POTD 03/12/07

[guest7]

No offence Boyd, but this picture would never make the front of Performance Bikes:



"Right, that's that corner taken care of, might think about lining it up for the next one in a minute, hmmm... did I put the cat out?, dum de dum, there's a sheep over there, oh there's two... I wonder what cath's cooking for supper tonight... I hope it's lasagne, I like her lasagne, not like Graham's rally food, that's horrible... oh here we go, next corner, might lean a bit in a minute..."

 
GC

[themoudie]

Bit of Franglais navigation old boy!

[andy230]

hee hee!!

I was also going to comment on Team Thumper's Chief mechanic, and his "safe-but-sure" riding style!!    But I need to keep him onside, so I didn't!!

To be fair tho Graham, is this not the weekend of disaster tho?  When Pat checked a perfectly good Honda down the road??

And given the rubber marks and all the shale on the road, maybe the Babbling Brooks is just being prudent 

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[guest7]

I thought it might have been taken that weekend too. I didn't bring up Pat's crash because I think he's sick of hearing about it. But having said that, he seems ot have disapeared from view of late so I guess it wouldn't matter.

Pat didn't enjoy the annual rally because he felt that he was being made fun of and excluded from some of the groups. I find it hard to comment on this because one exchange of banter that he found offensive was instigated by me. I have obviously apologised for any offence caused as none was intended. However, as I have said, he felt that he wasn't made welcome at the rally and that prompted his disenchantment with the club.

I can't say that I saw the behaviour he described, but then I was fairly plastered most of the weekend. Did anyone else have problems with the company at the rally?

GC

[andy230]

 Did anyone else have problems with the company at the rally?

GC

What, the last rally?  At Dent?

I wasn't there this year, but was in 06.  And no, but then I am often oblivious to bad company too...!

a

[Steffan]

I know how he feels.... people keep picking on me too!!   

But then we all pick on GC... but then that is a requirement of membership and anyone who turns up to a bike event on anything with more than three wheels is really asking for it.

Seriously though, I don't recall anything like that at this years event..generally I find everyone very accepting.

Steffan

[mini-thumper]

"Let he that is without sin throw the first stone"

Yes, this was the same ride-out of Pat's 'double off' fame. I am just about to take a hair pin left, with most of the ride-out members waiting ahead in a lay-by about 50yds further on. You can see the route of the road just to the right of my head (the pic below is about 200yds further on)!



It could also be BeeMan as I sold him this bike, and he's a bit round like me.

Boyd

[Steve H]

Fantastic road.

[Simon#83]

The hairpin is know locally as "tro'r gwcw". "Cuckoo's bend" in English.

When I was a boy, me and my brother would wait for the bend to come up in the car with our parents and make cuckoo noises as we went around the bend.

I don't  know if this is something the locals do, or just something my parents dreamed up. On the ride out I made a cuckoo sound in my helmet as I went round all the same though!

Simon M

[squirrelciv]

I thought it might have been taken that weekend too. I didn't bring up Pat's crash because I think he's sick of hearing about it. But having said that, he seems ot have disapeared from view of late so I guess it wouldn't matter.

Pat didn't enjoy the annual rally because he felt that he was being made fun of and excluded from some of the groups. I find it hard to comment on this because one exchange of banter that he found offensive was instigated by me. I have obviously apologised for any offence caused as none was intended. However, as I have said, he felt that he wasn't made welcome at the rally and that prompted his disenchantment with the club.
I can't say that I saw the behaviour he described, but then I was fairly plastered most of the weekend. Did anyone else have problems with the company at the rally?

GC

Not quite right GC, but close.
My interpretation of the annual rally was one of small sub rallies all happening at the same time. Didn't feel particularly 'excluded' by any one group, more unable to participate fully with the group as a whole. You were either in this pub with that group or the other pub with another gang. All of which is fine and quite right, but not what I wanted to be doing. (more a one pub, one bonfire, one group type me )
As for micky taking, that's all part of the fun, just after 4 or 5 rallies the same jokes wears thin. (Oh, and yours was the only offensive bit of banter GC  )
Can't say I wasn't welcomed at the rally either, I most certainly was, It was just.... well.... sort of..... thing! I'm fully aware of all the requirements for H&S but it killed a bit of the fun for me. No reflection on all the hard work put in to organise it all, just not what I want to be doing with hard to come by passes from beloved.
As for being disenchanted with the club, not particularly, just forums in general. I'd like to think the thumperclub has given me some mates for life, but at the moment I have way too much on my plate to sit at a computer most evenings.
But hey, that was then and this is now, lets move on.

As for my 'crash' I mearly rested the bike mid corner whilst abrasion testing my jacket and trousers

[mini-thumper]

I wonder if the little 'memorial' we created with all the broken bits is still there? It probably now looks like one of those Tibetan pray shrines with little flags tied all over it (or it could have been clear the next day by the council - more likely).

Glad to see, after a mysterious quite spell, that both Pat and SteveD are on the forum again. Is there a Panama connection?

Boyd

[guest18]

As for micky taking, that's all part of the fun, just after 4 or 5 rallies the same jokes wears thin. (Oh, and yours was the only offensive bit of banter GC  )

Don't worry, we can always take the mick out of your panniers... graphics... choice of friends....   

Don't let it grind you down mate, just crank it into the next sunny corner and keep smiling 

[guest40]

It all sounds cuckoo to me!!

[squirrelciv]

I wonder if the little 'memorial' we created with all the broken bits is still there? It probably now looks like one of those Tibetan pray shrines with little flags tied all over it (or it could have been clear the next day by the council - more likely).

Glad to see, after a mysterious quite spell, that both Pat and SteveD are on the forum again. Is there a Panama connection?

Boyd

Nope, it's gone Tyre mark's still there though

[Andy M]

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My interpretation of the annual rally was one of small sub rallies all happening at the same time. Didn't feel particularly 'excluded' by any one group, more unable to participate fully with the group as a whole. You were either in this pub with that group or the other pub with another gang. All of which is fine and quite right, but not what I wanted to be doing. (more a one pub, one bonfire, one group type me )

I know what you mean, but don't know what the solution is. The meet up at Llanthoney seemed to work, but there was perhaps only 20 of us. Even then it was impossible for us all to get round one table. The health and safety requirements effectively prevent the old sit round a fire type rally (unless you take a massive risk and just go for it) while the next solution of bar-on-site, band etc. would turn the whole thing into a BMF type experience which I'm not sure I'd like either.

I thought I'd found a couple of camp sites that will allow fires in specially created pits near the tents. Eventually I'll get round to visiting one, talking to the owners to see if they'd be happy with a group etc. They must have some safety features that get past their own insurance, probably the brick lines fire pit has a raised edge and is X meters from any tent.

It's a hard thing to pitch, so big respect to the guys who did the organising.

Andy