Morocco HUMM May 2015

[dubster]

Seems like a good crowd heading down, hope to meet some of you on the road Pikey, the 15th sounds doable but will have to confirm more towards the time! Pete, thanks for the offer for the place in the your team, but am pretty sure the big 1150 might struggle to keep pace - am certainly up for some doing some exploring though

Through the Rif to Fes will be great riding, also have always wanted to do the road onwards to Erfoud which I hear is also pretty spectacular

 

[Count Pikey]

Seems like a good crowd heading down, hope to meet some of you on the road Pikey, the 15th sounds doable but will have to confirm more towards the time! Pete, thanks for the offer for the place in the your team, but am pretty sure the big 1150 might struggle to keep pace - am certainly up for some doing some exploring though

Through the Rif to Fes will be great riding, also have always wanted to do the road onwards to Erfoud which I hear is also pretty spectacular

You'll be fine, I'm coming on my GSA, not literally I must add.

 

[BAKERMAN]

Here in Spain and weather over cast, muggy oh, and FREINDS never RUST.☺

 

[Count Pikey]

Here in Spain and weather over cast, muggy oh, and FREINDS never RUST.☺

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[Count Pikey]

This still on for today boys, did you get your bike fixed Mark???

 

[Jeffk]

I'll be riding over, be at the Swan 12.30 (ish)

 

[Count Pikey]

I'll be riding over, be at the Swan 12.30 (ish)

Excellent, I will see you there, hopefully the other boys will be joining us.

 

[GSTraveller]

I'll be there forthwith. Departing 1115hrs, ETA 1230. It's a bit fresh out there boys!

 

[Count Pikey]

Just spoke with Mark and we will be there around 12:30 hundred hours.

 

[Bazzer66]

Yep, just rolling out the bike, will hook up with Count Pikey and get there for 1234! I'm solo, SWMBO decided shopping was likely to be more enjoyable than listening to us talk bollix!
Bazzer

 

[Count Pikey]

Is Mr Neavy still in bed??

 

[Neavey]

Is Mr Neavy still in bed??

On my way now, thought I was going to be relegated to the car as some tosser had parked right in front of my garage. Couldn't get the doors open, managed to track him down though.

 

[dubster]

I'm coming on my GSA, not literally I must add.

Locals will be relieved

Any team riding with stupidly sized bikes (1150/1200) and still looking for a team member please be in touch

 

[GSTraveller]

Locals will be relieved

Any team riding with stupidly sized bikes (1150/1200) and still looking for a team member please be in touch

Next week we will know if our fifth and final member can make it (technically I'm the fifth, but I'm definitely going!). Fingers crossed he can but I'm sure there will be plenty of other teams you can join in any case plus you can tag along with us after if you fancy it. If you PM one of us your email address we can add you to our distribution list if you like.

Anyway, it was good seeing the boys earlier for one final time before the big off. I'll post up the picture. See you boys in Espania!!

Pete

 

[Count Pikey]

Great ride today, weather wasn't to bad either, just a thought though, we went all that way and you never looked over the bridge to see the trout. See you guys in Ifrane, hope it all goes well for you.

Had a problem coming back, as I was battling to get past an old lorry the gearbox exploded and all I had to fix it was a plastic spoon, which was in the pot noodle case by the way and a pair of woman's tights, god knows what they were doing in my back box, anyway I completely striped the gearbox and found that many of the gears had sheared. Luckily I saw a young chap playing with one of those diabolo thingy's so using the cone from the toy I managed to temporary convert the gearbox into a variomatic by levering the cone onto the main shaft using the plastic spoon, I then tied the pair of tights around the cone to form a loop between the shafts. Worked really well as the engine speed increased the tights worked their way up the side of the cone hence increasing the gear ratio, it worked a treat.

See all you guys in the mountains, can't wait to see the monkeys.

 

[GSTraveller]

Great ride today, weather wasn't to bad either, just a thought though, we went all that way and you never looked over the bridge to see the trout. See you guys in Ifrane, hope it all goes well for you.

Had a problem coming back, as I was battling to get past an old lorry the gearbox exploded and all I had to fix it was a plastic spoon, which was in the pot noodle case by the way and a pair of woman's tights, god knows what they were doing in my back box, anyway I completely striped the gearbox and found that many of the gears had sheared. Luckily I saw a young chap playing with one of those diabolo thingy's so using the cone from the toy I managed to temporary convert the gearbox into a variomatic by levering the cone onto the main shaft using the plastic spoon, I then tied the pair of tights around the cone to form a loop between the shafts. Worked really well as the engine speed increased the tights worked their way up the side of the cone hence increasing the gear ratio, it worked a treat.

See all you guys in the mountains, can't wait to see the monkeys.

Pikey you're a genius. No wonder you're already a Blue Peter badge winner!!

Pic from earlier:

 

[GSTraveller]

Pic from the other day (Stonehenge):

 

[BAKERMAN]

Sunny today here in Mijas, rained hard yesterday afternoon, 2-5 think that could have been rain you were talking about, have a great trip tell us about HUMM event please at hograost, oh friends never rust means , you will all still stick together even if its raining.

 

[Count Pikey]

I know I won't be officially part of your group but can I have a sticker please, Wrong Direction, I thought they looked very good. Have you any spare ones?

 

[Neavey]

Of course, we have spare, so remind me next time we meet up.


Regards,

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Patrick