Date: 28-03-24  Time: 11:57 am

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Gentlemen --- Start your engines
« on: 24 March 2017, 09:06:28 pm »
( and  ladies ) :sun :sun :sun :sun :sun
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« Reply #1 on: 24 March 2017, 09:15:12 pm »
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Re: Gentlemen --- Start your engines
« Reply #2 on: 24 March 2017, 09:21:59 pm »
Whats that there picture challenge up to at the moment
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« Reply #3 on: 24 March 2017, 09:34:23 pm »
Tomorrows forecast is excellent. Having a whizz down to Loomies , be there around noonish. :thumbup
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Re: Gentlemen --- Start your engines
« Reply #4 on: 24 March 2017, 11:35:28 pm »
I was planning taking the bike out tonight, alas after a hard day at work was so tired there was no chance on taking the bike out the shed, and doing a charity car wash tomorrow so that knocks that on the head, hope it stays for Sunday, not likely.
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« Reply #5 on: 24 March 2017, 11:37:33 pm »
I hope it stays for Sunday, not likely.
Sunday looks good too
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Re: Gentlemen --- Start your engines
« Reply #6 on: 24 March 2017, 11:51:27 pm »
well the rain in the week has been a waste  they've been gritting around Nottingham tonight   :'(

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Re: Gentlemen --- Start your engines
« Reply #7 on: 25 March 2017, 07:11:36 am »
Beautiful morning here in south bucks......glorious sunshine with a bit of early morning mist....sure does make you feel good  :thumbup




have a good ride ROBBO..busy today but was thinking of doing the same tommorow  .....just one thing though....watch out for the
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« Reply #8 on: 25 March 2017, 08:39:37 am »
[size=0px]Tomorrows forecast is excellent. Having a whizz down to Loomies , be there around noonish. [/size]which way do you go from yours robb?

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« Reply #9 on: 25 March 2017, 09:37:16 am »
Fazersharp, your bike doesn't know any different weather forecast!!!  :sun



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Re: Gentlemen --- Start your engines
« Reply #10 on: 25 March 2017, 10:01:51 am »
Hiya Mel,
I get myself over to Dorking.Pick up the A24 to Beare Green roundabout then last exit is A29.Follow that until the 1st roundabout on the Billingshurst bypass then turn right onto A272.Then just follow the 272  all the way to West Meon lights (junction with A32)and Loomies is on your left.Enjoy :)


Thanks Red.If I'd known a few would be up for this I could have made it Sunday,but already arranged a meet up .Ride safe. :) Take your point about the notorious Tomski :lol
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Re: Gentlemen --- Start your engines
« Reply #11 on: 25 March 2017, 10:11:05 am »
Got to take advantage of the weather at this time of year......out at a moments notice , hard to do that with a group....if I get my jobs done today ill be out tomorrow.....after seeing my mum of course   ;)
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« Reply #12 on: 25 March 2017, 02:12:17 pm »
Beautiful day here at Loomies.Glad I could get out and blow some cobwebs away :) .
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« Reply #13 on: 25 March 2017, 08:17:56 pm »
cheers robb i'll give that ago one weekend :thumbup

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« Reply #14 on: 25 March 2017, 08:40:13 pm »
Nothing for me today but will be out tomorrow whilst youngest takes mummy out for the day ------ we all win !
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« Reply #15 on: 25 March 2017, 08:49:54 pm »
Hiya Mel,
I get myself over to Dorking.Pick up the A24 to Beare Green roundabout then last exit is A29.Follow that until the 1st roundabout on the Billingshurst bypass then turn right onto A272.Then just follow the 272  all the way to West Meon lights (junction with A32)and Loomies is on your left.Enjoy :)


Thanks Red.If I'd known a few would be up for this I could have made it Sunday,but already arranged a meet up .Ride safe. :) Take your point about the notorious Tomski :lol


Try a plate of their Cheesy Bacon Chips with lot of sweet chilli sauce on them and a Mug of tea £5-00 . Chilli Sauce just inside door on the right along with the milk & sugar.
I pop in there a couple of times a week and always neck back a trough full of them.

Its ok the little black spots is pepper. Oy! not so much about the poor old retarded retired brickie. :'(
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« Reply #16 on: 25 March 2017, 09:07:30 pm »
Tomski
You keep eating that and it aint 11k and 140mph that is going to kill you
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« Reply #17 on: 26 March 2017, 12:02:13 am »
Tomski
You keep eating that and it aint 11k and 140mph that is going to kill you


It will if I eat a plate of them cheesy bacon chips while doing 140mph, can you imagine visor up shoving chips in your mouth doing that speed.  :lol lmfao

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« Reply #18 on: 26 March 2017, 06:46:00 pm »
Mr.Crazy there's a pm for you.
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« Reply #19 on: 26 March 2017, 09:43:00 pm »
70 miles bimble, not much traffic about I think everyone was at the local park or in their back gardens
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« Reply #20 on: 27 March 2017, 11:06:23 am »
Done about 120 miles, Hertfordshire and Essex, along the a507 ending up at finchingfield loads of bikes out
the night i was born, lord the moon stood a fire red., my poor mother her crying,
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« Reply #21 on: 27 March 2017, 10:34:40 pm »
Had a squirt around this afternoon and popped into Loomies for a mug of tea, and this BMW came into the car park while I was there, Cafe Racer, going up for sale in about 3 weeks, the owner wants £8K for it so I did not ask for his details. :eek


I think he said it was a 1978 model, notice single front disk and drum back brake, the body work is a paint dip and not carbon fibre, but looks really lifelike, very very clean, but a shed load of dosh, he said it handles very very well but the chicken strips on the back cover tells a different story.   
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« Reply #22 on: 27 March 2017, 10:39:45 pm »
At 8k or even close to it , he's foccin' dreaming :eek

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« Reply #23 on: 27 March 2017, 10:55:37 pm »
Arf of its missing
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« Reply #24 on: 28 March 2017, 12:22:47 am »
Where do these nut-jobs get their price expectations from !


I know, I know, "Hipsters" with more money than sense and who are too young to have been around when real cafe racers we're all the rage. These new faux cafe racers seem to go for looks and image rather than function, ignoring that the original cafe racers were bikes modified for better performance, not just "style".