ToL Recce Saturday 27th June

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Hi All,

BigNige and myself will be out on Saturday 27th June to ride some of the south Lincolnshire roads and decide the route for the Taste of Lincolnshire rideout.

All are welcome to join us, but please be advised this will be a 'dis-organised' day. We have no route and may well end up going in circles! However if you wish to tag along it would be great to see faces old and new. Here are the details:

Starting point: 9am Filling Station on Lincoln Road, Horncastle.
See Google map here.

Lunch stop: around lunchtime , The Plough, Holbeach St. Johns, Holbeach, Spalding, PE12 8RE
See Google map here.

Post up a reply or call me if you're intending joining us so we don't leave anyone behind. I don't know what time we'll be at the pub, but I expect around 12:30. Call on the day if you want a more definite time. My number is O79O3 4hundred468.

Look forward to meeting up with some of you. I hope the weather holds - it's fantastic here at the moment. Think I'll pop out for a evening spin!

Cheers,
Chris

Hi Chris & Nige,

Well done bloody great day.

Thanks to Chris & Nige for the route ToL is gonna be a real pearler of a day with that one.

Ian for the Drinks at lunch

Nige for the Butties & Lunch

Chris for the "posh" drink (see above post)

and to Suzie for the brake test mid corner

Oh and as for the Salty Sea Dog drinky .. .. .. well I note it's been mentioned else where

again great day, thanks all around.
Cheers
Tel

PS: Oh yeah, and 245 miles completed
PPS: I'd just like to point out the OH! so nearly numpty point for the new ignition key point on the suzuki gsxr750 .................... Pete ?

Hi All,

Back home safe and sound.

Thanks to all who joined us; it was a nice little group and I think we all had a good day. A big thanks to Nige for organising us all - I really didn't have a thing to do. Great planning.

The route Nige planned for us had a bit of everything and introduced me to some cracking new roads that will be incorporated into the ToL. In fact the ToL will be, more or less, a re-run of today. 227 miles on my clock today. That might be a bit ambitious for the final route, but there are options for shortening this.

The weather held for us and I'm surprisingly tired right now

Highlights of the day:
The early off-road section complete with mud and gravel
Mavis Enderby!
Getting to New York - impossible but true
The horse drawn hearse at our first stop of the day (nice touch Nige )
The hospitality at the lunch stop
Tel's impression of a local (ask him!)
The roads - shockingly good in places (though I'm biased)
Belton tea stop - minus the salt next time but with the cream cake
Suzie heading home like a rocket - you have the nitrous on or was Ezzy wanting her bed?
Boothby Graffoe!
The long run home

Look forward to doing it all again in September.

Cheers,
Chris

greencat wrote:
Suzie heading home like a rocket - you have the nitrous on or was Ezzy wanting her bed?

I noticed that too . . . . . Put her at the front and ZOOM

were you impressed by that - i was trying out my overtaking thanks again Nige for organising it and the lunch and the rest of you for putting up with me again.

Echo the sentiments about the hearse and those guinea fowl were bloody huge beasts too

all in all a jolly good day

.... in fact seeing it in that cup i'm sure ellie probably sees a lot of stuff that colour

Looks like a good sample to me...Nowt wrong with whoevers prostate provided that!!!

A couple of pics from the day, courtesy of Mechy.

Outside the lunch stop.
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Afternoon coffee.
A happy band of brothers - until the salt incident, when they all turned on me
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Not much to add to that except thanks to all for a cracking day & glad you all had a good time
delighted to be able to show you we have a few decent bit's of tarmac & some hills down here, not sure i can garantee the hearse on the day tho

Hill??? oh you mean that "Buried Submarine in a field" ,i think i saw a couple of what i would call "dimples on a flat surface" as to hills, well they were plenty UP NORTH LINCS!!! he he!

Anyway, thankyou very much to everyone ,the pace certainly picked up when Suzie remembered she had left the gas on!!!!!!!, and big thanks to nige,,and chris (that last bit home was great,nice to let the suki have a fraction more revs),and a pleasure to follow you again tel.

pete

ps please check the numpty awards for the salt incident (it wasnt the fact he put salt in tea it was his face when he drank it that got me ,bless,,will remain nameless till you look

Admin Edit:
Still awaiting a seconder in numpty awards

Looks like fun was had by all! Hope to join the main event in September.

Duly noted admin