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Seems like I'm the first one to post.

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

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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..

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Back home, got thoroughly soaked.
Ste.

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Also home.

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

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Home and dry now :)

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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?

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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.

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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

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

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

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Back home, reasonably dry ride actually! :)

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Back home... rather wet but home safe.

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im alive
misson accomplished

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Home with the punto of doom

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

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

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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!

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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:

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Then that makes it over 700 for me :cheers:

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Home safely and not too wet :cheers:

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Glad you all got home ok :)

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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

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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.

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

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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?

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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

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

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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..

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

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Back home safe.

Brilliant weekend thanks to everyone who helped out

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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

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

:cheers: