10-04-07, 06:30 PM | #1 |
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Wales 26-28th May
OK, as I suggested to petevtwin, a new thread on this, to re-cap thinking so far. Everything below is what has been proposed before, by me & others, all in one nice post
Meeting place: Ponderosa, HorseShoe Pass. 26th May, time TBC (whatever is suitable to all), at the moment I'm thinking leave Ponderosa around 10:30am. Day 1 (26th May): Route proposed by Luckypants, map here. Then a couple of drinks & evening meal. I expect the route illustrated to take a good couple of hours at a steady pace. I've done it in under 2hours, I expect the group to take a little longer. Day 2 (27th May): Ad-hoc. Possibly a walk, possibly a ride around some of Wales' more Westerly sights. Possibly cut short & jump to Day 3 cutting out Day 2. Possibly time spent around Lleyn Peninsula or Anglesey. TBC. Remember, bank holiday weekend, North Wales sees a lot of tourists, it wouldn't supprise me if most of the time we were busy filtering & avoiding Operation Focus (plod helicopter). Day 3 (28th May): Ride homeward for foreigners. Route proposed by me map here. People attending (so far): Me, Luckypants, Lissa/Pete, K(possibly/last min/bump into), VB(possibly - last min, one day only), glsuk1970(sat only), neio79(sat only), Kwak zzr(sun only TBC), 2mths(possibly - depends on family event), Tomcat (possibly, sat only). If all attend, I make that 10 bikes. Possibly add cuz/Ed et al for a day or so out. Should be a good group. I'll give everyone my mobile number just before hand so we know who will/wont be there & don't have to hang around for someone that's not coming. Accomodation: You have responsibility for booking your own accomodation. Be warned, it fills up fast. Yellow pages & let your fingers do the walkin'. Camp sites can be had for £4/night & up. Some B&Bs are upwards of £100/person/night. A lot of B&B's are taken already, and Pen-y-pass YHA is full. There are other YHA sites in the area. If anyone books into anywhere random, I'll happily guide you there on day 1 & meet you there day 2 if needed. Some camp sites I've called at could potentially turn away groups of 8 bikes on noise grounds. One has openly said we'd be turned away if found to have beer on site! I wont name & shame though. Arrive Alive Details: We don't want any accidents or speeding tickets, so for that reason, Arrive Alive details for each day will be posted here in the run up to the ride. At the moment, the Arrive Alive website does not show any information for the weekend!! Operation Focus in full effect!! Expect the police helicopter to be out!! Weather forecast: Friday, cloudy. Saturday, fine but cloudy. Sunday, wet & windy (bring your weatherproof gear!!). Monday, cooler & showery. Caution: This weekend is also the bike show at Buith Wells. Add to that the fact that it's a bank holiday weekend, and there will be a LOT of traffic on the roads. Expect to be filtering pretty much constantly, and look out for bikers who don't really know where they're going. We want everyone (and their bikes) to get home in one piece Some data gathered over the last 3 years on some of the routes we'll be using: HorseShoe Pass: 21 KSIs, 2 of which bikes. B4501: 4 KSIs, all bikes. A543 from A5 to Denbigh: 25 KSIs, 5 were bikes. B5105: 26 KSIs, 41% of which, bikes. A470 (not sure if we're using this one): 86 KSIs, 10 bikes. A4086: 14 KSIs. A5: 196 KSIs, 64% bikers!!! A494: 36 KSIs, 9 bikes. Please bare these stats in mind, I personally don't want anyone (in our group or otherwise) adding to them! We will use the marker system, as some of the group have raised concerns of being novice riders. Marker system as follows:
I look forward to meeting everyone that attends, except Luckypants, as I've met him a few times now. Sorry Mike, couldn't resist Last edited by Baph; 24-05-07 at 11:41 AM. |
10-04-07, 06:43 PM | #2 |
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Re: Wales 26-28th May
Yep we'll be there. All things being equal.
Won't be doing day 3, but prepared to stay late on day 2. Nice one Baph. |
10-04-07, 10:12 PM | #3 |
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Re: Wales 26-28th May
I'll be there, rude not too. Cannot stay overnight as I have to make sure me dogs are looked after too.
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13-04-07, 01:38 PM | #4 |
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Re: Wales 26-28th May
I will hopefully be attending as well I will have my road legal can on by then, i have heard what those north wales coppers are like, dont want to give them any excuse!
i will need to get a leave pass for the sat and sunday from the long haired general indoors! Being a hard as nails squaddie i willl opt to camp out me thinks!! LOL (and i am tight so leaves more money for fuel!!) |
13-04-07, 05:51 PM | #5 |
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Re: Wales 26-28th May
I'm not sure how busy I'm going to be work wise - and probably won't know until the week before to be honest, so I'll have to be a late confirmation.
As such I guess I'll have to brave staying with the parents... which probably means doing the 'Village Relative Circuit' at some point - probably whilst you lot are off walking. |
14-04-07, 01:32 PM | #6 |
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I'll be there assuming I dont break anything by then... dont know if I can be arsed to stay up that way now, if so, I will pwobably camp up.....
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14-04-07, 01:48 PM | #7 |
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cant do that date working friday & sunday.............. possibly i could just do the saturday please
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20-04-07, 10:47 AM | #8 |
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C'mon Guys and Gals........
Put this in your diaries. |
29-04-07, 03:52 PM | #9 |
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Re: Wales 26-28th May
Trust me to spot this on the 29th. Did you all have fun?
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29-04-07, 05:05 PM | #10 |
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Re: Wales 26-28th May
26-28th of MAY
So you can still come if you want. |
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