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Hello you lot! Was great to meet you all today, me and maria had a great time. Cheers Sid Squid for inspecint my tyre and deeming it safe, i was a bit worried for a moment. Did the other chap get his rear tyre sorted? I heard the air facilities at the esso garage over the road were not working :mad:

Sorry we were the first to go, we had a film to go see at the cinema, they rarely show them with subtitles so we didnt wanna pass on the chance. What do you mean the golden compass wasnt any good dirk? we enjoyed it!!! :p

Hope to see you all again soon,

Matt and Maria, aka the Alpinestarhero's :king::queen:

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Hey really nice to meet you both today and glad you enjoyed the movie.

Hope to see you guys up in Soho one Friday when the weather is a bit better...now you met lots of us you guys got no excuse ;)

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Hey Matt, Maria was great to meet you after all the msn chat:) I'm happy you enjoyed youselves today! See ya this week for lunch. Man ur bike is shiny, when you said you had cleaned it lol.

Yes I will clean when I get chance I just ride mine....

Yup David got his tyre sorted, so all is well.

The pillion ride, yeah was little nervous you know never done it before....the smile had on getting back to the Ace says how much I enjoyed it!

The grin award for the day goes to Spider, Paws and I could see the massive grin on face riding back in on the TL:D

I just got home, made back to my parents way back before dinner started and hung out with cousions haven't seen them in ages, casue one of them is now 18 months he is massve compared to last time I saw him!

Been a good w/end apart from the car, see you all later:D Thunder

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We had a small discussion about this over some dinner when we got in

The conclusion was

We'll see you guys again soon :cool:

Matt

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Good to see you both, glad you will be coming out to play more in the future :)

Yep, got my tyre fixed ok, once again the Soho Massive (in particular Bear, Jambo and Sid Squid) came to the rescue and after the use of a can of air from Jambo, a trip to another garage and a lift back from Sid Squid (the infamous "Sid Squid Pillion on your own bike" ride) all was good, except that loads of people had left.

Still, a trip up to Essential Rubber this morning, and £20 has me good as new.

Yep, was a good day.

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Brilliant, I was a tad worried you would be stuck for a while at that esso station!

I want a pillion ride with sid squid experiance

Its my birthday in may..?

Matt

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It was great to meet people yesterday. I didn't spend as much time as I should have socialising with the Org, as I met a mate who I haven't seen for a few months.

His name's Terry and he's a classic bike nut who's being going to the Ace since 1958. Yesterday he was telling a lot of great stories about the Ace in the rocker days of the 60's. The Ace website used to have a photo of him there in the late 60's, but it seems to have gone now. He's worth getting to know as he has some of the most bizarre biking stories I've ever heard. Like the time (in the early 80's IIRC) when he did his own Long Way Round. He was selling Russian bikes and rode a Cossack or Ural (can't remember which) from Russia to the US. On his own and back in the days of the Cold War. Some of these stories are pretty hard to believe, but I've seen his scrap book of newspaper cuttings and articles about the journey, when I've stayed over at his cottage. I've often crashed over in his living room next to a lovely 1928 Indian that he restored (and often a couple of old British bikes too). He has more bikes than I can keep track of, as he has a workshop full too.

So if you're at the Ace and see the guy with the bushy white beard, who I was chatting to, go up and say hello to him. You'll be guaranteed to hear some strange tales.

Next time, I'll try to chat to the Orgers a bit more. It was great to meet people, as I really don't get out to meet-ups often enough.

On a worse note, I started to feel ill after I got home and couldn't sleep at all last night. Went to the doc this morning and have been diagnosed with a gastric virus :(

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Oh no, thats bad. Is it a tummy bug sort of thing? Get well soon. I worry a bit about getting ill, last time i was ill i panicked as i couldnt catch my breath easily, which made my panicking worse :-s

Lotsa cool older bikes yesterday, all with gear shiftes on the wrong side!!!

Matt

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that would be "right side" you mean surely :smt045

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Hey hey! A willing volunteer - excellent!

Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong, did I mention that's wrong?

He's right you know. Fortunately I don't have trouble with all these new bikes with the controls on the wrong side.