Hallo zusammen,
the planning of our big ride is getting more concrete.

We have requested at our working-places the time 2011.05.23 - 2011.06.13.

And I have bought the only book, which I have found about english riding-routes:

http://www.amazon.com/Road-Riders-Guide ... 957&sr=8-1

OK....

I think (today), we will start our landfall in Folkestone.

Than we will ride to the west, maybe through Wales, north to the lake-district and than south back through the middle of the island to Folkestone.

British events, I have found at ukbeb:

June 3rd to 5th: UKBEG Cumbria or Scotland Weekend
June 5th: West Country Cheddar Rumble
June 10th to 12th: UKBEG @ Moto GP Silverstone

Want do you think?

Greetings,
Pascal

sounds good hope the weather is enjoy

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Sun is not important.
My girlfriend hates tents. Therefore we will sleep in B&B-places.
So the clothes can dry every night.
And I enjoy riding in rain (earnest ).

Hi Pascal

The Cumbria or Scotland weekend, June 3rd to 5th, is still to be confirmed.

The West Country Meet, June 5th, will definitely go ahead.

UKBEG @ Moto GP, June 10th to 12th, will be based around camping. You might be lucky enough to find B&B accommodation near to Silverstone but it tends to get booked up very early.

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hi pascal,

enjoy your trip thru the UK. looking at your holiday dates and seeing you might like to pass thru wales :-

The Welsh International Motorcycle Show on 27-29 May 2011 @ Builth Wells, Powys, Wales.

From Builth there is a lovely short ride that shows of the beauty of wild wales, if you are ever in that part of the world i recommend you try this route:-

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&sourc ... 45447&z=11

and then head north through snowdonia national park before making your way back to england.

good luck and have fun

ant

It's a good run that I live about 40 miles from the showground. If you fancy a meal and some free camping, you could stay at my place before you travel there and I could show you the best routes through Snowdonia in N.Wales.

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Hi Pascal,

Wann du in der Nähe bist.... (Reading/Basingstoke, close to the M3) let us now. Our door is always open. Vielleicht kanst du uns Currywürst und Haribo's mit nehmen!!

Viel spass mit das planen ihre Ferien.

Tjussie!

Dörske & Mich

@Ant:
That really looks like a good track. I have put it on my list of interesting roadways!

@Adam:
Everybody who is talking about meals is my friend!

@Dörske & Mich:
Sure I can bring you a small pack of sweeties from Hans Riegel in Bonn.
I stilll not have packed my saddlebags. But I think This place should be.
But which one do you like? They have tons of different sweeties there.

@all:
As a matter of course I would be happy, if I can meet all of you and visit all of you at home. But I think, that will be a little bit fiddly in this short time on your Isle. Easiest would be, if you can send me your coordinates per E-Mail. So I can put them in my Garmin. And if we are riding through your neighbourhood I can give you a call. What do you think?

My main problem/challenge today is, that my girlfriend is more interested in beauty/interesting/nice places, than at the roads between them. Yesterday she got a new book about Great Britain. And there she had read, that Wales is not interesting only England has nice places... don't ask me, who has written this book...

But I think, our trip will be a mix between Motorcyle-riding and sightseeing (only question is the ratio of mixture).

Anyway: If you want to have a meeting with us, here is my E-mail-address for gps-coordinates: da_freamda(at)yahoo.de

Tell her the book is bollocks - in basic terms, draw the Tees-Exe line** on a map of the UK - everywhere to the North & West is interesting, the rest is mostly shite.

**(River Tees - Middlesbrough - River Exe - Exeter/Exmouth)

Wales is full of very strange people, but fabulous scenery (and roads )

Cumbria and Scotland even more so.

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What?

Gnahh!!! da_fraemda(at)yahoo.de of cause!

@Digger: Yes, Scotland is really nice. That was our 3-weeks-trip four years ago.
The best was the guy at the filling-station. On every price he had written: "Don't blame me. Blame Gordon."

And Cumbria is the number one on my must-visit-list for this year. The lake-district is in Cumbria, or isn't it?

Some of us older types still refer to it as Cumberland and Westmorland
I wouldn't bother if I were you. You'd get the same effect taking your bike through a car wash.

Don't take too much notice of wot Digger said, there's plenty of lovely areas/roads to the east of the Tees/Exe line.
Just avoid the big cities.

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Grrr... so ein Mist.

My boss have deprecated my holiday-petition.

So I have now a new termin for the trip:

2011.09.27-2011.10.14

Now I must look for events September-October...

hmm... today it's looking not good. I have only found the Copdock Show in Ipswich.

Cadwell Park and Snetterton....... www.crmc.co.uk

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