Bishops Castle 3, 18th June 2011

First topic message reminder :

BC3 is scheduled this year for Sat 18th June, As usual the weekend will start on Fri (17th) with a few light refreshments & I will be making arrangements in the near future for the meals on both nights for those who wish to join us. Anyone wanting to do just the ride on the Sat will be welcome too

The ride will once again be centred on Wales with a new route heading further North this time into the beautiful Snowdonia mountains.

Everyone is most welcome & accomodation is readily available with a quick google search among Bishops Castles many B&B's

Radar & I will be finalising details over a pint in the next few weeks
Many thanks for your attendance on the previous BC rides which have had a fantastic atmosphere due to the superb members on here.
Any questions please feel free to ask

Nick & Ellie

Will do Tel, cheers

Excellent recce chaps, fingers crossed for some good weather now

I could have stayed out on the North Wales roads all day, that is some playground for bikes for sure, simply one great road leading straight to the next.
If the weather is ok this years BC has potential to be the best yet.

Many thanks to all those making the long journeys to join us in June, You won't be disappointed.

robertcains wrote:
Many thanks to all those making the long journeys to join us in June, You won't be disappointed.

Woo hoo! Looking forward to it. Glad the try out went well.

Cheers
Rosco

A bit of taster for those of you coming...a few pics from the Recce...

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Just begging to be blasted over!

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The Horseshoe pass, doing a reasonable impression of the Rhonda Run in Southern Spain!

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Three Cats at rest

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We had a rest break at the famous and long established Pondarosa Cafe

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This one reminded me of The Road to Heaven A7000 in Spain too!

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My partners in crime for the day...Nick and Ellie of the TC forum

Roll on BC3!

And a couple more lol

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Tony testing the lunch stop facilities

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Fantastic scenery

You started it...

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Wow. Them sundaes look good even on a saturday.

Looks like you had a great day for it. Great pics.

That's the pics of me & you then Tony, are we gentlemen or not? Lol

i would love to come on this one, but cant make any plans till i know if ive passed my mod 2 on the 27th .

littlecat wrote:i would love to come on this one, but cant make any plans till i know if ive passed my mod 2 on the 27th .

And now you know !!??

Hi guys , as I said in the chat room , I'm going to try and make this for a one -day -ride out .Originally I was going to a wedding -date has been changed , but working on the BC weekend so gonna do some swaps at work Next year I'll do the full one

Ace! See you there John!

gonna see what accomodation options are available today,

right, looks like i'm sorted, they have a bunkhouse at the foxholes site , bed only for £10 a night, and at the moment its not booked , so im going to book that, saves carrying a tent and its somewhere dry if i need to hang stuff up.
worse that can happen is i end up sharing with some random stranger lol, but as no ones booked yet , its probably unlikely.
thought it was worth posting incase anyone else is srtuggling, as all the accom in BC is full.

on a side note, apparently both the driveway , and carpark are loose chippings, and theres a huge possibility that being tiny, and a complete newbie, i may get stuck and have to play the damsel in distress( doesnt come naturally , but can do it at a push). so offers of help, and mobile numbers from any of you really helpful guys staying at the site wold be much appreciated...worse case scenario i might bottle it and want someone to ride the bike in for me, and same getting it back out

Oooh for a tenner I might be tempted. Will have to check my diary and see if there's anything I need to be elsewhere for...

Well Littlecat, there are 4t of us in any case staying on the campsite so there's bound to be some help from someone.

Rob

Robcat wrote:Well Littlecat, there are 4t of us in any case staying on the campsite so there's bound to be some help from someone.

Rob

brill...thats what i hoped, but i have no idea how long the drive is , and i may well end up stranded the other end of it lol

With just two weeks to go till BC & I managed to haul my ever growing backside out of bed to get up at the crack of dawn today to be in Shropshire before breakfast.
I met up with a mate & we did a final recce of the route finalising the comfort stops etc.
Fingers crossed for some decent weather like today & we should be sorted.
I'm aching in places that I didn't know could ache right now & have a sore backside from 398 miles in the saddle

Thanks for taking one for the team Nick.
It might hurt but I bet you still enjoyed it. (said the actress to the bishop's castle) - get your private nurse to attend to it.

Fingers crossed for good weather. But will be there even if it snows.

Cheers
Rosco

get your private nurse to attend to it

Well while he was off gadding about, this particular private nurse was looking after Chesterfields finest LOL

thats ok eh ellie, we're off withouut nick tommorrow...bt wont be doing close to 400 miles will we hun ???

No I thinks he's probably coming too but we wont be doing that amount of miles LOL, just sorting a route.

lol, no worries, will just be glad to get out...so many hormones flying about my house tonight ive gone and shut myself in the bedroom lol

well folks, just over a week to go. Im really looking forward to this one!

Gonna spend the rest of the week faffing about with the suspension as its a bit of a bone rattler just now..

We're meeting at 10.30 at Macdonalds at Derby (A38) on the way down if anyone wants to join us!!


We're planning on stopping at a unique coffee stop in Shropshire for homemade cake and a coffee too.

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Don't be put off because its called 'The Bog'


Ellie