I imagine lots of KZfaq people would have edited out all the mishaps and oops's. I appreciated the realistic portrayal of an 'adventure'. 😊🇨🇦 Your attitude was great.

Well done. Many of us lived vicariously through you. Lifted us, and in these days of misery and darkness that is no little thing. ☺️

Crackin view of the reality of motorbikes. Pissin rain, everything soaked, cold, can't be bothered going for a pee. However, it's still the most fun thing to do

For a first ever trip, you handled yourself fine. The next one will be much easier..

Great video saffy, your doing all the mistakes we've all done. Keep up the good work 👍

What a great video. I'm 45 and sitting my mod 2 next week and live in Cumbria on the NW coast and can't wait to hit the lovely roads the Lake District has to offer

As you have by now realized, a map is your best friend! They don't need recharging and won't quit on You! Just practice with them a lot and you will come to appreciate them a lot.. Sat nav is great, but undependable. Love your video, thank you so much for sharing.

Awesome video .. love your honesty in showing all the mistakes that we all make ..we have to, it's how we learn ... thank you for sharing

Quick tip for keeping your fingers dry: Call at a petrol station and pick up a pair of plastic gloves from near the diesel pump. Put them on an then put your gloves on over the top a carrier bag for each foot inside your boots works too.

Much more fun to watch than the world-travel bikers. Not everyone has the financial backing to do that stuff. This is more like biking for real people. Good fun video. Nice grumping occasionally too, which is always endearing 😂

“Have an existential crisis and it’s just there on the right!” 🤣

very well done 800 miles big ride i am going up to scotland next week from essex on a old cs550 1979 with 104,000 on the clock lol davey

4:53 The absolute grumpiest person I’ve ever seen in my life. I wish I was that grumpy when I am grumpy

I’ve just watched this, although I appreciate it’s been online a while now. It’s great to see someone being honest about the trials and tribulations of a solo trip like this. We all make silly little mistakes every now and then, so it made me smile to know it’s not just me! I had the pleasure of living in Scotland for nearly a decade, and miss those roads dearly. Solo touring is an amazing thing to do, although I have a real anxiety whenever I don’t have eyes on my bike; whether it’s a quick wee stop or an overnighter. If you’ve not toured abroad, I can recommend it. My parents live in the south of Spain, so I do an annual ride down there and back from Kent, through France. It’s amazing! Anyway, thanks for the video. I’ll have a look at what else you’ve got on the channel 👍

Thank you for that great video! That was nice to see your road trip

Love everything about this video. So true and so fun. Thank you 🙏

Hi Saffy, I have the same bike as you and have just completed my first solo ride that included the cat and fiddle and the snake pass, I thoroughly enjoyed it and want to go further now. great inspirational video, thank you.

Great little adventure. Whenever you get out of your comfort zone and do something new, you'll make mistakes. It's how we grow. And navigating without a sat nav is a skill that so many don't have.

Love it! Grit and determination. Also gave me a much needed chuckle this morning.

You my lady are great ..well done ..and you keep on doing great things ..

Absolutely fantastic,

I've just done Scotland on my own for the first time from South Wales so feel your pain and done just under 1800miles. So a BIG well done to you and it will get easier in the future 😊

HI the best tip I have is get 2 foil survival blankets 1 under your sleeping mat and 1 on top your bag keep you warm and they fit in your kit

Good ol reliable SV 650. My Vstrom 650 has done 80,000 kmts now and still going great . Just done tyres brake pads rear, and oil changes every 3 or 4 thousand kmts, pretty much same MTR as SV😊 bought it in Folkstone and took it back to NZ after the UK adv,

Great to see you back, great vlog ride safe 👍

Fab film. Out of the many motovlog videos i have seen this is by far the most refreshing and entertaining by a country mile. Awesome!

Brilliant, been wanting to do a trip like this for years!

No matter what predicaments you get into you always manage to smile n laugh through it all......👍👍👍keep up the gud work

Great video, definitely do not be hard on yourself everyone makes these mistakes when they are preoccupied, as you probably was thinking about your ride, route, weather etc. Ride safe

Every trip is an experience you learn from. But keep going and keep doing them. I really enjoyed watching this.

Really enjoyed the vid. Nice to see some good humour and honesty. Well done for completing your trip.

Awesome adventure! Well done for doing it solo.👍

I just love the energy you have on these trips! Keep it up x

It's all a learning curve, being your first solo trip and figuring things out as you go I reckon you did ok, nice to see you put in your mistakes and wrong turns, it shows how down to earth you really are.

Loved the petrol station voice over lmao. And you are soooo clumsy in a very loveable way! :)

Well done Perseverance and resilience definitely come to mind 👍

I'm so glad you got some proper waterproof gear and boots!

I love watching motorcycle touring around England and Scotland. You are very courageous lady taking your first solo trip for 800 miles, you learned a lot about yourself and how handle adversities. Congratulations. 2 tips for rainy weather carry large plastic bags to put on your feet inside your boots keep your feet dry. 2. pack 2 large towels to soak up as much moisture as possible from the inside your boots Have fun on your future trips.

This made me smile. Good for you keeping the real bits in. Most rides have some sort of mishap - at least mine do; yours were really entertaining. Keep it up wee biking sister.

Loved it a proper review of a trip warts n all. Fair play Saffy 👏👍. Ride safe.

Sat watching this and hearing you gush over the A7/A68 route - I love that road and follow it from Edinburgh to Otterburn/Hexham quite a lot. It's a beautiful twisty road. So glad that guy suggested it to you!

Hey! I found your channel today and had to subscribe! This is the second video I had watched of yours and I just love your personality. I love that you show your “mistakes” along with everything else. It makes the video so much more relatable/real for me. I have been riding for almost five years and plan to take my first solo motorcycle camping trip in 2022. Thanks for making quality content for all the female motorcyclists like me, and everyone else! ✌🏻

Great video, awesome trip and in the rain for most of it no wonder you felt grumpy. Looking forward to your next video maybe the North Coast 500 as you like Scotland.

Wow! Great!

" somehow I'm in Durham" Saffy you're a scream 🤣🤣😂👍

Great video 👍👍👍

A good tip for riding in the rain, keep 2 plastic carrier bags handy and put them on your feet before you put your boots on and your feet will be dry and roasty toasty.

One of the most refreshing things I’ve seen on KZfaq for a while...nice one Saffy.

I really enjoyed your video. Your positivity and your sassyness (yorkshire) despite the problems you had really made this video stand out to all the rest. Thank you for uploading. I was in the lake district this weekend just gone, it's a beautiful place with lovely roads 🙂

Hello from AUS. Congrats on that epic first solo trip. 800 miles is not to be sneezed at. Well done. I was thinking that yes lots of things have changed in the almost 40 yrs since my first big trip, but the rookie errors are still much the same as the ones I made all those yrs ago. I still make some of them ! I'm sure you will have many more to come.

Watching you on this trip really makes me want to get out there on my bike, even though its getting cold. Great video! Tip from my hiking days is to stick newspaper in wet boots to soak up all the water. Much faster than trying to use a handryer (although I've been there)

The petrol station directions bit killed me :'D

Kudos for sticking at it nothin worse the being wet and cold great watch keep it up you did great : )

Well done. Glad you kept the bad bits in as well as the good. Next time should be easier as you would have learned so much from your first trip. Go girl!

Amazing really natural video.

This is BOLD for the first solo go Girl ✌️

Absolutely brilliant adventure here well done you part of getting lost makes it more exciting trousers and jacket always over boots and gloves stops you getting wet very impressed 1st solo journey you stay safe 👍👍👍👍👍

You look well in the alpinestars leathers ! keep up the good work because it really is an honest reflection of how things pan out. Just done Ireland Belfast - cork - Killarney - dingle - Galway - Sligo - Back to Belfast then on to Dumfries before returning to Yorkshire 1600 miles. The dingle peninsula was something else.

great vid enjoyed all of it please make more come up to durham we have some great roads over the pennines .

Well done safe riding

Great video you have a true spirt for adventure and without a Sat Nav 👏

Well done Saffy nice run out, I will have to keep my eye out for you when you are riding in Manchester, ps got the same bike

Absolutely enjoyed your video made me laugh all the way through keep it up it's only get better

What a great, natural video, funny and inspiring... I unfortunately, would have to be more worried about loo stops but... Easier for blokes... Keep up the videos

I'm trying to get back to riding therefore any little info is highly appreciated and this was really great to watch and very motivational too. Thanks for sharing it. Any possible videos regarding your luggage or even tools taken on the trip would also be really great. Safe rides out there! 👍👍

Excellent

Amazing nowadays with our phones and sat nav we never get lost .As a 50 yr old biker I used maps all my biking life until the last 7 or 8 yrs when I gave up using a road maps and went for the ease of the electronics. And sometimes I would love to go back to the maps it seemed more exciting. Great ride thanks.

Very recognisable!

So glad I've discovered this channel.so fresh and real.keep up the great work.we need some t-shirts lol

Wow! That's the first video longer than 15min that I've actually enjoyed watching from start to finish. All the ups and downs it's exactly like every trip I go on on the motorcycle 😅 it had everything, getting wet, breaking something, getting lost, getting dry, Happy times, hangry times, epic realisations and best of all getting lost haha absolutely cracking video and just the right balance of scenic riding and chatting to the camera. Best bit was around the 16min point when you got on the A7 and your happiness of a great road and some good weather it was beautiful. Look forward to your next adventure 😁

Well that was an adventure 😁👍🏼 That was the point of the trip 😁

Hello from BR! Nice trip! Stay safe!

Good to see the not perfect human side of vloging great video hope you enjoyed the ride looked like fun

Haha, Kes-Wick. Fantastic video, great content.

Saffy, you definitely present tragicomedy. The tilted horizon is so symbolic.

Very well done! 👍😎 I'm off on around a 500ish miles trip this weekend,from Glasgow to the Applecross Pass on my MT-125 & camping, but have another few lads with me, as not so called manly enough to go by myself! 😂🤣😂👍

Just go old school with directions taped to your tank. If it rains put it in a plastic bag. Doesn't break, go flat or lose signal.😁

You still have to learn some things. but a nice review of your trip. When I travel I separate my clothing in plastic bags. That way they don't get wet and smelly. Boots are rarely waterproof, take several pairs of gloves with you. By over-boots and over-mittens for the rain., it's not that expensive. There are neck-collars for the rain and other things. Yes all the clothing for riding a bike ads up but when you buy good quality it has a long live. I am riding for more than 50 years and I just ordered my fifth pairs of boots and I am using my fifth helmet a Shoei Neotec II, expensive yes but very good. Previous one was a Shubert Concept, used 10 years. It's only my fourth winter jacket and fourth trousers (2 winter and 2 summer) I have 10 pairs of gloves from very light for warm weather to very cold. Yes in winter when the roads are dry you can drive very well, so minus 10 or more is no problem.

Enjoyed your vid, I often go on solo trips, last one was fran

I love watching this one ,I don't know if it's the mistakes you made that brought tears to my eyes with laughter or my wife punching me telling me to be quiet . Just remind yourself ,you did it ( how is another question) . Take care Mal in Australia

Hilarious. Loved it.

Enjoyed your video!

You are so brave,Well done 👍👏👏

So wounderful lovely and happy girl You seem to be. It was so fanny to see what a honest person is with all the positivity. Keep be youre self and ride safe and best luck in summer 2022

It's amazing keep it up ... stay safe and discover more fun ... I wish one will take my girl on fun full tour

Greetings from Tameside Greater Manchester once again........ Loved this little jaunt you had...... Keep up the great work.... The perrils of putting your bike pants on before the toilet are very real..... Once again Loved it loved it loved it... Toodle Pip...😁😎👍📽️👊✌️🍻🏍️

Excellent, a little map work is so fulfilling, I always purchased a new ordinance survey map when traveling Afar. But that was 55 years ago, now google does the job. (Still like maps).

Brilliant videos I’m really enjoying them, I had a naked bike and traded it in for a Royal Enfield Himalayan, yes it’s slow but for the journeys you are doing it might be worth considering one day and it’s got bags of character … just like you.

Good video, but you missed a heap of stunning Scottish roads and scenery. Give yourself more time up there next time. Good to see more content Saffy. Keep it coming.

Well Saffy, I know this was a few months ago but you done it, isn't it the best feeling! Hard going at times these bike journeys but people wonder why we bikers do, and that feeling you get when you are on your bike stays with you for rest of your life, isn't that good. You also make me laugh, and I say good on you, wish I was there with you:-)

Your voice over of the guy giving you directions had me in tears 😂😂😂

Being a bit old, I forget how people don't know how to navigate without a sat nav or a phone. It really is pretty easy. On the map is a scale which shows you how many miles per cm (or inch in my day). Use that to work out what distance you want to do and pick the nearest town. Try to remember three places (or road numbers) en route and keep an eye out for signs. If you do get lost you've a much smaller area to search.

Boot dryers and/ or Forma brand adventure boots! I live and commute in Scotland and it rains regularly. The boots are totally waterproof but boor dryers might be a cheaper option for now

You tried to do too much in one day, don't push yourself so hard and you won't get as tired and you will enjoy the ride more. It's a lot harder doing the milage on a bike than in a car I find. Enjoy your riding, it really is the best. Xx

Im doing NC500 in Sept cant wait great video keep them coming

First trip away is pretty awesome isn't it😁 Mine was in 1996 and I came back a changed person from 10 days away.

Takes alot of bottle to do that on your own. Can’t wait to do this too next year when i get my touring bike!

Good video 👍 subbed

Saffy, great vids, but don't tap the fuel tank with the nozzle, metal to metal creates sparks and we don't want you getting to your destination too quickly......🙂 x.

800 miles with a rucksack, noooo, invest in a tank bag, invaluable piece of kit, write your general route on paper,, major road numbers, and slide it in the transperent pocket on the top of the tank bag,,, old school,,, enjoyed this vid keep the cockups in,, ride safe