On the Road Again!

I fitted the buttpad and decided to have a short ride to test it. I thought I'd see if the fuel station along Seven Mile was still cheapest. Gulp! Not any more. I went past and then came back towards the coast via Stelling Minnis and Rhodes Minnis. I decided to head into Folkestone and get some seafood from Bob's for lunch. I was surprised to see that Alford Brothers bike shop was closed early on a Friday afternoon. I parked up by the harbour and went through to Bob's. One pot of whelks, fresh from the sea on their own boat, and some seafood selection, a mixture of shell fish and prawns. On the way back I followed coast to Hythe and then home. Another 30 miles or so. I also tested the upgrade to the Yamaha My Ride app. It worked. Sunday is Meldrews' and hopefully we'll get out. The weather looks good as we are currently experiencing high pressure. Everything is covered in sand that comes down onto cars and gardens. The sand from Morocco cause...

With the My Ride app on the phone playing up since the 14th February, I have thought about trying something different. It had worked perfectly well until the ride out I had on the 14th February. I had a ride towards Canterbury and then alo go some shitty back road that brought me out at Wincheap, then A28 to Ashford and A20 home. I posted on the V-Strom Club UK site and asked for alternatives. Amongst the suggestions was Detecht. It was easy to set up and add both bikes but I can't see how to differentiate between the two when out on a road trip. When installing it asked me to set the battery optimisation to "off" to allow the app to run in background. I then checked the same for My Ride, it was set on. It's not something I had altered manually. I changed it back to "off". I won't be able to test it until next week sometime! Maybe as late as the 6th when we have a Kent V-Strom breakfast meet at Jo's Café in Brooklands.  I...