Sounds like you know what you are doing! make sure you come back with pics sometime, I would love to see some pics of the English country side from a 'bike, if there is any left.

I spent a few teenage years in Woburn area so also covered many of those lanes, on a 125 bantam stripped of everything unnecessary as every bit of manouverability and weight loss helped because it was designed to carry me, a folding shotgun and as many pheasants as I could stash in a rucksack tied behind me and then get away fast! The game-wardens only had Morris Minors so round the lanes i could always get away easily. they didn't manufacture bikes like yours back in those days else I would have had one


Even did Silverstone and some of the M1 in a GT40 owned by a mates father but thats another world.