Annual rideout- who's going? Looks like I can make it...

[northwind]

Our T in the Park tickets just arrived, so they're going right on Ebay to let me go to the rideout 8) Who else is going- Nutty and Blue Flame I think? Any plans for getting down?

[northwind]

Ah, Nutty, you're flying down?

[Anonymous]

why you not going to sunny kinross?

yeah im flying down to heathrow then DD will pick me up and ill pick up my new raptor and head to shrewsbury to camp fri night, rideout sat, few beers and bbq sat night back to DDs sunday and fly back monday.

blueflame is riding down. there was mention of careless and tony and cronos going also but that was a while ago.

hope you can make it

[northwind]

I'm not going to Kinross because this year's bill is rubbish... Really can't be bothered even dedicating 2 days of my life to it, let alone paying money for it and missing other stuff that should be more fun...

[dirtydog]

guess we'll see you there then :thumbsup:

[Blue Flame]

I'm not going to Kinross because this year's bill is rubbish... ...

Bet you don't put that on your e-bay advert :wink:

Yeah I'm going down.

I was just thinking of posting to see who all the definates were to see if we could organise something but you beat me to it !!

[northwind]

Are you going to be OK for a one-day thrash down, or are you going to break the trip?

[Blue Flame]

Are you going to be OK for a one-day thrash down, or are you going to break the trip?

The back and wrist seem to be holding out OK so I have just taken the Friday off with the intention of riding down that day. I'll just keep focussing on the beer at the campsite :lol:

As a precaution I have taken the Monday off just in case i'm enjoying myself so much that I forget to go home on the Sunday.

Was intending to set off 'fairly' early on the Friday so that I am not having to thrash it all the way down the motorway and so that I can get my tent pitched before the beer confuses things.

[northwind]

Ooh, early, don't like the sound of that.

[Blue Flame]

Ooh, early, don't like the sound of that.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Thought you might say that.

What time were you thinking about?

I'll bang it into the autoroute tomorrow and see what it comes up with.

[northwind]

Thinking? It's too early for that yet ;) But I'm thinking 10 oclock as an earliest, burn a tank before lunch...

It's possible I might not stick entirely to the posted speed limit as well, that's worth mentioning- I'm not sure where you stand on that, I won't be doing ridiculous speeds but there's no chance I'll stick at 70 when the roads allow it...

[Blue Flame]

Thinking? It's too early for that yet ;) But I'm thinking 10 oclock as an earliest, burn a tank before lunch...

It's possible I might not stick entirely to the posted speed limit as well, that's worth mentioning- I'm not sure where you stand on that, I won't be doing ridiculous speeds but there's no chance I'll stick at 70 when the roads allow it...

Sounds like the start of a plan. I'll check out the route and the times tomorrow.

When did I say anything about sticking to 70 :wink: There's leisurely and there's leisurely.

[northwind]

When did I say anything about sticking to 70 :wink: There's leisurely and there's leisurely.

You never know, you might have been one of these non-criminal types...

The actual route there, if all you want to do is get there, is a piece of cake. I think it's M64 and M6, and that takes us almost all the way. Very boring, however.

[Scooby Drew]

You never know, you might have been one of these non-criminal types...

You aint seen him on the road past Knockhill!

:shock: 8) :lol:

[northwind]

Do you want to come too then, keep us all under control? :wink:

[Scooby Drew]

Sure, what's the dates? (I could look but am very busy looking busy with work!)

[dirtydog]

friday 7th sat 8th and sun 9th july, just a fortnight away

[Cronos]

I'm trying to work out if I can get the time off.

[Scooby Drew]

A7 :D to Carlisle then M6... :( don't like the look of that- too many cameras/cop cars :( *sits and thinks* :-k

[Blue Flame]

I go up and down the M74/M6 all the time in the cage.

There is not that many about. Just need to keep a wary eye on the bridges and at Junctions.

A7 :shock: :oops:

[Scooby Drew]

Take an umbrella :lol: Grant if you haven't got a back protector yet, look at getting one with a built in kidney belt like the the Knox Contour (http://www.biker247.com/news/2019.asp). I have been riding with a kidney belt since I first started riding, with a back protector over it. I now have one of these which I wear everyday. The kidney belt will provide extra support for your back and stop you getting pain on long journeys.

[Scooby Drew]

It seems that I have managed to wangle the 7th off work - can someone precis what I am supposed to do now? getting off work is the easy bit... :lol:

[Blue Flame]

Ehmm...Book the campsite. :?: http://www.sv650.org/sv_rideout2006/index.htm

I'm booked up for the 7th & the 8th as is most peeps.

[Anonymous]

cool lots of the posse in attendance. should be a good weekend. alcohol orders and food to be given to tara on friday night and her and falc will do supermarket trip on sat while we are out on rideout :lol:

[Blue Flame]

Here is a proposed route down.

Route starts at the Edinburgh bypass at the A7 @ 10AM.

I have built in a couple of hours for fag / fuel stops etc. A bit boring for the middle section but the start and end should be OK.

I could have planned it for non-motorway for just about the whole way but I suspect that we would have to leave too early to do something like that.

SV Ecosse Southbound Adventure AR06 (http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/gran****son/AR06.htm)

Seem OK ?

[northwind]

Looks good to me... Nothing that should bother my feeble tank range either :)

[northwind]

Just booked into the site, apparently "We're full... But not that full" :)

[Blue Flame]

So is it just Northwind and myself riding down on Friday?

Need to get organised with the meet points etc soon.

[Anonymous]

see you guys down there :)
you will probably be there before me. we probably wont be there til 8ish

[Cronos]

So is it just Northwind and myself riding down on Friday?

Need to get organised with the meet points etc soon.

I'm still waiting for a couple of things to pan out before I can confirm, but it's looking good. Will keep you posted.

[Blue Flame]

Cool 8)

Hope whatever has to be panned is panned well and we see you on Friday (if that makes sense :? ) :wink:

[Scooby Drew]

Make sure it doesn't all go down the pan though :lol: Have fun guys 8)

[northwind]

I'm still waiting for a couple of things to pan out

A pan? Thought you'd got a Blackbird? :) Hope you can make it, you can carry the luggage...

[Blue Flame]

Make sure it doesn't all go down the pan though :lol: Have fun guys 8)

How are the ribs today?

Hope you are keeping well !!

[Scooby Drew]

Make sure it doesn't all go down the pan though :lol: Have fun guys 8)

How are the ribs today?

Hope you are keeping well !!

Ribs are ok (except for the time I made the mistake of sneezing!), it's my shoulder that I landed on that is giving me grief. I'm getting some acupuncture on it on Thursday. I might have to go get physio on it too :( On the other hand, last time I went for physio, the therapist was well tasty :lol:

Hope you all have fun and stay on, it's not a race :wink:

[northwind]

You'd better be back at work, you've been spotted in HG ;) (you weren't stealing bits off the Ninja that's always parked outside I hope)

[Scooby Drew]

I'm booked off until after Knockhill :lol: I was just paying respects to my fans :wink:

Some of the nice NINJAS came down yesterday and knocked the bike into shape, I just need to do something about the plastics :? I was even thinking of street fightering it 8)

Anyone want a slightly used ZX, only 20k miles on the clock? :lol: