Aprils meeting and ride out

 

Thursday 25th was the first of our combined meeting and ride to evenings, this was at the Portsmouth Arms ( sorry if you rode to Portsmouth looking to join us! ). The weather was dry but a shade cool which necessitated some Guinness to address. There were 8 riders attending with a varied selection of bikes, Andy brought his new Honda which is now running ok with a new stator fitted. As usual the world was put to rights during the round table conversations which included Ian telling us his Harley will come of age next year and my Kawasaki being already 26 years old.

We discussed the manning of the checkpoint here at the Portsmouth Arms this coming Sunday, the checkpoint will be open from 1030 to 1700, if anyone can help by sitting at the checkpoint for a while, John would like to know please.

Next run is Sunday 12th May, meet at the Strawberry fields farm shop Lifton for a 1030 start.

I got wet travelling home from the meeting, as I hadn’t brought an umbrella!.

Exmoor bridges run 140424

 

Ian promised decent weather and it was! Not sure how he does it, maybe he puts up such a tobacco cloud that the rain can’t penetrate, either way it was decent weather all day for this first run of the year, Ian’s Exmoor bridges run. John tells me that 15 riders signed up at the start which was at the Riverside caravan park and after a short delay we were off with Ian leading and John and I bringing up the rear. A right turn out of the park had us heading North Molton and on towards Withypool before turning off to investigate West Anstey and Twtchen common.

Soon we found ourselves negotiating Dulverton which is always busy this time of the year then on to the main road to Minehead. We turned off this road to Winford where a turn marker had left his post which meant 4 of us continuing to the lunch stop a different way leaving Richard waiting for us at the next turn which we never got to, ( sorry Richard! ). Lunch was a leisurely affair at the Winsford cafe then on to Simonsbath and our eventual end of run at the Poltimore Inn turn off.

Many thanks to Ian and all who made this run possible, now we have an evening meet on April 25th at the Portsmouth Arms and this will also be our April club meeting, see you there folks.