I'm not going to spam everyone with new threads so I'll just update this one a little.
OK so it wasn't the race against the sun but I did get out for a good day out in the TT today. I REALLY wanted to have a good drive about in the daylight and ENJOY it again now I've finally got it back.
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This ended up being the route. The initial idea was to head over to Bakewell to The Wee Dram, a very nice whisky shop
But I added some extra points of interest from my childhood, I headed north toward Northwich and headed for Jodrell bank, got a lovely view of the Lovell telescope as it was canted over just right. Brought a tear to my eye, what a marvel of engineering and history.
Then off past the Cat and Fiddle which I now learned is a distillery, I'd tried Forrest gin before but I didn't know it was there. I want a distillery tour now
Onward to Buxton, last time I was there was on an SV ride out and we invaded the local chippy. I was sorely tempted today but had to resist as I'd already had a McDonalds breakfast and I had another treat in store at the next stop.
Bakewell obviously meant I should have a bakewell tart
(stop giggling, you're not in school still
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I couldn't find a dog friendly cafe serving them and didn't fancy an actual pub so the doggo got secured back in his back seat hammock and I went off to grab a take out order.
From there down through Matlock Bath before it got dark. No time to stop though as I wanted to get to Trentham where I'd plotted I COULD use the tesla chargers if needs be but from the looks of it I shouldn't need to. This was still seeming true now I was most of the way around my lap.
Trentham was mega busy but I realised they had a Christmas "Makers Market" on today and tomorrow but sadly they were just packing up as I got there so nothing tempted me.
From Trentham it was an uneventful trip back over well travelled and boring roads but it was such a nice day. Just what I wanted from it (although I did come away from the Wee Dram empty handed in the end as I'm a tad overspent of late
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TL;DR
Had a "big" drive around on a single charge, I was amazed how GOOD the cat and fiddle road was, such a pleasure to drive even the twisty bits that can be annoying in a car (faffing with gears and all that) On a bike that's part of the fun I know but somehow it always felt irksome in a car. Driving the overgrown scalextric was bliss. OPD as soon as I could enable it (charged to 100 this morning so it didn't let me enable till I got to 90)
Yes the range wasn't great but I wasn't sparing any horses when I wanted to use them and there was a fair bit of elevation gain and I kept the car toasty the whole time with AC. No hypermiling today. It was just indulgence and it was lovely.
Managed 160 miles at 3mi/kWh (it was mild but by no means warm) I was pleased enough with that.
£3.77 in electric, last week that would've been £28 in fuel in the courtesy car
No wonder I only put 13k miles on it
Any threads I should seek out? I’ll have a browse of course but open to suggestions of note.
