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[TonyDevil]

bugger weather aint lookin so good anymore
http://www.weatheron...i...der&LANG=en

[Readmarx]

too pist tonight and too hung over tomorrow to care, tony!

besides, it'll be showers rather than anything too heavy & prolonged. but it's WALES and everyone knows when it's gonna rain anywhere it's gonna rain in Wales.

See you fellas there - safe journeys

[TonyDevil]

judging by the windows rattling Hutch has just arrived outside my office
see you in approx 4 hours

[wicklamulla]

kind of packed, changed me mind about bringing No.7 though and was gonna droive 'The Chav' up so i cud listen to me CD's and play with the lectric mirrors, but now i'm doing neither and riding up on 'Boozer'. just eatin' a Ginsters Kernow Patsy and drinking a can o' bed rull and all being well oil see ye later in the pubic hoose......... oil sleep alfresco i tink. Devon is feckin' wet roight now but SpOnGeY assured me via text the sun is out in WaLeS....

[wicklamulla]

well i managed 33.5 miles up the M5 at a steady 80mph, then wound it on to 100 (just to see how it felt on a different boike ya see) and then she bogged down with water in the electrics, misfiring loike a bassad so i decided to pull off the motorway (lucky ole m'way huh ) to see if it was serious.........twas struggling to idle/run cleanly so i turned round and went home again ! Sponge text me earlier and twas a wash out so he started heading fer home. I was looking fwd. to this GTT but there will be udders i suppose.

[Mitch]

Twas wet, I came home too.

[TonyDevil]

me too
interesting stories to emerge shortly....

[sidestand]

Us Too !.............although it seemed to brighten up on the way home
And we managed to stop at Heggies in Hereford to have couple of their famous pies
An intrepid four set out to go to Barmouth, so I guess they'll be reporting back soon

[ChrisG]

Home a day early means I've got no flipping food in the house. Off to the Chinese I think as the fry up for for breakfast, jacket potato and chilli for lunch, and mid afternoon cheesecake hasn't quite filled me up I'll upload some photos when I unpack enough to find my camera

[TonyDevil]

a quick shower to remove the 'road' smell and i'm going for a kebab......

[sidestand]

Bike now unloaded & cleaned - tent & kit drying out in the conservatory
Boy fed, watered, & bathed to his mother's starndards
Off for shower now, then it's early bed to read Bike & Classic bike, which arrived through the letterbox this morning.

[Hutch]

Just got home with the help of a recovery guy....................................................................again!!!

Yep, i came off again, due to some twat in a 4x4 coming round a very very sharp bend on a hill taking up some of my lane (taking up the road where you would take the line for a bend), he came out of nowhere, I had to swerve to miss him cos he didn't try to move, then immediately after the left bend was a very sharp right bend, as I swerved to miss the 4x4 I had to dive deeper into the left bend which put me out of line for the right bend, couldn't slam on the brakes any more cos they would have locked up and through me off so tried to just take the turn, and failed, hit the dirt then got thrown off and slid down the road.

I'm ok, just a bruised leg.
Waterproofs, well lets say their not waterproof anymore as they have holes in the arms, leg and back from where I slid down the road.
And TRiXy.................. well, cracked front fairing, broken r/h side footpeg, busted indicators, broken wing mirror, and one busted (but did it's job - thank god) crash bun.

Just need to get TRiXy mended in two weeks for Ireland, hell yeah, still hasn't put me off, gotta get straight back on the bike and keep going!!!

Managed to gather the broken fairing bits which will go back together (with the help of a good friend 'ducktape') which I could tape together like a puzzle and use the same fairing in the meantime till I fit the new one...........................................so guess what I'll be doing tomorrow, cleaning and mending!!

And the most annoying fact of the matter is...........................................................we only got 6.3 miles away from the campsite, so we had a good run on the bikes, not

I am glad that everyone had a good and safe ride home, and I am now off to the pub to ease the pains with my other good friend Mr Jack Daniels and try to find some young lady to rub my bruises better, well actually I hope she'll do more than rub them

Pictures will be uploaded very soon by myself and ChrisG and whoever else has pictures!

Catch you all later,

[Yellowasp]

Glad your'e OK and not too bruised and the lady does a good job for you :good

Just a little information that may help in the future. If you are going over a hill where the view is restricted try placing yourself near the kirbside of the road, rather than the crown of the road ( near the centre line ). This will illiminate the asshole coming over the crown of the hill partly in your lane. I have heard so many people get killed taking up this position on their approach over the hill because of other idiots on the road.

Hope your bike is ok too mate. Sounds like Snowjoke was a disaster with the weather this year :-(

Edited by Yellowasp, 21 June 2008 - 10:05 pm.

[TonyDevil]

Glad your'e OK and not too bruised and the lady does a good job for you :good

Just a little information that may help in the future. If you are going over a hill where the view is restricted try placing yourself near the kirbside of the road, rather than the crown of the road ( near the centre line ). This will illiminate the asshole coming over the crown of the hill partly in your lane. I have heard so many people get killed taking up this position on their approach over the hill because of other idiots on the road.

Hope your bike is ok too mate. Sounds like Snowjoke was a disaster with the weather this year :-(

looking at the line hutch had taken (tyre track etc) he was already well left on a decent line for for the right hander
i had Hutch (& our other mate that learned together) doing the IAM/RoSPA style lane positioning from the day they passed their CBT
its one of the things i wished someone had shown me earlier
whilst we were stopped just down the road another 2 vehicles almost crashed in the same circumstances
it was almost a single track lane at that point

hope ya not too painfull tomorrow matey

[catsbum]

Crikey Guys

Reviewing the last ten posts reads like Bomber Command on a bad mission, with Hutch being the Tail End Charlie.

Work hard Hutch, I have been hearing about your bike and want to see her in a pristine condition

And it is true, it does not rain in Ireland

[ChrisG]

Right, photo time then, didn't really take many as it wasn't the kind of weather for stopping in the sunshine for photo opportunities.

Firstly I met up with Spongey (Dave), Negwadar (Rumours of his death have been greatly exagerated), Celtic Biker, and Mrs CB on pillion in Abergavenny and we had a nice run up through the Brecon Beacons on dry roads. Just don't ask me to find petrol stations After attempting to throw himself under a 4x4 (on foot not on his bike) CB bought biscuits so the trip was off to a good start as far as I was concerned.



Having chased heavy looking clouds most of the way Spongey and I arrived at the campsite in sunshine and it didn't rain all evening.

Slightly different story in the morning though, having rained heavily all night it drizzled all morning and the forecast was was for torrential rain on the high ground



Mitch (Avonne) wasn't impressed



Mitch, Dave (Spongey) and Mick (sidestand not in photo) decided to head home



The survivors decided to try a short run north for lunch, then head back to pack up and head home if the weather didn't improve.

6.3 miles later...

This photo was taken at the exit of a gentle left hander. I was following Hutch as he's come round this to find a 4x4 with a trailer on the back comming round the following right hander occupying quite a bit of road.



He's dived left and as he's turned in behind the trailer got a wheel on the dirt and lowsided it, luckily the bike came down on the dirt (and Warren's leg) not the tarmac, so combined with the crash bungs and the low speed the damage is pretty minimal. Impact point is the centre of the photo. Interestingly while we were stopped a Volvo came down the hill and slid to a halt nearly hitting a van that was coming up in exactly the same place.



A bit of gaffer tape on the faring...



A check of the wheel alignment (looks more like a parking bay for 900's to me )...



and a quick clean...





and it was rideable back to the campsite.

ReadMarx, Tony and myself then nearly had second thoughs about heading home when a minibus load of 16 year old girls on DofE showed up and camped next to us, but after lunch we set off for Hereford and within and hour or so the roads started to dry out a bit and we had quite a nice run back home.

Edited by ChrisG, 22 June 2008 - 09:00 am.

[catsbum]

Who owns the XT in white then?

[ChrisG]

Who owns the XT in white then?

That's Readmarx. Think he reckoned the frame, clocks and some of the faring are still XTZ. He's done quite a lot of mods to it including fitting some brakes.