The good weekend I’m referring to this time is more like “Saturday” actually, as on the Sunday, I did next to nothing! On Saturday, however, I visited the Great Chesterford Steam-Up and had another relaxing but fun day!

Great Chesterford Steam-Up

Photos and videos can be found here:
- Great Chesterford Steam-Up Photos
- Great Chesterford Steam-Up Videos

Although I was the only member of the AJS & Matchless Owners Club to be booked into the Steam-Up, I checked with the organisers whether it would be OK to bring a few friends along, and having discovered that was fine, I phoned up 4 fellow members of the club, who mostly agreed to go on the day, depending on various criteria… However, one guy sadly caught flu, another saw the morning drizzle and quite underdstandably didn’t want to risk it, another ended up having to work all day, and the final person had somewhere else to be in the morning and never quite made it over there for the afternoon! Not to worry though, ’twas still an enjoyable day out, and if any of you read this, please don’t feel guilty for not attending in any way!

So anyway, the day started out drizzly, and also ended drizzly, but thankfully during the bit in the middle when there was no rain, I managed to ride to the Steam-Up, spend a good few hours there, and then managed to ride home, without getting rained on once!

I also did my first bit of non-satnav-assisted navigating for a long while… having obtained my first satnav several years ago, I’m slowly forgetting the art of getting to places without automated voice guidance! Nevertheless, I made it there with only one minor hiccup - the map showed a railway line, which was going to be my landmark for turning right to head down to Great Chesterford, but sadly, the railway line runs under the road and is invisible from the road unless you are in a truck cab, for example, so if it weren’t for the fuel stop at the petrol station just on the respective roundabout, I probably would have missed the turn! Anyway, lesson learned for next time!