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If Only We Could...

Dark Angel

Still kickin' it!
If Only We could plan a ride-out/meet-up for next weekend. Just imagine that the weather was absolutely, definitely, bloody-well briliantly gonna be fine for the whole of next week and for the whole of next weekend. The time between now and then would allow for bike fettling: is your bike ready to roll – or have you got some fixin’ to do?

To keep it simple, the "Big Biker Meet" destination can be anywhere in the UK. To keep it even simpler than that, let’s say that everybody who visits this site (including the lurkers who never post, and the watchers who “don’t need or want to get involved”), everybody is invited to attend. If you've not got a bike just now, there's nothing to stop you imagining that you've got the bike of your choice, so join in the fun. Blackbirds are preferred, obviously, but all other bikes are welcome.

Lockdown never happened, money’s no object and your partner is either a bike fiend who can’t wait to get out, or, at least, you’ve managed to talk her/him around to giving it a try. Travel time and distance are of no account. Wherever you’re “travelling” from, you can choose to take as long as you like - all you have to do is make sure you arrive on-time at the “Big Biker Meet” venue – wherever that turns out to be.

If you’re planning stopovers along the way, name the venue/campsite/hedge where you’ll be staying (and when), so you can have a mini-meet with others who might decide to share your route to the "Big Biker Meet" venue.


Any biker who’s interested – chuck yer ‘at in the ring and shout up. If you’re from N/W England, name your favourite meetup rendezvous and we can think about starting from there. Devils Bridge is first to spring to mind for me, but there are loads of other places, too, depending on whether we end up heading North, South, East or West - or over the sea to Ireland so come on, then.

Let’s be ‘avvin’ ya! :p
 

Cougar377

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Before this lock down is over, I reckon we'll see a video posted on social media showing you sat the wrong way on a kitchen chair, with a broom handle tied across the chair back, wearing all your bike gear, trying to lean off far enough to get yer knee down on the kitchen floor and alternating between making broom-broom noises and your best rendition of the sound a knee slider makes.

Then you fall off. :D
 

Dark Angel

Still kickin' it!
No challenge. Moorland, local knowledge and discretion (ie - not taking the piss ;)) means there are ways and means to avoid the "kitchen chair" scenario. :p
 

johnboy

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Sounds like someones got chicken strips on the kitchen chair.
 

jeffa

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OK im in, Devils Bridge would be a good place to start for me, then a ride over the Moors into Yorkshire towards Hawes. From Hawes we could head north towards Northumberland on the a684 to layburn - a6108 -scotch corner, 3 junctions up the A1(M) would see the A68,this would see us eventually into the Northumberland National Park. Still on theA68 At Melrose turn left to Galashiels an pick the A7 for Edinburgh. Overnight in hotel before resuming travel over to either Fort William or Fort Augustus.
Is something like that what you were thinking of Eric
 

Dark Angel

Still kickin' it!
It's a bloody good start! (y) I'll have a think and get back to ya later today.

Beltin'! :ARMS1: :D
 

Pow-Lo

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OK im in, Devils Bridge would be a good place to start for me, then a ride over the Moors into Yorkshire towards Hawes. From Hawes we could head north towards Northumberland on the a684 to layburn - a6108 -scotch corner, 3 junctions up the A1(M) would see the A68,this would see us eventually into the Northumberland National Park. Still on theA68 At Melrose turn left to Galashiels an pick the A7 for Edinburgh. Overnight in hotel before resuming travel over to either Fort William or Fort Augustus.
Is something like that what you were thinking of Eric
I’d be up for this, too (y)

I’d have to set off the day before though as I’m riding up from South Wales, see, there’s lovely, is it, was it, there it was gone, look. Most likely A483, I’d avoid the motorway as far as possible.
 

jeffa

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The A483 is a great road, I take that route when I meet up with the Bikers Oracle 6ers and stay at http://www.starbunkhouse.com/
Great roads to be found around the Black Mountains and Brecon Beacons
 
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eddyace595

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Count me out..I work in retail and that means working weekends ...Soz :(:(:(:(:(:(
 
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