Ep 4 Northumberland Tour - Kielder Water / Forest, Hadrians Wall, Simon Weir Alston North Loop.
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- Опубліковано 1 вер 2023
- Day 4 of our Motorcycle tour see's us once again adapting a Simon Weir route from his book Bikers Britain.
We start filming about 35 miles in as we join the actual route and stop off at the Brocolita car park where we have a short walk to look at the ruins of the Temple of Mithras after riding our Bikes along side the remains of a large portion of Hadrians Wall.
Approx 85 miles in and we arrive at Newcastleton for our lunch stop at the Olive Tree cafe, before continuing north up to Hawick for a fuel stop.
Its after this where the already cracking scenery becomes even better when entering the Northumberland National Park. As we head east we ride through Kielder Forest and it opens up to the famous Kielder Water where we park up at Hawkhope car park right on the edge of the water and near the Dam.
Both John and myself send our DJI drones up for a great aerial view of our beautiful surroundings.
We hope you enjoy riding along with us on what was possibly the most picturesque route out of the four we rode in this area.
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Thanks Steve. Thanks again for taking us all along and for all your efforts getting us there. Greatly appreciated.
Cheers mate appreciate that.
Another enjoyable video of you boys riding the Alston North Loop. There are some wonderful forts and museums on or about Hadrians Wall but to visit, you need time and the need to put your hands in your pockets.🤣👍🏍
We could find the time its just getting Mussy to put his hand in his pocket we struggle with John lol
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Fabulous part of the country is Northumberland with some amazing roads and equally amazing countryside
Its what blew us away, far exceeded our expectations my friend.
That copper Beech tree looks amazing at 9:22 thank you for posting
Very observant fella and now I have re-watched at said point you are so right that's a beautiful Copper Beech Tree.
That was a great vid Steve, beautiful landscape and roads. Thanks for taking us along. Keep up the great work!
Thanks my friend pleased you enjoyed it fella.
Amazing video!! Thanks Steve and gang! 👍🏍🏍👍
Cheers John pleased you enjoyed my friend.
Great video Steve and friends. Many thanks for sharing. ……..
Thanks Karen pleased you enjoyed.
Awesome video Steve, thanks also for sharing a bit of history. 👍👍
Our pleasure my friend, ride safe.
Fantastic series again Steve, my neck of the woods so I can relate to the roads and places 👍
Simply stunning roads and scenery Bazza cheers mate
Great little video, thanks Steve. Believe the town name is pronounced 'Hoik' in Jockanese 😉
I never get the pronunciations right 🤣 always getting put right fella, thanks for that.
Another cracking video Steve looks like you have had decent weather up there. Beautiful locations good old England.
Weather was great apart from 2 days but worked around it Dean, thanks for watching mate.
Great ride out once again Steve & the Gang, Here's a blast from the past, I can remember the commentators talking about the " Keilder Forrest" section in the RAC Rally, back in the day, think they did it in the dark at night time .
It was quite stunning Alan well worth the ride, a cracking days riding my friend.
iv been along those roads back in the 80,s in sure , I barely remember looking at the remains of the Great Wall
Its a nice piece of history the wall and in the next episode we have a closer look at it my friend
Northumberland is my go to area on a Sunday, its on my doorstep. If you'd have gone across the dam there's a bigger carpark and free toilets.
Thats good to know Dave thanks for that heads up my friend.
Great one Steve. Nice to hear John back on full misery mode...😄
Ha ha he brings sunshine to a tour 🤣
He makes me smile too ☺️
Great Video Steve, looks good up there, loverly roads to play on.
They really are Tucker top roads and scenery fella.
Morning Steve. Thank you. Fantastic video. Good run out. Enjoyed that .Nice to see John settling in to the team .it's a shame mossy is not microphone up .he's a funny fella (petrol station ILL HAVE A PINT ) you could make a video just on mossy remarks over the years.
Thanks again Steve. The old fella.
Cheers Dave we have often plugged the mic set up to mussy but he's to tight to buy one lol and your right he's one funny guy.
Hi Steve 😊 great video, I live close to the Chesters roman Fort and often blast out on the military road (roman road) or around Keilder 😊 shame I wasn't on the road that day as it would of been great to see you guys, hope you enjoy your tour of this fab area😊 best wishes Steven from Northumberland 😊.
Thanks Steven you are blessed with the choice of roads to ride in your area, ride safe bud.
Great ride out Steve thanks
Pleased you enjoyed fella.
Great video as always and it’s always really nice to see you in Scotland 🏴 you’re always welcome!
Thanks Raymond we all appreciate that my friend.
Steve don’t tell too many people about Northumberland mate. It’s our secret and want to keep the tourists out lol
Mum's the word fella my lips are sealed 🤣
@@Steve-Clark good man 😉👍
Lovely neck of the woods. Nice area to ride that, cheers Steve, enjoyed that.
Simply stunning roads and scenery Tojjer thanks for watching mate
I remember that road alongside Hadrian's Wall from our tour, Nige. We also had trouble spotting bits of it 😂
@@NotNowCato1254Not surprising at that speed! 😂😂😂😂
Steve
i was up there at the beginning of last week, all roads to myself but just mised going over to Holy Island but got some good photos, beautiful area to ride.
your right it is a great area to ride in with such stunning scenery
Nice roads. Good video! 👍. Just purchased both Simon Weir books - Europe and the UK 2nd edition. I know you can also download his gpx routes, at a cost, from his website but I find the paper form gives everything context when planning and the satnav is a great navigation tool.
There are 4 books in all, three are for britain and one europe. I have all 4 and they are great to adapt to your own taste. Thanks for watching my friend and ride safe.
Brilliant stuff Steve, fantastic scenery and photography. Myself and a mate had a week up there in April, bloody baltic it was but the roads and scenery made up for it, great series this.
Thanks David and you've seen first hand how great this hidden treasure of a place is. pleased your enjoying it ride safe my friend.
Surprised you did not go to Hawick Museum to see Jimmy Guthrie & Steve Hislop's bikes, trophy's , leathers etc plus the two Statues of them in the grounds as they were born there and resedendts of Hawick. Well worth a visit and Free as well
Did not know about that my friend but a reason to return now 👍😃 thsnks
Beautiful areas to ride those lovely bikes. I've ridden quite a lot in those areas on our Pans and FJRs. As a former vlogger, I admire your quality production.
Thanks fella really appreciate the comments my friend.
@Steve-Clark Hi Steve. I don't watch many vlogs now due to not riding now but came across your video today. Your RT1250 is an absolute beauty, my favourite colour. I had 23 fantastic years of riding (1980-1990 & 2004-2017) and toured much of our beautiful part of England extensively. Aren't we lucky to have roads and scenery like we do? All the best. Biker Paul.
We are really lucky and don't think people realise how good our roads and scenery are half the time. mines the 1200 version Paul. will have a look at your vids in a bit mate.
@Steve-Clark My good friend Graham had a grey 1200RT. He absolutely loved it. He like me was a 'Pan Man' but with Honda not updating the 1300 and the FJR being too high, he found the RT (15 plate) perfect.
@@npr1300A8 I swapped from a pan to the Beemer as they are 11 stone lighter than pans and as I've got older struggled moving it manually mate.
Nae Loch Ness Steve but still very impressive !!
Cheers John
Brilliant as always and welcome to (almost) my part of the world! I'm just a bit further west, the other side of Carlisle, but enjoy the roads around there as much as you! 👍
Thanks Don your in a cracking biking area in my opinion there fella, ride safe my friend.
Sadly you missed the main car park at Kielder.....Cafe, gift shop...benches...and toilets....free for bikes. Next time ?
Duly noted my friend thanks for that 👍
Thought you might stop at hawick to look around steve hislop museum
Did that Jim on a previous tour (not filmed) Hawick is a lovely place.
Just back from a couple of days in this area,Northumberland and the Scottish borders are fabulous motorcycling areas. Don't share or there will be wall to wall camper vans.........bloody things😞
Ha ha my lips are sealed fella it is an amazing area to ride around 👍
@@Steve-Clark 👍
Shame you didn’t it go 10 mins north of the Olive Tree to Hermitage Castle (straight on before turning right to Hawick) if you wanted a bigger ruin. Not in bad nick for a 13th century castle. Keep up,the good work!
Cheers fella I always note tips of places of interest for future reference so thanks for that one my friend.
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Cheers fella
That truck driver was working hard moving grain from farm to mill so you can have your toast with your much loved full English.
Oops sorry Lee just wanted to enjoy that particular road my friend.
Hiya Steve, hope all is good with you. You might remember me, I have exactly the same bike as you. Are you still enjoying the RT? I continue to really enjoy your videos. Keep them coming. Do you ever use hill assist? If so, do you find it a help? Anyway ride safe, and take care.
Hi Brian I use hill assist all the time, I use it like a handbrake though pull the brake to put it on and then pull the brake to release it. You can just rev a bit harder to automatically release but sometimes I'd forget and stall it 🙄 think it's a great option to have my friend. Ride safe
Well, oil beef hooked.
oil beef hooked ??
@@Steve-Clark
Say it quick
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"Hoof hearted" "ice melt it" 😂😂😂
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Do you have a video on how to plan a route and send to bmw nav unit steve
Hi Austin the only video I have done about planning a tour is this one
ua-cam.com/video/Qff3bqHxrag/v-deo.htmlsi=5bk2QwwsaTthPpju
But it doesn't actually show you me transferring a route to unit, maybe something for the future.
@@Steve-Clark well steve you must be a clever fella because i have had 2 nav units now the first was a used nav 6 which was god awful the second an almost new nav 5 old stock which is obviously near enough same unit barring the nicer screen this nav 6 is faultless but planning a route and putting it on my nav seems to need me to pass a degree course. Might have another try this week as i am planning a couple of nights camping in northumberland / scottish borders hopefully later this week
Austin don't know wether you use Garmin Basecamp to plan routes but it's what I use and it's FREE.
I learnt so much from this guy and this playlist might help you as he explains everything so clearly.
ua-cam.com/play/PLUITrLiScG8LmVB9tCLhUth6ii6T8NCBy.html&si=GvUmdkmLMJ2PW5iT
@@austinmatthews347 Here's another good video on how to plan and transfer from Basecamp ua-cam.com/video/LXThs8AVLe0/v-deo.html
Made by the Romans won it 🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣
Ha ha you have to laugh Mick.