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[tone]

Haha, that'll be me too, except with a large section of M74 before the M6 bit !

 

Good point on Food/Drink, the mention of stoves and cooking gear has me in mild panic - I take it Doms place has catering / drinks on for this ?

 

If not, it looks like Pizza & Beer runs all 'round ! 

 

Cheers

Tone

[ChrisG]

Well if last Friday's anything to go by I should leaving Swindon about 2 and there about 4ish.  

 

Executive decision made and I've not brought my stove with me so hopefully Dom opens relatively early in the mornings for a cuppa.  There's a Spar and Somerfield about 1.5 miles for the camp site if we need to stock up on beer.

[TinTin]

Looking at Dom's interweb he has beer & grub but I'm taking my stove for that 1st coffee of the morning alone. 

I bet I will be awake long before everyone else.

Might see you on route Tone

 

 

[tone]

Well if last Friday's anything to go by I should leaving Swindon about 2 and there about 4ish.  
 
Executive decision made and I've not brought my stove with me so hopefully Dom opens relatively early in the mornings for a cuppa.  There's a Spar and Somerfield about 1.5 miles for the camp site if we need to stock up on beer.

Somerfield, lol, they went a while ago. I worked for them early in my career.

Looking at Dom's interweb he has beer & grub but I'm taking my stove for that 1st coffee of the morning alone. 
I bet I will be awake long before everyone else.
Might see you on route Tone

Maybe mate, I'm up in Lanarkshire so will be leaving about 11-ish latest so likely at Carlisle about 12-ish as a marker. A lot of this is '-ish' based however haha, I'll be easy to spot.

[Geordie Guy]

_{I will be going down the A49, setting off from home at 10.00 am, going down to switch island, Runcorn bridge then to Northwich to join the A49.}

 

_{Will be stopping for lunch at the Raven Café, junction A49 / A41 below Whitchurch at about 12.00 am}

 

_{12.45 set off for Leominster down A49 should be there about 2.00 pm.}

 

_{Set up the tent, get a brew and chill out ...............}

 

_{if anyone wants to join up on that route they are more than welcome.}

 

_{cheers, Ivan}

[Matlock]

Hello friends,
Unfortunately must I my trip to Leominster Cancel.
I had a little fight with a large deepfreezer on the basement stairs.

 

Limbo

 

Sorry you can't make this Hans, was looking forward to catching up with you. Get well soon. I hope you've learnt your lesson, never get into a fight with a deep freeze!

[Matlock]

As discussed earlier, I'll be taking the scenic route through the bumpier parts of Wales. I'll be leaving home (Formby) at about 8:30 - 9:00, should get into Mold at about 10:15 I think. Drop me a PM if you want to meet up en route. It's a all day ride, sustained by numerous cake stops, so I don't expect to get to the camp-site until about 5pm.

[DaveM]

_{I will be going down the A49, setting off from home at 10.00 am, going down to switch island, Runcorn bridge then to Northwich to join the A49.}

 

_{Will be stopping for lunch at the Raven Café, junction A49 / A41 below Whitchurch at about 12.00 am}

 

_{12.45 set off for Leominster down A49 should be there about 2.00 pm.}

 

_{Set up the tent, get a brew and chill out ...............}

 

_{if anyone wants to join up on that route they are more than welcome.}

 

_{cheers, Ivan}

 

I think I'll go for the Ivan option and will get in touch to arrange to meet.

 

As discussed earlier, I'll be taking the scenic route through the bumpier parts of Wales. I'll be leaving home (Formby) at about 8:30 - 9:00, should get into Mold at about 10:15 I think. Drop me a PM if you want to meet up en route. It's a all day ride, sustained by numerous cake stops, so I don't expect to get to the camp-site until about 5pm.

 

No offence Chris but this is a bit too far for me and prefer the more leisurely option being suggested by Ivan, so see you down there.

 

Dave

Edited by DaveM, 30 June 2015 - 11:45 am.

[Matlock]

 

I think I'll go for the Ivan option and will get in touch to arrange to meet.

 

 

No offence Chris but this is a bit too far for me and prefer the more leisurely option being suggested by Ivan, so see you down there.

 

Dave

Not a problem at all Dave, see you there, save me a cold one

[TinTin]

Well well, looks like we are having a thunder storm on Saturday night & I am using the most basic/easiest to pitch tent available.

Never mind. Its only water.

[big dave]

Well well, looks like we are having a thunder storm on Saturday night & I am using the most basic/easiest to pitch tent available.
Never mind. Its only water.

Looks like there might be a fight for the high ground

[Geordie Guy]

I am on a decent air bed so it should float !!!! 

 

10.15 am at the ALT car park in Maghull  Dave ?

[DaveM]

 

 

10.15 am at the ALT car park in Maghull  Dave ?

 

see you there.

 

Dave

[AliG]

Well well, looks like we are having a thunder storm on Saturday night & I am using the most basic/easiest to pitch tent available.

Never mind. Its only water.

I might re-appraise my choice of tent. I was going to bring the small, easy to pitch one, but it is only single skin, so might go for the bigger double skin one. It has been in thunder storms before and I stayed dry. Now where did I put those Aldi waterproof bags?

[Matlock]

Looks like there might be a fight for the high ground

I've just looked at the map, there's no high ground and it's very close to the river Lugg. Abandon campsite, women and 900 riders first! 

[DaveM]

Tarts!

[Quartermaster]

Hope you all have a great G2G. I live just 40 minutes away and I'd have loved to meet you all, but I will be touring Somerset and Devon with some mates on our annual SW trip. I tried everything to get them to change the dates (cake, free beer, cake, mucky women, cake) but it wasn't possible. Leominster is a great base for some terrific rides, Elan Valley etc.

[Manx1200]

Just checked a few different weather forecasts, all looks dry for the weekend. Guess its going to be one of those piece of string forecasts.

[Studley Ramrod]

Just checked a few different weather forecasts, all looks dry for the weekend. Guess its going to be one of those piece of string forecasts.

 

The details reveal all !

 

 

Might be a few sleepy bods on Satdi mornin'

[dablik]

As discussed earlier, I'll be taking the scenic route through the bumpier parts of Wales. I'll be leaving home (Formby) at about 8:30 - 9:00, should get into Mold at about 10:15 I think. Drop me a PM if you want to meet up en route. It's a all day ride, sustained by numerous cake stops, so I don't expect to get to the camp-site until about 5pm.

 

Chris i've put off replying to your initial post as was waiting to see if Dave could make it, he's coming to mine for 8.15 ish for an 8.30 -9.00 start, we plan on going down through North Wales also, however a slightly different route to the 1st part of yours,  no great need to stop at the Ponderosa but would be an easy meet up for Manx (1hr 20) from here, from Bala we could pick up your route, looks pretty good to me..

 

No offense but i find the stretch through to Denbigh for Llanrwst a bit dire, i promise you would like the other part.

 

Anyway let us know if you would prefer to stay on your original course or join us with Manx and perhaps we'll bump into you on the way, not literally of course 

Edited by dablik, 01 July 2015 - 09:11 am.