On the Road Again!

England’s national lockdown sees further revision to the COVID-19 Riding Guidelines. The Coalition of Motorcycling Organisations (COMO) has reacted once more to changes to the Covid-19 restrictions.  The national lockdown for England commencing from 5th November rules out group and recreational riding. The core detail of the guidelines remains unchanged, but the group riding guidelines are suspended in England until the new restrictions relating to Covid-19 are lifted.  Welsh restrictions are set to ease  next week, but Northern Ireland and much of Scotland have travel restrictions affecting motorcyclists as well as drivers. The Guidelines joint authors, Richard Gladman of IAM RoadSmart and Roger Bibbings of the Vintage Motorcycle Club, have chosen to leave the majority of the guidelines unchanged whilst emphasising that  motorcycling is only permitted for essential travel purposes in England and therefore all group riding in England is prohibited. As the other admin...

Sadly the Ring of Red M25 that was due to take place on November 8th has been cancelled. This is of course due to the new lockdown in England that comes into force at 0001 or as I type around 1h 25m.

So at the end of the first month of the challenge I have completed a total of 104.92 miles. If you divide that by 31 you get  3.384516129032258 miles per day. It's a little lower than the average I was hoping to maintain at 3.50 miles per day.  I have fallen below the target due in the main to the tail end of the hurricanes that have affected the US and the the torrential rain and high winds these have brought. The challenge is to raise money for the Poppy Appeal of the Royal British Legion and my Poppy Walk ends at midnight on the 10th November. We will be in lockdown by then but I can still get out to do exercise! I need more donations. The minimum is just £2. Just Giving like to ask for some costs as well on top of the donation, this can be bypassed at the payment stage if you want to swerve paying them.  I did when I primed the account myself at the start of the challenge. To donate go here:   https://mypoppyrun.britishlegion.org.uk/fundraising/MyPoppyRun202...

So here we go again. England has after much whinging from opposition parties plunged into another lockdown from Thursday. The science is showing that we need to get this sorted and the experts say another lockdown.