Sunday 28th March.... ride anyone?

Originally Posted by speedplay

Eww naked Ralph

How do you know I sleep naked?

Even more worrying, instead of getting a mental picture that goes something like this



why are you imagining me naked?

(Now imagine what else came up on the google search I had to do get that pic!)

Was a good ride today guys, thanks for the company!

Back home now

played fuel light roulette on the way back, thirsty ape

Good weather & company, see you again soon

I went down to Bourton-on-the-water, lovely place, loads of bikers down there, took the mrs on her first pillion ride of the new year.
I will post a few pics i took later, defo a place we could go for a snack and a coffee.
I was gonna text you Col in case you were ending up in stratford, i was gonna meet up with you, but remembered you were aiming to finish around 2 ish and we were still eating down there at 1.30.
Shame i couldnt make it today guys, next time.



Phil

Originally Posted by rusty76

played fuel light roulette on the way back

When I filled up at Hopwood the bike took over 20 quid, in a 17 litre tank

I think I was minutes away from phoning for help to push it up the J2 slip road!

It hiccuped on the M42 at the 300yd marker before the slip road. 57 miles since the light started flashing on the M54 just past Telford last Sunday. Last fill before that was somewhere on the west coast of Wales last Sunday afternoon, so that was about 180 miles on that tank.

Can anybody tell me exactly where we did fill up last Sunday? When we lost Speedy Claire.

For anyone interested,
http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=149049

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

so that was about 180 miles on that tank..

Nope, 'twasn't that impressive after all! 166 miles

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&so...9,2.469177&z=9

So who went to the Pondy this afternoon then? Did the weather hold out? Was dry in Solihull all day. BBC weather forecast was as usual, nonsense!

We had a few spots of rain around 10.30am by me just before we set off, but lasted about 10 secs lol
On thursday, the local weather said lots of rain saturday and sunday, couldnt have been more wrong, thank god.

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

So who went to the Pondy this afternoon then? Did the weather hold out? Was dry in Solihull all day. BBC weather forecast was as usual, nonsense!

I met up with Pete and Lissa at the Pondy. I took the A41 via Whitchurch and then to Wen. Some awesome roads and a fantastic days riding. Had a very small amount of rain, visor got wet but roads stayed dry somehow. Another chap that Pete and Lissa met there had a brand new Duke 848, I got to have a sit and a brief play with the throttle... No fair! its my dream bike!

Photos courtesy of Pete.

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

So who went to the Pondy this afternoon then? Did the weather hold out? Was dry in Solihull all day. BBC weather forecast was as usual, nonsense!

Well contrary to all expectations, and a black cloud covered sky for a lot of the day, we did the 240 mile trip on dry roads.

Like RD, we did have the odd rain splattered visor moment, but that was it.

Hope we're as lucky next month on NW6