bank holiday monday

oz for me mate

typan wrote: where everyone riding to on monday.wales for me cant wait.

Whereabouts you heading for?

I may rouse myself although tbh with all the idiot ,blind, cage driving,sight seeing grockels that are clogging the roads round here this weekend I may do my usual thing and keep the bikes garaged on bank holidays.

If you are planning on using the normal biking runs I would think given the weather that the camera vans & unmarked bikes will probably be out all day.

B roads are your friend   

B&Q. The effin downstairs sh*tter is leaking. Have fun boys!

adzed wrote: Wings clipped for me. Wife's working so I'll be trying to entertain a 1yr old and a 7yr all day!

I'll be out in the PM (Alston road for those oop North).

Perhaps we can organise another run around the welsh countryside.

IanG wrote: Perhaps we can organise another run around the welsh countryside.

Sounds good that Ian. Especially that Denbigh Moor bit.

Forgot all about him!

It's the ones you don't see that cause problems

It turned out nice all right,I spent the day gardening and waiting for all the numpties to head for home before I think about getting a bike out.

I sometimes come home from work and then get a bike out and do an hour or two when the roads are nice and quiet and all the Plod & "safety partnership" vans have got bored and gone home for a brew.

Tea time/ early evening the roads are pretty much deserted and you can play in safety on some of the best roads around.

Remember this one Adam?

http://youtu.be/czCOeVPpsxY

typan wrote:

In this pic if you look straight up from your seat, on the r/h side of that dark gully on the hill is pretty much the spot where I crashed in a fully aerobatic,all metal sports glider years back.

I was doing an inter club comp from Llewenni Parc and got to the ridge too low to contact the hill lift and spun it in when my starboard wing hit the 44,000v power cable feeding the Moel y Parc tv transmitter mast on the top of the ridge.

Not a scratch or bruise on me but unfortunately I wrote off the clubs 3rd party & ground risks only insured 'plane. 

Not the most popular club member for a few weeks after that.

Just thought I'd own up to that

Remember this one Adam?
http://youtu.be/czCOeVPpsxY

That's the road Ian. Superb.

Strange that,a few of the members did say something very similar.

No, when that happened I was flying with the Stafford club out of Seighford but I gave it up about 10 years or so ago.

I still call in at the N Wales club occasionally when I've sat at the Ponderosa and watched them flying around as they are only just off the Corwen road on the way home.

Was fancying taking up Para gliding a while back but it's got great potential for broken bones and hospital food,there was a club based at Deganwy that flew off Conwy Mountain from above the Sycnant Pass that I went up and watched and enquired about joining though.

Think I'll stick with bikes though,at least you can ride solo without needing a field full of people to get you away.

Oh and thinking about cost, the instructors at Conwy reckoned that given good weather they could have me solo within a week for about £450 and that included the use of the club's chutes etc although once you get to that standard you'd want your own fancy rig rather than club kit.

IanG wrote: This is the only way to fly One of my mates launching off the winch at Seighford,makes even a bike seem a bit tame. And then there are aerobatics to indulge yourself in as well http://youtu.be/wkD-2TRsH10

My brother in laws moving back to Valley in June.
Last time he lived there he let us sit in all the military jets before the airshow the next day.
F16's, Harriers, tornado's, maybe see what happens this year??