Kent Wings

I made my first trip to a regional wings meeting yesterday. I live just about equidistant in time (there must be a word for that?) from Capital Wings, Kent Wings and Surrey Wings but as I live in Kent (by about 100 yards) and as Aylesford where the Kent Wings meet was the easiest to get to, I went there. It’s a pretty little village despite being very close to the M20. I was lucky enough to meet a fair crowd of Wingers, given that with various WingDings happening, there might well have been none there at all.

I was given an especially warm welcome by Vernon and Ursula who were the first there and took care to introduce me to the rest as they arrived. Chatting with a few folk I learnt more about my bike than I had learnt in a month of owning it – like the fact that it has no rear speakers fitted as standard! I guess I should have known this but didn’t. Anyway it seems a pretty mean way for Honda to save money on such an expensive bike. I also got a good chance to look at the various “bling options” people had opted for. I decided that I should get a front fender extender to keep muck off the lower cowl and I am rather attracted by the chrome bits for the air intake and radiator cowlings that Vernon had on his bike. I also want to get the lower rear lights on the panniers fitted and hooked up – it really improves visibility.

After our session at the Aylesford village club, a few of us went on a ride to Wadhurst along some very pretty country lanes.