Northumberland 250 Motorcycle Adventure - Day 1 A68 Derwent to Kielder
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2024
- Northumberland 250 on a Motorbike . An Adventure in North England - Part 1 - around Northumbria, our start point on the A68 at Derwent Reservoir to the Holly Bush inn in Kielder Forest
A 250-mile adventure around the land of dark skies, rolling hills and exquisite coastline
Part 2 is Via Kielder Water, then North to Jedburgh, East to Berwick then South to Alnwick and West to Otterburn
00:00 - Start
00:13 - Intro
01:04 - Start off the A68
02:02 - Turn towards Derwent Reservoir
04:24 - Right towards Blanchland
04:50 - Blanchland
05:57 - Entering County Durham
06:12 - Right onto Route 7 Cycle Way
07:20 - Townfield
07:33 - Cattlegrid 1 onto Moorland
07:53 - Cattlegrid 2 and Sheep!
09:41 - Right to Rockhope Arch
10:34 - Groverake Mine Head
12:34 - Allenheads
14:34 - Allendale
15:50 - Rouite Diversion!
16:59 - End of Diversion
17:46 - Left towards Haltwhistle
18:26 - Left
18:52 - Right
19:07 - Audi Rally Car
19:36 - Right at the Alston Junction
20:18 - Detour to the Centre of Britain
24:32 - Right back onto the N250
26:15 - Battery Died
27:24 - Fresh Battery
27:40 - Towards Hadrians Wall
29:15 - Sycamore Gap
31:28 - New Jackets
31:58 - Chesters Roman Fort
32:23 - Left to Kielder Forest
33:37 - Stuck behind a VERY slow Porsche!
34:54 - Finally Get passed it
35:26 - Bellingham
35:47 - Left towards Kielder
36:18 - Right to the Holly Bush Inn
37:05 - Arrive at our Overnight stop
Great video looking forward to seeing the next one
Cheers, next one is longer so will need a lot of editing LOL!
Love watching vids of bikers enjoying this area. I've got roots in blanchland so Am so lucky I live in the north east i get to experience these roads alot. Hope you had a lovely time
You are very lucky! We have just been back to finish off the N250, so watch out for that soon.
Looks great I've just submitted
That's great. Cheers
I enjoyed your video. I didn't realise the 250 started so close to where I live, only a couple of miles. I will have to do the whole route too sometime.
I have been meaning to book a night at The Holly Bush for ages.
Great roads!
Just what I needed, I’m doing it on the 22nd & 23rd of July, going the same way. But I’m staying in Newcastle on the 21st. So a long day to Berwick on the 22nd but a shorter day on the 23rd back to Newcastle, then home to Lincolnshire on the 24th.
You'll enjoy it! Lot of miles if you're 2 up fully loaded, but great fun riding solo
@@gonetouring doing it solo this time so just me to worry about.
Perfect! Enjoy!
Really enjoyed this, thank you.
Just for your background knowledge on the felled trees around Allenheads and Kielder: Storm Arwen, and then Malik, devastated the forests in and across Northumberland and these need to be cleared this year to be used for chipping mainly, as biofuel and wood pellets (you can't use windblow for structural stuff, because it's full of "shakes" and delaminates along the grain).
Thanks for the info! I guessed there would have been a lot of storm damage, but I was just so surprised around that bit. So that's interesting to know. Thanks
@@gonetouring The figure I have - my son works in forestry - is around 16 million trees were lost across Northumberland and the Scottish borders, a lot of these around the A68 - which leads past Kielder up to Carter Bar. That's about 8000 hectares, which is about 20,000 acres - it's lot of wood. The docks at Berwick are still stacked now, I noticed when I was there last week, and it's being shipped across to Europe for processing (we probably buy it back, as processed particle board and wood pellets).
That's amazing... shocking even! So much damage! LOL, yep, we probably will import it all back in.