Red Kite 2022 - A new era in my motorcycle life
This post is ostensibly about the Red Kite Rally 2022, which is my first rally for a few years, but it's also about a new era in my motorcycle life, a big change after 22 years, which I will come to in due course. I had last went to Red Kite, run by Moto Guzzi Club GB, a year or two before Covid hit the world (2018 I think). I had been attracted to the great location near Hay On Wye, surrounded by good biking roads and the very good facilities. On that occasion, I had ridden up on the Saturday and home on the Sunday, having left work in London Friday late and stayed in a YHA near Goring that night. Then I had bike trouble....so yeah got there late on Saturday but enjoyed my short time there. This time I was doing it properly, riding up on Friday from here in Devon, and then going to Cheddar Sunday afternoon so that I could ride the Gorge road, which I have never done. Naturally packing was done Friday morning...as I worked late until 9 the night before...but the ride up was OK an