View Full Version : Southwold - pre Xmas fish & chips
My Mrs slide on the ice getting in the car .
Its not de frosted in lots of places hear .
So tomorrow its likely to be car.
Littlepeahead
03-12-12, 01:13 PM
I may join you but might wimp out and come in the car because my elbow is still sore from the fall I had in Thailand. Not bike related this time, but same elbow! Any armour near it hurts like hell at the mo. Plus I haven't ACF50'd the bikes yet and I'm unlikely to get a chance before the weekend.
maviczap
04-12-12, 08:22 PM
I may join you but might wimp out and come in the car because my elbow is still sore from the fall I had in Thailand. Not bike related this time, but same elbow! Any armour near it hurts like hell at the mo. Plus I haven't ACF50'd the bikes yet and I'm unlikely to get a chance before the weekend.
Whatever form of transport doesn't matter, the more the merrier. :smt114:smt114:smt114
bathwiggle
04-12-12, 08:32 PM
I now mihgt have a problem given i may be on 50cc ped....
*hides from from peals of laughter*
maviczap
04-12-12, 08:53 PM
I now mihgt have a problem given i may be on 50cc ped....
*hides from from peals of laughter*
Leave a little extra time to get there :p
bathwiggle
04-12-12, 08:55 PM
You mean like now? :p
maviczap
04-12-12, 08:57 PM
No Thursday should be ok.
bathwiggle
04-12-12, 09:06 PM
I'll let work know :p
Don't worry, we won't point and laugh.....much
bathwiggle
04-12-12, 09:09 PM
you'll all be rolling on the floor in tears, i know the truth! especially martin. Or i'll have to go pillion. That might be even worse..
You could get the other half to pillion .
Put him in his place ;)
bathwiggle
04-12-12, 09:27 PM
He;s actually agreed to that before if i've wanted to!
Gordon72
04-12-12, 09:39 PM
. Maviczap
2. Kenzie + Wife
3. Kaivalagi
4.Ntec(martin)
5.suzukigt380paul
6.bathwiggle poss +1
7.paddy t (so long as no ice,hail,snow,rain,plague of locust !!!! )
8. Thunderace, work depending, will remove myself from the list if needs be.
9. svrich
10. Rekab74
11. Gordon72
maviczap
05-12-12, 08:28 PM
The weekend forcast looks good.
So can someone work out a time to meet at Tesco Copdock petrol station to get to Southwold for 12:30 on the cross country route toYoxford.
If on the day it looks to dodgy to go cross country, then we'll go the east way, it'll just be quicker.
If you don't want to go cross country, just aim to be at Southwold Pier for 12:30
SvRich & Kai will be going straight there from their gaff's
I'm working away so I'm not on my home PC until tomorrow night so it would be helpful if someone can work out the time to meet at Tesco's
Tesco>A14>A140>A1120>Southwold is roughly 43 miles and 1hr 8mins depending on your speed.
Tesco>A12>Southwold 46 miles and 1hr 11mins.
maviczap
05-12-12, 08:46 PM
Ok so meet at tesco at just after 11, departing no later than 11:30
bathwiggle
05-12-12, 09:06 PM
MARTIN!!!! when do i need to meet you then?
paddy t
05-12-12, 09:08 PM
takes a bit longer , the pretty way ...its quiet twisty in places , and a couple of villages to go through,so an hour and a halfs a better estimate ... either that ,or i must be a bit of a big girls blouse when i go up ...
MARTIN!!!! when do i need to meet you then?
40 mins before we leve Tesco so 10. 30 be fine . ;)
maviczap
05-12-12, 09:19 PM
Ok then we'll aim to get to Southwold for 13:00 then, I don't want it too early for the invading saxons to make sure the roads are ice free or too late for the same reason with the short amount of daylight
bathwiggle
05-12-12, 09:26 PM
Cool, i'll see at the 8 ball about 10.30 on the 9th? :D on a bike :D and so long as your phone number still ends in 64 we're good :D
Fair enough we have quite a narrow window i guess
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2652618
Cool, i'll see at the 8 ball about 10.30 on the 9th? :D on a bike :D and so long as your phone number still ends in 64 we're good :D
Yes its this Sunday, mobile still the same 10.30 on the Green streak lol
do we need knee sliders or snow chains :smt046
bathwiggle
05-12-12, 10:06 PM
or both :p
suzukigt380paul
05-12-12, 11:06 PM
Ok then we'll aim to get to Southwold for 13:00 then, I don't want it too early for the invading saxons to make sure the roads are ice free or too late for the same reason with the short amount of daylightso we are meeting at tesco's copdock at 11!!!.
i will make sure there is plenty of room at the lorry park/petrol station for all the bikes that are meeting up there
maviczap
06-12-12, 06:14 AM
Yes, depart no later than 11:30
I'm coming apparently? Lol
Yes, you east angle .
Were also check your worthy of Emma , be like meeting her internet family .
bathwiggle
06-12-12, 06:09 PM
THe only one you need to worry about it messie :D
Has anyone checked the chippy will be open?
maviczap
06-12-12, 07:56 PM
It's never not been open the last 3 years we've been going.
This time of the year, Saturday & Sunday are their busiest days
If not candy floss & a kiss me quick hat are the order of the day
Its just as much about the journey as the destination.
Or is that life ???
Very philosophical of you =)
Some might say old and wise .
Others past it and too dam slow on a ride out ;)
Heh, I don't think I'll be blasting away. Not really my thing. Like the take it in to be honest. Plus not the best weather for it.
My wife wonders why you mad lot didn't do a chip run in the summer when the nights were long and warm? Shall we do one next summer?
Your wife speaks sense!
Don't think I'll be making this ride now; too much other stuff going on, and it's blinking freezing!
Oh and bathwiggle - what DO you mean? ;)
Your wife speaks sense!
Don't think I'll be making this ride now; too much other stuff going on, and it's blinking freezing!
Oh and bathwiggle - what DO you mean? ;)
So I am safe? :p
I'll just put this link up here
http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?p=2806039#post2806039
just for discussion purposes!
Hears were were meet I Guess??
http://forums.sv650.org/picture.php?albumid=801&pictureid=6568
maviczap
08-12-12, 11:42 AM
Yes, at the A12/A14 intersection go straight across the roundabout (as if you were going into Ipswich) and take the first exit into Tesco's/Mothercare/Burger King.
Don't worry if you miss this, as the next one also goes into Tesco
See you in the lorry park bit
http://forums.sv650.org/picture.php?albumid=501&pictureid=6569
http://forums.sv650.org/picture.php?albumid=501&pictureid=6570
Wow, how old street view is! £0.87 per litre!
suzukigt380paul
08-12-12, 02:52 PM
Yes Thoes were the daysshowing my age know!.but i can remember when it was 45p
a gallon,
kaivalagi
08-12-12, 03:05 PM
You're not that old until you can't remember the prices anymore...
Out tonight, third time this week, bloody christmas :)
Depending on how carried away I get tonight I'll either meet before Southwold as above, in Southwold or not at all...Fish & Chips is a nice hangover meal though...
paddy t
08-12-12, 03:18 PM
showing my age , i can remember when you paid by the gallon , and it was £1.72 !!!! God i feel old ...:(
bathwiggle
08-12-12, 05:00 PM
Martin i've made it to my parents in the car but my sv won't start. :D
Dicky Ticker
08-12-12, 05:26 PM
Never mind price per gallon,before decimalisation I used to put a gallon of 2stroke in my Franny B for 5/3[5shillings 3pennies]-----or 26p per gallon for Esso Golden in todays money.
**** me that was half a century ago.
Ok . Emma facebook me we need a plan
1971 - 35 pence a gallon , thats 35 pence for 4.5 litres or about 8 pence a litre .
proper petrol it were in them days , petrol wit lead in it .
Dicky Ticker was that the petroil pump where you could put a couple of shots of 2t into the petrol or did u mix it separately ? - Yep I am oldish too :-)
11am at Copdock tomorrow if the bike starts .
suzukigt380paul
08-12-12, 06:01 PM
1971 - 35 pence a gallon , thats 35 pence for 4.5 litres or about 8 pence a litre .
proper petrol it were in them days , petrol wit lead in it .
Dicky Ticker was that the petroil pump where you could put a couple of shots of 2t into the petrol or did u mix it separately ? - Yep I am oldish too :-)
11am at Copdock tomorrow if the bike starts .no i reckon that was a petrol station with a attendant to fill you up and the petrol pump was hand cranked as electric pumps had yet to be invented,well before my time,i believe i saw them on a documentary once
bathwiggle
08-12-12, 08:15 PM
She lives! martin we're ok :)
Ok ..see you2 at the 8 ball then . You want to go the easy way or via the corners tiptree /peldon .
Kai;
If you like we could meet up at the McD's just outside Beccles and ride round together?
If it was nice we could go the slightly long way and go through Somerleyton. It would take about 45mins so meeting at McD's 11.30 would be a good time. Drop me a PM if you want my mobile number.
kaivalagi
08-12-12, 11:00 PM
Kai;
If you like we could meet up at the McD's just outside Beccles and ride round together?
If it was nice we could go the slightly long way and go through Somerleyton. It would take about 45mins so meeting at McD's 11.30 would be a good time. Drop me a PM if you want my mobile number.
Sounds like a plan, I'll head for McD's for 11-11:30, probably 11ish so I can grab a hot drink before we need to head on to Somerleyton
Pm'ing you my mobile number
Ok ..see you2 at the 8 ball then . You want to go the easy way or via the corners tiptree /peldon .
Hi ya, we are sorting ourselves out now, leaving from my parents in Braintree this morning. Weather seems ok but shall we decide when we meet you?
Yep. Good plan spose I better get up ;)
maviczap
09-12-12, 08:42 AM
It's a bit gloomy here on the coast but no frost.
Roads are damp, but i'd prefer that to ice any day.
I haven't ventured outside yet, just about to have my porridge
See you lot later
Just stuck my head out the door, little bit greasy but not too cold.
kaivalagi
09-12-12, 09:02 AM
Not as bad as it could have been out, see you all soon
maviczap
09-12-12, 09:30 AM
Yep, expect us to arrive at about 1 o'clock on our schedule
Sh . Mums rang got to get her to hospital so going to priorities.
maviczap
09-12-12, 10:23 AM
Never mind, family is more important
Hope it works out ok
http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg268/kenzie2k3/DSC_0045.jpg
maviczap
09-12-12, 04:10 PM
Hope you ride home avoided the rain we got caught in, not heavy, just tricky with the sun so low.
Thanks everyone for a good ride out, nice to see some old friends again, plus some new faces. Sorry I didn't get to speak to all of you.
I was a proper SV ride out, as there were more SV's than other bikes, I know, who'd have thought that?
I look forward to more EAR/Essex lounge rideouts, but that's a bit of a mouthful, so lets just call them EarSex group from now on :p
Treated the Sv to an oil & filter change when I got home, plus I cleaned and lubed the chain too
paddy t
09-12-12, 04:10 PM
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h414/patrick247p/IMAG0271.jpg
right , start off with the ones that came out ...
paddy t
09-12-12, 04:11 PM
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h414/patrick247p/IMAG0275.jpg
paddy t
09-12-12, 04:11 PM
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h414/patrick247p/IMAG0276.jpg
paddy t
09-12-12, 04:13 PM
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h414/patrick247p/IMAG0278.jpg
paddy t
09-12-12, 04:13 PM
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h414/patrick247p/IMAG0279.jpg
paddy t
09-12-12, 04:17 PM
ermmm...aaahh....well...errrr...this is where it gets a bit ......errrmmmm ...embarrassing .. :( ..it seams touch screen phones ,don t make very good action , photo , camera s .!!!!
paddy t
09-12-12, 04:18 PM
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h414/patrick247p/IMAG0280.jpg
here s a nice one of the road ...!!!!
paddy t
09-12-12, 04:19 PM
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h414/patrick247p/IMAG0281.jpg
oooooo look , a bike !!!!! i think ...
paddy t
09-12-12, 04:19 PM
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h414/patrick247p/IMAG0282.jpg
...and here s a nice one of my thumb ......:)
bathwiggle
09-12-12, 04:27 PM
I made it home, the bike got to 190miles before hitting reserve! And i think that might be me in the picture? but i seem to have avoided being in any of them clearly :D
paddy t
09-12-12, 04:38 PM
ha ha ha , must mean you re a figment of all our imagination ...:) ...glad you got back ok ,and safe trip up to Northampton
Gordon72
09-12-12, 04:41 PM
I see we have a new official EAR photographer !!
Nice to meet you all. hope every one made it home safely
kaivalagi
09-12-12, 04:55 PM
Nice to see everyone, roll on the good weather so we can meet in the sunshine somewhere.
Thanks to svrich for taking me back to Beccles via Reeders memorial at the road side. Here's the pic of the plaque on the dreaded tree, Svrich gave Reeder the beer, can't go wrong with a bottle of Stella :)
http://s15.postimage.org/tj6piq16v/Reeders_Tree.jpg (http://postimage.org/image/tj6piq16v/)
(Click to enlarge)
You can just make out the text but it reads
"Losing you is the one thing we all have in common I wish we never had.
Always loved, Always missed."
He should of bloody been on the ride out aye!
Not wanting to bring any doom and gloom to the thread, so please take this in the way it is intended, remembering the funny guy we enjoyed some time with and nothing else!
paddy t
09-12-12, 04:57 PM
EARsex sounds disturbingly addictive ....
Just got home, cheers guys for today =). Sorry you couldn't make it Martin.
maviczap
09-12-12, 05:41 PM
Nice to see everyone, roll on the good weather so we can meet in the sunshine somewhere.
Thanks to svrich for taking me back to Beccles via Reeders memorial at the road side. Here's the pic of the plaque on the dreaded tree, Svrich gave Reeder the beer, can't go wrong with a bottle of Stella :)
http://s15.postimage.org/tj6piq16v/Reeders_Tree.jpg (http://postimage.org/image/tj6piq16v/)
(Click to enlarge)
You can just make out the text but it reads
"Losing you is the one thing we all have in common I wish we never had.
Always loved, Always missed."
He should of bloody been on the ride out aye!
Not wanting to bring any doom and gloom to the thread, so please take this in the way it is intended, remembering the funny guy we enjoyed some time with and nothing else!
That's a nice gesture, makes me sad to think he's not with us this Christmas, thanks for doing that as I'm sure he'd appreciate it :thumbsup:
Thanks for organising the ride out - the haddock has good too ! Im looking forward to the next one , hopefully in warmer weather :-) thanks again
Well done for a grand idea maviczap.
Hope my explanation and the maps on hear helped Emma and F4LL3N meet up at the rendezvous fine .
There be other times ..
Well done for a grand idea maviczap.
Hope my explanation and the maps on hear helped Emma and F4LL3N meet up at the rendezvous fine .
There be other times ..
No problems for us, got there in great time. In fact I think the whole trip went early lol.
maviczap
09-12-12, 06:22 PM
Well done for a grand idea maviczap.
Hope my explanation and the maps on hear helped Emma and F4LL3N meet up at the rendezvous fine .
There be other times ..
Cest la vie mate, yes, they got there fine, I was the last one there :confused:
Its been a regular event for the last 3 years, I can't remember who thought of it originally.
Today's route was better, not as dull as going directly there on the A12, so we'll use that again.
4 SV's in this photo, SVRiches arrived later, and Hammishes round the corner, which makes 6 SV's!
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-YC6prW0-_co/UMTAHem_MYI/AAAAAAAABQk/NJpU9tyRaYs/s512/IMAG0123.jpg
It was good to put some names to faces. Maybe we could organise a summer run?
maviczap
09-12-12, 06:45 PM
Nah alll our rideouts are best supported during the crappy weather :D
I'm sure we could sort out one to sunny Hunny or Sheringham next year.
But the next event on the calender is the March meat run.
maviczap
09-12-12, 06:53 PM
No problems for us, got there in great time. In fact I think the whole trip went early lol.
Unusual for an EAR rideout, not one U turn or missed turning :sunny:
kaivalagi
09-12-12, 07:24 PM
But the next event on the calender is the March meat run.
Oh yes! I do like the roads over that way...We have the route from previous trips and an ITN file too, all here:http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=167725
It was good to meet you all today, although I didn't get to actually talk to everyone.
It was a good trip out. Nice to ride a different set of roads from the usual commute.
A bit odd dropping off the beer on the way home. He would have hated coming out in the cold, but would have donned the big green suit, I'm sure.
The Meat Run is penciled in for March. I'll happily pick the baton up after missing out last year. I'm sure I can remember most of the route anyway - no need for stupid satnav :)
Glad to read you all had a good time :)
Isn't it getting close to that time again?
Ahh but I won't have a bike this time =(
Gordon72
11-10-13, 08:19 AM
All weekends in December are work for me ... Of its November or earlier then I will try to make it !
Tax runs out on the bike at the end of October and I am going to SORN it until the new year...
rekab74
11-10-13, 01:55 PM
I've got heated grips this time ��
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