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September G2G 2008 - DKM AUTOS - 17-09-2008
<!--quoteo(post=97541:date=Wed 17th Sep 2008, 03:11 PM:name=Paddy900)-->QUOTE(Paddy900 @ Wed 17th Sep 2008, 03:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Tony,
Chris and i are getting the 15-45 sailing from stranraer so we could include this as our journey home from the G2G<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Ok with you guys if i tag along? Im in absolutely no rush to get back home and anxious to make the most of my weekend so was planning to take the (very) long road back home.
Probably A75 to Dumfries with you's and then up to Thornhill and either continue to Ayr and up the coast or across the Dalveen Pass and then take some other route back up the road.
Hawman, thats a shame your pulling out - was looking forward to riding the second half down with you. See you sat though. Who else is coming down from our way? Dandy and alfregie? Anyone else?
September G2G 2008 - DKM AUTOS - 17-09-2008
<!--quoteo(post=97529:date=Wed 17th Sep 2008, 01:12 PM:name=Pict)-->QUOTE(Pict @ Wed 17th Sep 2008, 01:12 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Historical PS 2) Keep in the good books - send the wife/GF/whoever a card from Sweetheart Abbey (at New Abbey: see "B" on the same map), where Devorgilla, the wife of John Baliol (early King of Scotland) buried his embalmed heart - hence the word. Dead romantic, ye might say? [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif[/img]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Sweetheart abbey is lovely as is rockliffe - great for the camera.Also, dont forget Kirkpatrick (the inventer of the cycle) who's plaque is up on his original workshop near to Penpont, Thorhill - We all probably owe him a drink in a way! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img] <!--quoteo(post=97328:date=Tue 16th Sep 2008, 12:03 AM:name=Hartside Man)-->QUOTE(Hartside Man @ Tue 16th Sep 2008, 12:03 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Ok Here is the lakes route Dependant it seems on weather conditions [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/huh.gif[/img] <!--coloro:#0000FF--><!--/coloro--><!--sizeo:4--><!--/sizeo-->overall 226 miles door to door from Bellingham.<!--sizec-->
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<!--sizeo:3--><!--/sizeo-->Close up of lakes Bit <!--sizec--><!--/sizec-->![[Image: RouteG2Glakescloseup.jpg]](http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t238/amarko5/RouteG2Glakescloseup.jpg)
hope its ok [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/good.gif[/img]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Guys, i'll be more than content with a route which involves nice roads for the bike, nice scenery for the camera, nice places for cake & hot chocolate (since it'll more than likely be pissing it down! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img] ) and will be quite at ease tootling along as flying along - im sure at this rate we'll all find a run that will suit us. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/good.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/yahoo.gif[/img]
September G2G 2008 - geordieguy - 17-09-2008
Dazzers Cake run,
St Mary loch then on to Dumfries, back along the roman wall , sounds good to me [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/good.gif[/img]
Plenty of places to stop.
And you get another stamp in your pastport......
Ivan
September G2G 2008 - iand1947 - 17-09-2008
Lived at Penpont (here and here) too - maybe bikes are in my blood after all? Despite my age, I never knew Kirkpatrick Macmillan though. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]
PS Being clearly unconcerned about putting brakes on the thing, he was of course the man who designed the TDM 850 Mk1.... [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif[/img]
PPS Go a bit further north, to Dreghorn. and ye're at the birthplace of John Boyd Dunlop, inventor of the pneumatic tyre. He was actually a vet who tinkered with bikes etc. in his spare time - a bit like Pete K....
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September G2G 2008 - amarko5 - 17-09-2008
<!--quoteo(post=97558:date=Wed 17th Sep 2008, 05:48 PM:name=Paddy900)-->QUOTE(Paddy900 @ Wed 17th Sep 2008, 05:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->I was up the A75 last year they have put a lot of speed limits on the by-pass,
Lots of [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/attention.gif[/img] going about!!
Hartside will know better he was on it coming back from the RTT<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
ohh its a loverly quick road, "but" lotsa lotsa very biker unfriendly police [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/huh.gif[/img] even at night [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif[/img]
well after minty turned off i carried on the a75 to the m6 and boy was i flying [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif[/img] did have one copper coming the other way that sharply turned round (but i saw him) 2 miles at legal speeds and he got bored [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rotflmmfao.gif[/img] .
September G2G 2008 - sidestand - 17-09-2008
<!--quoteo(post=97509:date=Wed 17th Sep 2008, 09:13 AM:name=ChrisG)-->QUOTE(ChrisG @ Wed 17th Sep 2008, 09:13 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Do it...you need to get back in practice on the bike before you head off to Spain [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Saving the BM's tyres for Spain...............It would be rude not to be on a TDM to Bellingham [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blush.gif[/img]
September G2G 2008 - amarko5 - 17-09-2008
<!--quoteo(post=97568:date=Wed 17th Sep 2008, 07:02 PM:name=Geordie Guy)-->QUOTE(Geordie Guy @ Wed 17th Sep 2008, 07:02 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Dazzers Cake run,
St Mary loch then on to <!--coloro:#FF0000--><!--/coloro-->Dumfries<!--colorc-->
<!--/colorc-->, back along the roman wall , sounds good to me [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/good.gif[/img]
Plenty of places to stop.
And you get another stamp in your pastport......
Ivan<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
ha ha what a loverly place (NOT) [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rotflmmfao.gif[/img]
sorry but if you aint been there don't bother it's not the most appealing place on the planet.
however saying that take the road north and do the dalveen and or the pass through wanlockhead then onto the beeftub and you have a nice little run with nice roads [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/good.gif[/img]
September G2G 2008 - bondy - 17-09-2008
Leave home Thursday pm and staying at my brothers in Shropshire Thursday night (which I think getting pissed night in his village, oh bugger). Friday head on up to Bellingham when we surface I suppose, if we get our acts together we'll try and meet up with Chris and the gang.
Oopss accidently started a new thread, can a clever bod put this in the September G2G
edit by TonyDevil : done oh Master Abraham
September G2G 2008 - iand1947 - 17-09-2008
<!--quoteo(post=97574:date=Wed 17th Sep 2008, 08:36 PM:name=Hartside Man)-->QUOTE(Hartside Man @ Wed 17th Sep 2008, 08:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->it's the most peeling place on the planet.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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September G2G 2008 - chrislarkin - 17-09-2008
<!--quoteo(post=97541:date=Wed 17th Sep 2008, 03:11 PM:name=Paddy900)-->QUOTE(Paddy900 @ Wed 17th Sep 2008, 03:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Tony,
Chris and i are getting the 15-45 sailing from stranraer so we could include this as our journey home from the G2G<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I'm happy with this Paddy as long as we make the ferry!
September G2G 2008 - Hawmaw - 19-09-2008
WEATHER UPDATE.....
I've just checked ' Windermere ' on Metcheck and the updated weather forecast for the Saturday in the Lakes is CLEAR & SUNNY !!! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/yahoo.gif[/img]
But COLD !
September G2G 2008 - amarko5 - 19-09-2008
<!--quoteo(post=97714:date=Fri 19th Sep 2008, 07:50 AM:name=Hawmaw)-->QUOTE(Hawmaw @ Fri 19th Sep 2008, 07:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->WEATHER UPDATE.....
I've just checked ' Windermere ' on Metcheck and the updated weather forecast for the Saturday in the Lakes is CLEAR & SUNNY !!! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/yahoo.gif[/img]
But COLD !<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Cold is relative [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rotflmmfao.gif[/img] to a norweegan or and icelander it wil lbe bloody scorching [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]
September G2G 2008 - ChrisG - 20-09-2008
<!--quoteo(post=97778:date=Fri 19th Sep 2008, 06:57 PM:name=Hartside Man)-->QUOTE(Hartside Man @ Fri 19th Sep 2008, 06:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Cold is relative [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rotflmmfao.gif[/img] to a norweegan or and icelander it wil lbe bloody scorching [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yeah, but Bjorn bought a CBF1000 so won't be comming this year, and there's quite a few of us souther softies about [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif[/img]
September G2G 2008 - bondy - 20-09-2008
Roight then, who's meeting where and when on the Friday? My band of merry men will try and fit in where we can, we'll be riding up from the Ludlow area sometime Friday.
September G2G 2008 - TonyDevil - 20-09-2008
Chris what time do ya wanna leave on Thursday? 11ish ok?
need to do a quick oil&filter change on Hutchs TRX in the morning and then we are good to go
September G2G 2008 - dapleb - 20-09-2008
<!--quoteo(post=97852:date=Sat 20th Sep 2008, 01:45 PM:name=TonyDevil)-->QUOTE(TonyDevil @ Sat 20th Sep 2008, 01:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->need to do a quick oil&filter change on Hutchs TRX in the morning and then we are good to go<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You lot seem to get a weird buzz off doin zummat at the very last moment afore the off. I bet there's a snapped bolt, a mad rush to the only bolt shop that opens at sparrows fart, then a second problem requiring the use of gaffer tape, cable ties and glue. Then as all thats sorted, you find a squirrel in the exhaust but manage to coax it out with a marathon/topic you have stashed away in that tardis top box of yours and then you make it just in time for tea and cake (probably also stashed in the topbox) [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif[/img] . Look forward to readin about it!
September G2G 2008 - ChrisG - 20-09-2008
<!--quoteo(post=97852:date=Sat 20th Sep 2008, 01:45 PM:name=TonyDevil)-->QUOTE(TonyDevil @ Sat 20th Sep 2008, 01:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Chris what time do ya wanna leave on Thursday? 11ish ok?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Works for me. You up for camping somewhere up North thursday night then?
Not really though about routes yet, if we get up that way in time we could head up over that pass north of Dunsop Bridge again, really enjoyed that last time. Depending where we stop Thursday we can either meet up with Matlock and co around Southport in the morning or meet them in Settle or Hawes later on.
<!--quoteo(post=97853:date=Sat 20th Sep 2008, 02:33 PM:name=dapleb)-->QUOTE(dapleb @ Sat 20th Sep 2008, 02:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Then as all thats sorted, you <!--coloro:#FF0000--><!--/coloro-->find a hamster in your exhaust but manage to coax it out with a marathon/topic<!--colorc-->
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Sounds like you've been hanging around with 900 riders too much PK!
September G2G 2008 - ynot tony - 20-09-2008
i live not far from bellingham,was going to pitch me tent up on friday morning,so if any one is getting there early on the friday we could have a ride oot on me local twistie roads [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif[/img]
September G2G 2008 - peterkelly - 20-09-2008
<!--quoteo(post=97834:date=Sat 20th Sep 2008, 09:24 AM:name=bondy)-->QUOTE(bondy @ Sat 20th Sep 2008, 09:24 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Roight then, who's meeting where and when on the Friday? My band of merry men will try and fit in where we can, we'll be riding up from the Ludlow area sometime Friday.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
meeting is now at 1030 at esso garage about 3 miles east of junction 31 M6 on A59
this will be geordie guy, matlock and myslef and others
I just got back from 'van trip to far north of bonny scotland so not sure hoiw many are meeting here now
Pete
PS - a pal of mine (and his missus) from near Edinburgh is hoping to join us Sat evening and for part of ride south on Sunday - hope this is OK
(they are on honda blackbird)
September G2G 2008 - amarko5 - 20-09-2008
For those that are keen to do the lakes run i propose to meet at hartside Cafe on the a686 5 miles west of alston at around 10:00 am with a view to leaving for the lakes run from there at 10:30 am (enough time for you all to get some eats).
Hawmaw best palce to meet me would be the a69/ m6 junction number 43 and then we can do another cracking road up to alston and onto the cafe. if you turn off onto the a69 there is a little bit of dual carriageway and a layby / hard shoulder you can wait on or indeed i can wait on. if you can make it there for 9:15 ish we will have plenty of time to get to the cafe.