Ride to Martins Bench for the Air Ambulance - 22/09

Cracking ride today and great to see everyone.

Got home about 30mins ago. Cuppa and wash the bike down. Even remembered to buy er indoors a bufday card on the way back.

 

Great day riding guys!!

Some crazy shit out there today tho! Poor aprillia smashed into a wall me running on mid corner then almost colliding with a gigantic panda!

Finally a full tilt bumble with beechy, speaking of which did you see that transit smashed into a tree?

Hope your all back safe.

 

Wow what a day just got in 10 mins ago me a kris decided to terrorise Chester on the way home

 

Also thanks to cab for organising and leading the ride down some epic roads

 

Seconded, some "interesting" roads on the way there, lots of gravel to test everyone's obs (mine weren't up to it) and that Crossgates road gets better and better every time I ride it.

 

Gravel didn't matter to me it just gave me an excuse to slide the back end haha

 

Just walked in after a brief search I have successfully located what I believe to be my testicles. GOOD RIDE!

 

Yeah good blast back that kid !! Did'nt see that transit though
I did see what seans exhaust did to his indicator though lol!!!!

 

Nothing left of that indicator now mate
Also I think me and kris saw daz on the way home as there was a guy with a sheep in the back of his van just after we left the campsite

 

great ride today, made up i didn,t miss it. digger gave that beemer a good seeing to after he cut the rest of us up, ha ha. some great roads and challenging one,s to keep us on our toes. Kev, fat bob finally turned up at the tap safe and sound, nice to meet some new faces, bit challenging for my grey matter. thanks Kev for great lead out, as usual learnt some more today, nice to see Erika there care of who ever was driving. nice one.

 

Llyn Clywedog

 

Thank you all of you for coming along today.
I had a great day and it was a pleasure leading you all.
Thank you also for your generosity for the "Air Ambulance".
I shall rounded it up to £180.oo.

Good to see all those boots lined up at the bench too.
Thanks for getting your feet/socks damp. :thumbsup:

 

Had a fantastic day! I did have a few moments though as I was watching my rear mirror a lot due to the fact my brake lights had decided they didn't want to work and I didn't want anyone going into the back of me *ahem* sean

Pretty much every type of road was there, big sweeping bends, straights with lots of dips, twisty technical stuff with lots of hazards. I'd like to say that I've walked away with a bit of extra knowledge!

Was brilliant seeing Digger shooting past me at .....mph and flicking it through chicane style corners. Really put my wallowy old bandit to shame (blaming the bike for my inferiority )

Also enjoyed Beechy's and Fronkeys fly by's! I'd be going at a quick pace then something would flash by making a lot of noise and I'd shit myself for a moment!

Sean can definitely handle that drz, kneedowns, wheelies at every opportunity and proper throwing it into the bends. Riding a sumo the way it should be ridden!

Cabs riding is to be admired as even though he probably had almost the least powerful bike (drz beats it in underpoweredededness!) he's extremely smooth and I don't stand a chance keeping up when he's in his zone!

And I also want a tuono as I was behind carls after the knockin stop and every time he accelerated, no matter what gear, it looked like it was trying to launch the front wheel into the air and just take off. Looks rather exciting to ride!

As you can tell, was a brilliant ride out with brilliant company and to those that missed out, HA!

 

Pictures from today. Is it just me or does anybody else ache like a bastard.

 

My elbows ache, probably from the angle I have to hold my bars and I've never been out on it that long haha! My feet ache too, from all the braking/gear changing! and my right hands fingers are all seized and stiff from squeezing that front brake lever a lot!

 

Great Picture of the Benny's. Cherry on the cake that is.
And you ache as you have a track bike on the road.

 

a fantastic ride out well put together well orginized thank you and we didn't lose any body

 

Cheers Woody a great day...err Panda??!!

 

I saw my first real life badger today aswell...

with it's guts spilt all over the floor

 

Brilliant day I clocked 310m start to finish, 175 on the way to Crossgates via Rhayader and 134m home from Crossgates, maybe because of Cabernet's magical mystery tour?? How appropriate on the way to Martin's bench that we should get lost....

I counted 22 NWB members at the bench plus Fat Bob's pillion and Froggy's entourage and £180 raised for the NWAA...brilliant result, thanks everybody