Tour of the Ancients- saturday 7th Oct

[squirrel_hunter]

Can't do the 30th

Got a wedding in Cardiff to go to.

30th isn't set in stone yet anyway. But if it goes ahead and turns out to be a decent ride, we can do it again the following weekend

sounds good

Originally Posted by squirrel_hunter

Can't do the 30th

Got a wedding in Cardiff to go to.

Congratulations mate, you kept that quiet

[squirrel_hunter]

Originally Posted by Beenz

Congratulations mate, you kept that quiet

Thanks, its going to be a low key afair, conducted by the Pope, 22 gun salute, me in a white dress, over looking the Cardiff Bay, and when we say 'I do' 37 doves will be realsed into the sky, one for each year of our love.

Everyones welcome

Open bar?

this all sounds great to me, will be my first big ride out, have done plenty of little ones with just 3/5 people, but i have been craving a big turn out ride for ages, any weekend is good for me, sat better than a sun, but can do either if needed, what sort of time in the day do you think you will be meeting up? i have got a 80 mile ride to get to bristol any way!!! so would like to get there about a hour earlier to chill out a bit b4 the main ride!
do you normaly have people with a 33bhp restriction come out on your rideouts, as as i am sure you can tell i have one, not long left on it now but just want to make sure i wont need to be thrashing to keep up like i normally do with my m8 on his gsxr, not that i dont always enjoy doing that as its good fun but when going places that i dont know all to well i sometimes like to have a nice chilled ride as well!

Originally Posted by Jimmy2Feet

this all sounds great to me, will be my first big ride out, have done plenty of little ones with just 3/5 people, but i have been craving a big turn out ride for ages, any weekend is good for me, sat better than a sun, but can do either if needed, what sort of time in the day do you think you will be meeting up? i have got a 80 mile ride to get to bristol any way!!! so would like to get there about a hour earlier to chill out a bit b4 the main ride!
do you normaly have people with a 33bhp restriction come out on your rideouts, as as i am sure you can tell i have one, not long left on it now but just want to make sure i wont need to be thrashing to keep up like i normally do with my m8 on his gsxr, not that i dont always enjoy doing that as its good fun but when going places that i dont know all to well i sometimes like to have a nice chilled ride as well!

Don't worry about 33BHP, to be honest most riders on rideouts probably don't use even that much. If you don't know the road taking things a tad easier makes more sense anyway. Fast riding in a straight line is dull for me.

If your riding up from a distance It might be an idea to meet at one of us at the services on the M way. I'm not a bristol bod so am not the ideal one to do this. Thoughts anyone?

There's no motorway between Bournemouth / Southampton and Bristol. Nearest is the M3 but that heads towards London. Better to take the A36 via Salisbury and Bath then on the A4 to Bristol. The Sainsbury's where we start from is *just* off the A4 about 1.5 miles from the City Centre.

Coming in on the A4 Bath Road you'll come down a slight hill to a big set of lights with a Burger King almost in front of you. The A4 continues off to the left into the city centre, but you want to go straight ahead on the two lane road keeping the Burger Kind to your left, past the Shell filling station (you'll now see Sainsbury's on your right). Right at the roundabout and you're in the car park.

Map for you
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v...insbury%27s___

Given that we'd like to stop for lunch, and actually chat to each other, I think a 10:30 kick off would be about right. That way we can have a few stops before Cheddar and still eat at around 13:30.

I didn't realise our South West catchment area was so big!

Originally Posted by Xan173

There's no motorway between Bournemouth / Southampton and Bristol. Nearest is the M3 but that heads towards London. Better to take the A36 via Salisbury and Bath then on the A4 to Bristol. The Sainsbury's where we start from is *just* off the A4 about 1.5 miles from the City Centre.

Coming in on the A4 Bath Road you'll come down a slight hill to a big set of lights with a Burger King almost in front of you. The A4 continues off to the left into the city centre, but you want to go straight ahead on the two lane road keeping the Burger Kind to your left, past the Shell filling station (you'll now see Sainsbury's on your right). Right at the roundabout and you're in the car park.

Map for you
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v...insbury%27s___

Given that we'd like to stop for lunch, and actually chat to each other, I think a 10:30 kick off would be about right. That way we can have a few stops before Cheddar and still eat at around 13:30.

I didn't realise our South West catchment area was so big!

yeah that is the rute that i will take exactly, well i think it is a defo go ahed for me,
sounds like a really good day!
well i only just fall into the south west but as far as i am aware there is not a more local sv group to me!
also i plan to go down poole quay on tuesday, so if any1 wants to go down there as it is the last on and we can meet up, as i am yet to meet a single .org member, so would be good to have a meet and chat b4 this ride out,
i have left a couple of posts on the poole quay thread,

hopefully c ya all some time soon