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Bridges to Church Stretton...




Chris.

Another good video. It looks a bit isolated where you were riding. Did you still have mobile phone coverage there. I will not go where there is no mobile phone coverage so I can ring the Royal Automobile Club if I break down. This limits the range of places that I can ride with my Royal Enfield but does not leave me stranded by the road side. When I had my Yamaha I could ride where I wanted in the full knowledge that it was totally reliable and would not break down. Is there a message for me here.

Signal on the top? I don't know, I was riding.

From the pub in episode three to the gate at the end of episode four is 4.7 miles, and, especially in daylight hours there's always someone not too far away.

It does look remote, and you certainly get that feeling, but Church Stretton is just an hour and a half walk away from the pub on average, and that's by road.

I've done many a mile on all sorts of machines and in all sorts of vehicles, mostly old and some new, before mobile phones were in everyones's pockets and didn't give the signal issue a thought. If I did that I'd never get out of bed (the signal here is poor at the best of times (wink)).

Of course if you feel that this is such and issue, always go out with someone on another machine, just as us green roaders do, albeit for slightly different reasons.

Chris.