I would like to thank everyone that braved the very wet weather on Friday to get to this meeting.

The rain stopped around 6pm on friday evening ,

once everyone had their tent's up it was off to the Pub for a few pint's

Waking on saturday morning to clear sky and mist in the Valley was a good sign.

The 3 group's were all ready to leave just after 8am.

Basils group were the first on the the lanes. while Dazzers groupe along with craig and nicks group rode a few miles down the Valley to Burnsal for a Full english breakfast.

My group left Burnsal just after 9am to start our long days riding.

we would be the first to come to the river crossings ,which after all the rain we had had in the last 24 hours would be running high.

lucky for us we had dazco in our group who came forward to volunteer to test how deep the crossing would be...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noFRh1KexeA

we found the first few hours hard going on the narrow slippy lanes.
By 10am the sun was out.

We called in to Masham for lunch before we took on Red Lane.

on our way over Kidstones we came across 3 KTM riders one of which had had a bad fall and required medical help and the hellicopter was on it's way.
I waited till that arrived then rode on to catch the rest of our group up.

Deb's and Ian were behind us on their bmw outfit, which worked out well,as Debs offered to ride the injured riders KTM to our campsite so that it could be collected later in the evening.

Thankfully all our riders returned in one piece .

later that night in the Pub as more was consumed the river crossing got deeper and the slow speed off's became high speed crashes

The owner of the campsite would only take £2 per night for the camping so on saturday night the rest of the money along with the £20 the KTM rides left for the helpers to have a drink with were all put in the Air Ambulance Collection box.

I was in my sleeping bag at 10pm { Iam getting old you know } I did hear that crusty was still partying till 5am

Hope everone had a great time and thank you all once again.

photo will be posted soon.
YouTube - VID00001

more photos and Vids here

http://www.bmwgs.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=1538&start=45

Dazzer

Excellent weekend - even with the rain all the way there and all the way back! At least the sun shone for the Saturday rideouts.

Great to catch up with friends and made a few new ones along the way.

Cracking video footage of Dazco in the river.

Big thanks to Darren for sharing his knowledge (and lending us his marked up map) so the outifts could go play at our own pace.

Thanks to everyone involved in organising the weekend - roll on the next one!

Iain & Debz

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It was excellent to catch up with people. Shame I had to work Sat morning so couldn't do the ride out. Many thanks to Iain for taking me for a spin in the outfit. My first time steering a sidecar and the first time since 2002 on a r100gs . It was great

cheers
Chris

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Cheers Dazza and the other leeders, tailenders, Had a crackin weekend(if not a little wet)
Had a great ride back on the Sat afternoon with the sidecar crew.
Hopefully ill not be leeving it as long next time , i need more practice.
Nice to meet all the peops off here, great bunch.
See ya soon Daz

Big Thank You to Darren for organising such a great weekend, and to Graig,Nick & SteveD for leading/tailending such a fun run on the Saturday

It was great to catch up with some old friends and to see some new faces, I'm sure we will see again, chug.gif" border="0" alt="" title="chug" smilieid="249" class="inlineimg" /> cheers to everyone chug.gif" border="0" alt="" title="chug" smilieid="249" class="inlineimg" />

Brian

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Britch's Holidays Dreaming of the BIG one :-)

oop's what happened there!

here are the few pics I took

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Britch's Holidays Dreaming of the BIG one :-)

Thanks to everyone who had a part in organising this, and leading the rideouts. First HU meet for me, and first try out of the F800GS. Great weekend, be back for more.

Cheerschug MikeM

Echoing everyone else, many thanks Dazzer and all who put time and effort in to a great days riding and a grand weekend, I've nearly stopped aching! Must get more exercise. Cheers Dean

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Well, dead chuffed I'd managed to post photos, seems I need practice at that as well..........

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Just to say thanks to everyone involved in organising the past weekend. It was my first ride out but definately not my last, maybe something lighter next time and a crack at a harder route? The ride on Saturday was well organised and pitched perfectly for me as a novice, the weather could have been better but the company could not. look forward to the next one.....
Ride Safe
Graham

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