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Turns out we haven't met up since 2018!

Spent a great weekend up in Keilder with him, on the push bikes!

I did a 42 mile off road course, while he did 120.

Oh well, back to the motorbike this week for the French run :-)
--
Bruce Porter
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On 27/04/2026 19:58, YTC1 wrote:

Turns out we haven't met up since 2018!

Spent a great weekend up in Keilder with him, on the push bikes!

I did a 42 mile off road course, while he did 120.

Oh well, back to the motorbike this week for the French run :-)

Nice one!
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Colin Irvine
R1250RS
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On Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:58:05 +0100, YTC1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote:

back to the motorbike this week for the French run :-)

I'm packing today

My colour-coded itinerary plan looks like I'm managing a fucking
moonshot
--
Champ
neal at champ dot org dot uk

I don't know, but I been told
You never slow down, you never grow old
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Champ <neal@champ.org.uk> wrote in news:l4s0vkt0sr5v6gqb1ionblk2rfpg10kd91@ 4ax.com:

On Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:58:05 +0100, YTC1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote:

back to the motorbike this week for the French run :-)

I'm packing today

ditto

staying with some friends tomorrow in between here and the Tunnel.

My colour-coded itinerary plan looks like I'm managing a fucking
moonshot

it's all magenta lines, with individual ones for each day, on my 15 year
old Garmin Zumo with a very relaxed schedule over 10 nights from home.

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On 28/04/2026 09:49, wessie wrote:

Champ <neal@champ.org.uk> wrote in news:l4s0vkt0sr5v6gqb1ionblk2rfpg10kd91@ 4ax.com:

On Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:58:05 +0100, YTC1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote:

back to the motorbike this week for the French run :-)

I'm packing today

ditto

staying with some friends tomorrow in between here and the Tunnel.

My colour-coded itinerary plan looks like I'm managing a fucking
moonshot

it's all magenta lines, with individual ones for each day, on my 15 year
old Garmin Zumo with a very relaxed schedule over 10 nights from home.

Have a nice time y'all, I'll wave to you from the Poole-bound ferry.
--
/Simon
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Simon Wilson <simowilso+newsdemon@nodamnspamn.gmail.com> wrote in news:18aa795bd73f2b52$211587$2713986$4d54e64@news.newsdemon.com:

On 28/04/2026 09:49, wessie wrote:

Champ <neal@champ.org.uk> wrote in
news:l4s0vkt0sr5v6gqb1ionblk2rfpg10kd91@ 4ax.com:

On Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:58:05 +0100, YTC1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote:

back to the motorbike this week for the French run :-)

I'm packing today

ditto

staying with some friends tomorrow in between here and the Tunnel.

My colour-coded itinerary plan looks like I'm managing a fucking
moonshot

it's all magenta lines, with individual ones for each day, on my 15
year old Garmin Zumo with a very relaxed schedule over 10 nights from
home.

Have a nice time y'all, I'll wave to you from the Poole-bound ferry.

using the overnight one from Le Havre to get home again this year after a
few days in Chartres with Brooms

Used it last year. Old, small ferry used to be on the Jersey route. Decent times 2130 out, 0900 arrival but we were 2.5 hours early last year, so I
guess they add extra time just in case of bad weather. Not many to get
through customs so home by 11am.
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On 28/04/2026 09:32, Champ wrote:

On Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:58:05 +0100, YTC1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote:

back to the motorbike this week for the French run :-)

I'm packing today

My colour-coded itinerary plan looks like I'm managing a fucking
moonshot

I checked the bike over (after screeding a floor), and had an oil leak.
Quick tweak of the sump bolt, seems to have sorted it.

Now reminding myself of what a bastard ride it is, not sure if the 5hrs
will be enough, oh well.
--
Bruce Porter
"The internet is a huge and diverse community but mainly friendly" http://ytc1.blogspot.co.uk/
There *is* an alternative! http://www.openoffice.org/
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YTC1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote in news:10sqs8b$3b5io$1@dont-email.me:

On 28/04/2026 09:32, Champ wrote:

On Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:58:05 +0100, YTC1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote:

back to the motorbike this week for the French run :-)

I'm packing today

My colour-coded itinerary plan looks like I'm managing a fucking
moonshot

I checked the bike over (after screeding a floor), and had an oil leak.
Quick tweak of the sump bolt, seems to have sorted it.

Now reminding myself of what a bastard ride it is, not sure if the 5hrs
will be enough, oh well.

I'll email you and Champ my phone no so yo ucan text if you won't make
dinner - we are booked in at 730pm and will meet before on a bar across the road called Quen Victoria.
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On 28/04/2026 19:21, wessie wrote:

YTC1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote in news:10sqs8b$3b5io$1@dont-email.me:

On 28/04/2026 09:32, Champ wrote:

On Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:58:05 +0100, YTC1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote:

back to the motorbike this week for the French run :-)

I'm packing today

My colour-coded itinerary plan looks like I'm managing a fucking
moonshot

I checked the bike over (after screeding a floor), and had an oil leak.
Quick tweak of the sump bolt, seems to have sorted it.

Now reminding myself of what a bastard ride it is, not sure if the 5hrs
will be enough, oh well.

I'll email you and Champ my phone no so yo ucan text if you won't make
dinner - we are booked in at 730pm and will meet before on a bar across the road called Quen Victoria.

Received.

Adie and I are booked on the 14:50(46), but I expect we will end up on
the next one.
--
Bruce Porter
"The internet is a huge and diverse community but mainly friendly" http://ytc1.blogspot.co.uk/
There *is* an alternative! http://www.openoffice.org/
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YTC1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote in news:10sseiv$3oo9o$1@dont-email.me:

On 28/04/2026 19:21, wessie wrote:

YTC1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote in news:10sqs8b$3b5io$1@dont-email.me:

On 28/04/2026 09:32, Champ wrote:

On Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:58:05 +0100, YTC1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote:

back to the motorbike this week for the French run :-)

I'm packing today

My colour-coded itinerary plan looks like I'm managing a fucking
moonshot

I checked the bike over (after screeding a floor), and had an oil
leak. Quick tweak of the sump bolt, seems to have sorted it.

Now reminding myself of what a bastard ride it is, not sure if the
5hrs will be enough, oh well.

I'll email you and Champ my phone no so yo ucan text if you won't
make dinner - we are booked in at 730pm and will meet before on a bar
across the road called Quen Victoria.

Received.

Adie and I are booked on the 14:50(46), but I expect we will end up on
the next one.

Scraggy and I are nominally on that one too. We have friends near SevenOaks where we will be tonight, so we are likely to try to get on an earlier one.
We do things in a more relaxed way nowadays!
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On 28/04/2026 09:32 Champ penned these words:

On Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:58:05 +0100, YTC1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote:

back to the motorbike this week for the French run :-)

I'm packing today

I've popped some clothes into a plastic bag, need to find a power adaptor it is somewhere safe then I think I am done.
--
Ian

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest"
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On 29/04/2026 09:13 YTC1 penned these words:

Adie and I are booked on the 14:50(46), but I expect we will end up on
the next one.

Ditto, albeit I really ought to be able to get there on time
--
Ian

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest"
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boots <news@millhouse-communications.co.uk> wrote in news:10ssfkh$3o36m$2 @bilbo.eternal-september.org:

On 29/04/2026 09:13 YTC1 penned these words:

Adie and I are booked on the 14:50(46), but I expect we will end up on
the next one.

Ditto, albeit I really ought to be able to get there on time

see the 9 early runners in St Omer tomorrow.

dinner booked for 1930, meet in the Queen Vic bar across the road in Place Marechal Foch. We can have a toast to Brownz who recommended the 3 Caves restaurant where I first dined in 2016 with Hog & SO.

Radio silence here until the mission is completed on 10 May as CBA to set
up this bollocks on the phone.

Those Meta-averse have alternative ways to communicate any delay for dinner from the grim north.

I'm off to drink friends' beer and wine in Kent this evening.
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On Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:13:18 +0100, YTC1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote:

On 28/04/2026 19:21, wessie wrote:

I'll email you and Champ my phone no so yo ucan text if you won't make
dinner - we are booked in at 730pm and will meet before on a bar across the >> road called Quen Victoria.

Received.

+1

Adie and I are booked on the 14:50(46), but I expect we will end up on
the next one.

Ulp. We're booked on the 16:50 (arr France 18:25). It's not far to
St Omer, but will be tight!

With luck we might get on the 16:20 shuttle
--
Champ
neal at champ dot org dot uk

I don't know, but I been told
You never slow down, you never grow old
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On 27/04/2026 19:58, YTC1 wrote:

Oh well, back to the motorbike this week for the French run :-)

Bon Voyage everyone!

Chris
--
The Deuchars BBB#40 COFF#14
Yamaha XV750SE & Suzuki GS550T
https://www.Deuchars.org.uk
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YTC1 wrote:

Adie and I are booked on the 14:50(46), but I expect we will end up
on the next one.

Ditto. I am aiming to get to Folkestone around 12:30-ish so might stop
for a bit of grub before check-in or try for an earlier crossing.
--
Chris
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wessie <willnotwork@tesco.net> wrote:

Radio silence here until the mission is completed on 10 May as CBA to set
up this bollocks on the phone.

I confess to occasionally looking in to UKRM on my phone while
traveling, not through any Usenet app on the phone but simply by using
VNC / Raspberry Pi Connect (or Chrome Remote Desktop) to remote into
a computer at home.

I have also used a terminal emulator on the phone to ssh into a home
server, but now I don't bother with opening ports on my router and
all that. I suppose what that really means is I don't have a reason
to pay for a domain name...

Those Meta-averse have alternative ways to communicate any delay for dinner from the grim north.

I'm off to drink friends' beer and wine in Kent this evening.

Nectar of the gods, that.

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boots <news@millhouse-communications.co.uk> wrote:

On 28/04/2026 09:32 Champ penned these words:

On Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:58:05 +0100, YTC1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote:

back to the motorbike this week for the French run :-)

I'm packing today

I've popped some clothes into a plastic bag, need to find a power adaptor it is
somewhere safe then I think I am done.

I like the cut of your jib, sir.

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On 29/04/2026 09:27, wessie wrote:

YTC1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote in news:10sseiv$3oo9o$1@dont-email.me:

On 28/04/2026 19:21, wessie wrote:

YTC1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote in news:10sqs8b$3b5io$1@dont-email.me:

On 28/04/2026 09:32, Champ wrote:

On Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:58:05 +0100, YTC1 <ytc1@ytc1.co.uk> wrote:

back to the motorbike this week for the French run :-)

I'm packing today

My colour-coded itinerary plan looks like I'm managing a fucking
moonshot

I checked the bike over (after screeding a floor), and had an oil
leak. Quick tweak of the sump bolt, seems to have sorted it.

Now reminding myself of what a bastard ride it is, not sure if the
5hrs will be enough, oh well.

I'll email you and Champ my phone no so yo ucan text if you won't
make dinner - we are booked in at 730pm and will meet before on a bar
across the road called Quen Victoria.

Received.

Adie and I are booked on the 14:50(46), but I expect we will end up on
the next one.

Scraggy and I are nominally on that one too. We have friends near SevenOaks where we will be tonight, so we are likely to try to get on an earlier one. We do things in a more relaxed way nowadays!

That was my intention :-) , I was going to stop ovwr in the UK on
Thursday, but someone twisted my arm to take part in the pre-gathering gathering
--
Bruce Porter
"The internet is a huge and diverse community but mainly friendly" http://ytc1.blogspot.co.uk/
There *is* an alternative! http://www.openoffice.org/
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