Full Version: CDMTC 800km ride
7am start from Breakers. Who's gonna be there? I'm hoping to be but this goddam flu bites the big one - if the weather is crap I may just roll over in bed and go back to sleep...
Love to, but have to work tomorrow. 
Have a good one, hope you feel well enough to do it.
Have a good one, hope you feel well enough to do it.
Well, I woke up at 3am coughing fit to blow the windows out so did the roll over and go to sleep thing. Mark (Blue bandito) rang at 6:20 to see if was coming and I gave him the news. He's gone anyway and hopefully he'll let us know how it all went.
QUOTE (banditrider @ 4 Oct 2008, 10:47 AM) 
Well, I woke up at 3am coughing fit to blow the windows out
Rest up, whisky, whisky.
hopefully they get through it without getting blown round too much. just popped out before to go visiting and the wind is a PITA
QUOTE (cowboyz @ 4 Oct 2008, 12:25 PM)
hopefully they get through it without getting blown round too much. just popped out before to go visiting and the wind is a PITA
you go up to dogs?
QUOTE (yod @ 4 Oct 2008, 03:43 PM)
you go up to dogs?
I sure as hell wouldn't want to be riding for 1o hours in this wind. Gale force predicted in some places. Getting blown of at Castlepoint wasn't fun but that's partly newbie experience.
I'd say Mark won't be far away - last time we finished just after 5.
QUOTE (banditrider @ 4 Oct 2008, 04:08 PM)
I'd say Mark won't be far away - last time we finished just after 5.
Just spoke to him on the phone - he's back and could be first as there's nobody else at the bar: 9hrs, 1min.
QUOTE (yod @ 4 Oct 2008, 03:43 PM)
you go up to dogs?
yep. he is fine. Bike is only cosmetic damage and shouldnt be much to put it back on the road ready for the 4 points.
QUOTE (banditrider @ 4 Oct 2008, 04:15 PM)
Just spoke to him on the phone - he's back and could be first as there's nobody else at the bar: 9hrs, 1min.
good effort.
And I could have been there, sigh...
Apparently only 10 bikes in all - next time.
Apparently only 10 bikes in all - next time.
not surprising with the weather. I am saving my tyres for the 4 points so that put me out anyhow. Went for a nice run up the valley though. Gently pootling is nice.
QUOTE (cowboyz @ 4 Oct 2008, 06:29 PM)
yep. he is fine. Bike is only cosmetic damage and shouldnt be much to put it back on the road ready for the 4 points.
phew....was wondering whether it was going to ruin the 4P for him
QUOTE (banditrider @ 4 Oct 2008, 04:15 PM)
Just spoke to him on the phone - he's back and could be first as there's nobody else at the bar: 9hrs, 1min.
was out the front and spotted him riding past as he came home
QUOTE (yod @ 4 Oct 2008, 08:12 PM)
was out the front and spotted him riding past as he came home
Have had a bit of a report out of him (reckons the weather wasn't that bad, just a couple of showers) - trying to talk him into blogging the ride. He needs to get broadband...
want me to go round there and tell him to join the rest of us in the 21st century?
He has selective hearing.
Okeley dokeley, Makr has blogged his ride: http://banditrider.blogspot.com/2008/10/cd...0ks-in-day.html
He don't believe in cameras but...
He don't believe in cameras but...
Sounds like a fun ride, and it appears the wind wasn't as bad to the north as it was around here. Would have been keen to do it if I wasn't working.
QUOTE (banditrider @ 5 Oct 2008, 03:16 PM)
Okeley dokeley, Makr has blogged his ride: http://banditrider.blogspot.com/2008/10/cd...0ks-in-day.html
Nice Blog. Sounds like it was a really good run. amazing that the Harley passed him. No doubt we will hear more on Monday night.
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