Sheep_onna_Bandit

Sounds good to me mate. That could buy me some time to divert to MFN after leaving the office in the car and stick the tent up before going home. Looking forward to this, big stylee!

Not a problem Stevie. Just make sure they're coming in after around 2.30pm as I need to get 'ome from work in Snotingaham, changed, onto the bike and out to MacDognuts again!

Yes indeedy! We kindof got swallowed up in the crowd! Cue next year I reckon. Bumped into a few old friends there while we were there!

Right, that's me booked off work for the afternoon so it'll be a case of finish work @1pm, charge back down the A52 to get home, pick up me clobber, strap it to my (I hope, NEW) bike and head over to MFN to start carousing! Looking forward to it in a big way!

Noooooo! Please, for the love of God, no Elvis or Roy Orbison!

I might be up there with laddo in the cage on Sunday

If there's a Karaoke to be sung, I is yer man! After a goodly few quaffs of falling-down-water

Just coughed up Vicki! Will be booking half day for the Friday as I is just down the road and will get there around mid-afternoon! Looking forward to it big-stylee!

We've got a Peugeot 306 thingy and a Vauxhall Astra SXi They're cars I dunna like 'em all that much but they do a job I guess

YET ANOTHER NODDING CRUISER RIDER!! It's a bit weird sometimes, because some of the "Oooooh look at me I'm a hardcore Harley rider" types won't even nod to another Hogger. Maybe it's because they're terrified that the unnecessary movement might disturb the polish and wax job on their precious and expensively over-wintered-coccooned-in-an-atmospherically-controlled-tent-only-come-out-on-a-Sunday shiny bike. Me? My Harley is quite possibly the rustiest in the UK, getting on for 20K on it mostly from commuting daily. I don't give a toss about who rides what* and I will nod to just about anyone or anything out there on the road. *CAVEAT TIME . . . . unless they're a snot-nosed oik on a chavped with their lid perched on top of their noggin and with no baffles in their pea-shooter exhaust

I had the dubious pleasure of watching the MotoGP race on the Beeb. I know I've avoided it like the plague over recent years because of their toothless commentators, but who the fluck does that "Charlie" bloke think he is? Lorenzo came in for the biggest pile of sly, underhanded comments I ever heard from someone paid to commentate after he'd won the race and was celebrating in his own inimitable way. The guy was snorting with laughter when his bike stalled while he was planting his Lorenzo Land flag out on trackside. Now I'm not a "fan" of Lorenzo's (me thinking Vale is a demi-God and all that) but he's the future of MotoGP, the sport needs characters like him and it doesn't need muppets like Charlie. Grrrrrr Rant over

You want to see drifting? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AGqPlgsGck Try that one - one handed too!

Hmmmm...fancy dress I'm sure I have a fancy dress somewhere, although the strappy things are a bit worn now.

I wonder if we can pursuade Lee to sort us a disco or somesuch blx out for one of the nights?

Hopefully will be able to get to a meetup there soon! Looking forward to it!

Oooh I've got my scrubs completely awash with blood ready just in case Vickster!

Have they got a band pencilled in for this year? I think it was V8 last time around and they were pretty damn good, so fingers crossed we'll have some live entertainment. Will sort out tickets when Mrs S' off duty roster (we never know what she's doing from one month to the next) comes out nearer the date!

Call me blind, but where's my name, Pen? Or did I not vote:)

No probs matey. We're actually just off the next junction from the A50/Toyota Plant at a wee village called Findern. Dead easy to find too! http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=43 ... hp=ids.srf Exactly where the arrow is!

Stick me down plus potentially Mrs S (shifts at the Hospital will dictate attendance) and one small(er) person. If anyone is coming into the Derby area from the South-west (A38) West Midlands or the North West (via A50 Stoke) areas and doesn't know the way into MFN, I'll be happy to ride shotgun and lead you all in. We live just off the A38 not too far from the big Toyota plant at the A50/A38 junction so could arrange to meet in our village and set off from there. A mini TMBF ride-IN perhaps!

Sounds like a plan! Even if I'm permanently banned from riding by the doctors (which I fear all too soon) we will be there (barring disasters!)

I would Roy, but I'm afraid the bike is now a bit of scrap following a rather large off the other day (bloody black ice!) Waiting for insurance company to give the go-ahead for the work that needs doing (circa £1,300.00 ) Sheepster

See Korben for a pinlock insert (sorry Steve) No he's not sorry at all!

50 mile daily commute round both Derby and Nottingham Ring-Roads? Bike, every time, no contest! I do have access to a car/cage, and some days I do kindof miss the hot air blower going like crappity-smack but then I tootle off through the traffic log-jams and remember the time I'm saving EVERY working day. Car journey (approx.) - 80 mins each way - x 2 = 160 mins Bike Journey (normally) - 30 mins each way - x 2 = 60 mins A saving of 100 mins a day sitting in traffic x 5 (for a working week) = 500 mins (8 hrs 20 mins a week) Assuming five weeks a year off for holiday = 47 working weeks = 391 hrs 40 mins Which equals - 16.3914444.. days NOT sitting in traffic causing pollution etc. Who says bikes aren't environmentally friendly?