Home Safe Thread

[Viper]

Viper home safe.

Thanks for a great weekend. Good to see some old faces (Quiff) some very old faces (Luckypants) and some new ones.

See you all again soon

[Devil Biccy]

Likewise home safe. Great to see everyone again including you Quiff! Hope to see you all next year

[christopher]

I'm home also, thanks for a good weekend all. Especially to those who organised and helped out!

[Specialone]

We got home safe (just about, due to the knobhead drivers out in force on the mway :() had 1 of the best weekends, thanks everyone, especially the organsiers.

Despite a puncture on the way down, a tent pole nearly knocking me out and having to cut the rideout short due to an on going shoulder problem, i had a brilliant time.
My wifes 1st camping trip, mine on a bike, so all in all, brilliant :D

Cheers guys and gals.

[Von Teese]

Von Teeses are home safe.
Had a really great time, thank you to everyone who made it so great! xxx

[Supervox]

Supervox home safe & sound - thanks to everyone for making it a fabulous weekend :cool:

[skeetly]

Me and the missus back.
Had a lovely time. Apologies to anyone who may be wondering why I didn't say hello; I'm a useless socialite.....

[sarah]

I'm home :driving:
Just waiting for Eviltwin to get back:riding:

[Scoobs]

Scoobs home. Pretty uneventfull weekend really.

[DMC]

Home safe but totally ball oxed. Was a great weekend, thanks to all that made it happen :D

[Beenz]

Home safe and sound.

[maviczap]

Home safe x2

Wunderbar Wochende :cool:

[SVStorm]

Home safe. Thanks everyone for a fantastic weekend! I really enjoyed my very first AR!

[Bri w]

Me and the two B's are home safe.

Barbara is starting to drop off to sleep. Bess was asleep within 5 mins of getting in.

Me, being a fine athlete I could go on for at least another 10 mins.

Many thanks to everyone for contributing to a fine weekend, especially the organisers.

One thing for next year - an assertiveness training course for Bear!

[Pingu65]

Penguins home safe and sound.


Thanks for all the help in putting up the tent (sorry for the pole in the head incident but it did make everyone laugh so wasn't in vain).

Had a great time meeting old and new friends, even met Iffy who recommended the group two years ago and we hadn't seen since (even though we live within 4 miles of each other).

Pass on thanks to the food van a brilliant addition to the AR.

And last but not least thanks, thanks and more thanks to the team who organised a brilliantly run event.

[Nick_69]

Home safe, thanks to everyone for a brilliant AR

[Stig]

Foxy and I just got home. Went the long way round avoiding the M4 and the A40.

Brilliant time had. Met so many new people and caught up with so many I have not seen for far too long. You are all wonderful :)

Roll on the next one.

[xXBADGERXx]

Reporting for duty , brilliant weekend , fantastic company , nice to have met people I`ve never seen before ........... I`m gonna put the kettle on and start decanting the bike gear . The Org ....... I love you all .

[keith_d]

I've been home for a while catching up on sleep. Had a great weekend, meeting some great folks. So kudos to everyone on the organising team for a great event.

Keith

[Specialone]

Penguins home safe and sound.


Thanks for all the help in putting up the tent (sorry for the pole in the head incident but it did make everyone laugh so wasn't in vain).



.

Not me it didnt:(

Glad my pain amused everybody ;)
You'll be pleased to hear my lump did subside after a while.

Everybody was great at helping tbh, we wouldnt have got our piddly tent up without help due to the bloody gale blowing at the time, so 1 good turn deserves another so we all chipped in.


Phil

[sarah]

I'm home :driving:
Just waiting for Eviltwin to get back:riding:

Eviltwin is home now :-D

[Stu]

See chat thread as I didn't see this thread first:oops:
That means - I'm home safe and sound pretty uneventful trip home ;) hope the others made it - a pretty high loss rate, very sorry for that
I hold my hand up as being my fault :(

[Stu]

See chat thread as I didn't see this thread first:oops:
That means - I'm home safe and sound pretty uneventful trip home ;) hope the others made it - a pretty high loss rate, very sorry for that
I hold my hand up as being my fault :(

[darkdreamsgal]

LOL!!! Home safe. Had a brilliant ride even after you managed to lose us, Stu! Right at the Golden Pot and through Bentley was definitely the way to go :)

Hope you sort the clutch out before next Sunday!

Jo

[hongman]

Hong home safe and sound, although myarms feel like jelly! got home at 5:30pm, hit some traffic on the M4.

Thanks to Stu and Eviltwin for letting me tag along for the ride home. Hope I didnt mess up pace too much (who am I kiding, f*ck me you ride fast...)

Thanks to everyone I rode up with, thanks to everyone that gave me advice and made me feel welcome!

Had an awesome weekend, met some great people, and am already looking forward to AR11!

Off to have a good wash!

Back later, peace and respect to all!

[hongman]

LOL!!! Home safe. Had a brilliant ride even after you managed to lose us, Stu! Right at the Golden Pot and through Bentley was definitely the way to go :)

Hope you sort the clutch out before next Sunday!

Jo


Ay! I peeled off onto the M4 then whilst Jo turned around.

:p

[darkdreamsgal]

Ay! I peeled off onto the M4 then whilst Jo turned around.

:p
That wasn't even it, Hong - Stu managed to lose us twice, and that's on the dual carriageways!! LOL

But all good as I knew where I was going ;-) And got to practise some of the roads for my ride next Sunday :-D

[Girth]

Just home and showered. Had a fantastic few days, and to top it off an awesome 3 hour ride home!

Did someone mention Scotland next year?

[fizzwheel]

Liz, the puppies and I are home safe and sound.

[Shellywoozle]

Woozle home safe and sound .... Samson flat out asleep !! Nice to meet you all had a great weekend x

[Electro]

Home scoffing my tea as i type. Too many thanks to give out. Met loads of fantastic people this weekend who made my weekend so brilliant and i hope to share many more with you all for many years to come.

[Binky]

Home, but on the back of a truck. :(

Think i had the mightiest of all might punctures. Managed to ride back to the OK diner (about 3 miles) on a really flat tyre. Got to the garage, after mucho squirming and delicate cornering, to find the tyres too hot to touch and looking like they'd been ragged round a track.

Pumped it up only for it to be back down to 0 psi in less than a minute or so.

This should have been named the Annual Puncture Rideout.

Cheers all for a great weekend though, especially those who put so much effort into organising everything.

[fenjer]

Fenjer and RavingDavis landed safely in Scotland at 5:00. Fantastic clear run up the A49, M6 A74 and A702.

Had a ball - best biking weekend since the GM... :)

[tinpants]

Got home at about half 2 after a really long journey home (an hour and five minutes!!!!).


Top weekend with top people.


Electro, you, sir, are a true gent. Glad to make your acquaintance.

[Specialone]

Home scoffing my tea as i type. Too many thanks to give out. Met loads of fantastic people this weekend who made my weekend so brilliant and i hope to share many more with you all for many years to come.

And i forgot to give you them indys :(
Took them there and brought them back, pm me your address and i will post them to you.

Phil

[hongman]

Electro, you, sir, are a true gent. Glad to make your acquaintance.

+1 although I wouldnt say "gent"!

Top geezer. Had me in stitches last night with some stories!:smt046

[Specialone]

Home, but on the back of a truck. :(

Think i had the mightiest of all might punctures. Managed to ride back to the OK diner (about 3 miles) on a really flat tyre. Got to the garage, after mucho squirming and delicate cornering, to find the tyres too hot to touch and looking like they'd been ragged round a track.

Pumped it up only for it to be back down to 0 psi in less than a minute or so.

This should have been named the Annual Puncture Rideout.
.

Bugger :(
We stopped at the ok diner as well, dmc had a puncture repair kit on him but by the sounds of it might have been too big.
My tyre did the same on the way down, looked liked it had been ragged to death, did decrease my chicken strips by about 5mm though, so every cloud has a silver lining lol.
I reckon ive lost a few hundred miles worth of wear due to that puncture, i knew something was up but didnt realise it was a puncture so was still going at speed.

[pmapp]

Me and Daz landed back at about 15:00, safe sound and comfy.

As has been said - massive thanks to all involved in planning, organising and doing; you made a lot of folk very happy.


Time for sleep.

[the_lone_wolf]

Reporting in...

[Lozzo]

Lozzo signing in from home. I took the scenic route and stopped in to see eldest daughter in Warwick for a cuppa before she went out.

Many many thanks to GruntyGiggles and Stretchie plus everyone else who put so much hard work into organising the AR.

Also, many thanks to Shelly for giving me a room in the rag-hotel thereby sparing me having to erect my tent.

Was great to see so many faces I knew, and even better to meet new folk.

Roll on AR11

[mattSV]

Been home for a couple of hours, the subaru is still sat on the drive waiting to be unpacked, can't be 4rsed to do it tonight.

Awesome weekend, apologies for crying off early on Saturday night, but I was shattered - mainly down to listening to Quiff snoring all bloody night.

[Electro]

And i forgot to give you them indys :(
Took them there and brought them back, pm me your address and i will post them to you.

Phil

I saw another guy ask if he could have them on the post mate so if he want them, give him a shout.

+1 although I wouldnt say "gent"!

Top geezer. Had me in stitches last night with some stories!:smt046

Cheeky fecker lol, i am a true gent ;)
Got home at about half 2 after a really long journey home (an hour and five minutes!!!!).


Top weekend with top people.


Electro, you, sir, are a true gent. Glad to make your acquaintance.

The feelings mutual mate :smt040

[Lissa]

Home safe and sound after a good day out with Banannaman. :D

More to follow when we're sorted out.

[Luckypants]

Claire and I got back about 5 before heading straight out to fetch my doggy back home. Good journey except for several cars on the wrong side of the road at various times?

So thanks to all for the superb organisation and a great weekend.

Cheers. :D

[kellyjo]

Been home for a couple of hours after a lovely ride back through the cotswolds.

Thanks to everyone involved in organising the weekend, and all you guys n gals for being great company, KJ x

[Sarg]

been home a few hours now and just made myself a chinese takeaway mmm ;o)

[dizzyblonde]

been home a few hours now and just made myself a chinese takeaway mmm ;o)


So you survived then?:p

Did you enjoy your first org event?:smt003

[hongman]

been home a few hours now and just made myself a chinese takeaway mmm ;o)

:smt110It's not really a takeaway if you made it yourself!!!

[SoulKiss]

Soulkiss Home

Great weekend folks :)

[Kilted Ginger]

-Ralph- home safe with me in tow. Fed and watered and waiting on a call from the dogsitter to see if i have to ride home tonight or tomorrow morning.

Great time nice to meet you all (some again) even those i dont remember ;)

[Binky]

... to see if i have to ride home tonight or tomorrow morning.
;)

**** me, that'll be a fair old trek to do tonight.

[Sarg]

So you survived then?:p

Did you enjoy your first org event?:smt003

It was brillant, I had a great time and met loads of cool people. Thanks again for your help! x

[Sarg]

:smt110It's not really a takeaway if you made it yourself!!!

when I say made I mean I drove to the chinese and bought it lol! :D;)

[Bluefish]

We're back, well made it to Dover, bout half six, bo bo's now, thanks all was brill.

[Messie]

Home. Happy. Knackered.

Phew!

Love you all xxx

[TSM]

home a while ago, showr, sleep, snoorrrrrr

[wattyfred89]

Home safe, thanyou everyone for a great weekend

[wattyfred89]

Just home and showered. Had a fantastic few days, and to top it off an awesome 3 hour ride home!

Did someone mention Scotland next year?

I did hear a rumour about that actually!

[Quiff Wichard]

home at 5 -

all safe

was brill.

ta to all involved ..


good ride home.. just the lock barrel fell out of my top box somewhere. ! in the field Ithink. oops.

[jambo]

Jo and Jambo home safe and happy at about 8:45pm.
God I'm shattered.
What a great weekend :)

[Quiff Wichard]

Jo and Jambo home safe and happy at about 8:45pm.
God I'm shattered.
What a great weekend :)


ya Kill Switch turner offerer...:smt067

[hongman]

Peak district was mentioned too...

[monkey]

I seem to have left an important part of my brain somewhere, somewhere in a field in Wales.

Home safely and monging in the bath.

[rictus01]

841 mile, £171.16 in petrol, dropped off the lovely KrazyKim, she was knackerd, but in one piece, turned round headed home, took my bike boots off when I got in at 11.22hrs.

I hope all the puncture repaired guys didn't have any more problems and it didn't spoil their weekend, on the bright side, a lot more people know how to use those kits now....:)

A long but thoroughly enjoyable weekend, my thanks to all who made it what it was, and that is everyone who was there.

I've close to a thousand pics, but they will have to wait a day or three.......

Cheers Mark

[xXBADGERXx]

I hope all the puncture repaired guys didn't have any more problems and it didn't spoil their weekend, on the bright side, a lot more people know how to use those kits now....:)

Many thanks to you for showing me how to use the "Sticky String" kit Rictus , and I revelled in the joy at having a go on somebody elses tyre as a practice , has to be better than doing it on the sife of a road in the rain , already got myself some parts lined up on eBay to make my own kit up :)

[N8te rider]

Home safe and shattered. Thanks to all for a great AR and to lozzo for helping out with the trailer, didnt come off :-)
Nice to meet new people and ride some amazing roads. Roxy was loving those roads!

[warg60]

We got home safe and sound, had a pizza, and just woken up now :)
Thanks to everyone one for a fab couple of days, a great ride, and well done with the weather too.

[FG1]

Home safe and sound.
Thanks to all for a great weekend.
Thanks to Jamie for a great ride back home.

[timwilky]

Finally got to a computer, far too chilled(knackered) to do it last night. and there was a warm bath waiting for me as I got in the door.

We got home somewhere about 6:30ish, (Having to stop for Dave Preston fag brakes). One when the Quiffs rode past us and despite waving of the hands the snobs ignored us, are we not good enough company now the AR is over?

Managed loose a couple and find another between Leominster and Shrewsbury. It would appear that the puncture fix to DavePrestons tyre was holding out well as he waved me goodbye at Leyland with only a few miles for him to go to Preston.

Bloody good AR, excellent location, excellent organisation. The breadman would have been proud to apply his special brand of anarchy to it. Well done everyone involved.

[Bear]

Home safe last night after a frankly phenomenal ride home. What a weekend!

[eviltwin]

Made it home safe yesterday. Didn't have the energy to type until now! Good weekend and a very pleasant ride home, even though I managed to lose all 3 people I was with somewhere around Hungerford. Sorry folks, there is a plausible explanation and I didn't just bugger off!

[iffy]

Got home sfae and sound yesterday afternoon around 3:30pm. Decided to go home via Marlborough and Salisbury, didn't fancy the M4/A34, great run down. Thanks to everyone once again for the organising of the weekend and the run. A hard act to follow next year.

[Sosha]

Cheers all. Few minor detours enroute but all good. For my next camping trip - a bigger tent.

[markc123]

Took the long way home. Slept lots. See you all next year :)

[Cazza]

Back home safe yesterday evening - was way too tired to fight with my laptop last night.

Thanks to Bear for a great, wiggly, route home.

Thanks to all for a brilliant weekend.

[Littlepeahead]

Back safe but only now awake enough to type - thanks Bear - your wiggly bits are awsome!

And to Messie for the ride after that.

Not so happy to get home to 3 piles of cat puke - I think he was cross we didn't take him along with us.

[blue curvy jester]

got back lunch time yesterday but too knackered be assed to type

next year i need paniers not a rucksack

[orose]

Also back last night, and only just rising to the level of civilisation required to post here... might need another quick nap to actually handle face to face human contact though. Made it to Matts reception at about 9:30 PM in the end.

[lily]

me and drew have just got home. Great weekend thanks all!

[mattSV]

I seem to have left an important part of my brain somewhere, somewhere in a field in Wales.



In the middle of the night, it seems alright, but then tomorrow morning, oooooooh, oooooh when you come down..... ;)

[kwak zzr]

All back home and back to normal :( what a supurb weekend and thanks to everyone!!

[TSM]

Home safe last night after a frankly phenomenal ride home. What a weekend!
+1

[Kilted Ginger]

Just in. 818 miles door to door (not including rideout obviously) Great weekend thanks to everyone who made it great by being there. good to see so many familiar faces and meet some that will become familiar.
long boring ride home today, brilliant sunshine until preston then rain to carlisle, filter through stationary traffic from preston to lancaster due to 3 crashes on same stretch and subsequent rubbernecking.

Ride safe folks and see you all again.

Special thanks to Davepreston for his usual hospitality, -Ralph- for bed and board, SpeedyClaire for all the hugs and Lucky pants for allowing it;) Mrs Mattsv for breakfast and Bri for helping with the bowmore.

[dyzio]

Made it home safe, wet but safe :D

[missyburd]

Don't think we've posted yet oops! We got back home about half12 last night with a very tired ManxMatt in tow, as Ollie said, we got to Matt's reception at half9, many thanks to Ollie for getting us there with no hiccups! Had a fantastic route home.

Cracking weekend, lovely to meet new folks as always and see old acquaintances :-)

[Wideboy]

got home at 3:30 and went to bed, shattered........ had a good ride home through the brecons, lunch stop at abergavenny then all motorway home

awesome weekend good to see known faces and already known.......... crap to be home :(

[ManxMatt34]

Just back, spent the night at the YC's weird that it took me exactley 100.1 miles to get from there drive to mine, o and the 80 odd miles on the boat :P fantastic weekend and need to thank so many cya all in 2011

[Dicky Ticker]

Glad you enjoyed it--------------------The anonymous screw layer;)

[Ijanric]

Home safe but not without a little spill on the way... Concentration on 4 hours sleep caught up with me. Took the wrong line, chickened out of leaning so far while going over potholes, and binned it into a hedge. £550 of parts damage. Ebay here I come! Still ridable and it'll be good as new soon. Could have been a lot worse.
Lesson learned: Don't do technical twisties on so little sleep. :mad:

Thanks for a great weekend though! And see you all again next year! :rolleyes:

[Wideboy]

aahhh **** dude!

[Specialone]

Home safe but not without a little spill on the way... Concentration on 4 hours sleep caught up with me. Took the wrong line, chickened out of leaning so far while going over potholes, and binned it into a hedge. £550 of parts damage. Ebay here I come! Still ridable and it'll be good as new soon. Could have been a lot worse.
Lesson learned: Don't do technical twisties on so little sleep. :mad:

Thanks for a great weekend though! And see you all again next year! :rolleyes:


Hope your ok, bit of a bum way to finish the weekend though :(

[Ijanric]

aahhh **** dude!

Hope your ok, bit of a bum way to finish the weekend though :(

Twas indeed a bad note to end on... Shoulder hurts a bit - can't lift my arm above my head. Sore ankle and bruised hip. I have to change gear with a bolt I put through the broken gear lever, but I have tiny indicators now. No near-side mirror either. #-o

[Girth]

****ing ell Rick!

[RichT]

Biscuits home safe and sound for a couple of hours now. Great to see everyone old & new. Thanks to all involved with organising such a top weekend.

[metalmonkey]

I had an awesome w/end was great to meet new people and to catch with everyone.

Bear that ride home was outstanding, that was a great way to end the w/end.

Meant to post sooner, I moved house either side of the AR why is it never simple!

[metalmonkey]

Home safe but not without a little spill on the way... Concentration on 4 hours sleep caught up with me. Took the wrong line, chickened out of leaning so far while going over potholes, and binned it into a hedge. £550 of parts damage. Ebay here I come! Still ridable and it'll be good as new soon. Could have been a lot worse.
Lesson learned: Don't do technical twisties on so little sleep. :mad:

Thanks for a great weekend though! And see you all again next year! :rolleyes:

Dude sorry to hear of this...heal quick if your shoulder is not working right, get it checked out take easy.

[squirrel_hunter]

Squirrel Hunter reporting in.

[phil24_7]

24_7's present and accounted for.

[chris8886]

had a great weekend, thank you and well done to all those who helped to organise in general and good work by the markers etc. on the rideout, really enjoyed that route depsite the bits of rain. now i've tasted those roads i want to come back and have another go. great to see plenty of people again, meet new ones and annoyed i didn't get to meet more

Home safe last night after a frankly phenomenal ride home. What a weekend!

it was mate, thanks again for showing the way!

[gruntygiggles]

The Strays, including MBK are checking in. Stretchie has gone up to excort Bill (Banannaman) to Eds house to get his flight home in the morning, so he'll be coming home to a big cuddle and a warm bed. Nic and I are shattered and have just now been able to log on as we also came home at whatever time this afternoon it was to a power cut...so fridge emptied and a chinese takeaway :-)

Wow, thanks all of you for making it such a good weekend :-)