InvictaMoto's Red Pepé Blog

Covid-19 put the kybosh on the event as it had with nearly everything in life. I planned a route to take me around London on the M25 and up the M11. On the way back I wanted to stop in at the NAAFI cafe at North Weald airfield. North Weald was one of the WW2 fighter air stations in the defence of London and the South-East during the Battle of Britain. But it was cancelled and so was my trip.

Actually into East Sussex. Finished work from home at 4pm. I was togged up and away about 4.20. No plan. Started the Yamaha app but when I got back it had effed up.  Went to Rye via Appledore. Almost empty roads and in bright sunshine. Good ride. Only 42 miles and an odometer moving onto 9740.

June 15th. International Ride to Work Day. Great if you are working.  Great if you have a motorcycle. Not so great if due to the Covid-19 pandemic you are working from home and own a motorcycle. That's me folks. I worked on the computer from 0755 until I logged off at 1607. I guessed I had done my bit. I togged up. Pulled Pepé from slumber in the garage and set off. Where to go?  I decided on somewhere to bang off a photo that I had been out on this International Day. So I went to Dungeness. The roads were quite busy. The UK is still not totally out of Lockdown. The parking at Dymchurch by the beach was maybe 40% full. It's June. Still kids aren't at school. So parents obviously consider the combination of sun and no school to mean it's holiday time. Dungeness was pretty empty. The ride to the Light Railway station and Old Lighthouse had quite a few cars and tourists were photographing Derek Jarman's cottage and garden.  I've done that before so took my photo of...

Today as it was sunny instead of a lie-in I would get out for a ride. But where to? In the end I did a circuit of East Kent. Home to Canterbury and then loop back home. With the M20 closed northbound both the A20 and the Canterbury road were packed with foreign trucks.  Why these guys can't follow a clearly marked "diversion" is anyone's guess. Stone Street to Canterbury wasn't the diversion route. Twats. I stopped in Canterbury for fuel. ASDA selling at 100.7. I have missed out on the lowest price for years at 99.9p. I had the Yamaha app running in my pocket. A bit disappointed with the lean angle. I did try. Honest. So another shortish ride done. End mileage: 9670.