Pleased to hear you'll be there in 2012 then Bear!!

Shall we ride up together again and this time rather than pitching our tents in the requested & incorrect area, we'll just check in to the B&B and make sure the water's hot?

I do not think name badges are a good idea. They will prevent folk from personal introductions and it's always good to not have a clue until you meet someone. There's me thinking it was irishguyonabike (Brendan) and it's actually stoicbloke - or is it? I still don't know, perhaps I've bumped my head?

Personally I would prefer more trail riding and knowing the amount of road work involved, I rode on Tourances and they are truly amusing off road.. All I could do to even get going on a stony uphill from a standstill - never a good idea to stop on an uphill!!

Overall the weekend was great. Possible improvements would be a Thursday evening arrrival to a warm B&B with a light pub social. Friday would be trail riding and more trail riding followed by pub again. Saturday is reserved for Nav XT as it was a perfect way to see The Lakes and as Tony said, we saw much more than if we'd just popped off for a ride. Saturday night the BBQ followed by pub and Sunday an optional ride, lazy breafast, sail on the Ullswater cruiser and off home. All in the warm sunshine preferably..

Other ideas:
uberthumper gets a handicap delayed start to give us all a chance.
The rain is banned for the weekend, as are the high winds.
No bicycle event at the same time I'm trying to go over Honister Pass.
Less smoke in the eyes (GULG could harldy see for an hour afterwards) during the BBQ.
I don't crash again and ****** up mt XT Nav score - Oh & my bike!

Top weekend!

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