Back home Thread

[600+]

Seems like I'm the first one to post.

Home safely though never been soooo wet before in my riding life !! :)

[SuzukiNess]

home safe too... :cheers:

thawed out and in bed enjoying my comfy warm home comforts :)

at one point on the mway i was down to 20mph as i couldnt see it was chucking it down so hard..

[slark01]

Back home, got thoroughly soaked.
Ste.

[christopher]

Also home.

Hope everyone else gets home safely (even if soaked through! :)).

[Electro]

Home and dry now :)

[startrek.steve]

Yep, we all arrived home safe and sound, although my front indicator decided to snap off on the motorway? Did any of you drunken bums trip over my bike at 3 am?

[theboatman]

I'm also back home, but then I am in Lancaster, so it was a nice warm bed for me last night. Cheers guys for a great weekend. Nice to meet you all. Hopefully I will not be on a 125 with L plates next time I see you all.

[AndyBrad]

back home, holy crap it was mental ride with some of the roads near me flooded like ive never seen. needed a bloody boat!

hope everyone gets back ok and had a good time

[Girth]

Back home now, rode back with Boltonste. I rode like absolute sh!t, me thinks too many drinkies last nite.

[theboatman]

Andy, I know a man that can sort a boat hire out for you... I think I could get a bike on the boat ;)

[Roberrrrt]

Back home, reasonably dry ride actually! :)

[fenjer]

Back home... rather wet but home safe.

[davepreston]

im alive
misson accomplished

[Mrs_giggles]

Home with the punto of doom

[the_lone_wolf]

TLW+1 safely at our overnight stop in Leicestershire, managed to only get soaked a couple of times...

[suzukigt380paul]

me and maviczap home safe and dispite the rain are dry,
688 miles total for the weekend, and 1 dirty bike later

[JamesMio]

Got back an hour or so ago - bike rinshed, washing machine on, tent hanging up in garage... Now for a shower, a beer and a snooze in no particular order!

Cheers again folks!

[maviczap]

Got home at ten past 3, rain in the AR region, then dry south of Liverpool on the M6 until back in Suffolk, when there were big black clouds and short showers.

Passed Mr & Mrs Bluefish man on the A14 heading to Dover way, then he passed us again

But its been raining for nearly an hour now though, got home just in time.

Nearly 700 miles covered since Friday. Knackerd now :cyclopsani:

[maviczap]

me and maviczap home safe and dispite the rain are dry,
688 miles total for the weekend, and 1 dirty bike later

Then that makes it over 700 for me :cheers:

[Speedy Claire]

Home safely and not too wet :cheers:

[Dalesbridge]

Glad you all got home ok :)

[metalhead19]

Been back few hours. First part of the trip was soaking wet, but then second half the sun came out :D
Cheers all for the great weekend

[The Idle Biker]

800 miles, 250ish in the rain, too many Strongbows, too many burgers and one unusually dirty bike.
Thanks to everyone that organised things.
Never again though!
Oh alright, go on then, maybe next year.

[fenjer]

haha Mr Idle biker!! Was great to meet you, glad you enjoyed you're first AR! See you next year. :)

[tinpants]

Got home at 1545 after a fairly uneventful trip down the M6 and M5 back to the good ol' Forest of Dean. 450 miles for me over the weekend - would have been more but didn't do the rideout due to a migraine. Ah well, theres always next year...





...so wheres it going to be?

[Shellywoozle]

Back home, nearly fell asleep on motorway Ooops. Bloody Sat nav took me all over place so had a lovely tour of the country on way back.

I have a very tired dog. Lovely to see old and new faces.

Jasper, Sam is missing you ..... honest ;) x x x

[orose]

Got back home an hour or so ago... time to catch up on the sleep preston stole from me last night.

[Bibio]

i is home :-).. that was wet lol

i think there is something wrong with my bike as i filled up at kirkby motors and got to kirkcaldy in fife on 1 tank of petrol £17 the light just started flashing as i got to the petrol station.

a big big thank you to all involved for organising a very pleasurable time.

love ya all the bibster..

[Steve_God]

Made it back fine, albeit through a few more showers on the way down!!

[Nick_69]

Back home safe.

Brilliant weekend thanks to everyone who helped out

[keith_d]

Home, safe and well, complete with the tools that fell off my bike on the ride. Thanks to Ollie for helping me get the route into my c**p Garmin.

Keith.

[Blue Flame]

Got home about 15:15. Just about dried out now.

Big thanx to everyone involved in the organisation of this years AR.

[Raf]

Hello, been home about 40 minutes now.

Well that was interesting, we rode through 2 thunderstorms on the way done, a nice sized one somewhere north of Manchester and a proper torrential one in Birmingham, this last one was indeed quite epic!

However, we did lose a bike, Mike_84_650S'99's alarm packed up on the M6 Toll Road. Thankfully Sid Squid showed up and we wheeled Messie's bike out of the trailer and put his on. They should be on their slow way home now, we probably owe him several pints.

See you lot another time.

[Devil Biccy]

BAck home too and drying out tents, gloves and everything else that I packed for the weekend. Despite that the weekend was great, lovely to meet new people and catch up with old friends. To Dizzy and the team that organised the AR a big thank you for the time you dedicated in getting the AR together and making it happen.

[Messie]

Just in, after a slight change of plans as mentioned by Raf above. I rode home from the M6 Toll road instead of somewhere on the edge on London. Got soaked then dried out then got damp again but I'm home now.

Thanks to Dizzy and Orose for another great AR.

Now, where are we going next year?

[Terah]

Back home safe.

Dropped the bike at MacDonald's at Galashiels - very slow motion and pannier took the brunt of it so no real damage, though I don't remember the clutch lever going that far forward...

Then almost binned it completely back in Edinburgh when some idiot woman pulled out right in front of me.

But clean, warm, and about to eat so all happy.

Thanks to everyone involved, I had a great weekend.

[squirrel_hunter]

Been back for a bit but had a shower a Strongbow and a sleep, so reporting in now. I can also report that Mac99 arrived at his Parents stop over before I got out of my tent in the morning.

Big thanks to all who made the weekend what it was, and who helped me through it.

Oh and I have Trench Foot.

[TSM]

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[hongman]

Then that makes it over 700 for me :cheers:

Back home a while ago, fell asleep til now lol.

Mavi and SuzukiPaul, sorry for disappearing, then reappearing, then disappearing again :)

About 30s into the ride home my pinlock decided to do the complete opposite of its job. I had the visor open but the rain was stinging my eyes...so had to pull over, and lob the insert. That process took about 16 hours becuase I was wet and rushing, then had trouble getting gloves on again.

Caught you up, but I was already soaking wet and cold and I wanted to get home ASAP, so I tossed legality and sensibility out of the window and just full throttled it.

:D

[dyzio]

Got back about an hour ago, 900 miles or so in total

:cheers:

[maviczap]

Mavi and SuzukiPaul, sorry for disappearing, then reappearing, then disappearing again :)

About 30s into the ride home my pinlock decided to do the complete opposite of its job. I had the visor open but the rain was stinging my eyes...so had to pull over, and lob the insert. That process took about 16 hours becuase I was wet and rushing, then had trouble getting gloves on again.

Caught you up, but I was already soaking wet and cold and I wanted to get home ASAP, so I tossed legality and sensibility out of the window and just full throttled it.
:D

Ah that explains the mysterious disappearing Hongman :D

We didn't hang about, when you lit the blue touch paper we were just warming up. Takes us oldies a bit longer to get into our stride

[Lozzo]

I arrived home at about 3.30pm after stopping in Leicester to gossip about my eldest daughter with her mum :-) The ride home was uneventful, and I'd dried out completely because the rain stopped around Sheffield.

Thanks have to go out to Dizzy, Orose and anyone else involved in the organisation - you all did a brilliant job and the whole weekend has once again boosted my thoughts towards my fellow motorcyclists being the best people on the planet.

[Smudge]

Thanks everyone for a great weekend oh and to Kilty for finding all my belongings after friday night :-) awesome weekend and great weather too for yorkshire

[hongman]

Ah that explains the mysterious disappearing Hongman :D

We didn't hang about, when you lit the blue touch paper we were just warming up. Takes us oldies a bit longer to get into our stride

Ah that I know you dont hang about ;) But I was riding like a **** to get home and I didnt want any orgers to see my naughty side. :rolleyes:

I have now discovered a slight hesitation on in 6th at 11,500rpm, used to rev to 12k before :rolleyes: Time for a major strip and service methinks.

[andrewsmith]

i is home.

Got back at about 6.
Had a fair run back just had faff with the tent.

Just had showers and did part of the AR route reversed and it was stunning.
Massive thanks to Dizz, orose for putting the AR together this year.

[hongman]

I'd love to do the entire AR route in the dry - those roads would be amazing.

Reckons I will have to sort a trip out with some Yorkshire lot!

[Owenski]

I would think tom and I will have been home before most of you emerged from your tents this morning (not fun) I hope the 6.30am departure didnt disrupt anyone (we did push the bikes out to the road to minimise the disruption my apologies if we failed).

Thanks all for the great weekend, and special thanks to all those who put the effort in to orgaising the whole event.
I think I've just about dried out finally but it was worth it too once again put new faces to known names, along with catching up with a few ugly faces I could have gone without ;)

(I'm pleased to announce My speedo cable has now been repaired, and my iphone is drying in a rice bag on the radiator - I have the apple logo on the screen so there may be life still left in it).

[dizzyblonde]

We got home around 4.

More later....................

[SuzukiNess]

iphone is drying in a rice bag on the radiator - I have the apple logo on the screen so there may be life still left in it).
take a bowl of uncooked rice... chuck said wet phone into rice- make sure its completely covered and leave for 24 hours... the rice will absorb the moisture out of the phone.. (not to sure the heat of the radiator would be good for it?) the rice method has worked for me a few times

[hongman]

Next time I'll bring a bag of rice for my boots and shove some down my boxers too

[Bluefish]

Home, well in calais, scorchio here, thanks to all was great, pity it was
Monsoon season , mebe do it again in december when the weathers better.

[SuzukiNess]

Next time I'll bring a bag of rice for my boots and shove some down my boxers too

u so small we could have pegged you, your boots and boxers in the dry room :)

[hongman]

lol - I was throughly miserable just after the rideout, I remind myself of a sorry looking wet cat. Southern poofta and all that.

Definately leanrt my lesson - buy some decent waterproofs, and remember to pack them! To be fair though I dont normally ride in that kind of weather often, and lots of people's waterproofs let water in.

[monkey]

Yarp.

Thanks for the loan of the bike Mr Preston and of course to Dizzy, Ollie and everyone else that helped.

[SoulKiss]

been back about 2 hours, taken me this long to get up the energy to post.

Well ok, I had a bath 1st :p

Great weekend, great people as usuall

See you all next time :p

[Treacle]

Same here. Great to see everyone again and meet some new folks.
Thanks to Dizzy and others for all your efforts. :-)

[Cazza]

Been back a few hours.

Big thanks to Dizzy & Orose, plus Devil Biccy Saeed & SK for the BBQ cooking - and anyone else who helped it to be the weekend it was.

[Kilted Ginger]

Home safe, but soaked. Nice fun up to Carlisle with Peterco, Bibio, James Mio and Terah, I peeled off here as rain had started again and pushed up the back roads to home,
Great weekend, thanks to Dizzyblonde and Orose for all their hard work, thanks to the Chefs for the BBQ and thanks to everyone else for making it so much fun.

[jambo]

been back about 2 hours, taken me this long to get up the energy to post.

Well ok, I had a bath 1st :p

Great weekend, great people as usuall

See you all next time :p
Same deal, the run back was properly aquatic around Birmingham, got to the point where the water was just funny :D

Turned out nice after that though :)
Jambo

[Luckypants]

Got back yesterday afternoon, got rained on again as far Manchester then it got better and better back to Wales. Went to pick up my excited old doggy... (when he woke up! :rolleyes:) so not been on the org until now.

Thanks to the AR11 team for a great weekend. :cool:

[Sosha]

Thanks all. So pretty round there even with the tempest. Found waterproofs on the floor when I got back :rolleyes:

Could have done without the monsoon between Buckingham and Slough though. Other than Halifax it had been alright up to there.

same time next year?

[Littlepeahead]

Sounds like you all had a blast. Did anyone use our un-needed B&B room in the end?

We headed to Hampshire but because of the M25 being shut we had to take the scenic route along the A272 - unfortunately so did everyone else so it took 6 hours from Chelmsford to Lyndhurst!

But we did think of you as we were putting our tent up in the blazing sunshine on Saturday afternoon. And again as we mooched around a chilli fiesta in West Sussex on Sunday and I was concerned that I hadn't put any sunblock on.

I'm off for x-rays on the dodgy achilles this week - so with any luck I'll manage to get it sorted in time for next year's AR. Talking of which - some of those roads along the South Downs would be brilliant on a bike - anyone fancy organising the AR in that area?

[SoulKiss]

I was canvassing for support for AR: London 2012 so maybe...

[andrewsmith]

SK are you mad AR at the same time at the White Elephant of London?

[phil24_7]

We got home yesterday at 17:30, so 6 hours back compared to 9 there. Should have been 5 but for an accident on the M6 just after it splits for the toll road. We did however have an amazing time in the services whilst waiting for the traffic to subside a little, watching people try to park. It's amazing what people do when they think nobody is watching.

Anyway, cheers all for a great weekend, especially the organisers and the chefs.

[Dave20046]

Sounds like you all had a blast. Did anyone use our un-needed B&B room in the end?


WHAT?!
I would have paid good money to use a room, I was under the impression they were fully booked.

:smt019

[tinpants]

I was canvassing for support for AR: London 2012 so maybe...

I think it could be a goer. Me and SK had quite an in-depth chat about it late on Saturday night, and it seemed to be a great idea...

WHAT?!
I would have paid good money to use a room, I was under the impression they were fully booked.

:smt019


ROFPMSL!!!!!

[the_lone_wolf]

Well, probably the last ones to get home, we arrived a few hours ago, now suitably fed, watered and washed

Was pretty dry for the second leg but a miscalculation of what motorway junction we were on meant we had to leg it fairly briskly from Oxford to get the boat...

[missyburd]

I got home about 6, funnily enough 3 mins before Chris and the Van of Doom - I decided to take a very fun detour back seeing as the sun had decided to grace us with its presence. Much fun disassembling the marquees and a very nice luncheon before heading home, cheers.

Had a fab weekend and it was good to see everyone with such smiling faces despite experiencing the worst Yorkshire weather my bike has had to endure yet! :rolleyes:

[BoltonSte]

Got back woth Girth, didn't log on as I don't think I could have done.

Mates came round to inform me I looked like death and gave up coming into work yesterday after I woke up.

[Littlepeahead]

WHAT?!
I would have paid good money to use a room, I was under the impression they were fully booked.

:smt019

I did offer it up to anyone who wanted it in a separate thread.

[Dave20046]

Poos

[rictus01]

Well, probably the last ones to get home, we arrived a few hours ago,

Home about an hour ago, from thursday morning 04.45 am to tuesday 4.30pm, 1034.1 miles and alot of petrol stops, lovely ride back in the glorious sunshine all the way, stop of in bakewell for a replacement bottle of scotch, and lunch in Matlock, tired and aching, but a few days will sort that out.

Cheers MARK.

[paddy t]

yipeee !!! i m home ,no dry clothes , brand new tyres , numb bum ,but happy :) Its probably been said a thousand times ,in a hundred places , but thanks one and all for a great weekend :) ...how long till the next one ..????...lol is" Annual" the clue ?

[orose]

The AR is annual, but there are others going on through the year - Porlock (http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=167321) is at the end of this month, and I'm sure there will be other events in September and maybe October as well.