Champagne!

[MooN]

haing had the bike ot of action for 10 dqys qnd then a dose of covid hqving me " persona non grata" in my own bloody house. I pissed off for a ride today.

400 odd km over about 6 hours or so, they'd been harping on about the Champagne grape harvest starting today so I thought I'd go have a look, well I saw  absolutely no grape harvesting going on AT ALL. In fact I saw almost no one at all, the whole time i was out... brilliant

It wasn't untill I was nearly home that i realised the camera had been used last by daughter No2b and she'd obviously been smearing he fingerprints all ove the f'kin lens, so the photos are shit. 

This is at Romilly sur Seine, and was the first tank into Paris with the Leclerc 8th armoured division and the FFI on 24th August 1944. 

 

I stopped for Lunch at Epernay, cut across east and south to Vitre le Francois where I fuelled up and had a quick chat with a bloke on a Honda CBX, he's had it from new, bought it 26th August 1980... it was pretty clean, but obviously ridden. Legendary machine.

Champage? Here y'are, Pick yer own...  

weather got muggy as the afternoon wore on and temps up into the 30's so I had a lot of rehydration pauses, in the shade.

 

[XTreme]

Great stuff Chris! I love the Tank shot!

[Catteeclan]

Tank of the month.

[boboneleg]

Lovely Chris, I've ridden through champagne country a few times but never had the chance to stop.  I'll waypoint that Sherman incase I'm ever around that way