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Motorcycle trip along the Lake District GB
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Motorcycle trip along the Lake District GB

Motorcycle trip along the Lake District GB

Motorcycle trip along the Lake District GB

Motorcycle trip along the Lake District GB

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The Langdale Valley is not just a paradise for outdoor freaks, hikers and climbers. Motorized outdoor fanatics also love the area.

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There is no mistake in making Windermere headquarters, the place has flair … and a decent nightlife.

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The Castlerigg Stone Circle isn’t as famous as Stonehenge, but it’s romantic and not gated.

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English Breakfast always provides culinary highlights.

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The spicy lake landscape already inspired the poet Wordsworth.

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Gentle hills, lush meadows – the area of ​​the Lake District invites you to romp around undisturbed. The streets are almost too narrow to turn.

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Fantastic picture book series…

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…and nature highlights at Haweswater await travelers.

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Haverthwaite Steam Railway.

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The Wrynose Pass may not be ultra-high, but it is narrow and winding like the best alpine passes.

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Cheerful: gasoline talk on the main stream of Ravenglass.

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After hilly winding roads and demanding tours, a visit to the Lighthouse in Windermere is worthwhile. The nights can also be spent well here.

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“The sun has long since set, the stars, look, in twos, threes, a Fitis still sings in the evening, and thrushes, cuckoo keep up … Who wants to stroll through the city and mask himself for receptions in such mild June night, where soft light comes in Half moon makes: Oh, let’s just enjoy a summer night like this one!” (William Wordsworth)

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Travel report: By motorbike along the Lake District
Lake District: Adventure playground for fat bikes

It is really delightful, for many English people even the most beautiful district in the whole country: the Lake District, characterized by twelve larger and many smaller lakes. The fact that there are mountains there, even quite high by English standards, also makes the area a poem for motorcyclists.

Klaus H. Daams

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Wordsworth or Campbell – is that the question? After the romantic poet William Wordsworth, still revered by enthusiastic souls today, was inspired by the lovely landscapes of the Lake District in the early 19th century, the geographic nature of the region was used completely differently in the following years: Donald worked on Coniston Water Campbell set the world record for motor boats at 418.99 km / h on May 14, 1959 with his Bluebird K7. Since the speed freak also liked to accelerate on land, but couldn’t find the right terrain at home, he traveled to the dried up salt lake of Eyre in South Australia in 1964 and set a record for automobiles: 648.58 km / h. If that’s not an indication that the Lake District must be extremely pretty, but that the streets there are more suitable for decelerated movement.

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The Lake District measures only 40 by 50 kilometers. Can that be fun at all? And whether! For example, if you leave the wide A590 at the southern tip of Windermere, with almost 18 kilometers, the longest lake in England, and drive to Russia. Small world really big. Adventure playground for fat bikes that can romp around undisturbed here in the hills. The narrow streets are densely lined with ferns and natural stone walls covered with moss. Curiously eyeing the local cattle, we navigate via Oxen Park to Coniston Water. Where Donald Campbell had a fatal accident in his last record attempt in 1967, there is an almost pastoral calm. The evening sun twinkles through the thick canopy of leaves and the imposing Cumbrian Mountains wave invitingly on the horizon. We put them off until tomorrow. Apparently, even thousands of years of watering and sprinkling from the large sky watering can did no good. At 978 meters, Scafell Pike, England’s highest mountain, has stopped growing. Of course you can tweak the numbers and do the math in feet, then it’s a proud 3209. But don’t make any misconceptions, together with his colleagues – most of them rounded off by the Ice Age and later cleared, but in places also rocky and rugged – the Scafell makes Pike the Lake District into a challenging area for hikers and climbers.


Motorcycle trip along the Lake District GB

Wonderful panoramas and remote corners can be explored by bike.

Speaking of mountains: the torque curve of the CB 1300 resembles a high plateau. It is always a pleasure to surf on the waves of Newton meters. Especially after an opulent full English breakfast. The B 5343 has a full 25 percent gradient, which leads us in a dangling manner from Ambleside to Langdale, right into the middle of the Cumbrian Mountains. Then suddenly machine guns. Dozen of the cute sports cars shoot through Langdale as part of a classic car rally and silence the Honda in amazement. “Extreme Caution, Narrow route, Max 30%”, a sign warns of the Hard Knott and the Wrynose Pass. Even if the passes only reach just under 400 meters: They turn out to be so narrow and steep that hardly anyone will complain about the lack of vertical meters. Especially not the driver of that Vauxhall who, after a navigation error – or has the helmsman been distracted by the magnificent mountain panorama? – Now the car is halfway over the embankment, while helpful hikers play around on the door sill like on the side of a sailing boat and try to prevent the fall by shifting their weight.

Only 40 by 50 kilometers? 2000 ways to be there and away. Whether the Liliputesque narrow-gauge railway at Dalegarth station or the barren fells reminiscent of Norway at Ulpha, the colony of garden gnomes at the bottom of the 80-meter-deep Wast Water or the view of the glittering Irish Sea – it never gets boring in the Lake District. Less funny: some photogenic farms would not be able to survive without EU funding, and the Sellafield nuclear center, which is located on the coast near Seascale and is notorious for serious nuclear incidents, is more than just a beauty spot. In Calder Bridge, turn right to Ennerdale Bridge, and then the CB slides through the green universe like a red and white coral fish and hurries back to Windermere via Crummock Water, Buttermere, Honister Pass and Thirlmere “in our home”.


Motorcycle trip along the Lake District GB

2000 ways to be there and away.

The next day we warm up to the Kirkstone Pass, where a strong wind blows the clouds in front of it, but leaves the artfully layered natural stone walls at the roadside in peace. “Winter conditions can be hazardous”, a sign at the top of the pass tickles the imagination. A little later, like gamblers on the country road, a Super Duke and an R6 pop along the banks of the Ullswater, so that the passengers on the historic excursion steamers get to hear something other than monotonous ship diesel engines. While it is jam-packed at Pooley Bridge at the northern end of the lake, the cul-de-sac to Martindale and Sandwick takes us to a deserted patch of earth that Google Street View will not have scanned 100 years from now. Then Haweswater. As controversial as the reservoir, for which two villages were flooded in 1935, it is now showing its most attractive side. The lake in the valley of Mardale lies like a pool. Depending on the water level, two islets peek out from it, as if Naomi Campbell was bathing.

The 38 stones of the Castlerigg Stone Circle are bathed in golden evening light on a high plateau near Keswick. They look like frozen marmots. The megalithic ring is not as prominent as Stonehenge, but it is not fenced in and a refuge for romantics. After so much feeling and nature, the perfect contrast is the restaurant “The lighthouse” in Windermere. The shiny silver tables are immersed in a sea of ​​lights of colors, so that we like to dock there for an hour while the man in the moon is already strolling over the lake. Sunday morning. What does it include like majo with fries? Right, a detour to the motorcycle club, in this case Devils Bridge near Kirkby Lonsdale. Even if many “Devil” have now turned gray: The graceful stone bridge over the Lune river is the right address to chat about English gasoline. The Lakeland Motor Museum between Newby Bridge and Haverthwaite also tells stories en masse. In addition to automobile gems and a Campbell Bluebird exhibition, Barry Sheene’s Dunstall Suzuki and Joey Dunlop’s 125cc Honda, for example, report on glorious times. Incidentally, the Lakeside steam locomotives do the same, just a few coal throws away from the museum & Haverthwaite Steam Railway.

At the former fishing village of Ravenglass, bathing in the sea is not recommended because of the radioactive contamination of the water by Sellafield, so we treat ourselves to Loweswater, Buttermere and Honister Pass again. At Derwent Water at the latest, we know that the attractions of the Lake District will keep us busy for a long time. So, at the end, there are a few lines from Wordsworth who made the region so popular: “The sun has long since set, the stars, look, in twos, threes, a Fitis still sings in the evening, and thrushes, cuckoo keep up … Who wants to stroll through the city and mask himself for receptions in such mild June night, where soft light comes in Half moon makes: Oh, let’s just enjoy a summer night like this one!”

Lake District: Tour information

On his tour to Scotland or the Isle of Man, the common continental European usually drives carelessly past the Lake District. But because there is the most beautiful mix of lakes and mountains in England, that’s really mean – and it doesn’t really have to be.


Motorcycle trip along the Lake District GB

Travel time: 4 days. Distance covered: 700 kilometers. (Map: Claudia Werel / MAIRDUMONT)

Getting there: The usual route into the Lake District consists of the nightly ferry passage Rotterdam – Hull and then, around 250 kilometers long east-west crossing of England almost to the Irish Sea. The route through the Yorkshire Dales National Park is much more attractive than the route via the motorways. If you prefer to give the water the chance to come from above instead of below, you can alternatively choose, for example, the Calais – Dover ferry with a trip across the island via London, Liverpool and Lancaster. Timetable and prices at www.poferries.com. 


Motorcycle trip along the Lake District GB

On the tour to Scotland or the Isle of Man, a detour to the Lake District is worthwhile. (Map: Claudia Werel / MAIRDUMONT)

Accommodation: Since the Lake District is around 40 by 50 kilometers easy to explore in daily stages, a permanent quarter is recommended. Booking this in advance can’t hurt, at least for the holiday season, as many English people like to flock to theirs on vacation “Lakes”. The prospect of nightlife is offered by places like Ambleside, Keswick, Windermere and Bowness-on-Windermere; there is also the offer of accommodation with bed & Breakfast at its greatest. It has already been ennobled with an award “Storrs Gate House”, Longtail Hill, Bowness-on-Windermere, LA23 3JD, Tel: 44/1 53 94/4 32 72, www.storrsgatehouse.co.uk, from £ 50.

The following are particularly motorcycle-friendly: “Lindisfarne House”, Sunny Bank Road, Windermere, LA23 2EN, phone 44/1 53 94/4 62 95, www.lindisfarne-house.co.uk, from £ 28; “Watendlath Guest House”, 15 Acorn Street, Keswick, CA12 4EA, phone 44/1 76 87/7 41 65, www.watendlathguesthouse.co.uk, from £ 33; “Melrose Guesthouse”, Church Street, Ambleside, LA22 0BT, phone 44/1 53 94/3 25 00, www.melrose-guesthouse.co.uk, from £ 30; “Holme Lea Guest House”, Church Street, Ambleside, LA22 0BT, phone 44/1 53 94/3 21 14, www.holmeleaguesthouse.co.uk, from £ 30. Youth hostels, also for adults, are a cheap alternative. One pound (£) is about 1.20 euros. Tip for small groups who want a holiday home in the “Mountains” Looking for: “Cockley Beck Farm”, Seathwaite, Broughton-in-Furness, LA20 6EQ, telephone 00 44/1229/71 64 80, www.cockleybeck.co.uk

Addresses / literature:
www.golakes.co.uk, www.visitbritain.com, www.lakelandmotormuseum.co.uk,
www.lakesiderailway.co.uk,
www.ullswater-steamers.co.uk.
“Travel Guide North and Central England”, DuMont, 22.95 euros, “The Lake District”, Lonely Planet, 12.50 euros. Map: “Lake District & Cumbria”, Ordnance Survey, 1: 110000, 9.50 euros.

Travel time: four days
Distance covered: 700 kilometers

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