met luckypants and Ed today

[Quiff Wichard]

aye up- went to the pondersoa and met lucky pants and ED there with all my staffordshire biker clan..!,,


was nice t meet you both- well ED we have met b4.

sorry I had to shoot off at that second stop.. they wouldnt wait for me..

and.. it rained all the way home.! dam ..


pics in a min..

[Cloggsy]

pics in a min..

Cool... Waiting... :D

[Filipe M.]

15 mins now... Quiff, you're slacking.

[Quiff Wichard]

soz..
cold and wet- we got rained on ...

and then my wife wanted an update.!

[Filipe M.]

soz..
cold and wet- we got rained on ...

and then my wife wanted an update.!

Nah, sorry, none of them is a suitable excuse. You're still slacking :lol:

[Quiff Wichard]

I know- its dam photobucket.! .


anyway- we had a ride out from Stoke to the ponderosa.. about an hour..

had pm'd Luckypants and Ed and they said they may be there.

well LP was there same time as we arrived and ED arrived 15 mins later..

had a good gossip.. was nice to meet folk..then my gang shot off to another rendevous and we stayed for a brew and chat and then met up with the staffs lot in about 30 mins.. by which time they were setting off.. so I had to do a quick goodbye and tag along with them

soz ED and LP.. hope you both werefine and didnt miss me too much and hope u got/get home safe ED.

[Quiff Wichard]

Ed arrives on his mean machine and all colour coded

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b326/sigourneysbeaver/ponderosa012.jpg

Ed on the right and luckypants showin off his lucky pants.. believe me thats his best side!



thats all my gang behind them

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b326/sigourneysbeaver/ponderosa014.jpg

[Filipe M.]

well LP was there same time as we arrived and ED arrived 15 mins later..


Bloody lawyers, always late! :roll:

:lol:

[Quiff Wichard]

lucky pants' bike.. its nice... so clean -
changed shock,
hel brake lines,
twin high exhausts..
front springs and oil emulators upgraded..


and man- the man rides it well.. never saw his brake light come on in 8 miles until he turned into the petrol station..! ,.. soo smooth a rider.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b326/sigourneysbeaver/ponderosa016.jpg

[Filipe M.]

lucky pants' bike.. its nice... so clean -
changed shock,
hel brake lines,
twin high exhausts..
front springs and oil emulators upgraded..
f***ed brake light

and man- the man rides it well.. never saw his brake light come on in 8 miles until he turned into the petrol station..! ,.. soo smooth a rider.



:lol:

[Quiff Wichard]

cant say too much cos I know ED has a pic of me looking ugly.. (rare)



another of LP's bike..

one of a nice Duke..

and one for sid squid- he will enjoy this bike in last pic. no doubt..


http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b326/sigourneysbeaver/ponderosa017.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b326/sigourneysbeaver/ponderosa018.jpg

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b326/sigourneysbeaver/ponderosa021.jpg

[Quiff Wichard]

an oldie-- BSA mefinks

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b326/sigourneysbeaver/ponderosa011.jpg


police prescence


http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b326/sigourneysbeaver/ponderosa013.jpg

one of our lads got a new XZ10 in snot green this week.. its niiiice

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b326/sigourneysbeaver/ponderosa008.jpg

[Quiff Wichard]

lovely lookin bike


http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b326/sigourneysbeaver/ponderosa015.jpg




and finally.. (as most of my others are of my gang. ) it wouldnt be me without a pic of Helgas ar$e...

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b326/sigourneysbeaver/ponderosa022.jpg


plus- I left my SD card in the PC so only had 20 pics.! dam

[Filipe M.]

one of our lads got a new XZ10 in snot green this week.. its niiiice



Quick, nick his shock! :lol:

[Quiff Wichard]

:lol:


yea- I thought that-- honest.
till he touched the brake to turn a hard right into the petrol place.. ..

no - he is smooth like butter--- I am always dabbin me brake.. and he was only riding at about 40% i am sure- (werent u lucky>?)

[falc]

one of our lads got a new XZ10 in snot green this week.. its niiiice

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b326/sigourneysbeaver/ponderosa008.jpg

Ooo thats the brand new 07 model with those added stickers and kawasaki akrapovic exhausts. Tis nice :D

[Quiff Wichard]

sure is- he has had it one whole week..
still running it in..

[kwak zzr]

lucky pants' bike.. its nice... so clean -
changed shock,
hel brake lines,
twin high exhausts..
front springs and oil emulators upgraded..


and man- the man rides it well.. never saw his brake light come on in 8 miles until he turned into the petrol station..! ,.. soo smooth a rider.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b326/sigourneysbeaver/ponderosa016.jpg

didnt i see that bike yesterday?

[Quiff Wichard]

you did.!

when it was sunny!!

[kwak zzr]

twas sunny aswell mate! :)

[Luckypants]

lucky pants' bike.. its nice... so clean -
changed shock,
hel brake lines,
twin high exhausts..
front springs and oil emulators upgraded..


and man- the man rides it well.. never saw his brake light come on in 8 miles until he turned into the petrol station..! ,.. soo smooth a rider.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b326/sigourneysbeaver/ponderosa016.jpg

Blush! Baph wouldn't agree after last Thursday's crap lines, running wide etc. Improved, but was a very shaky ride to start with.

Doh! was not that clean when we finished! ED took some photos of our mucky steeds after playing in the wet. Have to say the new springs / emulators made the front feel soooooo much more planted in the rain.

[Quiff Wichard]

thats beer for ya !!

[Luckypants]

Ed on the right and luckypants showin off his lucky pants.. believe me thats his best side!



thats all my gang behind them

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b326/sigourneysbeaver/ponderosa014.jpg
Them's not me LuckyPants! They expired in Canada...... see another thread here somewhere if you can be @rsed!

[Ed]

Well what a day!!!

Of course, I was late. Very late in fact, by the time I'd sorted the child it was comin' on for 11.15 - aaaaarghhhhhhhh I'm gonna be so late. So chugged up the A5 from Shrewsbury, bank holiday traffic just hideous, especially around Oswestry. Over the bridge at Glyn Ceiriog (very high, I hate that bridge) took a left at Halton, clear run down the hill to Chirk (all of a mile at best) and then those bloody caravans again. Filtered for England again through Llangollen (pics later) - it's a bottleneck on the A5, all these folks late for the ferry at Holyhead but did I care (no) as I sailed down the offside. Shot up the hill through the Horseshoe Pass and the bloody fuel light came on!! Stupid here forgot to fuel up at S'bury. Oh ****, I'm in the middle of nowhere, no petrol station for miles... thought Quiff would know, he knows everything after all.

Anyway to pic 1.

This is Luckypants (Mike):

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a127/Sythree/DSC02074.jpg

He was only stood next to me when I said to Quiff 'Luckypants is coming, he'll be here soon' and I wondered why everyone fell around laughing :oops:

Quiff was having a helmet hair day:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a127/Sythree/DSC02075.jpg

But his bike was looking good, especially now he's taken the stickers off:p :

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a127/Sythree/DSC02076.jpg

And here is Mike's bike. Those twin Renegades have to be heard to be believed, loud and oh so de-e-e-e-e-e-p. And the engineering to get the cans in place is just so. It's pure sex on wheels:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a127/Sythree/DSC02077.jpg

By the time I stood around for a few mins yapping, it was time for a coffee but it was so busy that by the time I'd come out armed with a mug of dishwater the Staffs mob that Quiff had come with had buggered off. Leaving me and Quiff and Luckypants. Anyway I was the pillock who'd forgotten to fuel up so Mike and Quiff very kindly led the way down into Ruthin to the nearest fuel station. Couldn't resist a pic of this, parked up next to me:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a127/Sythree/DSC02078.jpg

Anyway we eventually got to the organic cafe at Rhug (on the A5, just past Corwen) only to find the Staffs mob had been there for lunch already and were leaving, so Quiffy did a yewwie and shot off. Mike and I had lunch there and Quiff it wasn't expensive!!!!! It was very good. Me drooling over a beef roll and a RSVR.

There aren't any pics of the next bit as there wasn't time to stop. Mike is a riding god and I didn't want to hold him up any more than I was doing anyway, because I'm so slow. Headed off towards Betws-y-Coed, but the rain was getting steadily worse so we turned off right down an ace hilly and twisty road that led through a forest back to Ruthin, it was terrific even in the rain. I wanted to do it again so off we went to Denbigh (by this time I'm completely lost, I didn't recognise the roads/place names - all long, in Welsh, and began 'Llan...' or 'Pen-y-...':cool:) turned off onto another brill road down by a whacking great lake, through a forest, and hey presto we're back on the original road - the dog leg?? Baph if you're reading this, I think you'll know where we are?).

Ended up in Ruthin for a coffee at this place (on the right, the Castle Hotel):

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a127/Sythree/DSC02083.jpg

Then back home. Here's a few pics of Llangollen. It's a sweet little town on the River Dee, full of antique shops and with a nightmare traffic problem.

Looking downstream:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a127/Sythree/DSC02084.jpg

And upstream:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a127/Sythree/DSC02086.jpg

On closing - I had a brilliant day. Huge thanks to Luckypants for putting up with me being so slow, I hope I didn't cramp your style Mike. This bloke really is amazing, as Quiff said his brake light never comes on, and I hardly ever saw him change gear, and whilst things happen fast, they happen as if the bike was on rails. And huge thanks to Quiff - soz you missed your lunch:p

[Quiff Wichard]

mate- I have reserves to live off.. missing my lunch was no prob.

you will be pleased to know I have now sorted out my helmet hair and I am looking like Mikes bike- sex on wheels!...

honest- he goes into those corners and I think- whhooo too fast and then whoosh he's out the other side and got 100 yards on me .. and we both know he wasnt going quick - cos of us.. .. he can go much quicker- no doubt I will see it on the norf south .


looks like you had a good time later on.. I keep wanting to stop at llangollen for pics.. will do one day ..

and contrary to popular belief - i do not know everything- petrol stations are an area of concern in my general knowledge I must brush up on them ..


kim made me a big chilli when I got home so all was good.. ..

oh - and my bike is quite stickerless now as u see... but I am feeling the need for stickers... its a drug!..

[Quiff Wichard]

and I must get that camera surgically removed from my hand.!

[kwak zzr]

i wish i could have met you all up there guys but my wife made me do the family thing today :(

[Luckypants]

Ed - post them pics of me bike all mucky in ruthin if they came out. Will make Kwak have heart failure!

Real biker me! Been out in the wet (once ;) ).

[Luckypants]

i wish i could have met you all up there guys but my wife made me do the family thing today :(
Your bike would have been dirty......

[kwak zzr]

You should have seen it when i met lylej in burton on trent the bl@@dy rain was bouncing off the ground and my sv was well and truly filthy! clean now tho.:)

[Luckypants]

There aren't any pics of the next bit as there wasn't time to stop. Mike is a riding god and I didn't want to hold him up any more than I was doing anyway, because I'm so slow. Headed off towards Betws-y-Coed, but the rain was getting steadily worse so we turned off right down an ace hilly and twisty road that led through a forest back to Ruthin, it was terrific even in the rain. I wanted to do it again so off we went to Denbigh (by this time I'm completely lost, I didn't recognise the roads/place names - all long, in Welsh, and began 'Llan...' or 'Pen-y-...':cool:) turned off onto another brill road down by a whacking great lake, through a forest, and hey presto we're back on the original road - the dog leg?? Baph if you're reading this, I think you'll know where we are?).
Ed was fine to go at your pace, it is nice to have some company on those roads. Sorry for not stopping more often, should have learned from Kwak yesterday. Views were pretty poor with the clouds and rain though.

FYI We went from Rhug on A5 to Cerrigydrudion, but as the weather was getting worse to the West, we went on the B5105 to Ruthin. As expected (by the local :) ....) the weather improved and it was dry in Ruthin. My on-the-hoof plan was to head into the Clwydian hills for a play on dry roads, but Ed was so keen on the B5105 he wanted to do it again. So we went to Denbigh, A543 to Llyn Bran and B4501 back to Cerrigydudion so we could do the B5105 again!
On closing - I had a brilliant day. Huge thanks to Luckypants for putting up with me being so slow, I hope I didn't cramp your style Mike. This bloke really is amazing, as Quiff said his brake light never comes on, and I hardly ever saw him change gear, and whilst things happen fast, they happen as if the bike was on rails. And huge thanks to Quiff - soz you missed your lunch:p

Glad you had a good day. It gets said on here so many times, but I think it is true. Ride at your own pace, no one minds. I was not bothered and hope you did not mind me nipping off from time to time.

[Baph]

Seems like you folks had a nice ride, shame I'd planned to take the kids to the theatre really :(

Blush! Baph wouldn't agree after last Thursday's crap lines, running wide etc. Improved, but was a very shaky ride to start with.

I was actually going to post something along the lines of seeing your brake lights Mike, then I scrolled down to that :lol: Find any cow crap on that ride? ;)

Real biker me! Been out in the wet (once ;) ).

Now that I don't believe Mike :lol: ;)

Next time you lot are out this way, I'll try escape for a play, so long as it's not this weekend coming :( At least I've shown Mike I'm not quite the hooligan he thought I was :)

[darylB]

you lucky lot, i spent all day sitting at work with almost no customers coming through the doors, jealous, me,:smt068 , perhaps next time i'll call in sick.:)

Daryl.

[Luckypants]

I was actually going to post something along the lines of seeing your brake lights Mike, then I scrolled down to that :lol: Find any cow crap on that ride? ;)

No, but that particular corner was covered in greasy cow poo left overs in the rain. Glad I knew it was there............ :thumbdown:

[Baph]

No, but that particular corner was covered in greasy cow poo left overs in the rain. Glad I knew it was there............ :thumbdown:
Yea, thanks for not warning me before we set off out. I had no clue until the back end went sideways. Couldn't see for the sun :(

Still, it's all fun, so long as you don't bin it :)

[Luckypants]

Yea, thanks for not warning me before we set off out. I had no clue until the back end went sideways. Couldn't see for the sun :(

Still, it's all fun, so long as you don't bin it :)
Nah! Found out last Thursday same as you........... I lost the front and the back that night (so added to the poo that was around..........) I mean glad I knew it was there yesterday when out with Ed in the wet. Didn't warn Ed though.... sorry Ed, my bad.

[kwak zzr]

i hope i didnt hold anyone up on sunday:rolleyes:

[Luckypants]

i hope i didnt hold anyone up on sunday:rolleyes:
No more than on Saturday..... :rambo:

[kwak zzr]

arr saturday i was in the cage.

[Ed]

Filthy bikes parked up in Ruthin. We had driven (not by choice) through a lot of cow poo. You can't really see it on this shot though.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a127/Sythree/DSC02082.jpg

[kwak zzr]

leave it on they might grow :) seriously glad to see the tona back as it was before Ed. good job. :)

[Baph]

Filthy bikes parked up in Ruthin. We had driven (not by choice) through a lot of cow poo. You can't really see it on this shot though.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a127/Sythree/DSC02082.jpg
Slippy stuff that cow poo in the dip. Good pics, shame I was busy that day :(

I actually told jen that there was a planned ride around north wales and got the "oh" response. Her expecting me to disappear out on the bike. But I quickly followed with "...but we've planned to take the kids to the theatre, so theatre it is."

Why oh why do the kids come before the bike? Must put some effort into that one... :rolleyes: