Touring weekend anyone?

Looks rubbish .. so glad i couldnt make it now 😉

stumpy_m4 – Member
Looks rubbish .. so glad i couldnt make it now

Yeah, looks bleak.

We struggled with the relentless beating sun,not a cloud in the sky 😀

Huge thanks to the Grizzly Bear Wrestling Champion of Wakefield for organizing this weekend.

It was great to meet and share the trails with other Whiney Cockbags.

If Carlsberg did ‘last ten miles’ they’d be hard pressed to compete with ours.

Anger management award of the weekend is surely Junkyard’s. We went for supper in an Indian Restaurant, whose proprietor struggled to grasp the concept of Veganism. ‘If I give you a dish of vegetables and chicken, you can just eat the vegetables, can’t you?”

IMG_20150418_151122253_HDR by piemonster[/url], on Flickr

Grim stuff

I’ve got a sore bum & I slept in the same room as Ton, Bustaspoke & Aracer.

Just saying.

👿

Fantastic couple of days… that totally justified my Shand Stoater.

Have uploaded all my pics to this dropbox folder: pics are here

Will attempt to get them on flickr too.

Great company, some wonderful 2 wheeled (and one wheeled) machines, and some fantastic places to ride bikes….

#RedCAR

Some amazing pics, keep em coming and whens the next adventure Ton ?

it was horrible……….. 8)

it was horrible………..

It was worse than horrible. The sun was out, I ate toasties, drank some beer, met some pretty good gadgies, had a mediocre Indian meal, ate some awesome prawns, rode 90 miles on a fairly cheap road (?) bike which performed flawlessly even with 23c tyres on.
I’m not doing that again till next time. 😉

Stooo, this alone is surely worth a favourable discount on a second Shand.

They may take our socks, but they’ll never take our freeeeeedommmm!

More here:http://s11.photobucket.com/user/midlifecrashes/slideshow/NewtonStewartApril2015

Many thanks for the weekend and in particular my greatest of thanks to

Ton for organising
The person who booked the weather
Colin for the hovercraft display
Stoo for the bike – I will e-mail you
Kiroughtree for not killing me – it was fantastic it will get another visit
Mcmooter for suggesting that in the real world I am calm … you get used to it but he did ask me about chicken about 5 times 🙄
Just read about your sister as well….sorry to hear about that.

It really was great to meet you all and a fantastic weekend.
Its always nice to put faces to names and see that despite all the bickering on here we are all rather normal and civilised in the real world…..even TJ.

Now who can photoshop him out of all the pics 😀

I think Ton should do one every year and hope to see you all there

#PUNCTURE

Amusing as can be but i think you had to be there 😆

The internet seems to auto pixelate him out
17201110972_e922e2448f_o by piemonster[/url], on Flickr

😆

If you look on Google street view is his whole house blurred out too?

Great weekend, thanks to Ton for doing the work, looking forward to the next one now

Fantastic work 😆

there pie monsters whose physique did not live up to his name

You are no competition to Binners in this respect

Some no’ very good pics (knackered cam aswell as a lack of skill) of the weekend plus a few vids from dalbeattie.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rh78nifgrb6oo53/AAAYv8su9_6a3U-BhMYaivxMa?dl=0

Big thanks to Ton for arranging and everyone else there for making it such a fun weekend. We lucked out big time with the weather too 🙂

Sorry for being antisocial buggers and disappearing on sunday, kirkcudree* was a lot of fun tho, best trail centre I’ve visited. I’d definitely be interested in another trip next year.

*as I think the angry barman called it

Looks ace. Quite disappointed to have missed it but think it was for the best given how Mrs NBT is doing at the moment

She did not have to come 😉

DONK is corret KT was awesome and will get a return visit some brilliant sections and I dont really like trail centres

Dalbeattie……well I have finally stopped moaning about death by fire road and singletrack undulation.

As this is technically Mrs NBT’s hobby (she got me into it), my attendance without her would be subject to much negotiation and while possible in certain circumstances would be unlikely to happen on a weekend covering both her and my birthdays

next time though…

Looks great by next time I’ll actually own a bike so if it happens when im not at work im in 😉

Has anyone got a gpx of the routes you rode , gutted as couldnt make it but may try and get up there later in the year and see if the wifey fancies making a weekend of it 🙂

A wee photo journal for you, of my fave photots, that I took.

Touring weekend photo blog

Just back from 300 miles round the Borders by borrowed VFR so just a quick post.

As, I suppose, a host native, it was good of me to attract all the punctures so the visitors didn’t have to suffer(except Ton unfortunately). On which point would one half of Team Norfolk please contact me by PM (I’m hopeless at remembering names, sorry).

And big thanks to Tony for organising and to Essel for letting me know about it during discussion of our outing in a fortnight.

If you want more cycling in Dumfries I can recommend the KM – Google KM Rally 2015 for details as I can’t link using this tablet. Did someone mention tablet? You can Google that too and, if you’ve room to park the sugar delivery truck, can try making it.

I will have a GPX but i only rode Saturday

There were lots of garmins there so folk must have the,

Stooo e-mailed re bike

Just want to say thanks to Ton for organising the weekend,it was good to meet fellow forumites and a erm exforumite…For a bunch of blokes who I met on this internet forum you’re all surpringly normal!!
Also thanks to Colin for bringing beer & doing the navigating.
I’ll be looking forward to the next one,we just need to get the weather gods to supply the sunshine again 😀

Great weekend. Thanks to:

Ton for the idea and for organising it.
Everyone else for showing up and contributing to the banter.
The Royal Marines for providing the Saturday lunchtime show.
Sunna for the weather.
Junkyard for the angry man show in the restaurant and then the pub.
TJ for the company on the drive and for sharing fuel costs.
Esselgruntfuttock for an admirable display of inappropriate equipment.
Stooo and Aracer for the high-speed tow back to the hostel on Sunday

flickr album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/druidh2000/sets/72157652078160151/

GPX Route – Day 1 http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/636593116
GPX Route – Day 2 http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/636596886 (though we took a wee shortcut)

Biggest disappointment: bringing 24 bottles of beer along for all to share and having 8 to take home again 😕

Hi, yes thanks Ton, top weekend.
Great riding, cafe stops, good company and great scenery – almost as good as the Norfolk Alps.
Hope to ride with you all again sometime, cheers 😀

Stooo and Aracer for the high-speed tow back to the hostel on Sunday

I’m not sure that had much to do with me – spent much of the time desperately hanging on!

Don’t think I’ve much to add, what an awesome weekend made up of great riding, great company and great weather, which was well worth the drive.

and more of my pictures at http://imgur.com/a/uFxrx

Junkyard for the angry man show in the restaurant and then the pub.

Are we using your rule of the Internet or TJ’s ?

Depressing reading this. Looks fab

@aracer
A nice collection of ‘pictures of people taking pictures’ there.
😀

Look folks – moving pictures!!!

Little people… on bikes… inside my computer…. it’s witchcraft I tell thee.

Little people… on bikes… inside my computer…. it’s witchcraft I tell thee.

& we couldn’t do it without electrickery!

Come on Ton, get ya finger out, When’s the next one?

The Directors Cut

Note the tidy group riding and excellent road positioning

8)

Colin,thanks for posting 😀
We’ll be lucky to get weather as good as that on the next one…
I’ve just realised the ‘Adventure cross’ series has a event based around Kirroughtree,
http://bookmyride.ipcshop.co.uk/shop/adventure-x/galloway-gallop-adventure-cross-2015
Anyone else interested?