Sunday 30th September - group ride

[catmandoes]

Next group ride Sunday the 30th.

Put it in your diary - me to lead so it will be a adventure not a speedway ride ;)

Route not yet decided but i will try to get us to somewhere new. Mostly likey be in the northern operating area.

[RED PRED]

should be ok for it

[catmandoes]

The area for this ride will be around and onto Salisbury Plane. Much of the route is new to all of us but i am expecting a fairly flat, minimum rut type of ride. Once we are on the plain Navigation will be difficult due to the sheer amout of tracks that have been created by the Army (ill post a picture so you can see what i mean). We need to make sure we get the correct ones so i expect we will be stopping fairly frequently just to get our bearings.

Meet up will probably be early near tidworth.

Please can you indicate if your likely to attend.

Cheers


Danny.

[RED PRED]

I should be ok for it, flat tracks, oh dear, all those ruts and sports quads comments will be revenged with a sound beating and dusting of the eyeballs LOL .

[catmandoes]

I went and did a reccy of the area today and had a great time. There are loads of byways around the area and they are not too rutted.

This part of Salisbury plain is flat with well defined byways and some partialy metaled roads. You have to sick to the definded routes, the out of bound area are very tempting, but best to keep clear. I was approached by an Army officer who just told me to be careful as they had an exercise on involving Warrior tanks.

The start of the ride is a Long way from Newbury, About 24 miles and the ride itself is going to be around 40. Ive mapped some petrol stations along the way.

Ill put some pics and the route up a bit later.

[catmandoes]

Revised the Start and end point for this ride.

Please say if its not convenient.

Start Comb Gibbet near inkpen SU 37002 62030

Finish Andover SU 36442 47980

Ill publish the full route when its finished

[RED PRED]

I am on for it sunday, hopefully Warrior will get the chance to show us what he is made of :cool:,

[catmandoes]

Meet up time for this ride is 10AM at comb Gibbet near inkpen,

Be there or be Square.

[RED PRED]

Is it a car park or something ?

[catmandoes]

yep, theres a car park there

[RED PRED]

We are meeting at Tescos car park in Newbury at 9am tomorrow morning .
It will be a great days ride .

[RED PRED]

We are meeting at Tescos car park in Newbury at 9.30am tomorrow morning .
It will be a great days ride .

[RED PRED]

Its definitely 9.30am at Tescos, who else is coming to play .

[catmandoes]

It was a good ride, Photos and Updates later. Im really tired now lol

[warriorrider]

Cheers Danny for the rideout it was good i was very impressed with your riding today, hope your ears have stopped ringing from my too noisey quad.

[RED PRED]

Yes, it was good, at one stage, Danny even went over 50mph :eek:, it was a good day .
My bloody back hurts like hell though .

[warriorrider]

Redpred you need to calm down a bit you mad old *******!;):D

[RED PRED]

My parents were married when I was born so an incorrect slandering there, you younger motherf**ker :D::):eek::cool:
My back is always a problem and always will be touch and go, there is a curvature of the spine caused by a motorbike crash in 1981 FFS .
50% of the time it is fine, but the rest is crap and spoils life a bit, oh well, stop moaning and get on with it eh .

[catmandoes]

In case anyones intrested, the data from the GPS on Sunday stated that I covered 81.8 miles on our ride. Those that came from basingstoke and farnborough can add another 20 on to that.

[RED PRED]

No wonder we felt knackered, it was a great day and I would like to go to the plain again

[Croozin]

It sounds like i missed out on a wicked ride- didnt get my bike back from the fixers until late that weekend.

Whens the next ride.... COUNT ME IN!

[RED PRED]

It was a great day, keep your eyes peeled in the meet ups section for the next ride, it would be good to have you come along to add to the numbers, we have a core of 4 riders on most rides .

[catmandoes]

So whos going to organise the next one - RedPred ;)


Next one i do is probably going to be lambourne area.

[yellow peril]

Guys it was a shame that I got a call and had to go back home as we were only halfway through the ride but I had to go :mad: next time I WILL do the whole ride out :D