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pleased to have this is the first time I'm personally having a bit of time with the bike
and I'm not going to do a review of the bike because we've done a review before and I've
also done a comparison of this bike and the BSA gold star so instead I'm just going to
take it for a lovely Sunday ride it's a spring day it's a bit cloudy at the moment but it's
meant to get Sunny later so I'm going to spend the day on this bike and I'm going to go to
a pub as well and grab a pint why not
the weather is finally starting to pick up here in the UK we've had sort of three months
of horrible dreary windy wet weather which is very typical of England but it's nice to
have a little hint of spring on the way I can't wait for some sunshine and just to get
some proper time on some motorbikes but what more of an excuse to take the Interceptor
out and grab a drink and sit outside and just look at the bike that's one of my favorite
things to do it's good to be on this bike I say that every time I ride a Royal Enfield
and specifically this is my favorite of all of the royal enfields and interestingly last
night I rode the Harley my Harley-Davidson Softail Standard I went for a little ride
in the evening and these bikes are very different and they're not obviously they're not competitors
but my bike is very more laid back of a riding position you're sat very low your legs are
a little bit more stretched out and your hands are nice and stretched out whereas this is
much more upright and your feet are a little bit further back and I don't dislike that
but it's just different so a little bit of getting used to the bike this morning and
just enjoying the way this bike feels and I do love that twin engine and having ridden
one recently with SNS
what's the blooming word um slip-ons that sounds amazing so I'm hearing them with a
stock exhaust again you can really tell the difference between the two
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I've had to put a hat on because my head gets rather cold when it's a bit windy it's a little
bit of a chilly wind today this location you may have seen it in some of our videos before
and it's one of my favorite places to go and just um just relax really because there's
no one about apart from all of those people over there
but this beautiful Abbey here um is just stunning and this area is just a great place to come
and sit and just listen to the birds and uh to have a little uh break from it all but
it's a nice there's some nice country lanes around here in the Rutland area um so yeah
if you've been around this area before do check this location out it's called lawn Abbey
and there's just some lovely roads lovely riding roads lovely pubs about all the villages
we've got some great country pubs a little bit expensive but very nice so kind of makes
up for it
a couple of things I've noticed about this particular Interceptor I'm not sure if this
has happened to any of any others if you own one do let me know on this ride this morning
the inside of the dials have misted up a little bit so it's a little bit hard to see the sort
of mileage gauge through the smoggy bit but this particular bike has done one and a half
thousand miles it's a 22 plate bike um and it's as it's not done that many miles you'd
expect it to look absolutely pristine however on these sort of Parts here and on the head
case here you've got some sort of almost corrosion so it looks like it's starting to um not look
so polished I don't know whether that will come out easily with some Polish there's a
little bit of rust on the top end of the exhaust here so perhaps the parts and things that
they've used could have been improved slightly to stop that happening but it's still a gorgeous
bike and I'm sure a bit of Polish would get that out but perhaps these one and a half
thousand miles have been some rough one and a half thousand miles in some awful conditions
so perhaps that's why the Interceptor certainly handles very nicely taking it down some of
these tight windy roads it's very confidence inspiring and you can sort of lean over in
the corners a bit yeah it's a nice nice bike through the corners it's very stable as well
so it's not at all Twitchy the stopping power is sort of okay which has been mentioned before
I mean in the brakes perhaps it could do with slightly better brakes on the front but not
the end of the world it's not bro it's not awful and it's not the kind of bike you find
yourself absolutely caning it on and you can open it up and have some fun and it does have
plenty of imp even comparing it to riding the Harley last night I thought it might feel
a little bit underpowered but it didn't at all probably mostly down to the fact that
the Harley's so heavy and this is a lot lighter of a bike compared to my own bike so that
makes a huge difference but yeah it's just a great load of fun this bike
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all right enough blabbing on I'm going to get my gear back on and then I'll take another
ride through some Villages and see if I find a nice looking Pub and I'm going to stop there
have a little drink outside and then I'll head off home after that so let's head to
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[Music] ah I've come to this beautiful pub called the blue ball in braunston uh in Rutland
absolutely gorgeous Pub unspoiled beautiful beams um good array of drinks on tap and the
food is absolutely fabulous I'm not eating today I just thought I'd get a drink in the
sun the sun has decided to come out so what a perfect day for a pint and a bit of riding
my drink of choice today is a pint of asphal cider um particularly light ciders not massive
fan of beer if I'm honest I drink a couple of different beers favorite being Moretti
but asphal side is very nice normally I'm a bit of a run man to be honest but it's a
bit early for rum tend to keep that for the evenings on the weekend but yeah very Navi
refreshing drinks perfect for a summer's day
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back home now um I wanted to get a little bit more video in the pub but I found myself
talking to some chaps who came outside uh for about an hour and then the battery died
in the camera so um I've got a bit of film at the pub so hopefully it comes out okay
and now it's still such a beautiful sunny day I think I'm gonna go for a ride on the
Harley so I'll see you later