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[dellzeqq]

[QUOTE 1550065"]
Frankly Reservoir is wet.
[/quote]
Let me get this straight. You drown a Welsh valley so that people in Birmingham can have fresh water, and you now want to organise a tour to view your overseas, nay, colonial, possessions......do you, perhaps, want to remove this post before TC and Lukesdad see it and blow up the Rotunda again!!!???

Tell you what - we could call it the Friday Night Ride In Memory of Joseph Chamberlain, and distribute bibles while we're at it

 

[dellzeqq]

I've had my mind changed about the A82. My spies in the field inform me that at 2 am you'd be unlikely to meet anyone after Balloch, as Frank said. The A82 wouldn't be a problem, really. I think it could work, I've almost got a route - I just need to sort out the byzantine one way system round Kelvingrove Park (which would serve as the ideal regrouping area after all the city centre lights). If you turn onto the A83 at Tarbet you'd end up going through Rest and Be Thankful - how could anyone resist that? - on the way to Inverary. The main issue is finding a halfway stop.

Ah - I owe you an explanation, oh Beacon of the Black Country (got to get back in his good books somehow). I have it on a higher authority, higher even than your good self, that people do drive down that road at 80mph, and that getting back by train makes the Aber Hejira look like a cakewalk.

 

[Aperitif]

I've had my mind changed about the A82. My spies in the field inform me that at 2 am you'd be unlikely to meet anyone after Balloch, as Frank said. The A82 wouldn't be a problem, really. I think it could work, I've almost got a route - I just need to sort out the byzantine one way system round Kelvingrove Park (which would serve as the ideal regrouping area after all the city centre lights). If you turn onto the A83 at Tarbet you'd end up going through Rest and Be Thankful - how could anyone resist that? - on the way to Inverary. The main issue is finding a halfway stop.

You're not coming over all 'Mel Gibson' are you Andrew...seeing the homeland through 'rose'-tinted specs..? Next thing you'll be infiltrating the CCEcosse rides...

 

[lukesdad]

Let me get this straight. You drown a Welsh valley so that people in Birmingham can have fresh water, and you now want to organise a tour to view your overseas, nay, colonial, possessions......do you, perhaps, want to remove this post before TC and Lukesdad see it and blow up the Rotunda again!!!???

Tell you what - we could call it the Friday Night Ride In Memory of Joseph Chamberlain, and distribute bibles while we're at it

Release the Kraken !!!!

 

[StuartG]

And don't give me the Severn estuary, because it is a) not the coast and b) devoid of decent chips.

Oh come on - Gloucester has its Docks and a Wetherspoons. The route could take in pretty Evesham and scoot around GCHQ outside Cheltenham. Just think what the local constabulary will make of a load of stalinesque starred riders encircling a building that surely must top the Rotunda as an icon of our age ... please, please Del - just for the piccies ...

 

[dellzeqq]

Release the Kraken !!!!

nnnooooo!

 

[clarion]

[QUOTE 1550074"]
Portishead isn't a bad place.
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But they were a bit of a dull band.

 

[dellzeqq]

[QUOTE 1550074"]
Portishead isn't a bad place.
[/quote]it is a suburb of Bristol, 100 miles from Birmingham, and it has a car park and a bench by the sea. No beach, no pier, no chips, no donkeys, no kiss me quick booths, no tattooed ladies, no breakfast, no railway station.........there is, I believe, a cemetery and one of those hotels in which attendees at corporate conferences hope to get lucky. And a tennis club - a short walk from the cemetery.

 

[User10571]

But they were a bit of a dull band.

Not dull.
Just very dark and unhappy.

Rumour has it that Beth Gibbons smiled at a gig once.

Freaked the audience, that did.

 

[lukesdad]

nnnooooo!

Not the kraken I was thinking of !

 

[dellzeqq]

Oh come on - Gloucester has its Docks and a Wetherspoons. The route could take in pretty Evesham and scoot around GCHQ outside Cheltenham. Just think what the local constabulary will make of a load of stalinesque starred riders encircling a building that surely must top the Rotunda as an icon of our age ... please, please Del - just for the piccies ...

Gloucester is not by the sea! And, let's be clear about this...........Gloucester is where you go when you find Cheltenham a bit too 'racy'. Cobbett went there and described it as a fine clean beautiful place, but generations of 'conservationists' have throttled the life out of it, leaving a duller than dull pretend-town that Alec Cliftno-Taylor bodyswerved on his way to Bradford-on-Avon (you don't get this crap on Bike Radar, you know!).

Starter for 10 - what links Cobbett, Clifton-Taylor, Derek Nimmo and Mimi Rogers?

 

[Aperitif]

Religion? Scientology? Card games?

 

[dellzeqq]

Religion? Scientology? Card games?

board game, possibly..........

 

[Flying Dodo]

Give us a clue................

 

[beastie]

How about Penrith/carlisle to Newcastle? I think descending in the dark over the pennines at 50 mph is the way forward. Pubs in geordie land are plentiful.