Irish Rally

[RonXBR]

Well, the rally is nearly upon us. Everyone over here looking forward to seeing old friends again and hopefully meet a few new ones.  I know some folk are already on their way but would like to wish everyone a safe journey to and from the site. With a bit of half decent weather it should good fun. I might even be nice to Mark, Jethro and Ifor, thats bound to confuse them.

Ron.

[guest987]

Just had word. Jethro is in Kilkenny having met up with Richard and party.
Jethro set off on Monday night but chain went in West Wales so set off again yesterday.

Weather wet but drying and gettiing warmer..........just like his pants.

Rob.

[squirrelciv]

Setting off in the next hour...

Stop at the wet stuff and wait for a boat right??

Wish me luck

[squirrelciv]

Guinness really does taste better here (hic)

 

[mini-thumper]

Just on the ferry at Holyhead. Quick dash across the Irish Sea and hopefully we'll be at Draperstown for opening time. Might need the waterproofs though.

Boyd

[squirrelciv]

Home safe and well.

The biggest of thank you's to the Irish lads who did us proud. What a fantastic rally and what a fantastic country Ireland is. A special thank you to Alison for my picture which is going to have pride of place in my house. You'll be pleased to know it survived the journey unscathed.

Dublin was interesting if a little expensive and gave me the experience of sleeping with 5 women at the same time! Unisex dorms worked a lot better for me than it did for them.

Total journey distance 1111 miles.

Too knackered to say much more but I'll squeeze out another thanks to all who went. Great to see you all.

Now where's my bed...

[tj63]

Great weekend - huge thanks to all the NI lads and lasses.

Pat - I'm really jealous that you got the Alison original - can you take a picture of it and share with the rest of the Club?  I only caught a glimpse of it but was well impressed.

Cheers

Trevor

PS - loads of piccies here:

http://s173.photobucket.com/albums/w61/tj63/NI%202012/

[tommy]

many thanks  lads had a great night hope everyone got home safe ,tommy

[timbo]

It was great to see you all, though of course if Ronnie hadn,t been there, there might have been even more people attending!
Seriously though, I'd like to thank Ronnie, Chris, and Tony as they did most of the organising, me and Alison just turned up, and stole the gite/shed!
Thanks to Mark for the massive hangover and Enfield starting tips. Though when i got home, i discovered the kick start lever had took a severe strop and disappeared somewhere along the roadside. I went back tonight to look for it, and ended up eating half of Pat Keeling's Chinese takeaway, thanks Pat!
To Pat, Ally says that you deserve the picture with that sort of mileage.
To Trevor, really sorry to hear about your brother-in-law, so glad you still managed to come over. What's the story with the mangled wheel, looks scary. Great to see Ally drawing again at last, i'm sure you can have the next sketch when we next meet.


 

[Owen@Slims]

Big thank you from all at Slims Cafe in Draperstown.Great to meet you all and look forward to seeing you again soon.Thanks again from Owen,Paula and all the staff.

[Mark]

Had a great weekend, got home last night. Could tell that Ifor wanted to get home because we hit speeds of up to 50mph.

Well arranged and hosted by the Norn Iron crew, a good welcome was had at the cottage with open 'peat' fire, beer and chocolates.

Couldn't have been looked after any better at the pub or at Slims Cafe.

@Pat, you can scan Alisons sketch and make it available for us all to see and take a copy.

@Tim, it was your bl00dy fault

@Tony, thanks, great SR.

@Chris, good ride out, nice and wet.

@Ronnie, FECK OFF! 

Mark

[002]

Despite the 24hr set back had a great trip with some good company !

The Rally was very well sorted.tea/coffee and welcoming beer laid on.
Good Site
Loved the Cottage Thingy..got to play with Fire and a Turf one to boot.

Good to meet up with friends Old(Ronnie,very old) and New.

Good run home..saw Snowdonia in the sunshine,thats a first !

Many Thanks to The Oirish for organising a bloody good Rally.

Jethro

[steveD]

Just got back, well late this afternoon.

Big thanks to the Irish lads for organising such a good event, what a place to host it.

I had a ball all week, did the lot, England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland on the way back.

Far too much Guiness, but the biking soooo much fun. Loved every minute of the whole experience. The Irish persons that I met were soo friendly and accommodatiing.

Ragged up my rear tyre though and in only @ 1500 miles

Too tired to post piccies, will do when recovered!

[mini-thumper]

All of the above with knobs on from me; excellent if slightly moist weekend. Shame we couldn't have stayed a few more (dry) days longer as NI is an interesting looking place.

Big thanks to Ronnie, Chris, Tony and Tim for organising the whole thing, and to those who ventured across. Good to see friends old and new, drink beers, burn stuff and talk crap - and long may it continue.

Massive scare for Trevor on the way back, that will cost him dearly to repair, but luckily was able to walk away from what potentially could have been very nasty; photos just don't tell the whole story.

So thanks again to everyone and hopefully see some of you again before I leave.

Boyd

[timbo]

Me again. Just to let you all know, it is f'n chucking it down over here yet again! Does anyone know if it is actually possible for a country to sink?