Long Ride
Since 1977, following a two-up trip to Switzerland via Holland and Germany, I have always wanted to do another European trip. Then, after a three-week trip in a car to Tuscany in 2019, I just had to find the opportunity to do something on a bike. As with most people, motorcycles come and go through phases dictated by marriage, houses and children. Much time has passed and, coming up for retirement in 2017, I purchased the first of two R1200 RTs with the intention of fulfilling the dream. Two because the first was run over by a reversing truck!
Plenty of UK trips followed, with a couple of North Coast 500 trips (in both directions), but I always remained in the UK. Four hundred or 500-mile days were quite common, as living in South
