Third Weekend in May!

[boboneleg]

Lots and lots, the river rose eight foot overnight.   Here's a photo where we are pitched, look the the left and you can see the top of the steps down to the shingle beach, the second photo shows how it normally looks.

 

[Pedro]

After dinner yesterday, I stayed up until 3AM drinking wine with my neighbor. I am finally having a good relationship with them after a lot of years of somehow never really caring much about each other, it´s nice.

Today I woke up late, and went on a casual's ride to a cafe, not exactly @boboneleg's flood risks and camping under a storm, I rode 30km or 40km roundtrip, but what can I say ... it's blue skies but ... pretty windy?? 

 

[XTreme]

1 hour ago, boboneleg said:

Lots and lots, the river rose eight foot overnight.   Here's a photo where we are pitched, look the the left and you can see the top of the steps down to the shingle beach, the second photo shows how it normally looks.

 

Has it started flooding in Gloucester yet?

[Sir Fallsalot]

I just got back from a weekend away with the wife touring a bit of north wales in the marmite wagon. There was a small gathering of people that normally go to a rally i do in February so we met up with them for a few beers in a Pub . The weather Friday was pretty bad but Saturday it was fantastic up there, had a few pints in a pub for the first time in well over a year. It was back to rain today on and off as we drove home

[Tym]

1 hour ago, boboneleg said:

We arranged it when covid restrictions had the rule of 6 but as it eased we invited a couple of others.  It was great to meet up again and the friday evening was a good laugh but we had to eveacuate the site on Saturday morning as the river Wye was about to burst over the banks.  So I just rode a long loop home yesterday following my nose and dodging the showers

 

 

Good to see y;all got to get out! 

[MooN]

6 hours ago, XTreme said:

Nothing back from the interviews Chris?

naah. I know from experience that most don't bother to tell you if it's negative. I had another company looking for a bilingual sales technicien ring me for an interview but they were offering 25% less than I'm on now and short of being at the point of suicidal tendancies I just can't justify that. 

[Buckster]

The weather is shit here as well. I need to get out and bed the new pads and discs in.

[Tym]

39 minutes ago, Buckster said:

The weather is shit here as well. I need to get out and bed the new pads and discs in.

Use the front brakes on a Hardly!?! Do you have a death wish?

[Sir Fallsalot]

A few photos of my mooch about the Lleyn Peninsula  on Saturday this was the route its about 150 mile round trip from the campsite

First stop was at Criccieth to look at the castle but you had to pre book on line to get in so its just a screen grab from google maps for you lot

 The wife settled for a walk on the pebble beach, what is it with women as soon as she was on there she starts collecting stuff to take home 
Thought i might see Bruce bobbing about in the background but no

 Next stop we had a walk up to this, after some googling found out it used to be a windmill 

Some great views inland and of the coast, no sign of Bruce though

The hills of Snowdonia National Park across the water 

Stopped at another beach for a walk, i liked this one it was almost deserted and free to park

Had a look for Bruce here but still no sign of him

 

Headed back to the campsite via Llanberis pass, shot a little vid on the way up, was real busy as usual luckily the bus pulled in at the top so i had a clear run down the other side

We ate and drank far too much over the weekend got to get back on the trail bike to burn it off i think

 

 

[XTreme]

16 minutes ago, Sir Fallsalot said:

what is it with women as soon as she was on there she starts collecting stuff to take home 

My missus does the same......and it's always rocks! 

[Buckster]

2 minutes ago, XTreme said:

My missus does the same......and it's always rocks! 

Good for weighing down bodies.

[Swagman]

15 hours ago, Sir Fallsalot said:

A few photos of my mooch about the Lleyn Peninsula  on Saturday this was the route its about 150 mile round trip from the campsite

First stop was at Criccieth to look at the castle but you had to pre book on line to get in so its just a screen grab from google maps for you lot

 The wife settled for a walk on the pebble beach, what is it with women as soon as she was on there she starts collecting stuff to take home 
Thought i might see Bruce bobbing about in the background but no

 Next stop we had a walk up to this, after some googling found out it used to be a windmill 

Some great views inland and of the coast, no sign of Bruce though

The hills of Snowdonia National Park across the water 

Stopped at another beach for a walk, i liked this one it was almost deserted and free to park

Had a look for Bruce here but still no sign of him

 

Headed back to the campsite via Llanberis pass, shot a little vid on the way up, was real busy as usual luckily the bus pulled in at the top so i had a clear run down the other side

We ate and drank far too much over the weekend got to get back on the trail bike to burn it off i think

 

 

You wanna mind you don’t fall off those rocks, I’m surprised the wife never had your reigns on.

[XTreme]

8 minutes ago, Swagman said:

You wanna mind you don’t fall off those rocks, I’m surprised the wife never had your reigns on.

Surprised he didn't Keith......he can't even get down the steps in his house without falling over! 

This is what happened when his missus sent him shopping.......

Fred got distracted by @Buckster who was in there looking for a camera at the same time.......

[Swagman]

12 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Surprised he didn't Keith......he can't even get down the steps in his house without falling over! 

This is what happened when his missus sent him shopping.......

Fred got distracted by @Buckster who was in there looking for a camera at the same time.......

Brilliant.

[MooN]

23 hours ago, Buckster said:

Good for weighing down bodies.

or for throwing at Bruce if he had been in the offing 

[boboneleg]

Everytime I see a photo of your wife I think you're definitely batting Fred

 

[Sir Fallsalot]

1 hour ago, boboneleg said:

Everytime I see a photo of your wife I think you're definitely batting Fred

 

Its the camera angle Bob i could put up some unflattering photos but i might not wake up the next day 

[alfalfa]

After the Pan America ride test, my buddy and i head south, towards San Diego.  He had being searching out some new roads, and the ones he found were epic, as much as they were new.  It's pretty mind boggling to get up into the twisty's and forget that you are surrounded by about 15 million people!

 

 

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This was the route, i'm pretty sure.   All the green is the hilly section.  Some of the highlights included a few miles of dirt between two paved sections, a decent that was over 26%, and a stop at Josie's Hangout, a re-opened biker hangout near Palomar Mountain.  Josie's is where Gary learned not to give me the finger when i am sitting behind a Hells Angel wanna be

 

The day was capped off at a diveish motel, next to Del's Hideout where i had the best hamburger i've had in years!.

 

Not to be outdone by Gary, i plotted Sunday's return route and we spent a good three hours in the hills, with maybe three cars:

 

We did have to forgo tacos in Baja, but that will happen soon!

 

The bonus of Sunday's route was about 15 miles or so of good dirt at the highest point, culminating in some knee dragging as we descended back to pirate territory.  Lunch stop at Josie's was time perfectly as we arrived and ordered before the parade of about 60 of Milwaukee's finest chrome showed up.    There was the requisite burnouts and wheelies, but the greatest was the wideglide with the German Shepherd riding in front!