂. I have no stories about my Enfields they just keep going - at the moment anyway! Yes I used to watch motorcycle racing from Oulton park and it looks like a great circuit.

@5dTraveller

27 күн бұрын

Sadly I have far too many stories about my state of the art modern BMWs, but they'll have to wait for another time. Oulton Park is a great circuit, I marshalled there once when I was 17 but was a bit daunted by it all, I was far too young for such a responsible position. I did enjoy getting to ride my clapped out old two stroke around the circuit though, it went very slowly, made a lot of noise and left clouds of blue smoke trailing behind, much to the amusement of some spectators 😁

My father was a military motorcycle police in world war two, I remember him teaching me to ride trials on an old 250 triumph tiger cub in the mid sixties. It was our do all bike, flat track, cross country, and pleasure. The garage at our house seemed to always have a motor, or bearings ,or gears,of some sort on the work bench. Would enjoy swapping stories with you over the last 60 years of riding. Thanks for your content, always a pleasure for me to watch.

@Lanes-Explorer5733

27 күн бұрын

Oh what a great story. And childhood. Brilliant. How many today would have your opportunity to be tearing about on a bike in such a way. Those of us born just after ww2 were very fortunate in so many ways.

Imagine when we were young and healthy enough to push a motorcycle 3 or 4 me and consider that a short push

@Lanes-Explorer5733

12 күн бұрын

Haha yes Frank I puff just getting my bike out of the garage but I tell myself that's because they're heavier than they used to be. 😅. But I wouldn't want to be pushing home after running out of fuel now!! Many thanks for watching this and good to hear from you. Peter

Morning Peter I’m also one of the “tool kit carriers” but thankfully only ever needed to use it for the odd loose screw. I’m with the AA for everything else..🤣🤣

@Lanes-Explorer5733

27 күн бұрын

Ah yes Nick I thought you might be one of our select group who likes to carry a few essential(and probably never need to use them tools 😉. Because one never knows... 😂

That gave me a laugh and a smile at the bixe mishaps🙂. How ever did the Japanese get a foot in the door with their offerings🤔🤔🤗

@Lanes-Explorer5733

27 күн бұрын

How could the Japanese ever have hoped to break into the British bike market eh 🤣🤣🤣. Oddly I've never been tempted by their offerings - even today I would choose something like a BSA Victor 440 over all that the East has on offer. But I know I'm odd😂😂

@simonchilli2088

27 күн бұрын

@@Lanes-Explorer5733 Not odd. A mature eccentric my friend🤗

@Lanes-Explorer5733

27 күн бұрын

@simonchilli2088 🤣🤣

@Lanes-Explorer5733

27 күн бұрын

@@simonchilli2088 ah yes I'm happy with that, Simon 😄

Always enjoy stories, common theme with most Enfield channels is relaxed presentation style. Like the look of the old bike. There’s a monthly Wednesday lunchtime classic meet near Matlock, most riders are pensioners (couldn’t imagine my grandparents having similar hobbies back in the 1960s)

@Lanes-Explorer5733

27 күн бұрын

We older folk do enjoy a bit of a natter over times past and good friends remembered. Especially over a classic bike 😉

I love the stories Peter. My first childhood home was in Hartley, about 5 miles from Branson Hatch. You could hear the racing on weekends. I used to visit Brans in the mid 70s from Honington. Hope you have lots more stories to tell.

@Lanes-Explorer5733

27 күн бұрын

Hello Tim. Ah we often used to think about people living nearby Brands Hatch and the noise. We loved it, of course but I imagine it must have been awful for those not racing inclined.

Hi Peter, twenty minutes of enjoyable tales. Reminded me of a seized rocker on a Triumph 250 Trophy, followed by two melted pistons 1000 miles apart, followed by a quick sale over one summer last century traveling from the north of the North Island down to Christchurch in the South Island.

@Lanes-Explorer5733

27 күн бұрын

Thanks for your own memories there Alex. Sounds like quite some tales there though that you could tell. I've never suffered quite such severe problems I'm pleased to say. And there was I considering buying one of those Triumphs... Hmmm. Good to hear from you. Keep warm down there.

Morning Peter 😊 tool kit down to a couple of spanners, screwdriver, and the AA now 😊 excellent video bringing back memories of a C11 and a long push 😂😂

@Lanes-Explorer5733

27 күн бұрын

Ah yes those long pushes... Apart from running out of fuel - or in the case of one of our WhatsApp group, flat battery (actually, more than one I seem to remember) our bikes seem pretty reliable. Couldn't push a bike now any distance now so it's just as well they keep going 😂😂

Morning Peter great ride as usual your comment about john player Norton reminded me I went to olivers mount racetrack when agostini was racing went back at night and "borrowed" a john player Norton vinyl track side sign unfortunately I must have lost it in a house move regards Tim

@Lanes-Explorer5733

27 күн бұрын

Wow what a great memory to have to have seen Ago on that circuit. Though I watched him a few times at other circuits and the TT, the Olivers Mount circuit is one I never got to. Thank you for sharing that.

Hiya Peter, Thank you for a lovely video and another great story. That lane that you ended the video on looks like the lane I was scared to go up as I thought it was private, is that right, the exit looks like the one near to Crook o Lune picnic area. Or have I got it completely wrong. Take care and ride safe.

@Lanes-Explorer5733

27 күн бұрын

Thank you Paul and yes you're spot on there. It is indeed that lane. Be Adventurous-go for it 😂😂. Many thanks for watching and pleased you enjoyed the stories. Pouring down up here as usual!

Morning Peter, another lovely ride and some fond memories, I like you still take a small toolkit with me,old habits 😉 growing up in South Yorkshire our usual race tracks were Donington Park and Cadwell Park with the odd run to Oliver’s mount but Cadwell was my favourite and I’ve many fond memories of rides out there with friends during the 1970’s. All the best buddy 👍

@Lanes-Explorer5733

27 күн бұрын

Thanks Mike. So many great memories of riding with friends. I did get to Cadwell park once and I agree it's a great circuit. I seem to have a memory of watching the two Gilera 4s ridden by John Hartle and one other but not sure who, now. This would be 1967 I think. I'll have to do a bit of a search on that. The two were neck and neck constantly swapping places. Just wonderful. Thanks for reminding me of that day. 😊

Lovely memories Peter👍I won't comment about bike breakdowns because I've had soo many that I wouldn't know where to start!! On my bike test for the emergency stop, the examiner waved his clip-board at me from so far down the road that I only had to steadily change down the gears and barely had to touch the brakes and whilst wobbling round the set route I spotted him chatting away in the butchers shop, I still passed first time😄

@Lanes-Explorer5733

27 күн бұрын

😂😂. He obviously took his job very seriously then 🤣. No stories to tell about our Hunters they're so boringly reliable. Thankfully. With hindsight it's fun to relate the tales but at time it was "Oh no, not again - what this time!"

@paulholmes1682

27 күн бұрын

@@Lanes-Explorer5733 Oh yes I remember the heartache and frustration of not being able to properly cure faults. But when something is so badly designed and poor materials used, it really is a loosing battle. I saved for years to get a good house deposit and then spent it on my dream bike, which turned into a 6 year nightmare. Search Google for "Silk 700", I had #92 and wish I hadn't. We live and learn!

@Lanes-Explorer5733

20 күн бұрын

​@@paulholmes1682oh Paul I'm so sorry I completely missed this. Thank you for telling me you'd commented on the Silk. You're right about the 'dream bike' turning into a nightmare though. It was like that with my idea of building my own 'dream bike'. It was soaking up so much money I realised I'd never complete it. But as you say, we learn by our experiences. Or should do 😂

Castrol R wonderful 😊

@Lanes-Explorer5733

27 күн бұрын

Yes I can smell it now. Once enjoyed, never forgotten

@carlarthur4442

27 күн бұрын

Yes I used that in my Ariel Golden Arrow in the mid 60s , loved the smell , used to get two plumes of smoke out of the twin Exhausts.

@Lanes-Explorer5733

27 күн бұрын

@carlarthur4442 oh yes Carl I can see, hear and above all smell that Golden Arrow. As a schoolboy I used to wait on a curve near my home at about 5.15 each weekday evening for one to come past. He didn't use R but oh my it looked and sounded great,that Ariel.