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Anyone fancy a run to West Bay tomorrow, or meeting there for coffee and a social?
I'll be leaving the Bowd Inn on the A3052 (EX10 0ND) at 0900 hrs and aiming to be tea drinking and bacon roll noshing at W. B. by 1000 hrs-ish.
I have to be home by around 1400 hrs so I'll probably do that via Beaminster, Broadwindsor, Whatley, Chard, Yarcombe bends, Honiton . . . . . https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/EX10+ ... 967668!3e0

Roy, everybody's favourite Bandit basher , is joining me for this bimble. Anyone else fancy it?

Yup count me in

If it was for lunch or tiffin I'd be up for it but had early start today and can't have two in a weekend or I'll never get a permit for Brian's trip.

Currently in Wales. Hopefully see you next Sunday.

Thanks Roy and Mark for the company today, it was great fun.

We had a good clear run to West Bay, which was it's usual busy self. Question: does anyone know why the three catering shacks next to the bike park are closed? They would have done a roaring trade today, there were more bikers looking for a cuppa than you could shake a con rod at and no-one close by to supply it.

Just to prove that every day's a school day, Mark and I had a master class c/o Roy on what to do when you have a leaking front fork oil seal and still want to go on a rideout. You simply wrap a bit of newspaper around the offending seal to soak up any leaks, making sure to secure it in place with Roy's patented 'ACME wraparound bungee & cocktail stick tensioner' for safety, see pic for details.

After a decent brekkie in W.B. it was off to the dark side, yes, Chard where tea and a conducted tour of Bandit Towers (AKA Roy's house) was had - thanks Roy. Followed by more tea and a 'progressive' ride back to God's county and home via Yarcombe bends.

Thanks guys , I thoroughly enjoyed the day and though I was a tad late home it was well worth it.

Pic's in the photo' section.

Always a fun run to WB.

For gods sake, do we need to start a GoFundMe to get Roy a new fork seal before Wales?

I think I saw a set of used fork seals on ebay for a bandit 1200, low starting bid too... maybe we could all have a whip round and get those for Roy.

A fun run and I got to lead for a short while. Had maybe 2 hours of yap on my back lawn with tea and coffee.
Thanks to Phil and Mark for a great day.

ptolemyx wrote: ↑May 21st, '23, 06:20 Currently in Wales. Hopefully see you next Sunday.

Sorry, no can do . See my post, 5th from top - http://www.southwestbikers.com/viewtopic.php?t=101749