Stop to admire the view down to the Irish Sea from Cold Fell in the Western Lake District. Lots of Neolithic remains up here so I was careful to ride only on the track.

Riding the ford at Rutter Force waterfall was the highlight of a fun and varied day’s adventures

More photos: Crosby Ravensworth adventure ride

Start Line, Silloth Track, Cumbria

Silloth Motorcycle Museum

An afternoon inspired by a chat with Jim at Silloth Motorcycle Museum. Jim’s museum is stuffed with old track and road race bikes, several race-winners and several of which he raced back in his day. Jim Smaith’s usual race number was 33 and his home track was at Silloth, run by Solway Motorcycle Racing Club. The key to my afternoon was him telling me that I could still ride the Silloth track on my rally bike even though the surface is so beaten up by use now as an industrial estate. So began an afternoon of track archaeology trying to find the old racing line.

More photos: Riding Silloth track: motorcycle archaeology

Fun and an adrenaline rush putting in the hours on my CRF300 Rally bike working towards getting instinctive with it. Great that it’s still smelling new as it warms up.
Another new route for this evening’s ride: out of Keswick and round the sides of Latrigg to enjoy the sunset as the day cools down. The bonus of a sunset ride is that most of the tourists have gone back to their camp-sites or B&Bs. Or pubs.
Time to get up on the pegs. Yee-haw... views over the hedges. And I’d not anticipated the cool rush through the ventilated Dainese MX armoured jeans, but it’s very welcome in this heat.
A couple of friendly farmer encounters as they do their evening rounds, feeding the animals etc. A shout-out and thanks to Sean who helped with the photos on the move.

More photos: Sunset ride - Lake District National Park