Ace Cafe Fireblade Day 2011

Ive Just been looking on the Ace Cafe calendar for 2011, and the Fireblade Day is going to be Sunday 3rd July .
A good day out this year, and it was nice to meet up with so many FBR members, maybe we can organise a rideout after next years event?

Thats goodwood festival of speed weekend.

I didn't get to go this year so would love to go next year all being well and now I have a Blade too so even more reason to go :0)

shadow wrote:Thats goodwood festival of speed weekend.

Quite a few folk will go to this instead of the Blade day then???

silverback wrote:

shadow wrote:Thats goodwood festival of speed weekend.

Quite a few folk will go to this instead of the Blade day then???

Its the biggest event in the uk on that weekend, so yes they will.
Also its in the south, so not all that far from the ace.

Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, Sir Jackie Stewart and John Surtees, Mark Webber, Nico Rosberg and Bruno Senna.
Emerson Fittipaldi, Mika Hakkinen, John Surtees, Sir Stirling Moss, Jochen Mass and Patrick Tambay.
Giacomo Agostini, Kevin Schwantz, Chaz Davies, Neil Hodgson and Trevor Nation, Dougie Lampkin.
Michael Waltrip and three-time Indy 500 victor Bobby Unser.

Thats who is confirmed as going already.






Need i say more ?

nope

The Ace as a venue was shyte anyway, way over priced food and drink and as for the rolling road at £30 a go well!

I say lets have fireblade day at Boxhill, at least we'll be able to afford a burger. and chose the date to suit us.

All those in favour?

cabbie wrote:The Ace as a venue was shyte anyway, way over priced food and drink and as for the rolling road at £30 a go well!

I say lets have fireblade day at Boxhill, at least we'll be able to afford a burger. and chose the date to suit us.

All those in favour?

I don't mind - will be happy to meet wherever

megawatt wrote:I won't be going to the Ace again next year. Not really interested in parking my bike for several hours and riding in traffic to and from Boxhill.
I am interested in rideouts, piss ups, barbies and talkin bikes. I proposed this last year, loads of interest initially, but then nobody turned up on the weekend, so somebody else organise summat next year and I'll think about turning up???

Agree - all about the rideouts and piss up's !!

im up for both . boxhill and ride outs

I'm easy with whatever, up for the rideout and bbq, not really up for the piss-up but i'll happily watch you lot get $hit-faced

(that's if i've still got the Blade .... will still come along on the CB1000 tho)

A rideout is exactly what it means, a meet up is getting to know who's who on the forum whatever the choice I wanna be the first to have a crack at Megawillys blow up barbie

I am up for meeting for a Fireblade Day as I couldn't make the one this year and even better next year I will have a Blade, fingers crossed but I am also up for meeting wherever, chatting, eating, drinking, laughing and joking but mainly riding and then talking about the buzz.

was great to get to know eachother last year so i would be up for it again

thats a good idea but i think the problem is that people come from far away and dont have anywhere to stay. They dont know their way around well enough to be able to meet up too. i certainly dont
i was just lucky mique offered to put me up.

megawatt wrote:If people wanna come , they will come. There are plenty of cheap motels around and if enough people wanna camp then we could have a campsite to ourselves, with our own barby , instead of paying through the nose for someone else to sell to us.
It will probably end up being another one day affair, with people travelling all day to meet up for a couple of hours and then go home. Personally I am not interested in another one day meet, I wanna make a weekend of it!!!

I totally agree its a long ride down, need time to recharge the batteries with a few pints and a pound of meat off the bbq, then have a good ride out the next day, sounds good to me !!!!!!

megawatt wrote:If people wanna come , they will come. There are plenty of cheap motels around and if enough people wanna camp then we could have a campsite to ourselves, with our own barby , instead of paying through the nose for someone else to sell to us.
It will probably end up being another one day affair, with people travelling all day to meet up for a couple of hours and then go home. Personally I am not interested in another one day meet, I wanna make a weekend of it!!!

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I think he means make a weekend of it, rather than one day, as it simply isnt worth traveling for just one day.

ecactley, i had a bbq and ride at mine a few yeears back, when this forum was BUSY it was a mint wknd and shad certainly enjoyed himself, (dont worry shad i wont post the pics up lol)
loads turned up, it was ace

Ok, lets have a Fireblade Riders weekend bash then, who's going to volunteer to organise it?

megawatt wrote:You puttin yer hand up Cabbie????????

Too busy bro, sorry

megawatt wrote:You puttin yer hand up Cabbie????????

i don't think anyone would put their hand up cabbie

We need a few members that have some free time to sort a venue etc

I nominate Masterblader and megawhat

megawatt wrote:You are usually too busy polishin or worrying about the weather. How about worryin about wearing yer tyres out or running outta petrol on a LONG ride??????????????????????????????????????????

So where are we riding to mate?

The whole idea of a Fireblade meet is to arrange a location to meet chat eat drink and admire other Blades isn't it? Arranging a Fireblade meet or a national Fireblade rideout are two different things i think, it's just not practical to go on a rideout with that many bikes unless a meeting place is arranged then a route to another destination needs to be planned so everyone can take the same route when we inevitably get split up.

Don't get me wrong Megawatt i like a rideout just as much as the next man but i think rideouts are much better when it's a small group of bikes (under 10) rather than 100's.

As i said before tho, i'm easy and will go with the majority whatever happens.
Maybe put it to the vote? Big ride big meet or big both???

Maybe a Saturday meet up and BBQ drinks etc and a planned "long" ride to another destination on the Sunday, best of both then?

The best rideouts ive been on, have been 5 or less bikes.

These massive ones sound a good idea, but i wouldn't be interested, as ive never enjoyed being on one.

Trouble is you start talking about full weekends and its just the expense and free time, that will put people off.

I don't know what to suggest.

Perhaps a load of smaller local meets ?

Then if someone wants to make the trip over, so be it.

Mind, if the midlands gets to busy, we will get called a clique again.

Fireblade trackday?

Thats easier to do, to make it worth while, choose a date with 2 days back to back, that way if people only want to do one day then fair enough.

Beer and banter in the paddock the night before is compulsory.

With no limits, if 10 or more book, you get 10% off.

So say one at donnington, then later at rockingham ?
Put brands in there to, Mega likes that track.

With donnington being the main one ?
Or even silverstone ?

Easy for me to say i did 8 last year.

Rockingham then, its the cheapest of the above, is central and a brilliant track.

Dates are up already, no prices yet.

http://www.nolimitstrackdays.com/acatalog/rockinghamtrackevents.html