weekend away with the wife for our aniversary :smiley: :sad: ly :no: t on the bike :nono: wifey insisted on going in the car :hammer: had a great time, here's a few pics of bourton-on-water and the motor museum. then over to forthampton where we planned to stay at the lowerlode inn where we all stayed at the gtr meet last year. but the landlady phoned me at 4.30 pm to tell me they were flooded out, they did offer to let me park at the bottom of the lane and they would come and get us in a 4X4 but :nono: wasn't having that! so drove into tewksbury and found a very nice hotel, a few beers and a nice meal in the town, next day drove over to tenby through the black mountains and found very nice b&b just outside of tenby in a little village called "penally" a few beers in the local pub and a excellent meal was had..! next day drove up the coast into northwales, stopping of at bala were I met 3 bikers who said it was "bloody cold" the bike in the middel was the :cool: est even thou it was the previous model :grin: but fair do's.. it was a 61 plate :grin: and ":yes:" steve!! did call into the ponderosa and there was loads of bikers shivering their nuts off :laugh: it was a nice sunny day but the wind was a killer! here a few pics, hope you enjoy them :smiley:
River running through bourton-on-water
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few pics of inside the museum
had one of theses in 1977 :smiley:
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old ring-a-ding mz
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the next 5 pics will bring back some memories for "rog and geoff" :grin:
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and a few old cars :smiley:
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environmentally friendly mini
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view of the lowerlode from tewkesbury side flooded right to the inn :sad:
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view looking out from tenby
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bala lake northwales
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nice zzr in the middle :smiley:
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view at the top of the horseshoe pass..
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loads of bikers out at the ponderosa :smiley:
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:mfr_lol: Dave, I didn't think for one minute that you WOULD'NT go to the Ponderosa. Huge shame that you couldn't get to the Lower Lode Inn to check on my photo. We will go again this year at some stage, preferably before I go on my Scottish tour. (Did I mention I was going to Scotland this year). :whistling:
Looks like you had a great time, we are lucky to live in this part of the UK and have all that virtually on our doorstep. :biker3:
On the Old ring-a-ding MZ photo the bike in the middle is a Honda Amigo moped.
I had one of those in those colours. Nasty horrible piece of :shit: with no rear suspension, no power, no brakes and 6V electrics.
I rode it off a cliff into a sand quarry and that nearly finished it off.
A friend and I completed it's termination with much verbal abuse and a few beatings.
We then carried the remains to the local scrapyard and held a brief funeral service for it.
We then had a good excuse for a wake, and boy did we use it. :mfr_lol:
Quote from: Boomer on February 20, 2013, 05:24:38 PM
On the Old ring-a-ding MZ photo the bike in the middle is a Honda Amigo moped.
I had one of those in those colours. Nasty horrible piece of :shit: with no rear suspension, no power, no brakes and 6V electrics.
I rode it off a cliff into a sand quarry and that nearly finished it off.
A friend and I completed it's termination with much verbal abuse and a few beatings.
We then carried the remains to the local scrapyard and held a brief funeral service for it.
We then had a good excuse for a wake, and boy did we use it. :mfr_lol:
:grin: but the honda moped may have been a "dog" but ask yourself this question? would a modern bike take as much stick as you gave the "old" honda before it passed away :laugh:
Great photos, thanks for sharing
4th Picture down and I thought " Crikey .. I didn't realise Geoff was with you". :laugh:
Quote from: 2kwacks on February 20, 2013, 06:16:05 PM
:grin: but the honda moped may have been a "dog" but ask yourself this question? would a modern bike take as much stick as you gave the "old" honda before it passed away :laugh:
Probably not, but that still does not take away just how bad a bike it was.
I owned/rode just about every 50cc bike available in the late 70's and this was nearly bottom of the pile.
A CZ50 I briefly owned was absolute bottom of the pile. Had 80 miles on it from new and broke down nearly every day.
The dealer had sold it super cheap with NO WARRANTY and I bought it even cheaper than that.
I made a small profit after fixing several faults and vowed to never touch a CZ again.
MZ's on the other hand were pretty good, but heavy and slow.
Fantics, Kreidlers, Zundapps and the Japanese were all quick and fun.
Can you imagine me riding 50cc bikes. :mfr_lol:
Nice pics mate. I bet you were desperate to get on your bike? If you look closely at the Lower Lode Inn, you can see Ally in the bottom right window still waiting for a taxi :grin: I'm not getting why you're taking time to blank out VRNs though?
well andy.. I never use to bother blanking out reg numbers but I got a 2 parking fines in southampton and I was :shocked: because at the time my car was parked at work. now I know I'm a clever arse :smiley: but not even I can be in two places at the same time, I got sent a photo of the same model car and colour as mine with my reg number on :shocked: the only problem was my car was 300 miles away from where it was said to be illegally parked twice. I needed to provide proof that I wasn't in southampton and my car was not used by anyone eles, only after 3 phone calls did they eventually give me the benefit of doubt :angry: and suggested that my reg plate has been copied and put on the same model and colour as my car. I understand a reg plate can be seen when your out and about but you can't do anything about that :nono: not even me... :wink:
Quote from: Boomer on February 25, 2013, 03:14:32 PM
Probably not, but that still does not take away just how bad a bike it was.
I owned/rode just about every 50cc bike available in the late 70's and this was nearly bottom of the pile.
A CZ50 I briefly owned was absolute bottom of the pile. Had 80 miles on it from new and broke down nearly every day.
The dealer had sold it super cheap with NO WARRANTY and I bought it even cheaper than that.
I made a small profit after fixing several faults and vowed to never touch a CZ again.
MZ's on the other hand were pretty good, but heavy and slow.
Fantics, Kreidlers, Zundapps and the Japanese were all quick and fun.
Can you imagine me riding 50cc bikes. :mfr_lol:
my first road legal bike in the mid seventies was a yamaha 1976 FS1E :smiley: top speed 50 m.p.h on the straite and 55 m.p.h down hill. my mate had a suzuki AP50 which seem to be slightly quicker after 2nd gear :sad: didn't have my fizzy long because I stuck it into the rear of car and binned it, lucky enough for me the fizzy was so light and underpowered it came to a sudden stop and I flew through the air :grin: it was at that moment I learned a valuable lesson... always look where you're going :laugh:
I once received a ticket from GLC for driving a Golf in a Bus Lane, with accompanying photographic CCTV evidence, the number was at the time attached to a BMW GS that I owned.
TBH a photo of the bike, and a quick visit to the helpful local cop shop with some documentation sorted the problem quickly
That was another reason for me to get rid of the Bavarian Ditch pump :mfr_lol: