Saturday 13th February 12 noon Fowlers Motorcycles Bristol

[Rick Stowell]

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Bit drizzly in Bristol.

Normal iron Butt Riding...

Its lashing it down here, in Taunton. Good time to try out my new waterproof socks

 

[GraemeandSally]

Not that bad near Birmingham

 

[Niesmann]

Bit of white stuff on the high ground in Mid Wales, but going to give it a bash I think

 

[flyingrasb]

A chilly and damp Baz has arrived. Where's the coffee.

 

[Niesmann]

Given up and gone home, enjoy your breakfast guys.

Cheers

Chris

 

[flyingrasb]

Noooooooo, you had white stuff?

 

[Mike Strong]

Grandson arrived, apparently we had agreed to let our children go paintballing????? Oh well onto Verdun

 

[GraemeandSally]

Bit wetter riding back north than the ride down

 

[Niesmann]

Bit of white stuff but there was ice on the back roads, not worth the risk so came back and took the dogs out for a walk round the Elan valley did 8 miles so they are knackered and so am I.

I'll try and make the next one itching to give this new bike a run.

 

[saphena]

Miserable ride this morning: cold, damp, icy but excellent location, breakfast and company; ride home much warmer and less wet

 

[Mike Strong]

& what is the new bike Chris. Happy to say the old one is perfoming well, if not quite as clean as it's previous owner kept it

 

[GSears]

A good ride out and back, even if it was a bit damp and cold. The company was excellent as usual. Good to see old faces and meet some new ones.

 

[Niesmann]

Hi Mike

Kawasaki 1400 GTR, glad the Pan is still behaving itself, hoping this one will be comfortable and enjoyable to ride, my expectations of riding big distances have changed somewhat in the last 12 months so we'll see how it goes.

 

[saphena]

I believe that I wasn't the only one to follow Phil's carpark coordinates to some back street half a mile away yesterday. I recorded the position myself as I left the carpark yesterday and compared notes in BaseCamp when I got home: ten feet difference between the two sets so how did I get so far off course?

I've followed co-ordinates given here before BUT I've always done it by entering them into BaseCamp and downloading the waypoints to my Zumo. This time I entered them directly into the Zumo, oh dear... it expects coords in the format nn nn.nnn rather than the nn nn nn.n format used by Phil and I didn't notice

I've changed its format expectation to match Phil's now but I'll double check next time.

 

[FazerPhil]

I took the coordinates from Basecamp so you could find the entrance in the back road!!!!!!

Mega Breakfast

It was good to Wreckemrob and "The snow man Rick"

It was good to see some new faces and to meet old friends as well.

 

[Martex]

Thank you for making me feel so welcome, on my first rte.
Had a great day and a good ride both ways.
Nice to meet you all.
Martin Grafton

 

[saphena]

Who the hell are you???

See, I told you we'd take the mickey

 

[Rick Stowell]

There seems to be a silver theme with the hair