Paul

Good luck Gayle, sounds like your having a right time of it out there.

Sounds like a great day, nice one

And I know a great location in northern france for a weekend if anyone fancies it. I took 10 bikers from another forum to it last summer and they loved it. Got a big barn for all the bikes too. Camping is in the field behind the châteaux. the hosts are brilliant too, one being an ex biker. Pics on my FB if anyone can see them.

Park Farm. Good site, been there loads of times camping, has been upgraded recently and you can have fires there too. Would be an ideal place, as said, some good roads around there.

I ride my bike every day except when it is snowing. Don't mind the rain, makes you think about your riding a lot more and improves your skills I think as you have to adjust a lot. Hate riding in the wind. Really do. Don't know how to handle wind on the bike, I just hate it. Everything else I don't mind. Got a nice top of the range car to play with when I want but I tend to use that just when I have the kids over. Bike all the way for me.

That is just the start mate. Add in your type rating (£15000 for the 737 with Ryanair) uniform etc etc. It is something I looked at a few years ago. Plan was to sell the house to fund my training. Made a decision in August then Sept 11th happened and there was a slump in air travel world-wide so redundant pilots everywhere. Decided not to do it as it would have been hard to get a decent job at my age with so many experienced pilots around so scrapped it. Thanks Bin F***ing Laden. F**k it (to keep on topic)

Ok, brilliant, look forward to seeing you both again then

Will be at Roys sat afternoon. Will give Rennie his ciggis back then :D

Hi mate and welcome to the forum. If you cant get any local riders to go out with as a group look for the Ace Cafe run down to Brighton! Group riding at it's extreme! 100.000 or so leave the Ace and head down to Brighton sea front for it's annual ride out! You tube it and see what it's like!

I'll be there. See some of you Sat evening

Who traveled the furthest to get there?

Wales, mid-Wales. Sept.

That last pic is mad!! How surreal are the ones with them onstage with the kids looking up at them!!

Sue, could you move my last two posts to the pic thread at all please? I posted these in the wrong thread!

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Just arrived home at 1605. Rained almost all the way down from around Oxford. Absolutely soaked through! Total milage around 446 miles. What can one say about that though! A fantastic weekend. Great to meet so many people whom I have known for a while on here, great to put faces to names etc. Thanks to Mega for sorting the chain and removing the baffles! Can't remember the lads name who helped, cracking bloke, don't think he was a member on here but his bird is, Rachel or something like that, any how thanks Huge thanks to Pennie and Mark for putting up with me and the hospitality at their place for the weekend, thank you guys, your girls are awesome too, hey kept asking if I needed anything, it was just great to spend time with you guys, hope to catch up with you again in August down here. Thanks again. And big thanks to Sue and Rennie for sorting the evening entertainments out. Awesome job guys appreciated by all who were there! And finally, I found my card in my jacket on the way home at the garage! Hope the rest of you got home safe.

Looks good from here http://www.xcweather.co.uk/forecast/matlock

As stated in the other thread it's looking good for the weather now with showers sat afternoon.

The weather is looking good now. It will rain only on the sat afternoon between 1pm and 4pm.

You tube has loads of lessons on there. Have a look and do one or two instead.

Just watched the bbc weatherview on the telly. They are predicting rain friday, heavy rain sat and showers sunday. So it looks like it's going to be sunny all weekend then! (last week they predicted rain for one day, heavy rain but it turned out to be one of the nicest days we have had down here so far!)

Looks like light showers now http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/7da ... de=Matlock

It doesn't look too bad regarding rain. Just showers by the looks of it......... http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/7da ... de=Matlock

Nice one today, done about 150 miles. Brighton cross country up towards Haslemere then down to Goodwood and Bury Hill then home. Got soaked through as it rained after glorious sunshine here this morning to pissing down rain for the last two hours!