Another weekend, but this time the sun is shining and preparations have already been made for a ride out. Early in the morning my wife got the first text from Emma (the female version of James Toseland ) asking what time we intended to get out on the bikes, as usual we were waiting for Big Gay Al to arrive. Even when he did arrive we needed a fuelling stop before any serious riding could take place, so me and Al headed to the Super Sausage for a late breakfast

When we got back to my house, an impatient Emma had already been around the block several times and was itching to get going. Emmas Yamaha R1 was still warm outside the front of my house and she was in full leathers raring to get out there among all the other bikes, which could be heard on the roads around our part of Milton Keynes, including the A5 dual carriageway which runs along the back of where we live.

We chatted for ten minutes but still had no idea where to go to, and the others tried to palm off the job of route planning to me as soon as we mounted the bikes. As we left the top of my road it was like a “who can ride slowest” competition as they all tried to be behind someone else, mainly me. As the owner of a Z750 I was bound to come off best in this event, and this left Alan on his (bum) Bandit 1200 to take the lead.

Big Gay Al led us along one of the only two roads he knows in MK which took us eventually towards the A509. The two newer machines had left me behind along a stretch of dual carriageway and sat waiting in a layby as I went by, to have to lead them again and devise a route for us to take. I took a back road I’d never been down before which took us to a place I hadn’t been to before but eventually took us back to Newport Pagnall and back to MK’s roundabouts and dual carriageways. So I took the V11 south, cut across to the V10 past Willen Lake which is a nice place to view as you pass at a sensible speed.

The two speed demons were evidently itching to get going at a less sedate speed, but I kept them following around some of Milton Keynes smaller roads. I had a plan to get around to the bottom of the A5D dual carriageway and let them stretch the legs of the Suzuki and Yamaha machines, and neither of them really knew where I was heading until we got there. As we pulled on the A5 slip road I waved them by and settled in for my leisurely ride as I watched them disappear in the distance.

The Z750 twin is happy at about 70, and so am I, it’s fun, smooth and being a naked bike much faster means hanging on against the wind especially with my less than aerodynamic bulk catching the air. A few miles of this speed and I was at the end of the dual carriageway with no sign of Al or Emma, so I headed home. There they were at the side of the road waiting for me. I told them I’d been around twice but they made me out a liar.

A few minutes at home, and Emma went back to her home across the block, and Big Gay Al headed back for the M1 to go back to Maidenhead. I decided to visit an old mate a few miles away, before I went my wife took some pics of me and the bike and even posed on the Z750 herself.

<—-This is the long suffering wife astride the Z750 twin looking every inch the biker chick

And below this is me next to the Z750 before going to see my mates GSX750 F

The following short video is of me leaving home on the Z750

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