Longmynd 28th June....Reveiw

All i can say it was QUALITY !!!!!!!!

Righteo, bit thanks to Alex, Manny and Mart leading the way. Even if Manny's sat nav couldnt find Twickenham (or was it Twitchen?)

Had a great day as usual and the fact that I didnt break anything made it even better. The weather held up right into the evening when it started getting colder and even the slight bit of rain we had held off until the darkness started setting in.

Didnt get many pics and the ones I did take arent great. Still though a couple of good ones. Wayfarer in reverse was nice, But I still prefer it coming up from the white stones side. White stones always feels worse going up then down to me for some reason.

As it turned out I was 50 miles away from home when we finished, and the first 6 miles of the journey were on single track back roads before hitting the main road. That made for a hair raising moment coming down a very steep hill with an acute right hander over a bridge and a surfaced road continuing straight on into a gate.

It was probably the God Frontera punishing me for saying to Alex and nifty that Frontera brakes werent all that good right before I set off for home

Got home just after midnight, made a cuppa, went to bed and was asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.

Well done to the first timers who came out, I would consider what we did to be the perfect lanes for breaking people into the hobby. Hopefully they will find it as infectious as the rest of us have. Eventually I will get round to polishing the scratches out, I keep promising that to myself.

Thanks to Spence for opening the gates (again) and closing them (again). Although the poor lad must have been freezing towards the end of the day.

Right then... Piccy time

Heres a few of my piccys...

And some spectators at corwen :lol:

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first 3 links fixed by smiffy

Do the Harlem Shuffle

what to say then a great day a big thanks to every1

Oops, I forgot one

And the Carwash of course.

Hi boys & girls :wink:

Just got back at 16:30,after spending the day looking around the place! Stayed over in a b&b last night,walked inta town for a pint (Llangollen) only to hear some fine filly shout out-I've got a thousand quid stuffed in my knickers :lol:

The welsh girls 'eh :lol:

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Yesterdees laning was really great,not having done the area before. The wayfairer was a treat & the scenery totally stunning. Fabulous bunch of Foggers to meet up with again as well as quite a few new faces! Well done Alex for organising the day as well as the route leaders

420 miles in total & fronty did not miss a beat but I sure pumped them out on the way back to the sound of Peter Gabriel, Peter Tosh and Peter Frampton and that was not planned :lol:

Picturegraphs to follow :wink:

Couple of pics

Not too many action pic Im afraid

Cool pics Martin .....

did everyone do the carwash ???

Woooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhooooooooooooooooooooooo..............................................................

Major amounts of fun :dance:

Absolutly awesome.......

Big thanks to everyone for everythin...........haven't stopped talking about it today and showing the pics n videos on my phone to people. LOVED IT........Deffo gotta get a truck as soon as poss coz it was just WICKED :dance:

Post some pics n vids tomorrow peeps..

Love ya!!!!!!!

did you all get your marmalade then

I got spicy Chutney... Cheers Ange

Thanks to everyone involved for a cracking day out.

Good to meet you at long last Ryan and your Mrs

Nice to put faces to all the names, just gotta get the faces matched up to the correct names now :oops:

Sorry its taken so long to get on guys and gals. What can I say? The trips the people arrange on this site just get better and better. Thanks very much to Alex for arranging this trip and to Manny and Mart for your leadership.

What a brilliant day out! left home at 5.30am and got home just before 3.00am the next day :shock:

with just under 500 miles on the clock only to drive back up to Stoke this morning at 7.00am and got back at 9.30 tonight, I'm knackered!!!

Again it was great to catch up with the usual suspects and ace to meet some new faces. A big Hello to Angie and Kev, and Dan and Mark, hope you all enjoyed your first time laning, you looked like you were having a good time!

D & M, loved the pick up and got some great ideas for Nemesis and a few from Alex and Manny ref the twin stackers

Oh and cheers for the hoops Alex

Well we started the day up at the Glider station on top of the Mynd where we split into 1 group for the beginners and two groups of less intelligents. We went in opposite directions, our groups doing a few gentle lanes first then progressing to a really tight and scratchy lane that may result in fog's first B Series Cammo paint job cos Angelina got a bit roughed up (but that's how she likes it!) just parked her further away from the wifes car now so there's less chance of her noticing :axe:

The views from up there were breathtaking and can only make you proud that we live in this beautifull country. Keep your 40 in the shade and miles of white sand, give me rolling green hills and sitting on some damp heather having a ham 'n' pickle sandwich any day.

After spending nearly 6 hours on Longmynd and saying goodbye to Fuddy and Kyle, and John and the boys we made our way up to Corwen to do the Carwash and then onto the Wayfairer. The carwash was awsome and i ended up doing it twice, not because i was playing around though, in all the excitement, we managed to leave a photographer stranded on the other side so i went over and back again only to be told by Drift that we needed to be on the other side anyway to get onto the wayfairer, so throgh i went again but this time i think my rear diff sucked in a bit of welsh H2O so there's a job for next weekend when SWMBO has gone away for a few days :twisted:

The wayfairer was exhilarating! If the idiots that cause the damage up at the Bombhole end up getting it closed, I will hunt them down and feed them their spleens cos Everyone for generations should have the chance to drive across there, it's amazing.

The new bash plates got a damn good testing and performed brilliantly, infact it even took the top off one rock :shock:

A few special thanks go to Spencer, master gate opener and closer, Alex, that boy is a credit to you mate and i hope my littlun turns out as good as him. And a big thanks to Zebadee for being an excellent co-driver, especially when we were coming down the White Stones in the dark, and for not breaking my truck when i was co-driving, T-cut's on you mate :lol:

Anyhoo, here's a few piccies

And ofcause, the obligatory nature shots

well done to everybody i bet all you newbies are itching to go again,i know i was after my first time

Cool pics

well guted had to shot off early for the kids,can't wait till next time and go through the car wash.

Hi guys

well a big thankyou for letting me tag along, big thanks to Alex for looking me thank god for the cb

sorry about all the screaming but some of the hills were a hell of a drop, consequently ive now got no voice :roll:

but well worth it excellant, and the car wash well what a hoot.

It was finally nice to meet some of you guys and put a face to a name Dan the toy looks great, you are all a great bunch and although the day was long spirits were well high dont think ive come down yet.

Ian thanks for the cb directions on the way to the carwash carpark sally sat nav was usless.

On the whole a fantastic day scratches not so good. Alex and his gental lanes ohhh well of to the valeters tomorrow for a good clean and a polish, me of to the nail palour and the oesteopath

thanks one and all for the first in a long line of laining

Love to you all keep safe drive safe

Angie-Marie xxx