Favourite .org moment of 2007?

so many..............

the nurburging is a winner for me though, closley followed by north/south, fartfest & invasion of the valleys

i did not enjoy AR07

AR 07 was a bit of a special weekend for me but equally as good was the N Wales rideout 2 and coming down the last stretch of the road into Llanberis in semi darkness with Snowdon looming on the left and Elidr fawr on the right and sitting in Petes eats watching the video of Hovis from the invasion of the valleys riding an elephant and getting shouted at by the barmaid 'will someone please get him off that elephant'! . I just hope next year is as good, looking forward to meeting a load more of you and having a larf roll on 2008

For me it was a quiet pint in Ullapool at the end of a great days ride from Fort William via Skye. Dicky Ticker brought the Essex Lounge up to John O'Groats and the three days I joined them for were among the best of my 20 odd biking years.

This particular day was grey and then the sun came out and then it was cloudy and then it belted down with rain and then the sun came out again! The scenery, the roads (A890!!), the weather, the bikes, the people, just wonderful. Thanks Org.

Anyway, here's me and Baldy Man having aforementioned quiet pint...

[Spiderman]

I didnt do too much "fun biking" But i did ride to work and back every day

And i wimped out of AR cos it was way too rainy for my spandex suit.

So my best moment has to have been our France Day Trip. We had everything on the day, from our rideout leader (Lucky) having to pull out due to selling his bike, his bike being on the rideout with the guy who bought it on it, -2 degrees in the morning getting kitted up & on the bike to a sweaty 25 odd degrees in the heart of our ride in France. Sexy French ladies to chat to and such decent drivers who seemed more concerned abut bikes being able to pass them than anything else! We even had an earthquake happen while we waited for our Chunnel train Tho Supervox didnt feel a thing and he was standing right next to me

Took my 2 favourite pics of the year on that rideout, these.

[Viney]

Its all been shi*

[dizzyblonde]

Defo the AR07. Hitting Bambi and failing to deliver it for the bbq. Poor Melody and Chris witnessing the whole thing from behind me. All I could think of at that moment was ' oh poo, mels gonna be put off biking for life...keep riding..no square wheels, no flat tyre,.....pooooooooooooooooo, oh my god me new boots n pants are all red, sh1it better stop, oh no shouldn't have done that' i'm going to cry, don't do that you'll look soft......oh poo you just hit a deer you dizzzy cow. Chris and mell got off their bikes so quick when I eventually stopped riding........are you alright lou??? yeah( shaking very much) god that were a right tankslapper....
It got worse for me through the AR cause my bike wouldn't go more than 50mph up a hill and sounded like a swarm of bees cannoning out of the exhaust. Another moment was Sid Squid thrying to fix it under a giant plastic bag in the field while it was hammering it down. Im Indoors' bike blew up when we got home too. On inspection the deer didn't do any damage to mine funnily enough.

Awww, the AR a warm fuzzy feeling, and a grin from ear to ear, when you think of all us mad gits that braved that awful weather to spend a weekend together

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

.......are you alright lou??? yeah

Thats gotta be the weirdest thing I've said this year:

"F### me dizzy, you've just cut bambi in half"!

this year has been amazing for me.
i left everything i knew behind in australia and moved to London,
i bought my first v twin and taught myself how to tackle an english roundabout. (i've always had inline 4's)
i learnt how to master your crazy filtering.
i met a whole bunch of lovely people on here, and have done some amazing roads and seen some wonderful things.

its a whole new experience when you ride down a road that some of you have probably been riding all your lives, but for me everything has been an amazing brand new experience and i loved nearly every minute!

i go home soon but i will be leaving so much behind, i doubt i will be home for long before i end up coming back. and alot of it is thanks to me joining this damned forum in the first place!

You do have the internet in Australia, don't you? You know you can still go on the forums from Oz, don't you?

We've had some terrific debates on here, the best I think was this one, about emigration:

http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.p...ht=immigration