Nurburgring 2006

after last years succesful trip I'm looking to organise another trip this year.

So.... (shamelessly ripped from last years message....)

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

The trip will be...

Thursday afternoon meet up.
Crossing from Dover to Calais
Ride to the Ardennes in Belgium and the village of Moulin du Ruy, Stoumont. Check into the B&B See here
Few sociable beers

Friday 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


Saturday - visit Luxemburg, Charleroi and Brussels and finish at the Bikers loft in Ostend for a variety of Belgium beers and good entertainment. see here

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

Cost to be... (approx)

~£50 Return Ferry
~£40 5 laps Nurburgring (€60)
~£15 Escorting at/to Nurburgring (€20)
~£20 Bike loft in Ostend (€30)

So that's a total of about £125 for a great weekend

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

I reckon for the milage we are doing in the continent it wont be more than £60 (based on english fuel prices).

Call it £10 a day for meals and you would be looking at about £200 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.
All I need is £20 to cover the deposit for accomadation.

Weekend will be Thu 20th July -Sun23rd July.

Report from last year http://forums.sv650.org/viewtopic.ph...ht=nurburgring

Stickied it for ya.........

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Thanks

[mac608]

You are aware there may be a truck GP the weekend of the 22/23?

http://nurburgring.org.uk/calendar.html

Originally Posted by mac608

You are aware there may be a truck GP the weekend of the 22/23?

http://nurburgring.org.uk/calendar.html

Is that not just using the GP track though?
(and it's the saturday )

The accommodation is booked for the Nurburgring.

Can't book the Biker Hotel till a month before but shouldn't be a problem.

3 of us so far and all deposits received thanks.

Me
Lurcher
K

Any one else fancy it?

So now it's getting warmer.. any more takers?

It's a trip you will definitely remember for a long time

Up to four people now.

Me
K
Lurcher
Mart

No problem if anyone else wants to come along. I can keep adding people till around a month before.

Just a quick message in case you thought you had sent your cheque and I was out drinking Guinness on the money

Just thought I’d mail before I head off to watch the North West 200.

Like I mentioned before, the accommodation and guiding is booked.

I still need to confirm what time ferry we are going to be catching. But I think we got one about 4 o’clock last year, although it seemed to be the world’s longest journey to get there!

The four o’clock should get us off the boat for 5:30 ish and as long as I remember to bring directions this year we should be hitting the Ardennes at around 8-8.30. Plenty of time to have a few bottles of the nice Jupiter beer then Neil and Anne usually have in.

I can’t book the biker loft till a month before but there shouldn’t be a problem it only usually gets busy the week before.

Things you might want to start thinking about…

Servicing your bike before we go.
Ensuring you have plenty of wear on your tyres.
European breakdown cover.
Ensure you have adequate insurance cover for Europe.
Mobile phone in case of emergency.
Credit card for petrol as some stations don’t take cash.


Clothes wise, you’ll only probably need underwear and a pair of jeans, plus a couple of tops to wear on a night. Shoes? You could wear your biker boots if you wanted.

If anyone else is interested give me a shout, still plenty of time

Originally Posted by Couerdelion

Servicing your bike before we go.
Ensuring you have plenty of wear on your tyres.
European breakdown cover.
Ensure you have adequate insurance cover for Europe.
Mobile phone in case of emergency.
Credit card for petrol as some stations don’t take cash.

Service - check (and MOT next week!)
Tyres - nearly new so that's a check.
Not sure - must phone the AA and see if my cover extends to that (I think it does).
Check.
Mobile - oh yeah, that thing I have and never remember to turn on - and when I do I then can never remember where it is! Check.
Card, hmmm, I don't have a credit card but have been assured by Nat West the by Cirrus/Maestro/Debit card thingy should be fine.

I s'pose I'd better see if I can find/dig out that one piece waterproof cover thingy I've got. I'ts a little on the big side, but I'm hoping that if I actually remember to take it then I won't have to use it. (Cos of course sod's law states that should I forget it it **** it down most of the time - just on me!)

I've also made the grand investment of £3.50 for a set of Teach Yourself German CD's! Well, I did it at school and have since forgotton almost all of it but this is as good as an excuse as any to actually do something with my waking hours. :P

I've also been hard at work putting my leatherworking skills to good use - making a bespoke shoulder rig for my crutches, with quick release snaps and everything!