Joined Nov 2001
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Ely, England
you know, it would be great if some of you would try and make it a once in a lifetime trip over here to the Uk and europe.
broadly speaking the UK is the best option i feel. besides a few scandos and some germans we have very few continental brethren here. there is a husaberg rally in germany/austria every year but i know little of it.
the one country that is getting rave reviews right now is romania. the place is as cheap as chips and apparently you just keep riding on the compass or dirt tracks.
a bed foir the night is $4 and a meal $3. it's a very poor country though. we do have a new member from romania who could perhaps help us but it seems a bit much when they're newbies.
so back to the UK! the transportation via heathrow, gatwick, manchester and birmingham etc is excellent. we are on the same lattitude as new york state so that's how you've gotr to view it. the whole country is green like new hampshire/new england. we are very, very crowded. we ahve a 60 million in a country the size of most small american states.
i'm going to suggest that if it was left to me to put a holiday together that you would really, really love that you get to the UK and that we get you straight over to trail ride for 4-days in the isle of man during race week.
my itinerary would be for you to fly in and with some machines we've collected to squeeze them into some transit vans etc and get over to 'the island' (as it's known) and rent a house for us all. get a 4 bedder. top n tail a few. get the setee in use and split the costs.
what you get there are days of breathtaking riding in a 25 by 12 mile land that changes every 5 miles. in the middle is snaefell that looks like moorland, the north of the island is dead flat and wild and sparse. the west coast looks like cornwall and the south is rich in beatiful old thatched cottages the way the celts used to live.
i've been there about 20 times.
if you were to come over at the end of august we get good weather, great views but most of all there are three days of roadracing you can watch for free. that's right. free. the famous TT course is raced upon twice per year. the second time is on our 'august bank holiday week'. we all get the monday off here and the date in 2007 is monday august 27th. racing would be on the mon/27, the wed/29 and the fri/31
you literally lean agianst the back of a dry stone wall and they come by you at 170mph. the place is absolutely packed with mature bikers who spend the entire week going from rally to rally on anything from 1903 new hudsons to stuff from today.
this is not the week of donuts, burnouts and rock festivals but a week full of people there for their bikes all aged 30+. it's also not a dirt bike week - just bikes persa. on the 25/26 i expect there will be the manx 2-day trial which is the biggest in europe. about 300 ridesr go over for it and they compete up to late sunday and go home after watching the roadracers on the monday.
what i generally do is to get up and have breakie, pick a route to a place i'd like to watch from and do it as a trail ride to get there. sit, watch a bit of racing and eating ham sandwiches, talk to bikers about their 1946 triumph 350TT etc etc and just soak it all up.
in the races them selves the monday sees a newcomers (first year boys)and the senior manx GP for up to 500s (of course. senior = 500 what else?) these make a fantastic row. amazing! the 350s (junior) and ultra lightweight on the wednesday along with 600 for modern stuff after lunch. friday is lightweight in the morning (250cc/400 4T) and in the afternoon the senior MGP for up to 1000cc.
the racing iss done and dusted by 3.30pm and we all do a little trail ride back to the accomodation or hit a pub on the course somewhere. for those that don't know, the track is a 37 mile lap of the island with 234 corners on it. the average for the winner will be 118mph which is way faster than any other track in the world nowadays. in that lap they have to do 15mph twice!!! and 30mph about 5 times.
the thing is; if about 4 of you were interested. i could sort a house, boat, transport the lot. i'll get it done properly.
you could either get into the airport all hickledypickledy or try and coordinate and then fly straight to the IOM. we meet you there and more time is spent on the island and not lost. or you can hop in the van, see a bit of mainland uk up to the seaport at heysham (marked as morecombe on the map).
there is a guide on the isle of man but i've done them all so....
hell, i might even ask geoff duke himself, mark hodgeson, dougie lampkin or the man and lifelong resident DAVE KNIGHT if he'd meet us!!!! dave lives on the course at sulby bridge which is halfway around.
there are more famous and retired bikers in the IOM than you can shake a stick at i promise.
we have two bike museunms although one is just closing. but we can walk around the paddock, meet the riders who are true amatuers etc and just suck the octane in douglas and then ride away onto a trail etc.
the trails are technical but unlike moab - slippery technical and not 6 foot rockface technical!!!!
i could get machines i trust. might5 not be huseys but you know....WTF who's bean counting here!
what i need are some visual aids of the place. not sure how i'm going to do it.
my flight to the USA return is £340 from the WEST coast. the IOM flight would be a further £100 return. 6 in a house for 5 nights? say £75 each. barely use any fuel just a rear tyre will be shagged.
food is same as the USA although what you get over there - half it here and be expected to empty your plate.
it's a holiday i know that you'd never forget and surely, if that's what life is about then why not?
i reckon i could keep your all in costs down to $1,750. that's all in and still have a good time. through people i know we could eat in, get someone to cook while we're out for the day etc.
well, see what you think lads...
regards
taffy
broadly speaking the UK is the best option i feel. besides a few scandos and some germans we have very few continental brethren here. there is a husaberg rally in germany/austria every year but i know little of it.
the one country that is getting rave reviews right now is romania. the place is as cheap as chips and apparently you just keep riding on the compass or dirt tracks.
a bed foir the night is $4 and a meal $3. it's a very poor country though. we do have a new member from romania who could perhaps help us but it seems a bit much when they're newbies.
so back to the UK! the transportation via heathrow, gatwick, manchester and birmingham etc is excellent. we are on the same lattitude as new york state so that's how you've gotr to view it. the whole country is green like new hampshire/new england. we are very, very crowded. we ahve a 60 million in a country the size of most small american states.
i'm going to suggest that if it was left to me to put a holiday together that you would really, really love that you get to the UK and that we get you straight over to trail ride for 4-days in the isle of man during race week.
my itinerary would be for you to fly in and with some machines we've collected to squeeze them into some transit vans etc and get over to 'the island' (as it's known) and rent a house for us all. get a 4 bedder. top n tail a few. get the setee in use and split the costs.
what you get there are days of breathtaking riding in a 25 by 12 mile land that changes every 5 miles. in the middle is snaefell that looks like moorland, the north of the island is dead flat and wild and sparse. the west coast looks like cornwall and the south is rich in beatiful old thatched cottages the way the celts used to live.
i've been there about 20 times.
if you were to come over at the end of august we get good weather, great views but most of all there are three days of roadracing you can watch for free. that's right. free. the famous TT course is raced upon twice per year. the second time is on our 'august bank holiday week'. we all get the monday off here and the date in 2007 is monday august 27th. racing would be on the mon/27, the wed/29 and the fri/31
you literally lean agianst the back of a dry stone wall and they come by you at 170mph. the place is absolutely packed with mature bikers who spend the entire week going from rally to rally on anything from 1903 new hudsons to stuff from today.
this is not the week of donuts, burnouts and rock festivals but a week full of people there for their bikes all aged 30+. it's also not a dirt bike week - just bikes persa. on the 25/26 i expect there will be the manx 2-day trial which is the biggest in europe. about 300 ridesr go over for it and they compete up to late sunday and go home after watching the roadracers on the monday.
what i generally do is to get up and have breakie, pick a route to a place i'd like to watch from and do it as a trail ride to get there. sit, watch a bit of racing and eating ham sandwiches, talk to bikers about their 1946 triumph 350TT etc etc and just soak it all up.
in the races them selves the monday sees a newcomers (first year boys)and the senior manx GP for up to 500s (of course. senior = 500 what else?) these make a fantastic row. amazing! the 350s (junior) and ultra lightweight on the wednesday along with 600 for modern stuff after lunch. friday is lightweight in the morning (250cc/400 4T) and in the afternoon the senior MGP for up to 1000cc.
the racing iss done and dusted by 3.30pm and we all do a little trail ride back to the accomodation or hit a pub on the course somewhere. for those that don't know, the track is a 37 mile lap of the island with 234 corners on it. the average for the winner will be 118mph which is way faster than any other track in the world nowadays. in that lap they have to do 15mph twice!!! and 30mph about 5 times.
the thing is; if about 4 of you were interested. i could sort a house, boat, transport the lot. i'll get it done properly.
you could either get into the airport all hickledypickledy or try and coordinate and then fly straight to the IOM. we meet you there and more time is spent on the island and not lost. or you can hop in the van, see a bit of mainland uk up to the seaport at heysham (marked as morecombe on the map).
there is a guide on the isle of man but i've done them all so....
hell, i might even ask geoff duke himself, mark hodgeson, dougie lampkin or the man and lifelong resident DAVE KNIGHT if he'd meet us!!!! dave lives on the course at sulby bridge which is halfway around.
there are more famous and retired bikers in the IOM than you can shake a stick at i promise.
we have two bike museunms although one is just closing. but we can walk around the paddock, meet the riders who are true amatuers etc and just suck the octane in douglas and then ride away onto a trail etc.
the trails are technical but unlike moab - slippery technical and not 6 foot rockface technical!!!!
i could get machines i trust. might5 not be huseys but you know....WTF who's bean counting here!
what i need are some visual aids of the place. not sure how i'm going to do it.
my flight to the USA return is £340 from the WEST coast. the IOM flight would be a further £100 return. 6 in a house for 5 nights? say £75 each. barely use any fuel just a rear tyre will be shagged.
food is same as the USA although what you get over there - half it here and be expected to empty your plate.
it's a holiday i know that you'd never forget and surely, if that's what life is about then why not?
i reckon i could keep your all in costs down to $1,750. that's all in and still have a good time. through people i know we could eat in, get someone to cook while we're out for the day etc.
well, see what you think lads...
regards
taffy
