Topic: End of Summer Ride 24th October 11am Boxhill Ryka's

[Grandma]

Weather looking reasonable:
 Sunday      Scattered Showers  High: 11°    Low: 4°     Have sent you all PM's with the route. If you have not received it or haven't let me know you plan to join us, please let me know

[Jetstream]

We don't have the route but don't mind - surprise  us on the day!
 
Weather improving - warming up a bit by Sunday according to Metcheck 

[Mr Rizla]

Weather looking reasonable:
 Sunday      Scattered Showers  High: 11°    Low: 4°     Have sent you all PM's with the route. If you have not received it or haven't let me know you plan to join us, please let me know

did u attach the route granny??

[DangerMouse]

Weather forecast is looking good ;-)

[Jetstream]

As the  Pointer Sisters say:
 
I'm so excited and I just can't hide it
I'm about to lose control and I think I like it
I'm so excited and I just can't hide it

 

[rosso47]

weather is looking good for tomorow, hope to see you all in the morning.

[Jetstream]

weather is looking good for tomorow, hope to see you all in the morning.

Which bike are you riding? It`s so long since we saw you we may not recognise you without a visual cue. 

[rosso47]

it's the yellow ones turn.

[Aceman]

I'm recovering from flu, else I would have joined you guys for this. I hope you all have a great day.

Martin

[DangerMouse]

Thanks Grandma really good to see you again. ;-)  I left all of a sudden i was so cold i didnt want to suffer anymore lol....Next time il wont wear Summer gear in the Winter.  Had a blast was great to follow you again did you notice close formation ;-) lol....It was nice to see all of you ive not seen for a while.  See you back on facebook. ;-) let the good times roll!

[rosso47]

Thanks for organizing this ride out grandma, it was a nice to put faces to names at last.
 Till next time
                       Rosso....

[Jetstream]

Glad Rosso got home safely.
Thanks for organising this Christine, lovely to see you and other TLBers again.
Eezyrida, why do I have two missed calls from you at 12.42.55 and 12.43.40? Where you missing me already?
 Our post prandial itinerary included Petersfield, Alton, Basingstoke, Newbury, Wantage, Goring and Henley and back to the Ace.
Giuliano, hope you got home safe and there was some cake left for you.
Alba, sorry we didn`t get you home by 4.00pm (only one hour late)

[Alba]

thanks for the ride to the airfield Grandma, breakfast was lovely

Dangermouse, yes next time please wear thermals your nipples where almost piercing through the leathers 

thanks to the Jizz for the second rideout, i had no problem with the timing, as usual never disappointed when i follow you guys 

[jimc]

T'was good to meet old friends again - and some new ones.   I'd not been to Goodwood before - it'll make an excellent excuse of a destination for future rides.

Thanks Christine!

[Giuliano]

Thanks for the Ride Christine, and thanks for excellent company.

Jetstream, yes thanks, headed off down the B2070 which some of us remember was the A3 once, was tempted by the A286 detour through Haselmere but instead joined the modern A3 at Liphook as I didn't want to be too late.  A quick filter through the congestion in the roadworks in Hindhead and off the A3 at Tolworth then through Kingston. Arrived at my niece's in Ham at exactly the same second as my parents arrived.

The cake was a fetching affair, decorated with a garden pond and three frogs!

[NB - not sure what has happened with the pictures, is there a way of resizing them using tags? They looked fine when in preview but live the pictures are cut in half.]



A few pictures from Goodwood. I think the Russians were spying on us -

[Jetstream]

Yak 52, £350,000 to you, though we can source them at £135,559.99.

[eezyrida]

Fantastic rideout, Grandma, as always. Great to see you again and see old friends and meet new ones. Many thanks for organising it, and to all USRs for doing such an excellent job as corner-markers, and to the Tailgunner for doing a great job.
 
That video I promised to send you a link to is here.
 

Eezyrida, why do I have two missed calls from you at 12.42.55 and 12.43.40? Where you missing me already?

Haha, Ann and I were following a couple of USRs on foot from where we parked the bikes, and ended up walking all the way back to the tunnel. All five of us therefore got lost trying to find the cafe so I rang you in the hope you could direct us to it, there was no reply so one of the USRs managed to get through to Christine, and all was well 
 

[eezyrida]

Oops - I meant to just post a hyperlink, and the whole video seems to have embedded itself. Not the easiest of forum software I've ever worked with 

[Jetstream]

"Haha, Ann and I were following a couple of USRs on foot from where we parked the bikes, and ended up walking all the way back to the tunnel. All five of us therefore got lost"
 
Sounds about par for the course, never follow a USR riders directions.
 
We, on the other hand parked near a sign saying "Cafe Open" with an arrow. Much against our intuition, we followed said arrow and to our surprise, found a cafe serving food and drink.
 We sat at an empty table and rocked up at the empty counter to order our food.
Not beyond the ken of most Olympic organisers.
 
Our reference for Giuliano:- Julian was able to find the cafe and order his own food with minimal assistance. He digitised the old folks table and homed in with alacrity. His knowledge of YaK 52s, his talk of his fathers birthday and his old fashioned politeness made Rosso feel at home.
 
We can recommend this man for a post supervising the old peoples toilet at the Olympic bowling event without reservation or hesitation, he is a gem.

[Giuliano]

Yak 52, £350,000 to you, though we can source them at £135,559.99.

Do the budget ones only have the twin blade propeller? Maybe the triple blade is an option, like having the full colour paint job?

[Jetstream]

We can do three blade props in olympic colours, with logos," Disabled, Mens, Womens " for a cheap deal. To you only, buy two get one free.
Delivery to be arranged, let us know when you are at home.
Conditions apply ...................

[Biker Biker]

Lovely to see so many of you and as usual Grandma had booked the sunshine.  I was rather envious as you all rode off but had a lovely catch up with PP and Westie.  Happy days!

[redrat]

Nice to see some old an new faces :-)

[Mr Rizla]

Oops - I meant to just post a hyperlink, and the whole video seems to have embedded itself. Not the easiest of forum software I've ever worked with 

hey... :p we use an auto embeder so all you need to do is post the link and the software does the rest

[Grandma]

   It was so good to see you all on Sunday and huge relief we enjoyed our usual excellent weather. Too busy catching up to take many photo's here are a couple.
Hoping to see more of you all, as I have managed to shed a few "jobs" I have been doing which I hope will allow me to come out and play with you more on the bikes