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Ride out to Coopers BMW

I was out early today to rise across to Tunbridge Wells to meet my brother Neill, and give him a ride home after he had taken his BMW K1600 in for a warranty recall on the gearbox.

The ride out was pretty much as expected across to Tenterden then Sissinghurst and to the A21.

Apart from a weird TomTom bypass of Tenterden that had ne join the A28 behind a car I had overtaken miles before. It was pretty much as expected though.

We had a look around the showroom. They seem to have loads of bikes plated with 20 reg and ready to be collected.

Then off to Neill's place. I didn't have the TomTom set but left it on. The Yamaha My Ride app was though.

After a coffee and a chat I was back on the road. When I started up the bike the yellow light came to say I needed fuel. The miles to empty said 52.

As I set off it dropped dramatically and I was working out whether to fuel up or go home and fuel up another day.

The nearer I got to home I decided today rather than later, and so I went to Tesco at Cheriton to fill up.

The weather was supposed to be a good chance of thunderstorms, but I missed all that.

So another 108 miles on the odometer taking me nearer to getting 10000 miles....

End mileage on odometer is 9975.
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