Summer rides?

As summer is nearly upon us, how about some ride reports? Most of us buy our scooters to RIDE so let's share! I know adding pictures on this forum is a pain but try anyway?

My favorite thing to read is ride reports with pictures!

Hint hint?

I agree there isn't really much riding with SilverWings going on in US----put them in good stock condition and use them. I do not have one-----heavy weight and age got me out----waiting to buy Honda Navi....after hernia surgery, but will ride it to Hyder AK at slow speed with dog. Not planning on croaking---need to stay alive for at least 10 more years to collect all the money owed me!

I’m on my silver wing all the time, however, in all the riding that I’ve done, I’ve never seen another one. Some people have approached me to look at it I guess because they’ve never seen one up close.

We are indeed riding rare beasts! Summer Rides? It's a great idea. I sometimes find myself riding through some nice backdrops for a SW but I don't want to interrupt my ride...doh!

Of course, adding any brief points of interest about the place you're at always helps.

Cellphones at the ready.

Loosemarbles wrote:

Cellphones at the ready.

Although it's a lot easier to upload pics to Facebook and other social media sites than it is to motorcycle and maxi scooter forums.

Almost all of my rides since late last September have been to photo, eat, and review the same meal in different informal eateries in my local area, the rest of the county, and a couple of neighbouring counties.

To me it's no different than going to different National Trust properties, museums, breweries or distilleries.

So almost all the pics I take these days are of my latest meal for a FB group I'm in.

Don't ask because I'm not saying.

If anybody has trouble uploading pics to this forum, PM me. I just plug my phone into my laptop and do 'drag and drop' to make them accessible to upload from my Laptop library.

Let's get to work  

No photos unfortunately but we had a ride out last weekend through the North Yorks Moors following the little roads adjacent the railway from Stokesley to Grosmont. Lovely, glorious weather and very little traffic.
What set this ride apart was seeing another Silverwing, a Burgman and a couple of unidentifiable maxi-scooters out doing the same thing. Waves and smiles where exchanged

I rode down to Cambridge last weekend for the Birthday Weekend - sister and two nieces have birthdays on consecutive days.
It wasn't a rideout as such since it was mostly on motorways, time being of the essemce.
I rode back on Sunday in fabulous weather; my journey down was very wet then wet.
The Forza performed perfectly and covered the total distance of 452 miles with ease although at motorway speeds it is a tad thirsty.
I look forward to a more leisurely ride later in the month.

It's interesting reading that the Forza 350 is a tad thirsty at motorway speeds. My Forza 300 is basically the same scooter before they enlarged it to a 350 and gave it a slightly larger fuel tank.

As you say the Forza 350 handles motorways easily, as does the Forza 300. Fuel range wise the novelty of getting 200 plus miles from a full tank on my 300 wore off long ago and I'd fill up at the next set of pumps with the reserve light blinking.  

I've since stretched that to 232 miles on one occasion when I miscalculated how far the next services would be.

Meldrew, I was 'making progress' as my police instructor said one should on a motorcycle when I did BikeSafe some years ago..
With the sun behind me it was difficult to read either speedo or satnav.
I'm not proud of it exactly - I try to adhere to speed limits - but the traffic was flowing, I just opened the throttle and the Forza flew.

Not quite summer but, I took a ride over to Surrey yesterday, 160 mile round trip. I wanted to have a look at the house I lived in as a child while my Father served in the RAF. It was a private hiring because there were no Married Quarters at the nearby RAF station.

I took the scenic route there, dropped into a biker spot and then took the fast route back. The SW behaved perfectly which is rewarding after all the work I've put into her. Great riding weather apart from this easterly 'stiff' breeze which has plagued the South East for about 3 weeks now!