Squire Cafe 2nd May

having a ride out this sunday from sunny south shields down to squires (possibly) if anyone is interested, will be leaving at around 11 from Boldon Lane petrol station (south shields) if anyone fancies a run or a meet at the cafe

i might if i get chance what sort of time do you think you will get to squires

if we set off at 11, hoping to get down there for around 1ish, forecast is looking crap tho, the sun has been replaced with clouds

well, never got to Squires, went to wolsingham, middletonin-teesdale, alston, hartside, ulswater then just started on kirkstone pass when it happened, i rounded a corner to see one of the lads in the middle of the road waving his arms, and one of the other lads picking his bike up off the road. Screen totally smashed, both mirrors sheared off at the fairing, footpeg totally gone, tail unit left hand side smashed and lying in the road, Haggis (the lad) covered in mud from landing in the grass verge. Luckily no damaged to Hag, just dented pride and broken sunglasses!!!!!! Did get to meet and ride with BrianHaley1964, top lad and top rider, looking forward to the next ride out, hopefully without incident, will post pics soon

gutted for you and the guy that binned his ride hope he got it home ok

went out for a run with Glyn (repsol) and his mates today we covered a lot of ground at a swift pace and all was goin great until we headed onto the kirkstone pass as we rounded one of the several blind corners we were confronted by the sight of one of the front runners in our group who`s bike was lying strewn in the middle of the road with its pilot on his feet thank god but with enough cumbrian soil on his leathers to fill a decent size window box ( sorry Hag) the bike suffered quite a bit of cosmetic damage but was still rideable so at this point we decided to head back the direct route which was back to Penrith onto the A66 then the A1 home! Glyn and his mates are great bunch of blokes and i hope to have a run out with them again soon only this time with us all keepin it shiney side up

brianhaley1964 wrote:

Ouch!!

Glad he's ok.

Now then

Sorry to hear about the off M8 but glad the rider was Ok Hope his pride recovers soon and he get's his bike fixed asap

I spoke to him on Sunday night and he was just pi55ed off, bit achey but otherwise fine, it's not his 1st so he'll bounce back, luckily he has spare fairings so not a great deal to buy and he'll be back up and running in the next couple of weeks. To Brian, glad you enjoyed your run out, I'll drop you a text next time we're out mate.