Our experience with vintage rides was not as expected. The bikes are capable of maintaining a decent average speed, however, the ride was incredibly slow and although we knew we would be riding 350cc motorcycles which are not that powerful, we never realised that we would be running at an average of 30mph or we would not have chosen this trip.
For the money we paid, we expected a much higher standard of cafe stops, the house visit was very unhygienic with flies and cats.
The people made the trip memorable for us, the scenery was incredible and we fully enjoyed the adventure despite the negative aspects but the motorbiking side of things is not our style of riding whatsoever, far too rigid in formation and too slow so unfortunately we would not consider another vintage rides tour but we have been on other motorcycle tours before and will again.
Changes really need to be made to make this trip as expected, unfortunately for us, it just didn’t meet up with our expectations.
We had a great laugh and a great trip as a group and without this spirit of friendship I think we may not have enjoyed our trip.