Wheels Next The Sea 2015

[StevieL]

The seventh Wheels Next The Sea show is on Sunday 21st June 2015 at the playing field on Beach Road, I know its only February but as we all lead busy lives it should give time for arrangements to be sorted. Something to look forward to anyway just need to sort out a reason/excuse/scenario as to why the bike is required on that day.................atb Steve

[Grumpy]

Went a couple of years back. Lovely day out, with one of the best chippys in Norfolk situated down by the harbour.

[Mr Gazza]

Oh no..! Mega-clash.

I'm hoping to be sitting in the Ring of Brodga waiting for the Midnight Sun on that day (The Solstice).

Yes Wheels-Next-the-Sea is a fabulous event, lovely atmosphere...We all had a good day last year. A definate for the Norfolk Calendar.

We must have our Winter meet up before Spring!

Who fancies the Lessingham Star on Sunday Lunchtime?

[StevieL]

Pre booked I'm afraid Gary am up the coast for lunch atb Steve

[bluestoesonnose]

The seventh Wheels Next The Sea show is on Sunday 21st June 2015 at the playing field on Beach Road, I know its only February but as we all lead busy lives it should give time for arrangements to be sorted. Something to look forward to anyway just need to sort out a reason/excuse/scenario as to why the bike is required on that day.................atb Steve

As the UK is surrounded by sea, which particular bit are you planning on being beside?

[slob]

Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk

geddit?

http://www.wheelsnextthesea.com/

[Mr Gazza]

Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk

geddit?

http://www.wheelsnextthesea.com/

:chuckle:.. Is the correct answer...:chuckle:

I was born there. The chappie who organises Wheels-Next-The-Sea is the local Bobby. We were best mates at Primary School....Haven't seen him for well over fifty years!....Will be a strange reunion one day. :freak:

[Mr Gazza]

Just realised that this is only two weeks away, on the 21st June.

http://www.wheelsnextthesea.com/

So still time to make a note in your dairy....Plenty of daylight for long rides home...It's the Solstice..:thumbsup:

As well as being the local bobby, the organiser is a Scout leader and also Second Cox on the Wells Lifeboat... :hail:

This year the proceeds are going to the Wells Lifeboat Shannon appeal, to raise funds for a new state of the art jet propelled lifeboat.

http://www.wellslifeboat.org/shannonappeal/

Entrance is a pound a wheel.........:mand:

[Mr Gazza]

Anybody fancy meeting up and riding to the show together like last year?

Stuck for an idea of where to meet at the moment, depending on where folk are coming from..... Any suggestions?

Weather is looking very uncertain again this year, so might be an idea to swap numbers in case of last minute plan changes.

[Mr Gazza]

It's looking like Sunday will be a pleasant break in the weather...Should be dry and warm with the Sun coming out for a bit, apparently.

Been looking forward to this one for a long time..Is anybody else going???...Still not too late to sort a meet and run if any one is interested..?

[LittleMonstar]

I was looking forward to my first good ride out to this but unfortunately I can't make it now Garry. Hopefully be along to something soon.

[Dirty]

IF I get the bike back together it would make a great test run :mand:

[Mr Gazza]

That would be quite some shake down run..!

If you make it I will treat you to a large portion, a buttered bap and a battered ring....That should put the colour back in your cheeks........:look:

[emzedder]

Might be going there if so I'll keep an eye open for you If I do ... on the SS

[Mr Gazza]

I will look out for you emzedder...and any one else I know..:mand:

Just checked the radar, and a large shower is on it's way over from the west.
It should get here about 9.30...So I will push off when that has passed...See you a bit later.

My daughter was watching live lightning strikes on a website last night.....Wow...Brilliant..!

The strikes appeared as red dots on a map, then a ring radiated from the strike. That was the thunder travelling out. The dot then turned yellow to record the strike.

Bloody brilliant...You could here the rumble as the ring passed over our location.

http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime

[Dirty]

That is an excellent site, saved and can't wait for next local storm now :)

In the meantime some 1960's Lightning :mand:
https://youtu.be/j3xVAxBM4RI 'Want to fly a Lightning and take your own thunder with you' classic!

[Mr Gazza]

Now you're talking.
Coltishal in Norfolk was the first base to get Lightnings in 1958 (the year I was born)

I lived with them well into my teens...We moved to within about 8 miles of Coltishal when I was 7.
The sound of them climbing vertically off the end of the runway with both afterburners lit was something you felt as well as heard...They climbed to 55000 ft in a minute.

Sonic booms were common place in those days, and would sometimes crack windows.
They told us Colt was a training base, but it was in fact a full on Cold War frontline base. My school pal's Dad was a lightning pilot (Massive Testicles!!!) and he would some times give me a lift into school with my pal if it was raining. he would often come out with " I've been to Scotland and back before breakfast this morning"....And it was true. What he couldn't tell us was that he had been escorting Russian A-bombers out of territorial airspace.

Oh, and they were polished Aluminium, not painted with "High Speed Silver" like the earlier Jets.

There will never be anything like a Lightning ever again....:mand:

Thanks for the memory bubble Dirty..

[StevieL]

You will probably remember the Lightning that came down in Plumstead by the Brick Kilns pub, nobody hurt luckily the crew ejected, still remember the noise and the twin flames when on full boost, one impressive lump of engineering. atb Steve

[Mr Gazza]

Were you Woodbastwick resident at that time Stevie?

My Woodbastwick Mate lived in Plumstead or Blofield, when the Lightning crashed, and he saw it go in...He took me to the site a few years ago and it still smells of AVTUR (Jet fuel).

Happy that this tread has gone off topic....Wheels Next The Sea was a complete miserable dive this year. You should all thank your lucky stars that you missed it.

I saw one other Monster there. I didn't recognise it, so I don't know if it was one of "ours"....I carded it anyway..

It was full of Harleys, lardy Goldwing trikes, choppers and everyday jap bikes..:(

The usual brit bikes that do all the local shows were there....Nothing new.

I did spot a Moto Morini 3 1/5 Strada that looked like it had been pulled out of the back of some shed and "got going"....Wonder if it was the one I tried to buy last year?

[StevieL]

Yes I was living in Woodbastwick then, whole bunch of us kids on pushbikes went for a hunt around after the RAF recovery crew had cleared the site, not much to be found apart from shards of canopy. Shame about Wells but with BSB at Snetterton the younger bunch probably headed there, a few lads from work did but whinged about the £ 45 entry fee and the cost of food and drink. atb Steve