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Following the bike’s first (600 mile) service yesterday, I felt the need for a really long day out on the RT today.

Having checked the weather forecast, which was promising a fine, dry day in the east of the UK, I decided to head south & east as I left home just before 6am.

I made all speed down past Newcastle & Middlesbrough to arrive in Whitby just in time for breakfast overlooking the old fishing harbour.

It was quite foggy on the coast road to Scarborough but once I headed inland towards my lunch stop at Rosedale Abbey the sun was out and it was certainly warm enough to eat lunch under the great oak tree on the village green.

After lunch I took the moors road north & west to Castleton where the RT needed fuel for the first time in 260 odd miles. My ususal fuel filler neck breather hole modification means the tank will now take around 28 litres , giving me a theoretical range of just over 300 miles. This seemed to be confirmed when it took just 23 litres to fill up this time.

Leaving Castleton I headed west to join the A68 near Darlington for the journey back to Edinburgh.

Being an English bank holiday weekend this route was busier than normal especially with the addition of literally hundreds of Vespa’s & Lambretta’s heading for a scooter rally at Kelso in the Scottish Borders.

A great day out on the bike, over 450 miles in all and it certainly provided me with an extended opportunity to really familiarise myself with the RT and make fine-tuning adjustments to the comms & music systems etc.

Not much time for stopping for photo’s today but the few taken, including a track log of today’s route may be found here.