Anyone who has their name down but can't make it please either remove your name or message me. That stops me worrying.
The provisional plan for Saturday's ride is meet outside the Teesdale Hotel at 10:30, fully gassed up, to set off about 10:45.
No 'I'll fill up later' bollox, we're heading into the sticks! If your bike won't do over 170 miles on a tank let me know.
The nearest petrol station Alston Road garage at the edge of the village headingtowards Alston. The next nearest is in Mickleton, about 2 miles away, which is 24 hour and has the E5 stuff for anyone that needs it.
The weather is shite today, but looking much better for the weekend (but still bring your waterproofs and thermals). Today's rain should see off the last of the road salt.
Riding routes sorted for both days. The usual long, but easy, route into Northumberland and over the border on Saturday. And a slightly more gnarly shorter route on Sunday. I checked the gnarly one yesterday on Scootie, if a scooter is happy all you big butch adventure types should be too 😁 Both are subject to change without notification or anything resembling planning.
The usual rules apply. You need to be road legal and insured, you're responsible for your own actions, breakdown cover is recommended. No riding like a twat either.
And be very careful from the High Force Hotel onwards towards Middleton-in-Teesdale, there will be tourists walking along the road with even less sense than sheep.
Hi folks , been a crazy busy few weeks at work so been more quite than usual which im sure some will appreciate lol but glad to be finally kicking off bike season 2025 , see yous all in our favourite place aka the pub tomorrow 🍻 ride safe and look forward to catching up with you lot tomorrow 😁
Ps steve my little cupcake can i be a pain in the butt hole and ask for you to maybe pretty please with cherry on top to pop up maybe a rough route on hear in the comments for the Saturday run , just incase anyone gets lost or there bladder or fuel tank needs a seeing too then they can pop on hear and get themselves back on track , much appreciated
Shaz, does that mean you're going to try and better last years epic lateness? If I remember rightly you missed Friday night entirely and eventually caught up with us at Hermitage Castle on the Saturday 🤭
But yes, good idea of yours (treasure it, its an only child). Besides bladder breaks and fuel stops it also allows people to drop off for photo stops etc if they want to. Although knowing you I suspect its something to do with speed limits 😆
I'll PM all attendees the proposed route later today (because only attendees need to know).
😂🏃♀️🏃♀️ lol at steve and strom, strom i absolutely will make last orders this year ,(hopefully lol ) steve thanks for the route thats apricated , haha yes im getting tired of riding the last mountain road in the pitch black in the middle of the night , so much going on up there with sheep,gravel,potholes and general other who knows what scary shit running about out there lol , last year even thick fog decided to make an appearance, it would be nice to come along that road in the day time for a change lol
and your memory serves you well , i was so late i did completely miss Friday altogether lol, so right now as of 2.33 pm i am running around getting packed then quick shower then time to get on the road , day light hear i come lol
It seems another epic adventure is about to conclude as we are soon to depart Middleton, apart from Steve H and Neil B of course who have the good fortune to live here👍
Safe travels to all today and massive thanks to Steve H for 300miles + of amazing rides (as always) and tremendous scenery. If only I could bottle that cool fresh air on the tops of the Dales and take it home 😔
Thanks Steve for taking us on some great road over the weekend. Thankfully I didn't eat cake at every stop, because my bike wouldn't have carried me home. Thanks also to the lovely Susi😍, for the lovely roads she took me on for half the ride up to Tessdale from Squires. And I'm sure I would have enjoyed the second half of the journey too. However I did enjoy my sole ride for that bit. 😂 And thanks again to everyone else for the great company 👍
So sorry we parted company inadvertently on the ride up Rags 😟 was great to welcome you so far North for the first time and hope you are up for a repeat visit next year. Thanks to Steve H for a fantastic weekend with the usual amazing rides x
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