Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

BREAD, SCONES & JAM

If you like the sound of villages with names like Sixpenny Handley and Middle Wallop, then this trip is for you – it’s a mix of A and B roads through Hants, Wilts and the New Forest. I can’t tell you how far it is as I forgot to check the mileage, but it took good friend Hume and I the best part of a day.

We start in Shaftesbury, hilltop town in north Dorset and home to the famous Hovis ad, not to mention Dorset’s highest concentration of hairpin bends. Incidentally, the boy-on-a-bike Hovis ad has been revived – the original boy is now a 50-something ex-firefighter and instead of

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