ToL Recce Saturday 27th June

Hi All,

BigNige and myself will be out on Saturday 27th June to ride some of the south Lincolnshire roads and decide the route for the Taste of Lincolnshire rideout.

All are welcome to join us, but please be advised this will be a 'dis-organised' day. We have no route and may well end up going in circles! However if you wish to tag along it would be great to see faces old and new. Here are the details:

Starting point: 9am Filling Station on Lincoln Road, Horncastle.
See Google map here.

Lunch stop: around lunchtime , The Plough, Holbeach St. Johns, Holbeach, Spalding, PE12 8RE
See Google map here.

Post up a reply or call me if you're intending joining us so we don't leave anyone behind. I don't know what time we'll be at the pub, but I expect around 12:30. Call on the day if you want a more definite time. My number is O79O3 4hundred468.

Look forward to meeting up with some of you. I hope the weather holds - it's fantastic here at the moment. Think I'll pop out for a evening spin!

Cheers,
Chris

Would love to join you, seen as its about 1/2 a mile from my house, but Im otherwise engaged on Sunday,

Have a great time and enjoy the glorious weather!!


Be Safe


Ellie x

greencat wrote:We have no route and may well end up going in circles!

I'm sure I've been on one of these before
I'll be much closer to you than normal this weekend (in Scarborough for a weekend break) but won't have the bike with me.
Hope you find all the best roads......looking forward to it all in Sept.

Cheers
Ross

greencat wrote:Hi All,

BigNige and myself will be out on Saturday 27th June to ride some of the south Lincolnshire roads and decide the route for the Taste of Lincolnshire rideout.

ellie wrote:Would love to join you, seen as its about 1/2 a mile from my house, but Im otherwise engaged on Sunday,

Ellie x

Sunday you can be as engaged as you like The Recce is on Saturday

Can anyone else smell a Numpty Point ???

I recon it's a fair coment, having seen my navigational skills in Wales maybe Ellie was thinking we may not be home till late Sunday

( seriously I estimate 140 ish miles from Horncastle by the time we get to Wragby by late afternoon )

My Bad! yep,I suppose I do deserve a numpty point for not being able to read!!!!

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Ellie x

well you already know i will be there but as discussed i will be waiting for you on the road facing the right way as i will fuel up at the other garage on boston road as it's on a level!!!!!! - not sure but may have neil with me if thats ok and depending where we end up and what time i'll no doubt let you get on with it half way through the afternoon when you start heading north again!

Ezzy's Mum! wrote:i will be waiting for you on the road facing the right way !

Good plan we wouldn't change the route just so you had to do a U turn would we

bignige wrote:

Ezzy's Mum! wrote:i will be waiting for you on the road facing the right way !

we wouldn't change the route just so you had to do a U turn would we

Oh yes you would .. .. .. .. .. .. Just to see the look of panic on her face mind

Whoever said Lincolnshire was flat!!!!

0ldcat wrote:

bignige wrote:

Ezzy's Mum! wrote:i will be waiting for you on the road facing the right way !

we wouldn't change the route just so you had to do a U turn would we

Oh yes you would .. .. .. .. .. .. Just to see the look of panic on her face mind

:rite: I'll have you lot know i did 3 u turns the other week so i will be there bright, early, bushytailed and bleary eyed having fueled up at the garage down the road before executing a perfect u turn further up the road from you lot out of sight of an audience oh and i'll be on my own as neil is deserting our company for a bloke on a Harley and burger at the (very nice it has to be said) Harley cafe at Deeping see you in't morning and i must warn you ezzy is sounding a little blowy again - think i need new gaskets now

i must warn you ezzy is sounding a little blowy again

May I suggest you ride at the back tomorrow?

You'll also get advance warning of any sneaky U-turns we might spring on you!

Looking forward to it. Ride safely everyone.

Chris

Oh , go on then . Setting out from a damp and dreary Nottingham at 7:30 am , should be there for 9.

See you inna bit.

Cheers
Tel

Had a great day - thanks Nigel for sorting it and the food etc. Really enjoyed it, and no mishaps (except for the salt incident but i think we'll find that in a different thread!). Looks like TOL will be another good trip again.

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start the day with a planning meeting and a bacon butty!

not quite sure what the posh drink was all about ...

[img][You must be registered and logged in to see this image.][/img] .... in fact seeing it in that cup i'm sure ellie probably sees a lot of stuff that colour!

..... and i beat the rain home too!

Hi Chris & Nige,

Well done bloody great day.

Thanks to Chris & Nige for the route ToL is gonna be a real pearler of a day with that one.

Ian for the Drinks at lunch

Nige for the Butties & Lunch

Chris for the "posh" drink (see above post)

and to Suzie for the brake test mid corner

Oh and as for the Salty Sea Dog drinky .. .. .. well I note it's been mentioned else where

again great day, thanks all around.
Cheers
Tel

PS: Oh yeah, and 245 miles completed
PPS: I'd just like to point out the OH! so nearly numpty point for the new ignition key point on the suzuki gsxr750 .................... Pete ?

Hi All,

Back home safe and sound.

Thanks to all who joined us; it was a nice little group and I think we all had a good day. A big thanks to Nige for organising us all - I really didn't have a thing to do. Great planning.

The route Nige planned for us had a bit of everything and introduced me to some cracking new roads that will be incorporated into the ToL. In fact the ToL will be, more or less, a re-run of today. 227 miles on my clock today. That might be a bit ambitious for the final route, but there are options for shortening this.

The weather held for us and I'm surprisingly tired right now :sleep:

Highlights of the day:
The early off-road section complete with mud and gravel
Mavis Enderby!
Getting to New York - impossible but true
The horse drawn hearse at our first stop of the day (nice touch Nige )
The hospitality at the lunch stop
Tel's impression of a local (ask him!)
The roads - shockingly good in places (though I'm biased)
Belton tea stop - minus the salt next time but with the cream cake
Suzie heading home like a rocket - you have the nitrous on or was Ezzy wanting her bed?
Boothby Graffoe!
The long run home

Look forward to doing it all again in September.

Cheers,
Chris

greencat wrote:
Suzie heading home like a rocket - you have the nitrous on or was Ezzy wanting her bed?

I noticed that too . . . . . Put her at the front and ZOOM

were you impressed by that - i was trying out my overtaking thanks again Nige for organising it and the lunch and the rest of you for putting up with me again.

Echo the sentiments about the hearse and those guinea fowl were bloody huge beasts too

all in all a jolly good day

.... in fact seeing it in that cup i'm sure ellie probably sees a lot of stuff that colour

Looks like a good sample to me...Nowt wrong with whoevers prostate provided that!!!

A couple of pics from the day, courtesy of Mechy.

Outside the lunch stop.
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Afternoon coffee.
A happy band of brothers - until the salt incident, when they all turned on me
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Not much to add to that except thanks to all for a cracking day & glad you all had a good time
delighted to be able to show you we have a few decent bit's of tarmac & some hills down here, not sure i can garantee the hearse on the day tho

Hill??? oh you mean that "Buried Submarine in a field" ,i think i saw a couple of what i would call "dimples on a flat surface" as to hills, well they were plenty UP NORTH LINCS!!! he he!

Anyway, thankyou very much to everyone ,the pace certainly picked up when Suzie remembered she had left the gas on!!!!!!!, and big thanks to nige,,and chris (that last bit home was great,nice to let the suki have a fraction more revs),and a pleasure to follow you again tel.

pete

ps please check the numpty awards for the salt incident (it wasnt the fact he put salt in tea it was his face when he drank it that got me ,bless,,will remain nameless till you look

Admin Edit:
Still awaiting a seconder in numpty awards

Looks like fun was had by all! Hope to join the main event in September.

Duly noted admin