Mr K
Registered user
I guess this qualifies as a GS event, as I went there on me bike? 
I didn't have enough leave left to have all of Friday off, so I had to go in for 2 hours, but on arriving at the first street I was to survey I was met with this fine view looking southwestish over the lower end of Team Valley and The Angel...
Come ten I leapt back into the trusty Vivaro and rattled it against its 70 limiter al the way back to the depot, signed off and raced home in the (t)rusty Saxo.
Put some pants in a pannier and set away.
100 or so boring miles of A1 and I turned off for a break at Squires:
Realised I only had £1.80, so had a diet coke and chatted with some old gadgie about his "Nighthawk" that was rattling like a Dalek having a w@nk in a dustbin.....
Entering Derbyshire on the A1/M1 I encounterd the new practise of driving on the right and was able to pass several hundred cars by using the nearside lane....
I arrived safely at my lodgings (Cheers Ballistic!) and we taxied to The Polish Club in Loughborough for the beer tasting..
Interesting venue...
.....and beers....
....traditional Polish samosas....
...after a while, even the samosas could not sate us, so we went to The Noodle Bar
I had a very adventurous crispy duck starter, followed by a highly original beef curry main course...
...however I was sat opposite the prettiest oriental girl with the World's largest earrings..
... after that we had another pint somewhere else and went home.
Saturday: I'd planned some kind of adventurous route home but the forecast made it look like the sooner I got home the better.
After a fine bacon sarnie prepared by Ballistic, I fired-up the steed and headed north again.
Realising it was 800GS l(a)unch day I decided to call in at Cooper's at Boldon and check-out the curry:
...er I mean bikes:
That was a red one, a 650 800 apparently...
This is a 800 800:
...and if I was buying, I'd have had this one:
Got home just in time for the start of Ireland v Wales.
I didn't have enough leave left to have all of Friday off, so I had to go in for 2 hours, but on arriving at the first street I was to survey I was met with this fine view looking southwestish over the lower end of Team Valley and The Angel...
Come ten I leapt back into the trusty Vivaro and rattled it against its 70 limiter al the way back to the depot, signed off and raced home in the (t)rusty Saxo.
Put some pants in a pannier and set away.
100 or so boring miles of A1 and I turned off for a break at Squires:
Realised I only had £1.80, so had a diet coke and chatted with some old gadgie about his "Nighthawk" that was rattling like a Dalek having a w@nk in a dustbin.....
Entering Derbyshire on the A1/M1 I encounterd the new practise of driving on the right and was able to pass several hundred cars by using the nearside lane....
I arrived safely at my lodgings (Cheers Ballistic!) and we taxied to The Polish Club in Loughborough for the beer tasting..
Interesting venue...
.....and beers....
....traditional Polish samosas....
...after a while, even the samosas could not sate us, so we went to The Noodle Bar
I had a very adventurous crispy duck starter, followed by a highly original beef curry main course...
...however I was sat opposite the prettiest oriental girl with the World's largest earrings..
... after that we had another pint somewhere else and went home.
Saturday: I'd planned some kind of adventurous route home but the forecast made it look like the sooner I got home the better.
After a fine bacon sarnie prepared by Ballistic, I fired-up the steed and headed north again.
Realising it was 800GS l(a)unch day I decided to call in at Cooper's at Boldon and check-out the curry:
...er I mean bikes:
That was a red one, a 650 800 apparently...
This is a 800 800:
...and if I was buying, I'd have had this one:
Got home just in time for the start of Ireland v Wales.
