A Little Outing - 280mile Round Trip to be exact

[ash t]

What a great day. I think me, Shellshock and Distortion have had the best of the weather in the country today!
we have just come back from a 280 mile round trip to Portmadog in NE Wales.

The roads in wales (especially around Bala) are excellent. Very Good quality surfaces, and very twisty. It was good to see so many bikers out in the lovely weather too!!


Heres some pics

On The Beach

https://predator.bikepics.com/pics/aprilia-rs125-04-bikepics-313677.jpg
https://predator.bikepics.com/pics/aprilia-rs125-04-bikepics-313678.jpg

Excellent day, and i will be doing it again (but i will spread it over a couple of days. My Neck, and my back ache like fuck!!
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[shellshock]

Was a damn fine day indeed, my arse is still numb, my ears are still burning, there's sand everywhere, and I feel gloriously knackered ..

Heres a pic of my bike looking very cool

[Fruit'n'nut]

Great pics, looks like you had fantastic weather too

It was overcast all day in these parts
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[MattShill]

We were promised nice weather today, but it was as dull as ever in Beverley. Thought I'd found a bike to buy yesterday night, but today it turns out it was already sold so I contented myself helping me dad mess around with the back end of his Aprillia Falco. I am considerably envious of your fine weather and bike ownage!
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[instigator]

Aye superb pictures!

So, the rs is your bike ash, the zxr, shellshocks? I take it distortion was on the back?

[yambabe]

LOL glad you had a good time, we didn't get quite as far down as Bala as the weather was a bit murkier in North Wales!

We did manage a 240-mile trip though, starting off heading off towards Ruthin then taking some of the real windy single-track roads through a forest whose name escapes me. Couple of hairy moments there, as some of the roads were very steep, and there was quite a lot of mud & gravel about, but managed to stay upright despite a couple of fairly impressive back-end slides - bet I couldn't have done those if I'd been trying to! Himself managed to actually come off the road and get a bit stuck in the verge at one point ( that'll teach you to take me on "difficult" roads on our first major ride of the year!) but some judicious shoving soon had us on our way again.

Managed a stop at the Ponderosa at Llangollen once I actually found the road it was on - conversation had gone:
- You go in front says he.
- I don't know the way says I
- Straight up the road says he
- OK says I

....until I noticed he wasn't behind me any more, and had failed to mention the right-hand turn we needed to do so that was me u-turning and haring back to try and find him!

Once we were on the way back and I knew the way I let him go off and play on the twisties whilst I followed behind at a slightly more sedate pace.

Only one BMW tried to overtake on a bend and kill me this time out, was quite funny watching the other half (who was a fair way in front but had seen how close he came in his mirrors) go tearing after him yelling "DICKHEAD" at the top of his voice.

Nice to see so many other bikes out & about enjoying the weather, and boy isn't the M56 a boring motorway!

Iam now relaxing at home and starting to feel just how many miles we actualy covered today ..... nurse, the liniment please....ouch....
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[Zoffo]

Good weekend for it. I done a 600 mile round trip to the Snowball Rally in february

[distortion]

[JimboJ]

Well what a day we were promised. Woke up this morning in hope of seeing the sun in all its glory, only to be greeted by the gloomy clouds that we are so used to here in Manchester. Anyway that wasn't going to stop me as I'd already planned to go out.

The journey: Me and a mate set off from mine and headed towards the cat and fiddle, stopped there for a hot chocolate (it was quite cold!) and a general unwind. Continued on from there towards buxton, then matlock. Had some lunch in Matlock then headed for the final leg of the journey, Snake pass(which we had to go through sheffield to get to!). Great Roads shame about the weather will definitely be doing that again.

One rather tired James.
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[Nath]

On Saturday I went for a 200mile round trip to Mablethorpe(near Skegness on the East coast). The weather was okay, though very misty on the coast so that I didn't actually see the sea at all...

There were loads of bikes on the Lincolnshire roads, and I rode with a couple including one 15mile stint behind one guy who was riding what I think may have been an R1. Some really nice roads as well, though the speed cameras were a bit tiresome(how can they justify putting them on the "accident hotspot" that is the Fosse Way??).

This was my first real ride on my Bros, so quite an experience. This one rideout was a longer distance than it had covered in the last year and a half of being owned by the guy I bought it off. Pretty pleased nothing broke on it
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[mchaggis]

Sun? What's that? Despite vigorous warnings of a glorious sunny weekend to start off my Easter holiday, it stayed thoroughly grey and overcast the entire time. This morning it was drizzling and foggy.

To amuse myself I took the rear end of my bike to pieces, rewired the brake light cluster, cleaned the whole lot up whilst watching the F1 GP (mostly with steel wool and a large steel brush), and reassembled it with copious quantities of axle grease as it was getting dark. (Hunting for the axle nut on the tarmac in the dark was fun ) . Great weekend. Still, at least it's fixed.
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[shellshock]

[ash t]

My neck and the top of my back are hurtin

Never mind. It was worth it!!

When we goin again??
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[shellshock]

South wales in the next couple of weeks, then the Superide !!! Can't wait ....

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[yambabe]

[ash t]

We will be going through matlock yep.

its a kind of full-circle around the midlands..going clockwise if you look at a map. Or we might do it anti clockwise if we do it over 2 days, so that we can hit matlock on a sunday
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[shellshock]

[yambabe]

Depends when it is. It's certainly a possibility, I'm only in Warrington......
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