Paul

Do you have a link to your airshow pics??????

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?

Mate you don't have to sell the bike. Just control your right hand a bit more!

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.

What will affect your insurance more, ban or points?

That may help. It is a trade off between a ban or big fine/points. It's up to you to talk them out of banning you for whatever reason. Don't play on your needing your licence for your business too much as they will just say if it was so important why where you speeding like that and disregard your excuse. Talk to them, they will listen but be very careful what you say. Take a brief if you can, they will be able to put it across a lot better than you can. I had to go in front of the judges myself for when I got summons and walked out with nothing on my licence, no points, fine or anything. I was doing 79 in a 30. Luckily I know 3 judges, one is pretty high up in London and they gave me some good advice what to do, how to deal with the situation. I went in and done what they said to do and the judges in my case used some common sense and I walked out clean. I was warned however that I was looking at a certain ban if it were not for the circumstances around my case. Get some legal advice mate and try and trade off the ban for points/fine.

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