Nurburgring 2008 (4th year!)

The Fourth Annual SV trip to the Nurburgring.

Decided to keep last years format....

So.... (shamelessly ripped from last years message, and the years before, and the years before that ....)

Fancy a 3 day trip to Europe (5 countries!) including riding the Nurburgring?
(France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Luxemburg)

The trip will be...

Saturday afternoon meet up.
Crossing from Dover to Calais


Saturday - visit the Bikers loft in Ostend for a variety of Belgium beers and good entertainment. see here


Sunday - Ride to the Ardennes in Belgium and the village of Moulin du Ruy, Stoumont. Check into the B&B See here
Few sociable beers

Monday lunch, accompanied by an English Nurburgring instructor, make our way to Germany (~90 mins) for 5 laps of the world famous course and hopefully back to Belgium for a few beers and conversation about what a thrill it was and how crap the Porsche/Ferrari/Lamborghini drivers were and how the humble SV gives you more bang for your buck

Tuesday ride back to Calais for an afternoon ferry back to Dover.

Cost to be... (approx)

~£50 Return Ferry
~£60 5 laps Nurburgring (€90)
~£15 Escorting at/to Nurburgring (€20)
~£20 Bike loft in Ostend (€30)
~£70 B&B and Evening Meal in Belgium (€100)

So that's a total of about £215 for a great weekend

Prices include breakfasts in accommodation but exclude petrol and other meals and are based on people sharing accommodation..

I reckon for the mileage we are doing in the continent it wont be more than £70 (based on English fuel prices).

Call it £15 a day for meals and you would be looking at < £350 all in plus your fuel to and from Dover (plus beer money). Bargain? I think so!


Anyone else interested? please PM me if you are I need to confirm numbers asap and space is limited.

All I'll need is £20 to cover the deposit for accommodation.

***Date Change***
Weekend will be Sat 9th August - Tue 12th August 2008.
***/Date Change***
Report from first year http://forums.sv650.org/viewtopic.ph...ht=nurburgring
Report from two years ago at the end of this thread... http://forums.sv650.org/viewtopic.php?t=33349
Report from last year at the end of this thread...
http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=82876

Captain nemo +1 (ian)

Rich,

Unfortunately I can't quite commit as I'm unsure which country I'll be living/working in and bike situation at that stage this year. I may end up trying to tag along last minute or meeting up with you guys there, or just for a night at the biker's loft

A good trip worth doing for anyone else looking at this.

Cheers,

Tim

I'm up for this again

as the chuchill dog would say...................

ohhhh yes yes yes

i better get me a new bike

how about making it a bit longer, 5 days to a week?

& a bit on sun would'nt go a miss

[Red Herring]

Hi, sounds like a cracking trip. Pardon my maths but is the price of the accomodation (two nights in Belgium) included?

Originally Posted by Red Herring

Hi, sounds like a cracking trip. Pardon my maths but is the price of the accomodation (two nights in Belgium) included?

i think so............... i took £300 in euros with me, i took 150 euros out of the bank for the trip home, but i did not spend all that + i had to get from cardiff to dover & back

i think i spent about £350 (but i did drink a fair bit)

well worth it

I've changed the dates as the original ones were booked out....

I've also added in the cost of the B&B in now.

Schoolboy error on my part, been forgetting it for the last few years

And my disclaimer...

Although, I am organising this, it isn't an organised tour or anything by a proper biking company. I organise this for pleasure and don't make a penny from it. But it does give me an excuse to go to the ring and show people how $hit I am.

Originally Posted by Couerdelion

But it does give me an excuse to go to show my ring $hit

soz

the devil made me do it

I was gutted I had to miss this last year, so hell yeah, count me in again.

If all goes to plan though I will be driving and bringing the bike on a trailer, which'll probably mean I need to catch an earlier/later ferry as you can't generally filter through traffic with an MGB.

hey, the best laid plans of mice and men may go awry, but it mentions nothing about women OK!