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Who fancies a run outside of Devon for a change?
09.45 a.m. meet at the Esso filling station on the A38, near Chelston roundabout east of Wellington - TA21 9QD.
Leave 10.00 a.m. prompt. Up to the Blackdown Hills for a stretch then taking in some roads and places less visited around mid Somerset before finishing where we started at Wellington - stopping halfway-ish for coffee and cake of course. Approx' 95 miles start to finish.
Route: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/Esso, ... FQAw%3D%3D
NOTE: Breakfast stop confirmed at about an hour from the start - somewhere new to me but a place I've been threatening to visit for yonks.

Possibly. See how cream crackered I am after driving back from a week hols in Pembs on Saturday. A quick mention for the Welsh rain gods keeping us happy here.

Working I'm afraid.

Folks: Ignore Mr Google, 25% of what he'll show you is lies. It'll still be a lot of Somerset, but not how he tells it.

Looks like you'll be passing Fozz on your way around.
Make sure you Give it a rev.

billinom8s wrote: ↑Apr 23rd, '26, 05:16 Looks like you'll be passing Fozz on your way around.
Make sure you Give it a rev.

Will be missing Fozz-town by a mile or two; he's in Huish, I'll be turning out of Langport by the fuel station.

Love to join you,

Is that the Shell filling station at TA21 9AD?

Artty wrote: ↑Apr 23rd, '26, 11:05 Love to join you,

Great.
Weather's looking great too so should be a good day 🏍.

"Is that the Shell filling station at TA21 9AD?"

Yes , sure is. Our leader for the day is grey and wrinkly Phil on the Triumph Sprint and tec will be me, Brian, another grey and wrinkly on the Kawa ZH2. We're seven year oldss at heart

Have fun

pearlsastinger wrote: ↑Apr 25th, '26, 16:11 Is that the Shell filling station at TA21 9AD?

Yep, --- 9AD it was, not 9QD - I blame the early onset of Anno Dominitis .

Thanks Phil for organising a good ride and Brian for Tec. Hope you get puncture sorted ok.

Put hazards on when realized but rider ahead didn't notice. Hope you all got on okay without tail end charlie? Didn't have my repair kit with me but luckily a passing Ducati rider saved the day doing the biker good Samaritan bit. String repair and loadsa air courtesy of nearby garage (at £1.50 ffs) got me home without losing pressure. For once I didn't know the ride route to follow you lot so went straight home. Tyre still holding pressure this morning. Think my local fitter will be doing an internal patch repair as only 500ish miles on tyre and hole in centre tread with sidewalls okay. I wouldn't heve been so lucky with a KTM rider, the stick I've given the orange brigade

Thanks to the bods who braved the day and came out for our soiree around some lesser known Somerset roads. Hope the cider farm brekky stop met with approval - it did with me because I had a glass or several of their produce on Sunday p.m. while watching MotoGP .
Thanks to Brian for TEC-ing and providing the talking point when we stopped in Chard for a group catch-up and learned you were a.w.o.l. due to aforementioned puncture. Glad you made it home o.k. and big kudos to the unknown Ducati rider for stopping and saving the day for you - proof if twer needed that bikers do indeed look out for each other .