Category: Ride Outs

Beer brewed specifically for the OldBikers, in the process of brewing, Bonneville Bitter and Gold Star Pale Ale are the first to be brewed.

They should be matured and ready early November.

Loaded and ready to Rock and Roll for another East coast Trip, obviously breakfast was required before setting off.

A great weekend at Cadwell Park for round 7 of the British Superbikes. We camped a few miles away from the track at one of our usual venues, it was busy for a couple of days but quite for the last night.

Rob was delighted to meet his hero, Peter Hickman as soon as we entered on day one.

It was a good weekend for Rory Skinner Cheshire Mouldings FS-3 Kawasaki, not so good for Lee Jackson, Lee dropped his bike at the top of the mountain on the first race, but even worse for Dan Jones who hit Lee’s bike square on at around 80mph. Dan was air lifted to hospital to checked out fully, but we believe that thankfully his main injury was a broken collar bone.

We are looking forward to next years event at Cadwell Park.

A bewildering choice of bikes at the Superbike Factory Donnington.
We probably wouldn’t be able to bend our knees enough to get on most of them.
Thanks for the photo Robin.

Another nice short ride today to Matlock. Just two of us today, a plate of chips and cup of tea, the a ride back to the Gate for the obligatory pint.

Fortunately Matlock was not too busy, and we managed to avoid the rain.

A great ride out via the country lanes to Hoar Park.

There was a fair few bikes on display from old to new, and plenty of them. No pictures unfortunately.

A ride up to the Woodside Cafe at Via Gellia.

Another warm one but nice and cool in the trees. The usual crew.

Rob was a bit delusional on the day, he thought he looked like:-

but the reality was when he asked his wife she said, he looked more like:-

Just saying!!

Breakfast at Holly tree, then up to Via Gellia.

The traffic around sawmills and the A6 into Cromford was ridiculous. A quick cup of tea at the Woodlands cafe and then back to the Gate.

A great ride through the villages. The traffic was a bit annoying at times, and the amount of temporary traffic lights was ridiculous.

We meet another Himalayan owner Nev, at the Arboretum. Nev is doing the LEJOG run soon so good luck to him.

The weather was lovely and the Arboretum is a magnificent place. Rob told us that his old regiment, 17/21 Lancers, was nick named ‘Bone Heads’. So we named his style of mounting his bike the Bone Head Shuffle.

As per normal we ended up at the Gate.