Rained on the way to the tunnel in UK, rained for half my journey and then the sun came out and baked me. Pickled in my own juices. Nice (Not the place
).
Only stopped for petrol, for most of the stretching I needed. Bum got a bit sore but either standing on the pegs for 20 seconds or filling up with fuel made that go away for the next couple of hundred miles. Did use some toll roads, another interesting situation. The ticket would never go in the machine at payment time so I had to use the assistance button. They must have done something their side and they it took the ticket. Wonder if the bike didn't register as a vehicle - though I would expect bikes are common. It's quite odd to ride around drivers that don't get angry at you for taking time to put your gloves on or get your ticket out. I found riding in France to be really quite relaxing.
Filling with fuel was 'interesting', one station pre-authed 170 Euro - actual cost of fuel 24 Euro - still waiting for the pre-auth to clear back.
Found the riding remarkably easy, the only issues on the trip were OsmAnd letting me down a bit and the Carpuride display wasn't really bright enough for the weather although I think that's ony going to be a limitation for a few months at most while in the UK.
Managed to ruin my summer gloves though. So much sweat the insides flaked off onto my hands.
On the way back on the tunnel blistering heat and massive queues. As always last to get on so it was really uncomfortable. The did bring a big pack of water bottles for all of the bikes travelling and just left it with us telling us we could drink as much as we liked and take the rest with us. Train braked hard and 3 of the bikes went over. I've never seen bikers move so fast. Lucky no real damage to any bikes - the tunnel staff did come to check .
