Essex Air Ambulance Bike Run 09

[ColchesterM600]

So who is going ?
Would be nice to see other Monsters :)

[Yorkie]

Any more details??

Yorkie.

[ColchesterM600]

http://www.essexairambulance.uk.com/CharityEvents/MotorcycleRun/tabid/99/language/en-GB/Default.aspx

if there is sun it should be the best day this year for biking :)

o yes yorkie thursday (morning) i might be able to pick up the wheel (as i need a good one for the run)

[Yorkie]

Bloody hell theres a Red Monster on the advertisement!

I think i will be going to this little ride out!

Yorkie.

[ColchesterM600]

iv pre registered but i think you can just turn up and pay on the gates

[He11cat]

was chatting about this on Sunday... if my bump is sorted (il mix concrete myself if need be!!).. I may trundle along... need to sort my clutch hand out on the monny ..is killing me ... kats clutch is so light...
on the monster I have to sit in neutral to give my fingers a break... i just did the copdock run..

[Yorkie]

I cant see it being a fast run out either, i think it will be a little stop - start with the coppers guiding the route!

However the run down and back can be a little faster! I plan on using some back roads to get there!

Yorkie

[ColchesterM600]

i need to gets some front break pads first, thought they should do with a look at, and there was nothing on them O_O
so bike has been sitting in the garage for the past week.

[steeevvvooo]

I'm keen. I meant to go last year, but ended up getting hammered the night before, and there was no way I was going to rid up with a hangover! :dizzy:

Anyone from London want to ride up?

[ColchesterM600]

does anybody know whos Monster is in the poster?

[Albie]

I cant see it being a fast run out either, i think it will be a little stop - start with the coppers guiding the route!

However the run down and back can be a little faster! I plan on using some back roads to get there!

Yorkie
You riding again now Yorkie or this your first one.

[Yorkie]

Ive been back on the pedal bike for the past 3 weeks so all is well so far, going to get my Physio increased on Friday as i feel i can do more now.

Im going out this weekend if i can get the bike back together over the nextcouple of nights!

Yorkie.

[Albie]

Thats good news mate. Wish you well and take care. Off to get new lid today and if weather dry a short ride this weekend.

[Yorkie]

All the best with the weekrnd ride.

Yorkie.

[Steveo]

I'm keen. I meant to go last year, but ended up getting hammered the night before, and there was no way I was going to rid up with a hangover! :dizzy:

Anyone from London want to ride up?

I may be going from Sidcup (Child arrangements/weather permitting!!). Will be meeting a mate near start in Essex. If you fancy meeting up pm me.

Steveo

[steeevvvooo]

Sounds good. Weather permitting, I'll meet you somewhere. Will have the girlfriend on the back, and I have to fill up every 90 miles or so, so I hope I don't slow you down! :mand:

Would be good to go down with a group of monsters if anyone else fancies it...

[ColchesterM600]

Ahh good, look forward to seeing you all out on the run :D

[Yorkie]

Good to see you last night, hopefully the tyre will last you a while. Look out for nails!)

Yorkie.

[steeevvvooo]

what's the lineup then? Who's going? Is there a postcode for the start? :scratch:

Not sure whether to go on the run or go for breakfast at Oakdene

[ColchesterM600]

Yeah yorkie thank you :) putting it on soon.
umm you need to find Ford Dunton Technical Centre, Laindon, near Basildon (Y)

[steeevvvooo]

umm you need to find Ford Dunton Technical Centre, Laindon, near Basildon (Y)

Is this it? SS15 6EE

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&source=hp&q=SS15%206EE&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl

There's so much going on tomorrow I can't decide where to go?!:spin:

[ColchesterM600]

That be the one :)
follow the bikes and police pointing (Y)
well you should turn up around 10

[Yorkie]

What time are you leaving Colchester way? And what route are you taking!

Yorkie.

[ColchesterM600]

im not even going near colchester iv got to follow the father.
What way is everybody else going?

[steeevvvooo]

Think I'm gonna come along. :biggrin: If anyone is going from London way let me know. Would be good to meet up with some people on the way.

Otherwise I could meet anyone on the M25.

I'm liking the idea of riding with a few thousand other bikes!! :biggrin:

[Yorkie]

I need to keep off the motorways, i want a good run down! Anyone else going from Suffolk??

Yorkie

[steeevvvooo]

ok, cool. I'll be leaving about 8:30. Looking forward to it now! :mand:

[He11cat]

il try and go.... just got back home after a little car exhaust problem... and a 340 mile trip... that was not sposed to be that long..... I started to wonder when I saw the sign for South Wales!!!!..lol
Accident shut the M4 turnoff I needed and well..lol the rest is my sense of Crap direction .. I am bleary eyed.

[ColchesterM600]

Iv just got back.
What a run :)
glad the weather held out and i stayed dry.
saw lots of monsters but not any of yours. :(

[Yorkie]

Made it to Ipswich, Colchester and Great Bentley! (With He11cat)

I got up at 10:00 and even with me riding i wouldnt have got there in time! So i decided to take a local burn out! (Nice and steady!)

Glad you had a great day out!

Yorkie.

[steeevvvooo]

I saw loads of monsters too, even ColchesterM600 (assuming you have a black/grey helmet with red/white detailing?) although he was riding off home by the looks of things. Were you parked close to the sea front? :scratch:

Really enjoyed the run out. I was speaking to a marshal who said the unofficial number was around 4800 bikes!! :eyepopping:

I've never ridden with so many bikes before, and every bridge along the 60 mile route was full of people waving, flying banners, and generally being nice towards bikers!! :biggrin: :thumbsup:

[steeevvvooo]

Some pics taken on my phone. I went Monster hunting, so please claim yours if you see it! :D

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=153958&id=591275066&l=af86af261c

[BluprintZ]

Excellent pics Steve, not bad for a phone mate.

G : )

[ColchesterM600]

on a black/yellow monster? if so yes that was me.
no picture of my bike? :( i feel left out


all grey monster with black stripe in your pictures is my mates one (we got sent to differnt parking areas) he is on this site but never uses it.

[steeevvvooo]

I was looking for your bike, but as we were walking along the front I heard a monster, looked up and saw a black one with yellow wheels. That’s got to have been you, but you were on your way home so no photos! :scratch:

Couple of very nice Monnies there though! :mand:

[ColchesterM600]

This anybodys ?
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30576289&id=1538447953#/photo.php?pid=30576477&id=1538447953

[He11cat]

Hope you had a good time.... I feel bad got a phonecall to say where are you....err opps um.. im still in bed..
But I didnt get in til about 2am...then bed at 4am... so needed a few hours that morning to wake up.

Saw loads of bikes coming back .
How many bikes took part?

[steeevvvooo]

How many bikes took part?

I spoke to a marshal in Harwich who said 4,800! Not sure if that was bikes, or number of people, but I recon it must have been bikes from the turnout!!

[He11cat]

crikey!!!.... id have still been bringing up the rear driving Mss Daisy styleee...here we have miss 4801.... as they remove the cones and sweep up lol..
glad you had a good day all of you

[ColchesterM600]

Yeah i was parked near the main field

[Yorkie]

Not sure about the blue one with the 1098 front fairing???

Yorkie.

[ColchesterM600]

yes very odd
i do like the blue one with the corse stickers saw that go past me on the A12
Did anybody else see the banana man ?

[steeevvvooo]

Did anybody else see the banana man ?

Saw a guy in a banana outfit walking around at Ford Dunton, but not out on the road :eek:

[ColchesterM600]

Yeah he was riding a yellow GSX-R dressed like that

[Pomp1]

yes very odd
i do like the blue one with the corse stickers saw that go past me on the A12

I think that is blueguzzi bike (the one with the 916 fairing) don't know about the 1098 one though

[blueguzzi]

[QUOTE=ColchesterM600;320317]
i do like the blue one with the corse stickers saw that go past me on the A12
QUOTE]

Hello,,, Yes, that would have been me then, Very blue & white M900 with the 916 front.

The Dark blue M900 with the 1098 front fairing is my boss,s bike!!!!
He has tried to get one better than me with the 1098 front,,, but refuses to put clip on bars on it (bless him) so the fairing is a bit high.
A good day out tho
Lots of bikes as usual

Apparently according to a friend who live in Chelmsford,, on the bridge over the A12 at boreham amongst all the people waving there was a police camera mounted on a tripod?... I just hope it was a forward facing one, They could not pick out one bike in 4800 anyway, hehe.

A good day for a good cause.
Cheers
hugh

[ColchesterM600]

Ahh very nice pulled up to some traffic lights and saw you go round, by the time they turned green and the slow people moved a side you were gone :/ spent a while trying to catch up with you ad give you a little wave lol

[blueguzzi]

Ahh very nice pulled up to some traffic lights and saw you go round, by the time they turned green and the slow people moved a side you were gone :/ spent a while trying to catch up with you ad give you a little wave lol

haha sorry, I was two others and we were not hanging about.

a virtual wave to you now :woot:

I saw a monster with a female rider just as I was arriving at Harwich, sort of gold colour with flowers painted on the tank? with the logo DULALI, which i thought quite amusing.
quite used i think the bike was, hehe.

Anyone know who that is?