Meeting points

Eh-up Guys and Gals - hope you had a guid new year!

I need some help and hoping you lot can give it (knowing that you lot hold back on your opinions )

Presently we all meet up at various places before a run but invariavly these are outside shops ('cept Kinross)

If there was a specific meeting point that would provide refreshment/bogs etc as well as bikes/clothing/accessories designed and catered for the biker would you use it. (think Ace Cafe London)

All opinons count i would be most grateful!!!

Thanks
Abby

yep ,would defo use it ,a good central venue that u could just turn up at when ure just out for a wee scoot about ,and b4 somebody says carbeth inn iv been b4 ,its full of harley /cruiser types ,it would be a good venue if more sv owners went and it was a 'known' meeting place (ps nothing against harleys/cruisers just not my cup of tea)

Good point Jim.

The Carbeth is NOTHING like it used to be in many respects . Not only that, but the state of some of the roads in the immediate vicinity are quite likely to see someone killed .

I've spoken to Quedos about this and it sounds like what is needed around these parts. For those who've not visited "the Ace" (London), there's plenty of bike parking and sensible cafe type food which can be consumed whilst admiring other bikes / cars (usually classic custom) or watching your own. They also have theme nights for different makes or models etc and often have either a DJ or live acts.

Wouldn't it be nice if the original Nardinis in Largs were RESTORED in it's original fitting etc and reopened as a biker cafe - pie in the sky perhaps, but a damn good destination for a rideout.

The idea this time however is a place from which to start out.

Garry

any time iv been out with others the meeting place is just somewhere en-route ,its ok for the day but its not a 'meeting point 'as such ..any 'meeting point' will prob involve a ride just to get there for most ,but at the mo theres nowhere special any ideas garry?

[northwind]

The closest I've found in Scotland is the Green Wellie, but even it's just a cafe that happens to have parking spaces for bikes. Moffat would be the most obvious place I reckon, it's well located and at the end of one of the most popular and well known roads in the entire UK (2 in fact, the fast road and the twisty road). It's always absolutely crawling with bikes in the summer- I was down there when the BSB was at Knockhill and even then it was heaving.

Either that or exactly halfway across Rannoch Moor, at the exact point where you get bored of straight lines

[carelesschucca]

If it was down to me I'd have one at either end of the Dukes pass. lol

Stirling would probably be a good place for a meeting point for everyone in the central belt...

OK folks - I see that this topic has now been viewed 80 times and very few have registered a vote, never mind given comment.

I understand from previous conversations that a certain contributor to this forum is, (or at least was at the time) prepared to put in quite a bit of time, effort (and perhaps £) to find such an "ideal venue".

Maybe I'm being defeatist, but it doesn't look all that worthwhile from what I've seen to date.

Garry

[northwind]

I forgot to vote

[Blue Flame]

Somewhere in the central belt would be the ideal. This would allow the Easties and Westies to reach it with relevant ease.

I thought about Harthill services but the Eastiies and Westies would have to use sign language across the motorway to communicate.

Powmill is a good spot but is perhaps a bit too far east for some folks.

I might go out for a play today and check out the villages/toons in the Central Area.

Originally Posted by Blue Flame

I thought about Harthill services but the Eastiies and Westies would have to use sign language across the motorway to communicate.

There's a back road which you can take to get from one side of the motorway to the other.

But at the end of the day it's a motorway service station and not a very good one at that. Stirling services is a better option than Harthill IMHO.