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A wonderful days riding today, even had the America out and I think every person who owned a bike in the Fylde Coast must have been out today. Went through to Glasson Dock (Bacon Butty eh Funkletrumpet) then through to Caton (Bull Beck) then on up to Hawes and then stopped at the Bridge (Kirby Lonsdale) everywhere was heaving and you were sat at the side of the road waiting for a bike to go before you could park up..
So anyone else had a good day??
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Hope everyone is sitting down .... I got out too on the America!!!  It was dry so no bubberdybubberdy at all. Weather was suprisingly mild (considering it was only supposed to be 12 degrees). Stopped for a greasy spoon sos & bacon butty and a cuppa. Managed a couple of hours out before coming home to get on with some work. As you say, lots of bikes out down here too. I managed to have two near misses before I'd even got into town ... that's four miles away - I LOVE mini cabs, don't you? THEY'RE ALL WANKERS!!!!!
"You can't believe everything you read on the internet" : William Shakespeare
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That is fantastic. I am headed out myself in a few minutes. It is windy, but 70 ish degrees and no bloody humidity. Think I will go for some Indian food. My favorite.  Ride safe y'all.
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That is fantastic. I am headed out myself in a few minutes. It is windy, but 70 ish degrees and no bloody humidity. Think I will go for some Indian food. My favorite.
Ride safe y'all.
Wait up Ryan!
I can be there in, say, 11 hours ....
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Hey forgot to mention also pulled a pocket rocket out of the hedges on the back roads leading to Caton, he was alright, just his pride I think more than anything, said he had braked but the road is so smooth on the bend, he said it did not grip, at the speed he come past me no tyre gonna grip 
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I just made over 100 miles 
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Lucky....wind chill -20 in Central IL today.
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Me too... Went to the Bristol Classic Bike Show today.. put about 120 miles on... nice day
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Me too... Went to the Bristol Classic Bike Show today.. put about 120 miles on... nice day
Bloody he||...guess were I was all weekend...
Couldn't ride down there though, still not allowed. But just thought what a gorgeous weekend it was and wish I could have ridden.... 
Gina
03 America - Pretty stock - except the TBS wheel... 
06 America - missing, presumed in bits. With it's TBS wheel... 
09 America - It's very blue....
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Its in the 70s (farenheit) in south Mississippi USA. Bikes out in droves yesterday and today. Put about 150 miles on the TBA yesterday with Fatrat on his FLR. Gonna slap some lub on the chain and head out again a little later today. Yeah! Baby, Yeah!!! 
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Poor start to the day up north......very damp and misty Saturday was a good day though....lets hope there’s plenty more good days to come. 
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lets hope there’s plenty more good days to come.
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Firstly, Hi to everyone on here as this is my first post on here (so please go easy as i'm a fragile sort of person.)
What a great weekend! I wished i'd planned it a bit better but it was a treat going out on the speedmaster in the sun with my missus for a few hours with no real aim of getting anywhere quick and just riding for the ****** of it.
Mind you, judging by the amount of bikes out there today I think most of the UK had the same idea.
Before the war on terror, if I saw an unattended package I used to think "I'll be having that!"
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Buncha braggards. I have been without my bike for almost 3 weeks now. Still waiting for apes and cables. I did see a dead deer on the beach today.
pain is temporary, pride is forever.
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Firstly, Hi to everyone on here as this is my first post on here (so please go easy as i'm a fragile sort of person.)
What a great weekend! I wished i'd planned it a bit better but it was a treat going out on the speedmaster in the sun with my missus for a few hours with no real aim of getting anywhere quick and just riding for the ****** of it.
Mind you, judging by the amount of bikes out there today I think most of the UK had the same idea.
Good on ya, Graham and welcome to the family, whereabouts are you in the UK and are you joining us on the run and camp at DENT. Clicky
Go to the lat post on there about page 8 or so for info
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welcome stretchermonkey so your in my neck of the wooods. I run an african /caribbean/veg food stall on the market in the city . you got out for a few hours then . So how many roundabouts you did you go round then before you gave up and went home  Takes me that long to get out'y that place  got out myself for short run also felt great today.  cheers geoff black tba 2003
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Hey thanks for that everyone... ive just got back from a 14 hour day at work And welcome to all the new UK members.. Dave
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Ray,
I just posted about the run and camp at Dent. Very interested but need to get some leave approved before I can say yay or nay.
Geoff,
I negotiated the roundabouts beautifully in Milton Keynes before the car driving public made their weekly pilgrimage to the temple of B&Q and Ikea.
I managed to get out on the A5 up towards Hinkley, back down to Warwick, we had some lunch and headed home. All in all about 120 miles. Not exactly the "long way round" but a bit of a bonus to get out in the sun in February.
Anyhow thanks for the welcome folks.
Before the war on terror, if I saw an unattended package I used to think "I'll be having that!"
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Small world, I wasn't a million miles from Hinkley myself this afternoon.
Who'd have thunk, 1/3rd of the way through Feb and half the bikes in the country were out and about.
Global warming? Bring it on!!
He||, I'll be long dead before the webbed feet folk of East Anglia are under water.
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Small world, I wasn't a million miles from Hinkley myself this afternoon.
Who'd have thunk, 1/3rd of the way through Feb and half the bikes in the country were out and about.
Global warming? Bring it on!!
He||, I'll be long dead before the webbed feet folk of East Anglia are under water.
And don't forget with the gas and electric companies putting up their prices, the global warming might actually allow OAP's to afford to eat in the winter.
Before the war on terror, if I saw an unattended package I used to think "I'll be having that!"
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Ray,
I just posted about the run and camp at Dent. Very interested but need to get some leave approved before I can say yay or nay
That's good news Graham, hope you can make it to the meet as we all have one thing in common on here and that is our Triumph's.
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Welcome Graham, see you at Dent. We had weather over here as well, I had a little run over to a friends house, he has a Harley, but it was up on a stand,  so off I went on my own. I got to try out my Davida helmet and tinted safety glasses from work. quite comfie and my big nose was not as cold as I thought it would be . 
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Sunday first club run of the year 10 bikes 14 members. Dry day roads clear. A short run about a 100 miles through some of the best scenery with some good company. Sometimes life is good.
Meeting up at the Pub
Overlooking the Naval base
Looks dull but it was dry
Gotta get those pictures
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Didn't see you at the Bridge Ray,
I've not seen that many people there in ages. A half hour queue at the Butty Van in February he must have thought it was Christmas.
Had a pleasant hour sat outside the Ship in Caton watching all the bikes go past, better than watching the telly.
Hope its fine next week, fat chance,
Cheers
Chris
All the best
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Hi Chris
Yep I passed on a brew at the bridge, the queue was bad, also met a guy up there on another America, who said he would turn up for the weekend, told him we would probably just have run to the bridge on Sunday morning, before everybody who has just booked the Saturday night disappears home. will give you a tinkle if i'm up that way next weekend and the weather is as good
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It's a beautiful day in the Ozarks (southern Missouri), too. 30 degrees (F), freezing rain, about a half inch of ice on everything with more of the same tonight. Thank goodness no tornados in the forcast!
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nice pics Eric , love the pub shot , Belhaven and Triumphs a fine match(that works for 70 shillin too  ).Triumphs and lochs. och yir makin this cassamulk boy hamesic .
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Yep I passed on a brew ..
Feel ... faint ... must ... sit ... dow.... *thump*
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Hi Chris
Yep I passed on a brew at the bridge, the queue was bad, also met a guy up there on another America, who said he would turn up for the weekend, told him we would probably just have run to the bridge on Sunday morning, before everybody who has just booked the Saturday night disappears home. will give you a tinkle if i'm up that way next weekend and the weather is as good
sunday looks good on the forecast
Cheers
Chris
All the best
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another good weekend mates I've done 563 miles
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