Missed this yesterday but WB has managed 15 years as of 01/01/21. Might see off Facebook for a few more years yet if we’re lucky...who knows, might even see a resurgence when FB has a mass exodus of people wanting their privacy back!
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Missed this yesterday but WB has managed 15 years as of 01/01/21. Might see off Facebook for a few more years yet if we’re lucky...who knows, might even see a resurgence when FB has a mass exodus of people wanting their privacy back!
Congrats WB :cool:
Woohoo! 15 years. Have I really known some of you that long!
Congrats 15 years....wow :cool:
If we’re ever allowed to live normally again :rolleyes:
Let’s have a celebratory ride out :cool:
Not that we have ever needed a reason ;), but I think this is a good’un.
Sounds like a plan :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Last Train
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:cool: Agree....
What to do then.....
I've always felt that the signature WB ride, which i suppose wasn't really a WB ride at all :eek:, was the 5 Horses run.
Shared with us by the very excellent BB & Ghost :)
lol, you enjoyed the combination of back lanes, gravel, mud and excrement intermingled with the odd section of white lines and cats eyes and where the hell am I excitement then? :cool:
Sounds like my type of rideQuote:
Originally Posted by BB
Yeah man :DQuote:
Originally Posted by BB
Excellent :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Trev
This might have to wait a while now then :rolleyes:
At least it’s winter time, it could be worse.. :p
It could indeed :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Last Train
Could be celebrating our 20th year by the time we can all meet for a beer at this rate
Was thinking that myself earlier.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dabz
Maybe we should get our laptops/phones/devices/whatever, get our biking kit on, grab a beer, then go sit on the bike in that garage and have a meeting via Zoom or whatever :D:D:D
stranger things are happening, Iv got a telephone appointment with my physiotherapist later today (how’s that gonna work?) and my nephew who’s 13 had an online PE lesson for school yesterday :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by BB
Online physio & PE? Intriguing? Let us know how you get on. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Badger-Roy
My experiences have been simple meetings with TRF & VMCC. Both started a little tentatively but a couple of months in and people are participating/chatting more easily. Although you can't help looking at the backgrounds all the time. ;)
I tried the physio with my 'phone.
Bench-pressed it 10 times and dead-lifted it 10 times.
Will try 12 of each tomorrow.
well my physio phone appointment consisted of a 4 minute phone call and being asked “has anything changed” and then being told to carry on doing what iv been doing. Not overly helpful to be honest.Quote:
Originally Posted by BB
Evening all, it's almost 11 years since Star and I joined up (13th Jan 2009), I recall our early visits to the Sally to meet some WBs face to face, and early acquaintances being Thunderbird and Amante (whatever happened to him?), Charlie serving behind the bar, don't recall seeing Loud Pipes in our earlier visits in the winter darkness - surprising really as he only lived a couple of hundred metres up the road, and he was the only dissenter when the club shifted the social night to the Fart & Clown - was that around 2011? Loud Pipes spat his dummy at that point and was never seen again. Think about it, the club were being pretty selfish moving the social night away from his doorstep when they had other members coming from far and wide, a number from outside Wiltshire even...
Back to early memories of WB: finding our way to the Sally in January darkness, getting to know a few more members as the year progressed, bumping into people at George Whites - for all its faults as a bike shop (following the same "pile 'em high, sell 'em cheap" business model that had already seen the likes of Carnells, M&P, Riossi, Motorcycle City, and other big multi-franchise dealerships go to the wall), it was a great social meeting point, many WBs heading there on Saturdays just to meet up, have a (dodgy) burger, look at all the bikes, and bugger off again having bought little or nothing from the shop. I think that our first WB ride-out was the one to Mudeford on 20th Sept that year (I have the photos indexed, I'm like that) - Jaydee was on his modified GSX750, feet-forward pegs to accommodate his freshly mutilated leg, Kev (Last Train) came too, Loud Pipes and Jaydee's mate Jonny Beer, plus it was my first encounter with Rinksy - after watching him (recently passed his test) overtaking cars round blind bends on double whites near Potterne I wasn't impressed and decided to put as much distance between us as possible (not difficult on a ZX-10) - it was a good day out, including the Sandbanks ferry thing. Poor Star was a bit shell-shocked afterwards, it wasn't a slow ride, but she dug in and kept up. Anyway, dinner's ready, happy new year y'all and hopefully see you sometime soon - we're (Chicky and I) moving away (again) for work; Southampton area, so we'll still be around, sort of.
Wonderful, not!Quote:
Originally Posted by Badger-Roy
Nice piece Scotty :)
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Originally Posted by Scotty
Good luck with the move Scotty
Great memories, it was such a busy social scene in those days with something always happening. Some real characters have moved on to other things. For us it was having Sophie that put us out of it all, along with the business growing and needing more energy. I assume our friends and 4CB are still going strong over on Facebook?
15 years, thats good going. I joined about 10 years ago now after seeing the WB stand at Castle Coombe. Great times, the bike night at the H+C was probably where I first met most of you, got introduced to track days, Rideouts and some memorable trips away. The Wales trip was great, unlike the 3hr ride home in torrential rain, but it was all part of the journey, and possibly my favourite, the trip to the Peak District. Although a bit quieter now, Im still looking forward to catching up when the weather permits, and get a few decent rides in.
I feel rather new having only been here 5 years (almost). Never knew the busy glory days but thoroughly enjoyed the ride outs iv been on and not met anyone iv disliked (and being the antisocial people hating git I am will tell you what a decent bunch is on here). Fingers crossed we can get together soon as possible for a ride out.
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That could have been made for meQuote:
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Funnily enough I bought that for Christmas present for someone lolQuote:
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iv just ordered one on Amazon :)Quote:
Originally Posted by BB
You will have to wear it on the next rideout when we are allowed out. Hope all good with everyone on the site - waiting for spring to arrive and end of lockdown.Quote:
Originally Posted by Badger-Roy