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92KK 84WW Olaf

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OK so Covid has left us free to meet up again. 

We had a lovely Christmas Brunch meet up at Stradbally Fayre and the most common question was 'are we having a Patricks Day meet up?'

So I popped up a Facebook page suggesting 11 or 18 or 25 March.

Anyway 11 March does not work for those going to Alicante...

That leaves us 18 or 25 March as possible dates. 

Stradbally Fayre is suggested, meet for 9am depart 11am for ride on route to be determined with a stop or two.

Edit 27th January: Facebook link and sign up. https://www.facebook.com/events/707678734077926/?acontext=%7B%22source%22%3A%2229%22%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3A%22plan_user_associated%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D&notif_id=1674797855864985&notif_t=plan_user_associated&ref=notif

Edit 23rd March: Route options thanks to 88 Will.
We have a couple of suggestions for routes on Saturday. We need to avoid motorways to enable all members to participate.
Option #1:
Run from Stradbally to Dunbrody Famine ship, New Ross via Thomastown for coffee and breakout. 80kms

Option #2:
Run to Carlow and back up to Abbeyleix via R430 (Spink/Swan) and breakout. 70 kms

Option #3:
Stradbally to Kilkenny and back to Portlaoise services for coffee (via Abbeyleix) breakout onto M8/old roads as necessary. 102kms

Vote below please



Last edited by 92KK 84WW Olaf on Thu Mar 23, 2023 9:02 pm; edited 4 times in total


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1992 K100LT 0193214 Bertha Blue 101,000 miles
1984 K100RT 0022575 Brutus Baja Red 578 bought 36,000 now 89,150 miles
1997 K1100LT 0188024 Wotan Mystic Red 689 58,645 now 106,950 miles Deceased.
1983 K100RS 0011157 Fricka 606 Alaska Blue 29,495 miles Damn K Pox Its a Bat outta Hell Now 58,200 miles. 
1996 K1100LT 0233004 Lohengrin Mystic Red 38,000 miles currently 51,800 miles.
1983 K100RS 0004449 Odette R100 colours 58,000 miles. Sprint fairing now 63,390 miles

Past:
1968 Yamaha 80 YG1
1971 Yamaha 125 YAS-1
1968 Honda 125 SS
1970 Honda CD 175
1973 Honda CB500-4
Honda CX 500
    

Corkboy

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Hi Olaf,
both days work for me. I wonder if the 25th would be better/quieter?


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             '08 K1200GT Wedge - but still a K
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Ringfad

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25th would also suit me better


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Dai

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Highly unlikely. I'm interviewing for jobs ATM. If I get offered the one I really want, I have to go to England for a three week training course about then.


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92KK 84WW Olaf

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Apart from comments here I have a few others also suggesting 25th.

Maybe we just go for 25th and put it up on the fb page too?


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1992 K100LT 0193214 Bertha Blue 101,000 miles
1984 K100RT 0022575 Brutus Baja Red 578 bought 36,000 now 89,150 miles
1997 K1100LT 0188024 Wotan Mystic Red 689 58,645 now 106,950 miles Deceased.
1983 K100RS 0011157 Fricka 606 Alaska Blue 29,495 miles Damn K Pox Its a Bat outta Hell Now 58,200 miles. 
1996 K1100LT 0233004 Lohengrin Mystic Red 38,000 miles currently 51,800 miles.
1983 K100RS 0004449 Odette R100 colours 58,000 miles. Sprint fairing now 63,390 miles

Past:
1968 Yamaha 80 YG1
1971 Yamaha 125 YAS-1
1968 Honda 125 SS
1970 Honda CD 175
1973 Honda CB500-4
Honda CX 500
    

electric_monk

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Looking forward to it already.

    

firstle

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luck you , the event in birmingham has been cancelled AGAIN (4th year) strange how now they are building on the old irish centre ? student accomadation when the rebuild was rejected when the old centre submited , the new irish  centre is in billsley . birmingham council Ars******

    

92KK 84WW Olaf

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firstle wrote:luck you , the event in birmingham has been cancelled AGAIN (4th year) strange how now they are building on the old irish centre ? student accomadation when the rebuild was rejected when the old centre submited , the new irish  centre is in billsley . birmingham council Ars******

Stena line and Irish Ferries do a cheap return ticket from Holyhead to Dublin, about £105. 

You can get a sailing from Holyhead at 2:15am or 2:40am and one back at 20:30 or 20:55.

Our meeting point is about 90 minutes from the ferry. Google will tell you about 70 minutes, 100km [63 miles] so plenty of time. 

Why don't you come over for the day? You will be very welcome and you won't be the first to have come like that.

Its motorway all the way from the port [€3 toll for the tunnel] [M11 M50 M7 exit Junction 16] and only the last 10km/6 miles is off the motorway.

24 hour petrol station in the port and lots on M7 especially on the first part and also at Junction 14. Exit for Stradbally is Junction 16. One beside our meeting place at Stradbally Fayre too. North Wales is a bit sketchy for petrol late at night so I would have a full tank going on the ferry back.


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1992 K100LT 0193214 Bertha Blue 101,000 miles
1984 K100RT 0022575 Brutus Baja Red 578 bought 36,000 now 89,150 miles
1997 K1100LT 0188024 Wotan Mystic Red 689 58,645 now 106,950 miles Deceased.
1983 K100RS 0011157 Fricka 606 Alaska Blue 29,495 miles Damn K Pox Its a Bat outta Hell Now 58,200 miles. 
1996 K1100LT 0233004 Lohengrin Mystic Red 38,000 miles currently 51,800 miles.
1983 K100RS 0004449 Odette R100 colours 58,000 miles. Sprint fairing now 63,390 miles

Past:
1968 Yamaha 80 YG1
1971 Yamaha 125 YAS-1
1968 Honda 125 SS
1970 Honda CD 175
1973 Honda CB500-4
Honda CX 500
    

Dai

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92KK 84WW Olaf wrote:Stena line and Irish Ferries do a cheap return ticket from Holyhead to Dublin, about £105.
Be aware that's a same-day return. Otherwise it's £138 cheapest with no protection on the ticket if it all goes titsup. However, in my experience Irish Ferries at least are very helpful. They have moved my sailings on request when I have turned up early (a day early once!) with no charge and on one occasion, agreed with my assessment made some five days in advance of the sailing that a pretty violent storm would hit the UK and Ireland and nothing would be crossing the Irish Sea for a couple of days. Despite having no protection on the ticket they refunded anyway. I suspect that being an ex-diver and being able to talk to the help line supervisor about sea states and storm forecasts may have helped with that one.


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1983 K100 naked upgraded to K100LT spec after spending time as an RS and an RT
1987 K100RT
Others...
1978 Moto Guzzi 850-T3, 1979 Moto Guzzi 850-T3 California,1993 Moto Guzzi 1100ie California
2020 Royal Enfield Bullet 500
    

92KK 84WW Olaf

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Dai wrote:
92KK 84WW Olaf wrote:Stena line and Irish Ferries do a cheap return ticket from Holyhead to Dublin, about £105.
Be aware that's a same-day return. Otherwise it's £138 cheapest with no protection on the ticket if it all goes titsup. However, in my experience Irish Ferries at least are very helpful. They have moved my sailings on request when I have turned up early (a day early once!) with no charge and on one occasion, agreed with my assessment made some five days in advance of the sailing that a pretty violent storm would hit the UK and Ireland and nothing would be crossing the Irish Sea for a couple of days. Despite having no protection on the ticket they refunded anyway. I suspect that being an ex-diver and being able to talk to the help line supervisor about sea states and storm forecasts may have helped with that one.

They are short stay return, I think 30 hours so you can stay overnight. Maybe Dublin route is different because we dont get Day Return tickets like from Larne or Belfast.


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1992 K100LT 0193214 Bertha Blue 101,000 miles
1984 K100RT 0022575 Brutus Baja Red 578 bought 36,000 now 89,150 miles
1997 K1100LT 0188024 Wotan Mystic Red 689 58,645 now 106,950 miles Deceased.
1983 K100RS 0011157 Fricka 606 Alaska Blue 29,495 miles Damn K Pox Its a Bat outta Hell Now 58,200 miles. 
1996 K1100LT 0233004 Lohengrin Mystic Red 38,000 miles currently 51,800 miles.
1983 K100RS 0004449 Odette R100 colours 58,000 miles. Sprint fairing now 63,390 miles

Past:
1968 Yamaha 80 YG1
1971 Yamaha 125 YAS-1
1968 Honda 125 SS
1970 Honda CD 175
1973 Honda CB500-4
Honda CX 500
    

moriarti

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Stena offer £109 return out on Friday return Monday various sailing times.Looks a good deal Very Happy


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92KK 84WW Olaf

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moriarti wrote:Stena offer £109 return out on Friday return Monday various sailing times.Looks a good deal Very Happy

So are you coming too?

Bring a tent and I know a nice camping place https://www.norevalleypark.com/


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1992 K100LT 0193214 Bertha Blue 101,000 miles
1984 K100RT 0022575 Brutus Baja Red 578 bought 36,000 now 89,150 miles
1997 K1100LT 0188024 Wotan Mystic Red 689 58,645 now 106,950 miles Deceased.
1983 K100RS 0011157 Fricka 606 Alaska Blue 29,495 miles Damn K Pox Its a Bat outta Hell Now 58,200 miles. 
1996 K1100LT 0233004 Lohengrin Mystic Red 38,000 miles currently 51,800 miles.
1983 K100RS 0004449 Odette R100 colours 58,000 miles. Sprint fairing now 63,390 miles

Past:
1968 Yamaha 80 YG1
1971 Yamaha 125 YAS-1
1968 Honda 125 SS
1970 Honda CD 175
1973 Honda CB500-4
Honda CX 500
    

moriarti

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On going health problems prevent me from attending. You guys have a good time and i will watch from the side-lines ,hopefully i will be well enough to ride by midsummer. Very Happy Very Happy


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firstle

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i know the trip well , i have a home in cork but working so will pass this time

    

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We have a couple of suggestions for routes on Saturday. We need to avoid motorways to enable all members to participate.
Option #1:
Run from Stradbally to Dunbrody Famine ship, New Ross via Thomastown for coffee and breakout. 80kms

Option #2:
Run to Carlow and back up to Abbeyleix via R430 (Spink/Swan) and breakout. 70 kms

Option #3:
Stradbally to Kilkenny and back to Portlaoise services for coffee (via Abbeyleix) breakout onto M8/old roads as necessary. 102kms

Vote below please.


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K1100RS - 1995. AKA Rudolf Von Schmurf (in a million bits)
K100RS - 1991 AKA Ronnie. Cafe racer project bike
K75RTP - 1994
K75C - 1991 AKA Jim Beam. In boxes. 
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