18/06/16 Normandy

[Liam]

Me and Rach made it back ok.( Despite someone coming down the dual carriageway the wrong way towards us near Dieppe)
The others were booked on the Mary Celeste

[pikey]

I've been worried Liam glad your back OK is Frank OK

[horobags]

portsmouth to manchester in 4 hours, I was home at 11.30pm. Im sure pics will be put up later. 'It were a right laugh'

[Alanzzg]

A BIG thanks to you all for making this another great trip , Yes it rained every bloody day but we still had a laugh ,


I think these helped

[victor]

A great time had, some really good belly laughs,Big Tony's life stories.
I got home at 2100hrs last night, i decided to hit it home before getting caught in weather.
A big thank you to ZoomZoom Grandad for organising this run, we all now know who went on the trip what a nightmare it was trying to organise this trip.

[horobags]

+1. thanks Alan.

[syntec4]

Here goes.... are you ready?

[syntec4]

The Ugly Bunch Normandy Invasion



We set off on Friday morning. Calling in at the Raven for breakfast on the way. Horobags and Bullet had got some cheap BT headsets from flabby. They spent about 10 minutes shouting ‘can you hear me now?’ at each other much to the amusement of the other patrons.



We had and fantastic ride down through Shropshire and turning inland towards the Cotswolds where we stopped for lunch at Buford. It was really great weather.



My NEXX XD1 keeping me fairly cool.




The roads were hot and grippy.



Heading towards Salisbury







Stow on the Wold was packed




We managed to stay as a group mostly. Some filtering was needed.



This is Burford



The bikes parked up in Burford




Bullet on his Crosstourer with custom graphics.



We did catch a little rain for a minute but it soon passed and we dried out in no time as it was so hot.



We got separated in heavy traffic in Salisbury which we hit at rush hour. I spent some time in a lay-by while the other caught up.





On the way in to Portsmouth we were about to get a bit wet.





Whats that up ahead. Clouds?



Lets all stop and get wet gear on then.



Good decision, but it’s about to get a bit worse.



Faaaack.





Mark pretending he’s having a good time.



We stopped under a Motorway bridge as it was getting dangerous. Another rider going the other way on an R1 did the same.



Still having a laugh though.









At least the pinloc was working….



5 Miles down the road it had stopped.



We stayed at the travel lodge in Portsmouth for the night. Sooty had a dry out on the Window cill.



Day 1 ended in a predictable fashion with Colin and Frank heading for bed around 11pm. Myself Horrobags and Bullet headed for the pub opposite and watched a covers band while having a nightcap Or Ten….

[Deleted User 4154]

+1. thanks Alan.

Yes indeed. Great to see everyone, hope my ancient scooter and I didn't slow you all down too much!

My ride home ended on the A1, about 125 miles from home, when the plugged (thanks Lee) and subsequently Tyre Welded rear tyre decided it had had enough in a fairly scary sudden deflation situation. Got home in a truck at about half midnight

[eric1789uk]

The Doncaster chapter arrived home noonish today after drinking and sleeping from our stream to Portsmouth on the overnight ferry. 820 miles done with no incidents (only just though eh Tony)
Thanks again zoomer, Mrs F sez I can go next year