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28-06-09, 11:21 PM | #1 |
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Home safe from the GMII
Reporting in for Duty after an epic weekend , any other BP attendees home yet ?
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01-07-09, 08:22 AM | #2 |
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Re: Home safe from the GMII
I got back late monday after a round a bout trip takin in crief, perth, edinburgh, hexham, heartside,penrith, ullswater, KIRKSTONE PASS, Windermere, A6, Preston, Burscoe, st helens..... I didnt fancy the motorway coming home....
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01-07-09, 08:41 AM | #3 |
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Glad you're back safe and had a good time, I escorted -ralph- back over the border (just to make sure he left) Biggar, moffat, haartside cafe, jedburgh, kleso, edinburgh home, 370 miles, 6 wet, the most localised heaviest thunderstorm i've ever seen.
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02-07-09, 12:29 AM | #4 |
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The Thundertsorm we encountered near Gretna was one of the worst I have experienced on my travels and I have ridden through some bad conditions over the last 18 years ..... I felt sorry for GP and Dave and tried to get them to an unplanned stop at a service station so they could dry kit out under the hand dryers and don their wetsuits ....... lesson learned here people , when packing panniers , keep wetsuits at the top for quick kit retrieval
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03-07-09, 12:11 AM | #5 |
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Got back earlier today. Sympathies on the rainstorm, we got done twice on the way home. The first one at Invergarry really let rip, with a lightning strike onto the loch not 500 meters away! Crianlarich down to Lock Lomond was very wet to.
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03-07-09, 12:14 AM | #6 |
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I tell ya what , I`ll never take that road from Crianlarich to Glasgow around Lomond again , man that was the slowest I went all weekend , would have been far better and quicker for us to have carried on through Crianlarich and headed out to Stirling and under Glasgow on the motorway .
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Yes the lightening hit the Lock we think, Mark had just set off and **** himself! I was fannying about trying to get gloves on and I jumped a mile! You could hear the air crackle and smell the ozone...
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03-07-09, 12:32 AM | #8 |
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we were dry yesterday on way home.. pitlochry - callander- dukes pass..Moffat- Carlisle.- lakes.. across windermere on da ferry and home.. down lil bit of M6 from lancaster
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03-07-09, 06:20 AM | #9 |
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I bet you were like a pair of long tailed cats in a rocking chair factory
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03-07-09, 07:52 AM | #10 |
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Or don't trust manufacturer's '100% waterproof' guarantees! I was soaked within minutes felt it creeping through ym crotch and knees first then the rain got heavier and I was soaked through. Trying to get the manufacturer to compensate me (damaged phone) - they've offered me an upgrade to the best pair they do but tbh I don't trust em!
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