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Firstly, sorry to lose Billi and Rob. I hope whatever ailed Mrs Menzies and Billi was soon alleviated.

11 + a pilli trundled around the Mendips in fine style. Weather was as good as it could have been... No rain and couple of sunbeams if a little cold.

Hope the break-down got sorted (was it Alan ?)

Still don't quite understand who / what failed but we all got back together thanks to an intelligent guess of route by Brian (methinks).

There were some awkward JMs to be dealt with and as has been said, 99% perfect.

As I have said elsewhere, we can do 90% properly, 9% over and above the call of duty and nobody notices. The other 1% can cause havoc.

A couple of years ago I had half of 70 bikes spread over 3 counties because one chap got a bit fed up and vacated a major roundabout.Took nearly an hour to regroup at the half-way stop as peeps arrived from 3 different directions.

Thanks all - enjoyed it (and the chips).

i called in Tescos in between work to pick up a Sarni and saw you all going through Langport at 10 ish.

Yep another good day. Thanks Brian and Larry and everyone else for the company.
Sorry I didn't linger Larry when we came to a halt but I was due to peel off at Shepton anyway. Hope the breakdown was nothing serious.

Hope to post a Dorset ride soon. As soon as the spring water dries up..

Remiss one has been, yes ( I'm getting too old for this lark).

Many thanks to Red (Nick) 5 for taking over the TEC duties.

I didn't bring a hi-viz vest as was expecting the boss (with his own). The golden bike was quite recognisable though.

All's well that ends well.

Just got back a REAl balls up by the rac/ktm recovery sat on the side of the road for over 7 hrs a few choice words tomorrow to rac bike still completely dead thought warranty was out but not until end of may result
Thanks to Brian ,Nick & Larry for a good ride
Catch you all soon

bkingalan wrote: ↑Apr 29th, '18, 21:55 Just got back a REAl balls up by the rac/ktm recovery sat on the side of the road for over 7 hrs a few choice words tomorrow to rac bike still completely dead thought warranty was out but not until end of may result
Thanks to Brian ,Nick & Larry for a good ride
Catch you all soon

Shiite...7 hours !!!!

I realise that Sundays are the best for rides, and worst for recovery. The story that I got was that you were 'sorted'.

Good luck with the warranty. Sleep well.

Blimmin ace day yesterday!

Huge thanks to Larry & Brian for putting this together - so nice to just tag into a rideout that someone else has planned, you get to do different roads, places etc a little mini adventure! And we stopped at one of my fav places too

I think I need a louder bike mind you....a little drowned out by v twin loveliness !!! (you know who you are ;)

Alan, if I’d have known the flipping RAC were going to be so shite, I’d have got Stan and come and collected you!!
Hope whatever the issues are with the bike it gets resolved easily x

Gimlet....Dorset round sounds brilliant btw...if I can’t make the rideout date but you want a reccy run drop me a pm ;)

I hate to say it but you can't beat the AA. They're chiselling gits for whacking up your premium every year unless you let it lapse and reapply but they're the only ones who have dedicated bike recovery trucks. The RAC frequently use sub-contractors too. I had an RAC subbie turn up once in a scruffy Transit with a tiny unsprung bike trailer bouncing along behind and no light board. I've never waited more than an hour for the AA.

Smiler, Will do. I'll sort the rideout as soon as the roads have cleaned up a bit. A lot of it's quite nadgery stuff and there's been a lot of spring water about which has washed a lot of gravel out. Its getting better, should be ready to roll some time in May. You may need your Fireblade...

I'll try and keep up ;)

Going to have to drag the 1400 out of retirement for the Dorset one, crescent can't even look at it for a couple of weeks was going to be a month spoke to a very nice lady down there later this morning & told her needed it for IOM & she got it in a bit earlier go ing to do the brake master & look at the warped front discs at the same time .

Great day yesterday & enjoyed what I did

Smiler wrote: ↑Apr 30th, '18, 08:39 I think I need a louder bike mind you....

I thought your bike sounded nice, a lovely discreet rasp to the exhaust. I couldn't hear it much once we got going though.

New tyres have been ordered for mine as she's getting a little scary now, especially on those roads up there.

Was anyone else's bike being pulled due to the strange banding on some of those roads?

bkingalan wrote: ↑Apr 30th, '18, 20:15 Going to have to drag the 1400 out of retirement for the Dorset one, crescent can't even look at it for a couple of weeks was going to be a month spoke to a very nice lady down there later this morning & told her needed it for IOM & she got it in a bit earlier go ing to do the brake master & look at the warped front discs at the same time .

Great day yesterday & enjoyed what I did

Alan, There for practice week and half of race week so see you over there

Jug_Inspector wrote: ↑Apr 30th, '18, 21:47

Smiler wrote: ↑Apr 30th, '18, 08:39 I think I need a louder bike mind you....

New tyres have been ordered for mine as she's getting a little scary now, especially on those roads up there.

Was anyone else's bike being pulled due to the strange banding on some of those roads?

I had an evil slide going through Burrington Combe. Nothing to do with throttle input, I was on a neutral throttle at the time, it just slid out on a slow turn. The road looks slightly damp and maybe there was something slippy there, diesel perhaps, though I didn't notice anything.
I've never liked that grooved surface through there. It does feel very squirrelly and my tyres are in good shape.