Exploring the Jurassic Coast | Aprilia Tuareg 660

Lyme Regis is a typical seaside town in England... Although it isn't quite as typical as it seems. Along the coastline is sediment that has built up over millions of years that has trapped creatures throughout them creating fossils. As a lad I came here on a holiday with my Mum, and have very fond memories of scouring the coast hunting for a Diplodocus or T-Rex... but mostly I only found Ammonites and the odd sharks tooth. It was brilliant to ride my Aprilia Tuareg 660 down to the beach and revisit my childhood excitement of looking for fossils. What was extra special, was that most of the fossils I found on this visit, I would have also seen as a child, all those years ago... which was just a blink of an eye in comparison to how long the Ammonites had been laying there. Wonderful stuff!
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2022 Aprilia Tuareg 660 with Arrow Indy Race titanium silencer, Arrow Stainless steel racing collectors, Gabro Racing ECU remap (via UpMap), Doubletake mirrors, Evotech Performance satnav bar mount, SW-Motech sump-guard, Hepco & Becker handguard protection, Kriega US40 RackPack & US10 drybags, Enduristan Blizzard Large Saddle-Bags
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2017 Suzuki GSX-R 750 with Yoshimura Slip-On Exhaust & modified gearing
2012 Moto Guzzi V7 Stone, aka "Lord Vader" which has been very customised
1984 Honda CB100N in original condition.
Previous bikes that have featured on the channel:
2020 Moto Guzzi V85 TT with Zard Titanium Slip-On Silencer
2018 Triumph street Triple 765R [LRH]
2018 Beta Alp 4.0 2017 KTM 390 Duke
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[@TheRhythmicBiker]

I was gonna say, you’re not that tall now are you 😉 I love the Jurassic coast, it’s so beautiful down there, I’m not one for fossil hunting but I appreciate the uniqueness of it 🤘 Wise words about road rage, ultimately it’s not worth it 👏 The cars were out to get you that day 😂 I bet you were sweating like mad in the heat 😬 Great photos mate, always a good day out there 🤘 Great video mate, hope you’re well 🤘

[@HippoDrones]

Hahaha 😀 It really is pretty... and yup, road rage does no one any good. Haha.. I was a tad moist in my kit... glad to get back out on the road in the breeze after wandering along the beach! 😀

[@CalmBiker]

I used to love fossil hunting as a kid. I never found anything very exciting but there was always something small.

[@HippoDrones]

I really wish the tide had been out, am sure I would have found something then 🙂

[@ortegastix]

Good stuff.👌🏼👌🏼

[@HippoDrones]

🙂👍

[@MVDBR]

Interesting stuff Pete! And a beautiful place to boot 🙏 Cheers (get them earplugs in lad 😁)

[@HippoDrones]

I need to order some of those silicon earplugs as I can use them to lock up the differentials on my RC cars... so use them in my ears until they are no good, and then bung them in my cars! 😀

[@MVDBR]

@@HippoDrones 😅 gotta love dual purpose 🤙😁

[@HippoDrones]

@@MVDBR Indeedy! 😀

[@trevorphillips3055]

Decent main roads with 40 and 50 limits then single track roads off of them with national speed limit. Crazy,makes no sense!

[@HippoDrones]

Haha I know right 🤣

[@EpicMotorcycleAdventures]

I have many a memory from Lympstone. Not all of them fond 😂 I got to Lyme Regis once a week for work. It is stunning place. Can’t believe that car park on the Cob was empty.

[@HippoDrones]

I can imagine 🤣 Ahh, I bet that is both lovely and horrific in the summer months? Ha, luckily this was the day after the bank holiday weekend, otherwise it'd have been totally rammed!

[@EpicAdamMotovlogs]

I'm surprised your visit didn't make the local news. Lyme Regis usually has slow news days.

[@HippoDrones]

I wore a disguise! :-D

[@mellowr1]

Blimey you are getting about mate!!!😯😄 That was like watching a David Bellamy video🤣

[@HippoDrones]

Haha... am a biking floozy 🤣

[@milesgreen9705]

Lovely part of the world. Know it quite well, there are some great lanes around Dorch and Bridport....

[@HippoDrones]

It really is. Ahh cool... I shall have to investigate and try get out on them! 🙂

[@milesgreen9705]

@@HippoDrones Lots of water crossings too!

[@HippoDrones]

@@milesgreen9705 whoop 😁

[@02bigkev]

Mate what a beautiful ride, awesome scenery in the summer, love the fossil photo's

[@HippoDrones]

It is a lovely part of souther England, I've not explored much in that chunk before as I've either been travelling to or from Cornwall with Cornwall being the holiday, so was ace to have a spare day to head into the area 🙂

[@NooBiker]

Nice photos, good finds with the fossils, thanks for showing us around and sacrificing yourself in the heat with ATGATT (better be safe with all those rocks falling 😅)

[@HippoDrones]

Should have left my helmet on under those cliffs 🤣

[@Viper6-MotoVlogger]

That coastal area was quite nice mate. 👍

[@HippoDrones]

It really is... it is very different to my recent vids from Wales, but that is what I love about the UK, such different landscapes and feel to the different parts 🙂

[@RandysRides]

Some beautiful views along the way. Looked like a decent day for a long ride. Cheers !! :)

[@HippoDrones]

it was cracking mate, well worth the stop on my way back from the Saddlbags73 rideout! :-)

[@theodorstravels]

Never have I seen a carriage on a dual carriageway. I think the name gives us too much hope.

[@HippoDrones]

Maybe in Amish country! 😃

[@CaptainCrankyMotovlogger]

Very cool video Pete - some awesome little country lanes! It is very hard to find an actual coast road - just the same here, I've done most of the "coast" of NSW and Victoria and been on just a few real coastal stretches. Like you said, there are more nut you keep having to duck in and out from the coast and here that's often over 100Km each way. Wow - great photos, that's so great to be able to walk freely through so many fossils. I'm with you - look and leave 'em there, no need to take them home or as I saw here on my trip deface tribal artworks that are tens of millennia old! Beautiful day for a decent ride there mate 👍

[@HippoDrones]

I can't believe people would deface tribal artwork? That is so crazy, destruction for no reason other than being a "Cee yoU Next Thursday" 🤬

[@CaptainCrankyMotovlogger]

@@HippoDrones Exactly mate

[@HippoDrones]

@@CaptainCrankyMotovlogger 😢

[@terrysaint688]

Great vid,love riding around those kind of lanes,looks like you had a blast👌

[@HippoDrones]

It was ace Terry, ta 🙂👍

[@bikerbuddy3166]

Definitely a beautiful part of the uk 🇬🇧 my childhood memories are much like your so much on the beaches down there thx for a trip down memory lane 🙏

[@HippoDrones]

Ahh brill... am glad I was able to rekindle some happy memories

[@markfortin8286]

Perfect weather for the ride, by the look of it. Everything is so green! Those are some huge fossils, I had not heard of that beach before.

[@HippoDrones]

It was awesome weather for it, long may it last! 😀 It is quite a famous beach/coastline, well worth a visit if in the area 🙂👍

[@economicalrides]

A nice little day out H-D and a very pretty route. Being a Dorset boy myself, I’ve been to Lyme Regis quite a few times too. If you are desperate to take a fossil home, I find it’s always best to buy one in one of the shops, saves all of that beach yomping in motorcycle gear 😂 I’m glad you had a nice trip down memory lane and managed to find some genuine fossils yourself ! Thanks for sharing this sunny trip with us. Fantasticles and awesomes ! Cheers, Garry & Ruby

[@HippoDrones]

Ahh didn't realise this was your part of the world... that explains the webbed feet and extra fingers! 🤣

[@economicalrides]

@@HippoDrones Hey ! 🧐 🤣

[@HippoDrones]

@@economicalrides 😁

[@BigPezza]

A place with a lot of old fossils 😅

[@HippoDrones]

One more when I arrived! 🤣

[@Land-Shark]

Nice day for a ride! I had to pause and go listen to ELO's "Mr. Blue Sky", and T Rex's "Bang A Gong". :)

[@HippoDrones]

Haha, good tunes 😁👍

[@TinManvlogger]

A long time ago we stayed in seaton as my friend has a caravan there I think he still has one We went looking for fossils in Lyme Regis found a few but we left them there on the beach We cooked some food and chilled it’s a very nice place and we had a great time 👍

[@HippoDrones]

That sounds pretty darn awesome 👌

[@Banditmanuk]

It's a beautiful area that as yet, I've never visited. I bet the best time for fossils on that beach are after winter storm high tides have dislodged parts of the cliffs. (Although bad news if your house is at the top!)

[@HippoDrones]

Yup, and spring tides too as they are bigger tides, so get more exposed beach when the tide is out too! 🙂

[@davexs]

Nice little ride, never been to the Jurassic coast. Well done on 5k subs.

[@HippoDrones]

It was lovely to wander the coast line 🙂 especially as the sun was out, glorious day for it. Thanks mate 🙂

[@WolfyFam]

Lovely ride - isn’t it illegal or something for no baffle? And YES! MC parking! Found a new place to go 😊 thanks pal 👏

[@HippoDrones]

Not illegal as such... my bike isn't due it's first MoT until 2024, and then it is at the discretion of the MoT tester if they deem the bike too loud or not.

[@WolfyFam]

@@HippoDrones oh neat 😊

[@HippoDrones]

@@WolfyFam 🙂

[@Saddlebags73]

Lovely part of the world. I haven’t explored there yet. I have a week in Dorset at the end of August and I expect we’ll spend some time along the coast. Are you saving the road rage for an outtake vid? 🤪

[@HippoDrones]

It really is gorgeous down there... well worth a visit. Haha, no mate... world is full of negativity already, doesn't need more swear angry videos in it 🤣

[@Saddlebags73]

@@HippoDrones 🤣👍🏼

[@HippoDrones]

@@Saddlebags73 😀