Norm, thank you from Carol & I, great weekend, with great company, great hotel with great staff.
Well done you, and to Leah for letting you do it.
Robin
Thanks again Norm for a great weekend, much appreciated.
Thanks also to Chris and Mark for the scenic route home.
Looking forward to the next one
Dave
Norm, thank you from Carol & I, great weekend, with great company, great hotel with great staff.
Well done you, and to Leah for letting you do it.
Robin
Thanks all - couldn't have done it without you. Well I could, but it'd just have been "a weekend away" and there'd have been no point doing the directions
David - the Hogs were staying down the road in Whitley Bay. We passed them at their hotel on the run. Just think, with a slight change in emphasis on how we get our jollies, it coulda been us... yeah, can just see you lot in leathers, denims and cutoffs. Not
May well go along with Carol's suggestion of re-doing Kielder next year, and incorporate a break-out "back to base" part-way round, for those who don't want to do the full-on 200-odd mile route. Then again, I might come up with something else entirely...Isle of Man, anyone??
Safely home, without any incidents. Over 1000 miles, >30 mpg on the motorways, <20mpg on the cross moors driving... excellent stuff.
Great weekend, thanks to all for such good company and especially to Norm and Leah for making it all possible.
Note to self, I think the air heated by the front radiator comes out of the louvres, up the screen and straight into the top scoop and then the cockpit.. need to invest in an F1 style water cooled vest
"a theory should be as simple as possible, but not simpler"
Yes indeed, it was a cracking weekend, so thanks Norm, and to answer your question, of course we will come again, but preferably of course in a Stratos.
Although, I have to say in view of the hot weather there was some attraction in watching everyone else adventures from air conditioned comfort.
Following Mark out of Rothbury though definitely brought in a few pangs of jealousy when he dissappeared into the distance so quickly!
Great stuff, thanks to everyone for making it so enjoyable and interesting.
Some more photos, the line up. (It was not a 'Le Mans' start, it was very sedate)
And one of Britain's premier castles, Bamborough, it is enormous, and yes the sky was really that blue.
It actually WAS a Le Mans-style start, but with a kick-off time of 10:00 and the participants being so knackered, we lined 'em up across the road and said "Go" round about half 9...not sure any of them actually noticed though
Last edited by Normb666; 12-08-2020 at 21:26.
That looked like a lot of fun, wish I could have made it. Robins paint job is just perfect, love it
The right way up:
Thanks Chris, the forum site has been behaving its self with my photo posts recently, I had thought that there must have been a software update that stopped the frustration of the random revolutions, but obviously not. I did try with that one but failed.
Bookmarks