BELGIUM EASTER GS EVENT

Den

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Back home to normality after a few days camping with the foreign folk.
Not as busy as recent years, but a jolly good time was had by all, ( except during the hangover hours )
Commodore class on the ferry was lovely. Telly, complimentary coffee, fruit, mini bar and brekkers. So poash.
I found a hill whilst on a run to Leige.
Romeo, yes thats his real name, arrived late on Friday and I got the pleasure, whilst looking for him in the pitch black of the campsite, of shouting Romeo, Romeo, where for art thou Romeo. Well ... I thought it was funny ... but it might have been the beer.
These foreign chappies, and chapessies with their GS,s are a bit more rufty tufty than us and seemed to have a great time playing in the REAL muddy stuff. Film of the days events were shown in the bar to the great amusment of the crowd. I heard someone shout 'Heinz, vot ein tosser' when someone disappeared into ze bushes half way up a muddy incline.
Weather could have been better but most of the rain was through the night.
Well orginised with bar, bonfire and barbie. But no restaurant on site, which pissed Jez and meeself off a bit, but there was a chip and sausage van which filled the holes where the beer hadnt got to yet.
There were not as many British compared to previous years.
Met a lovely Polish girl on the ferry home. She had travelled from Poland to the ferry in one day on a 600 honda, and was going to Aberdeen to work.
Some gal!!. She asked me where I had been. I thought I would lie and say I had been roond the world, but I resisted. Gorgeous light blue eyes and she was my next cabin neighbour. Even though I am the double of Brad Pitt, she never came knocking on the cabin door in the middle of the night. Poor lass was probably tired.
Photos are not very good, but I will let you see a few if you dont mind.
 

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Dont think Migsel was looking forward to this
 

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A wind turbine
 

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such a nice boy
 

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Good to hear you got home Ok Den. Thanks for taking that Scottish weather with you too. We had a nice downpour on Monday morning just enough to soak everything completely before we had to pack up and head the 20kms home :D

Being one of those rufty tufty types you mentioned I just thought I'd share a picture I ' borrowed' from the Dutch GS forum. This is why you need to remember to turn off your ABS when riding off road ....this fella didn't and as he overtook as I was slowing down(me being on Knobblies - him on tourances) he started to brake with about 10 meters to go before a left hander off dirt onto tarmac.....ABS kicked in just in time to save him and sent him straight on into the ditch which was a 2 meter drop into some very unpleasant looking muddy slime. :clap ....I don't remember seeing him overake me after that :rolleyes:
 

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A couple more pics from the " Beginners" off road tour day 2 . Gecko gets wet and slippery....this isn't a ford this is just a fecking big deep puddle !!!
 

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Wasn't all like that though ....sometimes there was some nice sand to brush up your skills on :P
 

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....and some trails in the woods to slide along too
 

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Gecko

Good job that there was some tarmac to get a grip on - if it had all been dirt, he'd have cleared that wire fence!

Simon

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Gecko said:
Good to hear you got home Ok Den. Thanks for taking that Scottish weather with you too. We had a nice downpour on Monday morning just enough to soak everything completely before we had to pack up and head the 20kms home :D

Being one of those rufty tufty types you mentioned I just thought I'd share a picture I ' borrowed' from the Dutch GS forum. This is why you need to remember to turn off your ABS when riding off road ....this fella didn't and as he overtook as I was slowing down(me being on Knobblies - him on tourances) he started to brake with about 10 meters to go before a left hander off dirt onto tarmac.....ABS kicked in just in time to save him and sent him straight on into the ditch which was a 2 meter drop into some very unpleasant looking muddy slime. :clap ....I don't remember seeing him overake me after that :rolleyes:
 
I was there!.... for about 20 minutes... :spitfire

I went through all the angst of abandoning the wife (and her parents :thumb ) for what looked like a fun weekend of getting dirty.

Packed my new bike for the first time, sorted the camping gear, tested the tent (hadn't used it since buying the VW Camper over 4 years ago)... loaded up and off I went Friday noonish...

Some lane splitting with the Micatechs, which was easier than I imagined... Dutch drivers are good at getting out of the way it seems.. and a couple hours of freeway riding later and I'm getting close...

Stop to fuel up and.... no pannier keys :confused: ... I was thinking I'd left them hanging out of the slot in the Givi top-box (and they'd dropped out), but when I checked my phone and saw a message from my wife, I realised that as I was leaving, and pressure to "git" was being applied... I left them on the table..

Lucky me I had a way to get my locked-on tankbag out of the way so that I could fuel up, or I'd still be down there...

Faced with a choice of breaking into my Givi (to access my clothes and light weight gloves, and get the box off there for playing in the dirt...)... or coming home, avoiding getting wet and muddy, and making like a good son-in-law... I chose the latter... :rolleyes:

I guess I could have drivin back down again, but the call to good soon-in-lawship was too strong...

Al...
 


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