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