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Horizons Unlimited Meeting Original September 8-10 2023
It’s back! Same site! Different weekend! Same formula!
Location: The Miners Standard Bank Top Winster Matlock Derbyshire DE4 2DR 8-10 September 2023 There’s no entrance fee... that’s the good bit… but there’s also nothing organised! This is a small friendly meeting designed to meet folks and get talking! Everyone is welcome be it caravan/RV or tent. There is no function room but we can use the restaurant outside meal times. I have provisionally made a dinner booking for all of us on Saturday night at 7.00pm. Winster is an old mining village and worth a walk around, and of course it’s set in the wonderful Peak District. There’s shops and pubs in walking distance. The pub is open all day. Good food available. Camping is behind the pub. It’s £7.00 per person payable at the bar on arrival. It doesn’t matter if you’re in a motor home or tent all are welcome and it’s still £7.00 per person. There is no electric available in the campsite. Showers and toilets are open 24 hours. There is a £1.00 charge for the showers. Dietary requirements and camping facility (there aren’t many) questions should be made directly to the pub. Best to phone them and not rely on them emailing you... Anything else you can PM me Please let me know if you’re planning on dining in the restaurant Saturday night. Real ale available at the bar... there’s not much of a phone signal anywhere and none at all in the pub… and the pub doesn’t have Wi-Fi Oh yeh and this is the village in Derbyshire and not the one somewhere in Cumbria… I (Glynn) shall be there from the Friday till Sunday morning rain or shine. I expect most to show up during Saturday either for the day or night and hopefully dinner! Please help spread the word….. Hope you can come! Glynn Roberts |
I hope to be there broken ribs permitting and it looks like the weather should have perked up by then as well.
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The driver has reported it to their insurance who have agreed to pay for the damage to the bike and we will see later about personal injury, I do not know yet if plod are going to throw the book at her for due care and attention but with the highway code revisions last year it has to be a possibility. |
Sorry to hear that Mark. I hope your ribs recover soon but when I did mine last year (tripped on tree roots in a running race) it was 8-9 months before the last vestiges went. I was back on my feet in a couple of weeks but they hurt on exercise for quite some time. I think if you venture onto the roads in any pedestrian form - cycling obviously but running / walking also, it's just a matter of time. Hardly a day goes by for me without without somebody 'misjudging' the space they give me when overtaking.
Actually I don't think they genuinely misjudge it very often. Maybe your lady did but usually either they don't care or there's some kind of 'teach you a lesson' aggression going on. The last two times (both this week) for that sort of thing for me were one by a bicycle when I was running on a quiet road in the Cotswolds. The road was empty but he still came by close enough to brush my shoulder. The second was on my vintage Yamaha where a bloke came past on an empty dual carriageway still in my lane. That was a BMW, but not a car - a loaded up GS. That was another miss by an inch. That's two in a week but it's every week. I guess the police will come to some decision in your case but I'd have thought a claim for personal injury would be straightforward (or as straightforward as these things ever are) if she's prosecuted. |
Saturday night meal
Sign us up for two for the Saturday night meal. We will also be tent camping for the night.:mchappy:bier
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I think we might come in on Friday night to camp and explore some of the Peaks district on Saturday.
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Update!
The weather is looking grrreat!
I’m still waiting for a few of you to email me your choice of meal for the Saturday night. PM me if you prefer. I shall be there from Friday lunchtime, but you can turn up anytime, it’s a campsite most of the year round. If you’re still thinking about coming but think you won't know anyone, don’t worry! Most of the folk showing up are solo, we’re a friendly bunch! Folk from USA, Devon and Long Eaton…. Hope you can come! https://minerswinster.wixsite.com/home |
Raffle
We’d like to hold a raffle again to raise some funds for the website/charity.
We have nothing and I know how difficult it is to find prizes. It would be great if you could look behind the telly and bring along some bike related DVD’s you no longer need to be raffled off. :D Or anything else??? bier Thankyou soooo much! See you soon! Glynn |
Horizons Mini Meet Original - Derbyshire 8-10 September 2023
In response to my plea for raffle prizes, Jo from Moto Jo’s Cafe has very kindly donated!
A long time supporter of Horizons she’s answered the call with a voucher for twenty quids of cake/meals….:clap: Gotta be worth a visit! Glynn http://www.littlegreendragon.co.uk/ |
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Unfortunately I became I'll and won't be able to make the event tonight. Have fun, everyone.
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A great weekend with nice weather and people, thanks to Glynn for organising and I hope to get there again one day.
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As I am down the road just 15 miles and I am away on Tuesday to go the the HU France meeting I just went up in the evening for a chat and a meal. It was good to be able to put together some faces and names. There was good conversation and when I was walking off at the end of the evening I was talking to Liam- the youngest person there by some years - and we both felt that there was not too much to be feared about going on the road and travelling. A big thank you to Glynn for organising us and for initiating the event. Thank you. |
Having been at the Miners Standard with another event I'd just like to say what obnoxious entitled knobheads this group presented themselves as.
Noisy, shouting and running about by the toilets at 1.30 AM. Cramming tents in on top of ones already there to the point guy ropes were crossed, regardless of if people were part of their group. Panhandling of schemes to "sponsor" their holidays. Needless to say the HU brand has been damaged. If this was an official event @Grant might want to discuss this feedback with the organisers, but needless to say my time on here is now done. :( Andy |
Threwheelbonnie. - You are mixing us up with another group.
Not a single sentence you have written is true of anyone attending under the H.U. banner. I can personally vouch for all but one on the Saturday night (and Friday). Please delete/amend your post and apologise to all. Thankyou Glynn Roberts Sole host and organiser of the Meeting. |
I have had other reports, and I don't think it was our people causing the late night issues.
An email from one of our attendees in response to Threewheelbonnie's comment in a PM to me: "I don't have a clue what this bloke is on about but there were three separate groups of motorcyclists in the campsite and two other groups of party people who were playing music until 4am... I don't recognise anything that he describes as coming from us unless I missed something."Glynn also said to me: "I don’t know who he is or where he camped. It certainly wasn’t us! And anyway we were all in bed by 11pm!"We have been running events since the first one in the UK in 2001, in a multitude of countries, somewhere around 200 of them, and have NEVER had any issues remotely like this. In all those years, the worst would have been the one guy who got a little rowdy (but not remotely in the league of what you're talking about, I know, I was there), and was put to bed by our people at around midnight. He had been dragged there by a friend and had no interest in what we are about, so partied too hard. He was convinced to leave in the morning, very embarrassed. ONE venue has suggested they wouldn't have us back - not because we're a problem, but because we didn't drink enough and they made much more money from a wedding where everyone drinks a lot and gets hammered. So no, it doesn't sound like our people at all. And given there were 5 other groups, 2 of them there only to party, I don't believe for a second it was us. When ask us about our events, we tell them clearly, it's not a big booze-up, it's not a party, we don't have loud bands and wet t-shirt contests or burnout competitions - it's more like a conference for travellers - most people don't even get on their bikes again until it's time to leave. It's all about inspiration, information, learning, and connecting with other like-minded people. It's a VERY unusual motorcycle "event", and we've had people who would never again go to a "motorcycle rally" get convinced to come, and love it and come regularly - and it's the ONLY motorcycle event they go to. And by the way, Glynn's comment about everyone being in bed by 11 - yup, although I think 10 is probably more common! Our group was at the Miners once previously, and there were NO issues whatsoever, and they were happy to have us back. For a better idea of what we're about, see https://www.horizonsunlimited.com/about-hu/press for many many very positive articles about us. You can be sure we won't be back to the Miners without assurances from THEM about the quality of the people they seem to have attracted - and possibly allowed far too many. I am very distressed that you had this experience, but I hope you can see your way to lay the blame where it seems to belong. Threewheelbonnie - write me directly to get free entry to ANY HU Event anywhere in the world, so you can see what we're really about. |
After lengthy countrywide discussions with folk from Devon, Manchester, Stoke on Trent, Alfreton and Winster, I now have a clearer idea of what happened…
The hippy bus halfway up the hill on the left played music until around 2pm at which time one our group told them to turn it off which they did. They then sat around being noisy until around 4am. The group halfway up on the right with the sad sporty cars was a stag group of 12+ young lads……. Guilty! I’ve spoken to the landlady at the Miners Standard who has received 1 complaint today. She knows it wasn’t us, was very apologetic and is going to email the person who made the complaint to put the record straight. I pointed out to her that if we were 40 years younger we might have joined in, but with most of our group around 60 years old and some of them owning an MZ for gawds sake…. Sadly those days are long gone….:( |
Good to hear Glynn, and thanks for the sleuthing!
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Have you ever attended a HU event? I'm well into double figures: UK, USA, Germany and Bulgaria: Never have I come across man-children running around in the early hours annoying the locals! From a liveliness point of view, HUBB events just aren't. My most annoying memory at a HUBB event was a PA announcement at a UK event at Baskerville on a Sunday morning at 8am reminding the dozen ladies (out of 500 or so blokes) that the women's breakfast was commencing in 15 minutes. The reply from the multiple hungover blokes making morning cuppas and bacon butties isn't repeatable on a family forum. (Glynn wasn't involved in organising that meeting). Asides: Crossed guylines: Your point is? Had such a situation at Peel at the Isle of Man TT, 15 years ago when some dawk tried to put his tent up between me and my mate. A "what the fcuk do you think you're doing?" question sufficed to persuade him to move himself and his tent elsewhere. People allegedly thinking they're a new self styled influencer wanting "sponsorship": Welcome to the social media age (if they were actually part of Glynn's crew, which I doubt...). Just like touts the world over since the dawn of time, don't make eye contact and ignore or "politely" request they jog on. If camping anywhere, I always carry ear plugs. If you don't like the sounds of the great unwashed on a campsite, best book a hotel room elsewhere with sound proofing. |
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Update!
The meeting went off as planned! The weather excelled itself - far too hot to ride, a humid 30’ in the shade! It was as much as we could do on the Saturday to wander down to the church for some well earned tea and cake! Attendance was a little down but deffo some interesting people and bikes! (And camper vans) A few day visitors and a dozen or so campers made it a very friendly and welcoming meet Hats off to Mark who rode the 230 miles each way on his 125cc, Julia on her Enfield and Phil on his … 1974 MZ 250….. Watch out for dates on next years meet in the New Year! |
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What did you think of the French meeting? I tried to fit in at least a presence at the U.K. one but the timing was just too tight with the other stuff I had to do. |
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So I failed badly - I was running very late when I was packing the bike to leave home and so when I couldn't find my tyre irons I didn't pack any of the tools needed to sort out the bike if I got a puncture - no tyre irons means I can't get to the tube to repair it. Same was true of the camp stove, I couldn't find that either, so no point taking the kettle etc. Just to add to the fun I got another flat on the way to the ferry home on the Sunday - still no tools and had to get recovered (yes, I know, I copped out). I ended up back home 3 days late. Lots of lessons learnt:
EDIT I have just seen your post and review of the French event - I will get there next year I hope. I was sorry to see that it wasn't just me that needed the recovery service, hopefully you are back on the road. |
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