F**CK THIS

[boatman]

See the we pic taken along the front at Inverary i was there last week and a guy fae the cooncil was along telling us we cant park there anymore
Told us we had to move ahead uop into the cat parking bay,s AND we now have tae pay !!!!!!!!! There has been bike parking in there for longer than i would care to remember
Feckwits chase the trade out of the town !!!!!!!! that will help in these difficult times ye could.t make it up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Grizzly]

Great Weekend!!!

After a quick 3 hour apres night shift sleep on Friday, Joyce and I headed up to Ullapool for the weekend.
Fair bit of rain on the way up but dry in Ullapool. WE had a wee bimble up round Lochinver area on Saturday - dry all day
Got up this morning to beautiful sunshine for travelling home, so had a great run, Ullapool-Garve-Kinlochewe-Shieldaig-Applecross-Lochcarron-Invergarry-Laggan etc.
We were going to have a bite to eat at the Applecross Inn but it was a bit hectic - as usual, so went out to the Potting Shed in the walled garden just north of the village - only to find the Linda Jaxson Blues Band starting to play - superb!! So had a bite to eat and a glass o' wine in the garden wi' the sun beatin doon listening to great blues - magic
So, we get a lot of crap weather - but we also get some great weather and as long as you still have a bike, and still use it, you can still have some great days oot in places most of wouldn't bother goin tae in a tin box

So keep the bike(s) Doyle, and make the best of it

Cheers.........................Grizzly

 

[skinnersscotch]

I like the rain

I like the rain. Means my bike doesn't look any dirtier than anyone elses. And those that like to keep them clean keep them indoors and out of sight!

 

[wully]

aaaaah...yes but.......all west coast...been cracking there all spring and summer.....east however...pure shite

West is Best

' cept today when it's pishing it doon and blawin a gale o wind.

 

[Coolcarbon]

After a quick 3 hour apres night shift sleep on Friday, Joyce and I headed up to Ullapool for the weekend.
Fair bit of rain on the way up but dry in Ullapool. WE had a wee bimble up round Lochinver area on Saturday - dry all day
Got up this morning to beautiful sunshine for travelling home, so had a great run, Ullapool-Garve-Kinlochewe-Shieldaig-Applecross-Lochcarron-Invergarry-Laggan etc.
We were going to have a bite to eat at the Applecross Inn but it was a bit hectic - as usual, so went out to the Potting Shed in the walled garden just north of the village - only to find the Linda Jaxson Blues Band starting to play - superb!! So had a bite to eat and a glass o' wine in the garden wi' the sun beatin doon listening to great blues - magic
So, we get a lot of crap weather - but we also get some great weather and as long as you still have a bike, and still use it, you can still have some great days oot in places most of wouldn't bother goin tae in a tin box

Sounds like a crackin weekend Geo....

Up at the Hoos tomorrow, hope we get a few days with the current bun oot...

 

[newbuild100]

We should be able to sue the bastid weathermen.

I arranged my weekend around the weather forecast (given out on friday night).
Given that yesterday was going to be the only sunny/dry day of the BH weekend, I went out on the bike. Travelling back from the hills of N.yorkshire in the evening,(4pm) it fecking pissed it down. (Ok, 4pm may be technically not the "Day", but you get my drift !)
Foolish me, who listened to the idiots, didnt take my overtrousers.
Wet ? . Very !

Today, which was supposed to be the pits. Wet windy, and not a day for going out, and the worst day of the weekend.
Result . . . . Its dry and pretty sunny.

Given that im trying to keep that particular bike in mint condition, and hate cleaning bikes anyway, and it will now take days of fettling to get rid of the crap that the "monsoon" put onto the roads from the fields/hedgerows etc . . . . . . Can I sue the forecasters ????

Rant over !

 

[AndyT]

After a quick 3 hour apres night shift sleep on Friday, Joyce and I headed up to Ullapool for the weekend.
Fair bit of rain on the way up but dry in Ullapool. WE had a wee bimble up round Lochinver area on Saturday - dry all day
Got up this morning to beautiful sunshine for travelling home, so had a great run, Ullapool-Garve-Kinlochewe-Shieldaig-Applecross-Lochcarron-Invergarry-Laggan etc.
We were going to have a bite to eat at the Applecross Inn but it was a bit hectic - as usual, so went out to the Potting Shed in the walled garden just north of the village - only to find the Linda Jaxson Blues Band starting to play - superb!! So had a bite to eat and a glass o' wine in the garden wi' the sun beatin doon listening to great blues - magic
So, we get a lot of crap weather - but we also get some great weather and as long as you still have a bike, and still use it, you can still have some great days oot in places most of wouldn't bother goin tae in a tin box

So keep the bike(s) Doyle, and make the best of it

Cheers.........................Grizzly

You should have swung by Aviemore on the way home to see the HOG club polishing their wears....... I'm hoping for sunny weather this week but wont hold my breath, still building the extension so bikings on hold for the moment :-(

 

[Grizzly]

Hogs on A9

Andy,
We had trouble making our way up the A9 on Friday due to groups of Harleys everywhere - worse than Tesco lorries!
It was pretty wet at Aviemore as we passed by

Cheers..................Grizzly

 

[Grizzly]

Up at the Hoos tomorrow, hope we get a few days with the current bun oot

It's peeing doon today Mike, but tommorrow looks nice

Cheers......................Grizzly

 

[pedro]

Applecross Wednesday, Mull Thursday. No doubt we'll get drenched. Anybody else heading that way ?

 

[Blackal]

Applecross Wednesday, Mull Thursday. No doubt we'll get drenched. Anybody else heading that way ?

Wednesday looks a wee bit - shite..............

Thursday looks like ya might dry out.............

Al

 

[pedro]

You around Al ? We could do with someone to take the pish out of

 

[Blackal]

You around Al ? We could do with someone to take the pish out of

Wear yer "Vaseline" jaiket............ That should focus the attention

Al

 

[pedro]

Nah, this will be a Master 5 job if ever there was one. Might take the Vanson for cutting a dash down the pub though.

 

[G.C.]

West is Best

Hailstones yeterday, in August ffs
Got ma bike back from Keil in Benderloch, good guys, now to put a few miles on her

 

[Taff]

... Bonny Bonny scotland is it fuck from the inside of a steamed up visor.

I reckon that's one of the biggest problems - your visor. Everything seems crap with a steamed up visor - sort that out and the rain isn't that bad.

It will probably still piss down, but it just seems more bearable with a clear visor.

 

[Voyager]

Hailstones yeterday, in August ffs

Same here . . Thunder, Lightning, hail and then torrential rain.

I must find some time to get out on the bikes - but hopefully not in that .

Bob.

 

[Farmer Palmer]

You big bunch o jessies..........I'm out on my bike everyday...............My farm Quadbike!

FP.

 

[doyle]

I reckon that's one of the biggest problems - your visor. Everything seems crap with a steamed up visor - sort that out and the rain isn't that bad.

It will probably still piss down, but it just seems more bearable with a clear visor.

Actually my visor was fine,pinlock did its job

It was the streams of water bringing gravel onto the road that had me nervous. You know i WAS on a road bike with road tyres not one of these rufty tufty adventure bikes!!.

I don't actually mind riding in the rain--------Just not everytime i go out

 

[Voyager]

I don't actually mind riding in the rain--------Just not everytime i go out

+1

I find the Pinlock visor on my BMW System-5 is OK as well.

Bob.