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TomReilly
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PostPosted: 12:17 - 15 Oct 2013    Post subject: So what do you guys like to do when you go out on your bikes Reply with quote
I'd like to go for a nice long ride on my own somewhere with a bagback with a bit of food, cigs and a nice internet connection.

Anyone got any stories?
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PostPosted: 12:23 - 15 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
I do mostly ride on me own. Not always by choice, mind. And when I go out I invariably go up to seaways or over to squires (biking cafes), get chatting to other people with bikes, have a roll up or three, then come back home innit.
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PostPosted: 12:25 - 15 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
How do you find bike cafe's around you, google it? Would be interesting to visit one
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PostPosted: 12:30 - 15 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
I normally head out with 1 or 2 guys I know from bike cafes and meets etc. head out for a few hours and get some food then a new route back. Or we go to bike meets and cafes meets sort of thing, have a nose at everyone's bikes then go for a ride

Just started going to local bike nights to meet people, soon get to know all the local places people tend to go. Look at local bike forums to meet people or find local ride outs is good if you don't know anyone. That's what I did when I moved here

Or just venture out on my own with no real plan, usually end up finding an amazing road or something
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PostPosted: 12:32 - 15 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
I just go to places - Wales, Scotland, Peak District, track days etc. Otherwise I cannot be bothered. I usually ride alone and I like it that way.
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When I get mine done up I want to go out to the Docks around here in Liverpool, I got a friend with a little lexmoto cruiser, go out for a little ride with him, maybe some of you guys will come sometime, would be a nice ride with some bike bikes next to me haha!
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PostPosted: 12:37 - 15 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
TomReilly wrote:
When I get mine done up I want to go out to the Docks around here in Liverpool, I got a friend with a little lexmoto cruiser, go out for a little ride with him, maybe some of you guys will come sometime, would be a nice ride with some bike bikes next to me haha!


I live in Devon, bit of a treck haha
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PostPosted: 12:40 - 15 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
clancy wrote:
I live in Devon, bit of a treck haha


Sleeping bag, food, petrol money, sorted Wink
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PostPosted: 12:41 - 15 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
go to the scotch piper near maghull matey boy

wednesday night is the night to go
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PostPosted: 12:45 - 15 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
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go to the scotch piper near maghull matey boy

wednesday night is the night to go


Sounds good, I'm quite nearish to there often
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PostPosted: 13:09 - 15 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
The Tap over the water on a sunday.

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There's a lot more to the hobby than the bikes themselves isn't there
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Go out and see how fast I can go.
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PostPosted: 13:13 - 15 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
TomReilly wrote:
There's a lot more to the hobby than the bikes themselves isn't there


It's all about the tyre kicking and the lying about how fast you went.
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stinkwheel wrote:
TomReilly wrote:
There's a lot more to the hobby than the bikes themselves isn't there


It's all about the tyre kicking and the lying about how fast you went.


and a wet crotch, leaking boots, wheelies, muffs, bitching about the weather.
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PostPosted: 13:39 - 15 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
TomReilly wrote:
There's a lot more to the hobby than the bikes themselves isn't there


It is not a hobby.Leave that to the train spotters and stamp collectors.

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I like to go to holmfirth then over into Derbyshire via snake pass onto Ladybower then Castleton. Fish and chips then home.
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I got to work...only commute on the bike as no free time from the family or places to go round these them parts.
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Touche.. touche
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TomReilly wrote:
How do you find bike cafe's around you, google it? Would be interesting to visit one


Yeah I dunno - think I got a bit lucky being between two (three if you count fimber in the woods at the incredulously named wetwang) bike fixated cafes. But there'll be something near to you I reckon.

Like cansa said there's always the obligatory weather topic to be got through - but after that I always plough into what bikes whoever I'm talking to has owned before the one they're on. Usually throws up interesting stuff.

But anyway, my favourite rides aren't fast ones - and would probably bore most bcf types rigid. I'd guess that the majority of miles I cover are on unclassified, very rural lanes - lots of blind bends, awkwardly positioned drifts of grit and plenty of massive, poorly driven mechanised agricultural machinery. Makes for "interesting" riding lol. There are straight stretches too though, where you can wind it on a bit - so it's a bit more varied than I'm making out. Other times I go into York, primarily to annoy grockles with my far-too-loud zorst. A bit of flitering is always fun, and some of the tiny, cobbled back streets have lots of strange ancient chapels huddled away, and bizarre, crooked Tudor timbered properties. Hardly a pegs-down, red-lining kinda thang - but for some strange reason I always enjoy it.
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Fizzer Thou wrote:
TomReilly wrote:
There's a lot more to the hobby than the bikes themselves isn't there


It is not a hobby.Leave that to the train spotters and stamp collectors.

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its like skelmersdale.....its a state of mind

oh if your looking for a quiet ride out route (will only take 40mins ish)

go through hale village into widnes..(go fast or they will nick your socks) come up through cronton, passed the college, turn left on onto prescot lane onto some twisties, back into hough green to netherley. back onto queens drive an home in time for "east'ees"

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PostPosted: 15:06 - 15 Oct 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
I mostly go out to try and not fall off. so far so good lol
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Sounds good trevar thats the sort I would be most into really, normal riding but if I find a long empty straight road.. one does not simply obey the speed limit Twisted Evil
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Pringah wrote:
I mostly go out to try and not fall off. so far so good lol


Well done man, keep it up ahaha.
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