South west rideout

[Tristan.]

Few of us from the south west section went for a rideout today, was fun, though an awefull lot of doing stuff that wasnt rideing getting lost and breaking down mostly, though thats whats meant to happen, we should probably plan around that stuff next time

Anyway, we had me, on my clapped out CB, cos I've been told I ride the FZR like a fag. mattsprattuk on his gixxer 6, skluff on a nice shiney 636, Seb on an aprillia futurer, thejdemon on an RS125, RXS_chris on a CD250, Bittern on an MZ ETZ250 or something and my housemate Adam, on a H100, so a fair spread of horsepowers.

Plan (for people who know the area) was 11AM meet at captain jaspers, a bike caff thing, get off for 12ish to torpoint twisties, up there, up the A38, then from Bodmin to Davidstow via backroads, get there for 2ish, and spend a few hours playing on the runways and grass.

This is where we where at half 12
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(DNA is nowt to do with us BTW)
two blocks from my house, couple guys where there, including Bittern on the MZ. And the rest of us at Jaspers, the MZ wouldnt start so we got everyone back to it, to watch it not starting. Then it did start and we went.

and got to Jaspers for lunch
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and left, 2 hours later than planned (and given that this was before we where even meant to of started the ride, it kind of set the tone for the day)

anyway, torpoint ferry over to the twisties
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And who got into the carpark at the top first?








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Oh Yeah (though I've done the road a dozen times or so to be fair)

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the slower bikes catch up and we head off for davidstow.

Nothing much happens, we sort of lose the H100 by being too fast and then it comes back. Err then an hour or so later the rideout looks like this
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This is why you shouldnt have rideouts on duel carriageways with bikes ranging from 100cc to 1000cc

People had got lost in various ways, Skluff needed to go home anyway, so sent us a text when he stopped for a piss, Adam and Seb found their way to davidstow and gave us a ring, and Bittern caught up and I turned off his engine cos the two stroke noise was annoying

oops

Unfortunatley all the electricity had fallen out, so after a few tries at bumping it we decided to push/tow it, and then while being towed by Chris' 250 it bumped and was alive again. Anyway we headed off to davidstow where Adam and Seb where probably wandering where we where.

As we headed for it I saw them coming out a sideroad, so went to pull over, missed one parking thing and indicated right into a farm entrance or something, matt has shit brakes and was going faster than me, so when I hit the brakes he couldnt stop in time, came down my left and twatted me while I was doing about 5 and him 30 odd (he'll come in and say it was just his mirror that hit me, but it wasnt ) anyway, I fell over and hurt my finger but the CB is awesome and indestructable and got back up fine. We stood there for a bit agreeing how funny it was then went to davidstow.

where we did
this sort of thing for an hour or so, or those of us who dont give a damn about their bikes, or have better ones. Then I tried something I'd seen on youtube, where you hold the bike and get it to burnout round you, then let go and it goes off on its own in an awesome fashion. didn't really work, it just sort of made me look silly, cos nobody believed I did it on purpose, and it scratched the CB, but nobody cares about her, FZR's prettier.

Anyway, that was about it, and there wherent that many pics taken. Anyway if your in the devon/cornwall area and arent a member of the SW group, or dont use it, then do, cos we're planning another (number 4, wow) in a few weeks, third sunday of Vovember probably.

[Graham88]

Doesn't sound like my sort of rideout tbh

Breaking down and crashing into each other doesn't really appeal to me!

[Tristan.]

[Graham88]

[.Chris.]

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[mattsprattuk]

[Tristan.]

Maybe it was your suzukis fat arse that hit me, anyway, whatever it was something large hit me at a considerably higher speed than I was doing. Also, I forgot to ask you when we got home, did you see my bars wobbling, also did the CB sound good in the tunnel?

[Moonie]

I'm down there quite alot of the time visiting freinds, I won't join the SW group cause I live in the midlands (I know bloody midlanders) but guve us a PM next time and I'll tag along.
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[Tristan.]

You can join more than one regional group, I'm in 4 Anyway next one is probably the 22nd of November, Exeter start and Plymouth finish+ BBQ then night out hopefully and theres plenty of space to stay at our student house.