Bishops Castle 5 2013 - Enter the Dragon

First topic message reminder :

To allow time for you guys & gals to save beer tokens & build up enough Brownie points etc a date of Saturday 8th June has been decided for BC5.


As usual the ride will be centered around Shropshire & Wales & peeps are welcome to join for just the rideout or to B&B/camp for both the Friday & Saturday nights with food in the local hostelries which will be announced in due course.

B&B's are aplenty & most will take a booking in advance without requiring payment untill the weekend in question so its always a good idea to book early as last year it got very busy with a local wedding taking up some of the B&B's we normally use.

Below is a link to the main places to stay all within easy walking distance & please just ask if we can offer any help or advice, The Claremont also have as well as B&B a property which can be shared by a number of peeps who may wish to reduce costs by sharing & if I remember correctly a garage they have allowed us to use for the bikes in the past.

The Foxholes Camp site have a Bunk house, Static Caravan & Camping available.

Thanks Nick & Ellie

http://www.bishopscastle.co.uk/tourism/accommodation_bc.htm

http://foxholes-castle.co.uk/index.html

ellie wrote: Awesome day, sun shone, no 'incidents' and a thoroughly great time was had by all

Photos & stories tomorow,

Fantastic to hear everything went smooth as silk

ellie wrote: Ive left them all in the bar watching the TT the pub kindly recorded for us!

Ooooh ! There'll be some sore heeds this morning then

Yes the clown's head was a bit sore at 1am this morning wasn't it Mr Nutt? Rumbled by CCTV though

I'm guessing - there in hides a numpty(ish) story -

Race one WSB is on if anyone is interested

Home safe and sound, can't fault the weekend, superb roads, fantastic weather, the ride the food the refreshments, couldn't have been any better, even Dave Nutt defiling a clown couldn't put a damper on the weekend, (though its rumoured the clown had a damp patch)!!

Really great to meet old friends and make some new ones, special thanks have to go to Nick and Ellie, guys you played a blinder and couldn't have done anything to make it any better and BC6 will have a lot to live up to, stevecat and Cheshirecat (Kev) thanks for keeping the Ecocabin massive fed and to everyone who turned up to make it such a wonderful weekend.

Right I'm off to prepare my opening speech for the inaugural 'Clown No Still Means No Dave' rally

robertcains wrote:Yes the clown's head was a bit sore at 1am this morning wasn't it Mr Nutt? Rumbled by CCTV though

He said the clown deflated but I said he should've paid extra if it went down on him

awesome weekend, a million thank-you's to all involved. absolutely brilliant route and riding with you all was a pleasure. thanks for having me. cat is going to be washed now, squashed flies aint the look im going for.

Back safe sound and sound couple of hours ago, after a gruelling forty mile slog home on glorious roads and basking in warming sunshine...

Another brilliant weekend: Great roads, great weather, great beer, the salads were amazing and the Thundercat forum does it again!

Thanks to all who attended and a big thanks to Nick and Ellie as principle organisers.

Review and pics will be ready in the next few days...

Meanwhile some music:

Back home safe and sound 190 miles door to door, many thanks to Nick and Ellie and others for brilliant organisation and a wonderful ride out on some great roads.

Alleycat clocking in! Just got home after a 200 mile odd sprint, a huge thanks to Nick and Ellie and the others who contributed for making it an incredible introduction to ride outs/the forum (and the bike if i'm honest) everything ran like clockwork and it was a pleasure to meet you all. Big thanks to Steve for the shopping/cooking/logistics and general maintenance and the rest of the Eco cabin massive for a proper laugh

Home safe here too 850 mile weekend for me.
Superb as ever guys. Really glad I made it.
Great to meet old friends again and make some new ones. Even pulled a burd!!!!
Bottle that weather and send it up for BM!!!
Thanks to everyone who made it another cracking(and safe) weekend.

Just clocking in to say we are home after a visit to my rugrats & mummy & a lunch stop,
I can't thank each & every one of you enough for a brilliant weekend
Big thanks to Ellie & Radar for their help in organising, and to the TEC's who did a wonderful job, best start planning the next one then, BC6

Just back home after 171 miles home, rode in a group from bc with Paul (weasely) and bob tailing off from the main group after our lunch stop at tinton (I think that's how it's spelt) abbey.
Big thanks to Steve for leading up and then bob for the second part.

As with other big thanks to nick and Ellie for organising the ride out and everything was a cracker!


As for the bouncy castle incident... I don't think I'll ever be allowed into a circus tent again...

Even though its all nick fault as it was his idea ahaha

Got home about 20 minutes ago; nice leisurely bimble home with SteveCat and the southern posse, then a Bobh-led splinter group near the end.

As they all said above, what a perfect weekend. Good roads, good weather and good humour. Hats off to Mr & Mrs Ellie for great organisation. Also to to SteveCat for the majority of the tail-ending, plus the others who took a turn at that. Well done to all who came for (largely) following the rules and keeping the group together and safe.

There's lovely, isn't it?!

Well got back about an hour ago, I took a interesting route home, Bishops Castle > Betwys-coed>Ffestiniog>Porthmadog>Bala>Chester....

Covered a few roads from yesterday, I've had one of the best weekends ever, company way great, The ride out was first class.....

Many Thanks to Nick and Ellie, Tony (Radar), and all the guys at the eco cabin for the laughs, shits and giggles.

Roll on next year!!!

As Nick says, we're home and sorted & just opened a bottle of wine.

Thanks everyone for the most amazing weekend, without you all it would just be a bimble round Wales.

Just a few snaps...



Tony ACTUALLY having a salad!!!






Tony and his not so light salad...

Some good pics there Ellie! Aww I wanna go and play again! Such a come down when its all over!!

ellie wrote:

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ah Ellie you caught my best side

anyone know the name of the place that had the epic stone bridge with the little castle spire thing in the water?

alleycat wrote:anyone know the name of the place that had the epic stone bridge with the little castle spire thing in the water?

Lake Vyrnwy will be the name you're after

robertcains wrote:

alleycat wrote:anyone know the name of the place that had the epic stone bridge with the little castle spire thing in the water?

Lake Vyrnwy will be the name you're after

Lovely thanks, wanted to show the Mrs but hadn't taken any pictures as I didn't bring a camera

really enjoyd the spin out hopefully be able to tag along for whole ride next time. and not have to return for work.

Hey guys, clocked in at 230 via txt to Dave (Mr nutt) ,after leaving the guys at the old severn bridge bridge, got a healthy 120mph blast under my belt. no one home so went for another blast lol.

officially clocking in to thank Nick & Ellie for organising BC5 and making my dreams come true of riding Aber and Snowdon paths as well as All the other amazing routes. Learnt absolutely shed loads from this with sound advice from everyone. Terry 's compliments and Kevs advice too boosted my confidence no end. I now feel like a proper biker lol

Big thanks to Steve for tailing and keeping everyone in check and also for keeping all the guys bellies full at the Cabin. Kevin's fried eggs were lush too.

Thoroughly enjoyed my first ride out and made loads of new mates. felt a bit sad to leave you all.

Until the next one, ride safe.

Brilliant pics too Ellie. Pic of me on Frankensteen can be used to show how crap the Cats headlight really is lol.

P.s from my other post, glad to see my girl performed really well for me and looked after me. Oh yeah, she can even take on an R1. Even if it was only once lol. Made me really happy

Still buzzing now and can't wait for tomorrow

Thanks to Nick and Ellie for organising a cracking weekend. Big thanks to everyone for making it a success, well done.
Enjoyed myself at the back of the group and also had a blast being near the front after the tea break.
Good to re-unite with friends and meet new folk.

Thanks too to the guys in the cabin for cleaning up after breakie. Did anyone notice the dog wasn't hanging around today?
How many bikers does it take to fix a boiler? Second year now they given us a place with no gas!!

Got home around 5pm, officially knackered after two weeks on the bike - mind it more likely the silly o' clock I've been getting to bed. Trip home was 230 miles, abandoned my 'scenic' route and nearly fell asleep on the M4 Rather sore now, not from the bike - the rather energetic power walk back to the camp site - don't think I'm built for that

Bike's in a sorry way, hoping dumping the oil and the right quantity of fresh will sort it out.

My pics are on Flickr

An unedited 30 min Video segment

Back home safe and sound. Had a leisurely ride up to Shrewsbury, Congleton, over The Peak District and down to Chesterfield. Found the neighbours on their Honda Fireblade just outside Worksop and had a spirited 50 mile blat home. There again a couple in the guest house this weekend live 3 miles from me. Small world!
The weekend truely was one of the best there's been. Stunning weather, stunning roads, wonderfully paced and timed ride out, old friends, new friends and some good food and ale. No incidents of significance and the usual post ride out analysis and banter.
Thanks to Nick, Ellis and the tail end Charlie's. Stirling job.
Congratulations to those who came and survived their first ride out with the group. If you want to do it all over again there are 3 more events planned for this year.
I'll post up some video after I've had a chance to edit it.

Chris

I'm a bit late checking in - but why break the habit of a lifetime?

I think everything's already been said by others, but anyway, a perfect weekend. Huge thanks to Nick, Ellie and everyone else who did so much to make it such a success. And to Greencat for (and I'm struggling here to avoid saying anything that might be taken the wrong way) being the perfect room-mate.

It was great to meet up with so many of you and finally put some faces to the names, after all the time I've been on the forum. Mustn't wait so long until next time!