Matt Sv comes to Wales

[Quiff Wichard]

Well, Matt and mrs matt- from Southampton came up to lanberis (In Wales dont you know) .. and we met them and went for a pootle with Luckypants and SpeedyClaire on Saturday

was great day .., nice pace, good weather- eventually! and good company.


did A loop from lanberis- caernarfon, Harlech, Bala ( waited ages for a raft and not one did the "get real wet" stop in the rapids ) Betwsy Coed etc etc..



good day ..

a few pics..


Oh and I think matt has some of me that he will no doubt photoshop to make it look like I have a fat belly !

[Quiff Wichard]

UPDATE .. THANKS TO TIGERSAW IT SEEMS I HAVE RECOVERED THEM - SO THEY WILL APPEAR BELOW..





oh dear-

in my tired state- I put my SD card in. copied across to desktop then deleted all files from my SD card.. oops desktop was shortcut and now cant find them and they gone forever..


watch this space as Matt has many pics.. but he wont be home till later-

dam I had some good ones too..

[tigersaw]

you can recover them if you have done nothing else since - search google for free sd recovery program. It worked for me some months ago

[Quiff Wichard]

oo really !!.

me will try .. then I might get out of this bad mood I am in now

[Quiff Wichard]

oh my goodness it looks like its doin it- that is like something out of CSI..

cheers Tigersaw..

[Quiff Wichard]

NO WONT DO IT-

YOU HAVE TO PAY ! IT HAS DONE IT .. but I arent paying £20 to get back some old pics of Matt .. ha



so MOD . you can delete this thread.

[tigersaw]

Quiff - there are some free versions out there.
look for diskdigger, there was another too, I can look it up. Sent my first email from work so didn't have access to my home pc to look it up

[Quiff Wichard]

tried 4 now
they all find tem- show them but wont elt me save them unless I pay a zillion quid !

[tigersaw]

tried 4 now
they all find tem- show them but wont elt me save them unless I pay a zillion quid !

Odd, I just tried diskdigger again on my USB stick, it found deleted stuff and recovered it to my drive no probs, no request for $$

[Quiff Wichard]

ok I try diskdigger- its takin ages so me go bed and see in mornin

hope this has helped others too.. cos it must be the first photo thread with no photos in !!!

[Ed]

Lame!!!!!!!!

[mattSV]

Here is a picture for you Quiff:-

http://www.forumammo.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10071/fail%7E0.jpg

[phi-dan]

PCInspector - free and saved me from a similar fate

[plowsie]

Well this thread was a letdown...

[mattSV]

Right - lets get this back on track.

Set off from Southampton at about 12 on Friday - weather was chucking it down so stuck to motorway as far as Shrewsbury, then took the A5. Stuck the satnav on with music on a SD card to try and relieve the boredom. Stopped for coffeee and fuel on the way, and arrived at about 7pm. Last few miles were in to driving rain, over some quite hairy roads so was glad to arrive at the hotel.

Saturday morning at the hotel next to Snowdon:-

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Forecast said sunshine, Snowdon however said rain :rolleyes:

Don't think this hill was Snowdon itself, as that was covered in cloud:-

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Sat in our room, on the third floor at the back of the hotel I could hear this deep rumble. No, not the beans from breakfast kicking in, it was the Quiffsters arriving, shortly followed by Luckypants and Speedy Claire.

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Have to say, those Staintune pipes sound bloody lovely, especially after Quiff did a flypast later at :plod: speed

[mattSV]

Luckypants led us out on some great roads. We stopped at one point to walk down to the river - it was a bit further than we thought but worth it once we got there.

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Are we nearly there yet?

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Go on, jump you fecker

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We decided to walk back the road way, took half the time :rolleyes:

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The hairy troll lives here

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[mattSV]

A quick stop at Harlech Castle

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[mattSV]

Then on for our lunch stop - not sure where, a park with a huge mountain biking circuit or two

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Quiff and his low fat diet coffee

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[mattSV]

Then on to the watersports centre (at Bala?)

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[mattSV]

The many faces of Quiff

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[gruntygiggles]

Fab pics Matt...at least YOU were able to upload them properly!!! ;-)

[mattSV]

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I wonder what he is thinking about here

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I soon found out (so did MrsMattsv)

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Dont even ask

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Take your pick:-

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[mattSV]

Woke up Sunday morning and guess what - raining again

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[mattSV]

We left the hotel at about 12, and head back home - cross country, down through Wales to Gloucester, and then Southampton - 278 miles home, and 650 miles in total.

Great weekend - great company, awesome roads - shame about the weather though, but when the sun did come out for a bit and the roads dried all the bikes got a good caning :cool:

[xXBADGERXx]

Then on for our lunch stop - not sure where, a park with a huge mountain biking circuit or two


Coed-Y-Brenin ?

[mattSV]

Coed-Y-Brenin ?

Could be - think it was just down the road from the watersports place near Bala???

[xXBADGERXx]

Could be - think it was just down the road from the watersports place near Bala???

Big long stretch of road inbetween 2 forests near Dolgellau ?

[mattSV]

Sounds about right - we turned right out of the park when we left, on to a loooong uphill straight - it was somewhere along that straight that Quiff & Luckypants got the opportunity to hear the sound of a Sprint ST going past them at a fair lick :smt077

[xXBADGERXx]

Yeah it`s Coed-Y-Brenin , great place to rest , if you sit in the right part of the eating area and scan the really tall trees , you can see a whole Mountain Bike about 80 foot up a Conifer ................. no idea how it got there :)

You did a great route there Matt , I would have joined but I had fitted fresh rubber to the bike and dropped my soddin speedo rotor and smashed it to bits .

[mattSV]

Yeah it`s Coed-Y-Brenin , great place to rest , if you sit in the right part of the eating area and scan the really tall trees , you can see a whole Mountain Bike about 80 foot up a Conifer ................. no idea how it got there :)

You did a great route there Matt , I would have joined but I had fitted fresh rubber to the bike and dropped my soddin speedo rotor and smashed it to bits .

Faaaaarkin unluckeeee.


Sorry, couldn't resist :p

[xXBADGERXx]

LOL .... it`s allowed .

[Quiff Wichard]

super pics of a good day out with good company.

oh except for the ones that make me look fat

[Luckypants]

Coed-Y-Brenin ?

Correct. =D> Don't go there often due to it being on the straightest road in Wales! Was a great day and Quiff's fly by was abso-bloody-lutely ace :smt045

[skeetly]

We could have had 2 sprints to fight off those viffers..
I couldn't have done Saturday anyway so.... :(
Looks like you had a nice run though :)

[Quiff Wichard]

Correct. =D> Don't go there often due to it being on the straightest road in Wales! Was a great day and Quiff's fly by was abso-bloody-lutely ace :smt045

was it ? was it really that good?

tell me again, tell me again

[Luckypants]

tell me again, tell me again

Only if you tell me mine was too! :smt082