5 Horses Run 12th September 2010

[Bornagain]

I've hijacked Liam's user id to post some photo's from todays ride-out. He is currently too busy to comment as he is massaging my very sore bottom! ;)
I had a lovely day with lovely people - thanks and see you all again soon - Tash x

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[Bornagain]

Oops...I've just realised how HUGE those pictures are! I'll have to resize them a little better next time! ;D

Anyway, I have missed one off - its my favourite of the day.
Justin's front wheel!
Tash x

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[SupeRDel]

Love the artistic stuff.

It takes too long to download mine to a picture hoster so I reduce the file size and download them to one of my Facebook albums.

Search "Derek Freegard" and look in my photos. I can't promise they are all good. Some of it is fast shooting so some are a little out of focus.

If you want copies of pix then please mail me and I will forward the full size original files.

The Facebook pix are low quality after reducing..

I can get individual pix turned into 600mm x 400mm laminated photo posters for a tenner

[Beamer]

Great pics Tash.... love the one of the dials....brilliant.....are you able to pop them on FB??.... dont even know if you have an account on there tho lol.....thank you for taking them tho....great stuff xx

[BB]

Well what a lovely day for a ride over hills and valleys along lanes and gravel tracks, past runners & riders, tractors & JCBs! I hope you all made it home safely.

Chippenham marathon was a surprise to me. SupeRDel mentioned it at the start and we thought we would be ok – WRONG! They had closed the wretched road we had planned on using! :( This meant we had to do a bit of frantic thinking on our feet (wheels?) to get round the closure and then mix it with the marathon runners for a few miles before we managed to get clear.

As well as being well split up by the marathon marshals, we also seemed to lose our own marshal where we rejoined the route and met up with the runners so a few of the classic boys ended up going into Chippenham before realising and back tracking and then they got mixed up with the modern bike section. Doh!

Back on track and everything was going well apart from an increasing vibration from the Ajay’s engine and a lack of power. I stopped at one point as I had run out of marshals and had a look only to see the barrel was coming loose! I limped on for a while but stopped at Rockley and waited for a man with a spanner. I sent the rest of the riders on and they followed the route to the pub ok. Don arrived and he whipped out his adjustable, tightened some nuts and I was happy again! :o

Back on the bike and follow the route to a packed Royal Oak at Pewsey. We had 89 bikes register which with pillions and hangers on meant probably 100 people hit the poor old pub. The landlady there was sorry if anyone had any delays when ordering food but gave me a telling off as I had told her there was normally only about 50 bikes on the run. Oops! Fortunately the supermarket over the road was open and they were soon cleared out of pasties etc… :D

Talking of telling off, I must apologise to those who, shall we say, disliked part of the afternoon section. In particular the Byway with such fantastic views which ran along the edge of the ranges. (This included views of a very distant 5th horse at Alton Barnes) It was naughty on my part to include it but the Bath Classic mob never worry about that type of excursion so I simply never thought it would really bother anyone else. Familiarity makes the route easy for me so a big apology to those who hated it. In the future, I won’t include anything like that in a run with non BCMCC riders or modern bikes without warning.

Back at the Three Magpies, after representations from a couple of people; I had to have a word with a WB guy who had apparently been enjoying himself a little too much flying past people and kicking up stones/dirt etc on the byway and worrying some riders. I appreciate that everyone has different abilities and expectations of behaviour and the route was perhaps unsuitable for some bikes – although passable with care – I have to leave it to individuals to behave with courtesy and respect towards each other. I have spoken to the people concerned and shall say no more on the matter.

I was really pleased to see smiles on the faces of the L plate riders who I spoke to at the end – they seemed to enjoy themselves.

We had 89 bikes register and have £460 to donate to Dorothy House in memory of Sue, landlady of the Three Magpies. I suspect BCMCC will round the figure up to £500. Well done and many thanks.

Finally, I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who took their turn at marshalling, it was much appreciated. You will also be pleased to hear that Don has managed to wrest the Triple back from Dabz!

Thanks to one and all for a great day out! [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

BB

[BB]

Excellent photos Tash. I didn't take any this year so I may well pilfer some if I may. :)

BB

[Snowy]

I really enjoyed the day today - well done BB and the other organisers for all the hard work which is always more than people realise. Yes, some of the sections required some concentration especially for the heavier road orientated bikes but the views were great! I will have to do the route again and find the 4 horses I never saw. ;D

[Snowy]

Great pictures Tash, there are some cracking photo's there. Brilliant!

[6T]

great pics tash,i do like the monochrome ones 8-) also well done to BB and the bath classics marshals was a large rideout to control and that chippenham marathon did foul us up a bit :P Thanks for a great day out [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

[Dabz]

Excellent pics tash!

It was hard handing the triple back, I had so much fun today on that bike, it's easily the most fun I've ever had on a bike...time to get saving. Huge thanks to Don for lending it to me!

Had a great day as always..was my 4th 5 horses run and loved every minute

[Gerry]

Looka like a brilliant day you had folks.

Excellent pics Tash, especailly the B&W ones.

I "enjoyed" the day looking at the sun though the window of the room that I was decorating - ;)

[Nelly]

Superb pics. Looks like you guys had a great day :)

[Caz]

Great day, fantastic pics Tash, like the reflection in the chrone very arty. [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

[RachaelEllen]

Brilliant pictures Tash! Also thank you to BB and the Bath classics club for organising the ride and letting us gate-crash it, i had a great day :)

[Scotty]

Back at the Three Magpies, after representations from a couple of people; I had to have a word with a WB guy who had apparently been enjoying himself a little too much flying past people and kicking up stones/dirt etc on the byway and worrying some riders...

Oh Yeah? :-? :-? Who could that have been then...? ::) ::) ::) ;D ;D ;D

[Roxy]

Fantastic pictures Tash...well done chick, nice to see some arty ones in there. [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

BB - I had an absolute blast today...you did warn people there were all sorts of roads before we started. It is a Bath Classic Run and I know that you guys are the hard core riders, all weather, all road conditions you guys and gals just get on with it, superb to see all the old classics with lack of/ no suspension or brakes just take it all in their stride! The 'bumpy' road was fun...just had to take it steady, even when Mills hit my kill switch whilst riding along I was still laughing... I can imagine some of the classics really shaking your bones on that one...You put us moderns to shame ;)

It was a perfect day, great ride, great company and thats all thanks to you! Thanks chick [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

Roxy

[Roxy]

Back at the Three Magpies, after representations from a couple of people; I had to have a word with a WB guy who had apparently been enjoying himself a little too much flying past people and kicking up stones/dirt etc on the byway and worrying some riders...

Oh Yeah? :-? :-? Who could that have been then...? ::) ::) ::) ;D ;D ;D

ummmmmm!! :D lol

[jaagsxr]

photos are nice :)

[SupeRDel]

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[RachaelEllen]

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[Snowy]

Nice one Rachael.

[Dabz]

excellent pics there, thanks to the Quinn family :D

[RachaelEllen]

I must admit, they are mums handiwork!

[Toph]

Brilliant pics everyone! [smiley=thumbsup.gif]
Tash, you have a real flair for photography, truly wonderful images, thank you for posting them! [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

[6T]

great pics Del and Anatomiss [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

[BB]

Great pics people, many thanks [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

BB

[redken1]

Me too great pics Tash love the reflection of I think its Caz

[Bornagain]

Cheers Racheal, those pics are groovy ;) ;) ;)

[Dabz]

My vid of the start :)

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[Last Train]

Great vid :)

[Toph]

didn't see you filming that James!!!
brilliant! [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

[6T]

well done james, did wonder if anyone was filming us as we left the magpies [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

[BB]

There was a line of ppl on the grass opposite the magpies clutching a variety of camera's! Hindsy made me wait as someone was struggling to start which is why I held off for so long before setting off.

The old AJ doesn't sound too bad at that point! lol

BB