BMW R1200RT/R1250RT Forum

Really good to meet you all, thanks to Darren for organising.

Thanks Darren,


great weekend.. roll on next year :-) but please, no diesel mistakes please  :))

Well done Bob!.... Great weekend!!  8)

Cheers Darren for organising the weekend, it was great to meet old faces and new.

Thanks for a good weekend all.  Tim asked me to also pass on his thanks for an enjoyable ride.


I heard the ride was too spirited for some and too slow for others.  Perhaps next year, we should have an 'A' and 'B' team.  One for the tea drinking photographers, and one for the riders who want to make more progress.  Just a thought.

LOL you mean split the ride up. Joking aside, up for that as prefer to ride up to the legal posted limit, or I could borrow one of Diesel Dave's scooter's. 
BUT. The whole point of marker system is that no one has to ride above their capabilities, also if in a large group and you find the pace above what you want to ride at, you simply need to wave people pass and you will pass them again as they mark junctions which also enables them to ride the road at their pace and yourself to not actually mark junctions. At times, everybody is just not in the mood or feeling at one/comfortable with the bike and wants to ride at a more relaxed pace.   

BoB21 wrote: LOL you mean split the ride up. Joking aside, up for that as prefer to ride up to the legal posted limit, or I could borrow one of Diesel Dave's scooter's. 
BUT. The whole point of marker system is that no one has to ride above their capabilities, also if in a large group and you find the pace above what you want to ride at, you simply need to wave people pass and you will pass them again as they mark junctions which also enables them to ride the road at their pace and yourself to not actually mark junctions. At times, everybody is just not in the mood or feeling at one/comfortable with the bike and wants to ride at a more relaxed pace. 

I can imagine that works well, if the back marker stays at the back - LOL!

Sullivj wrote:
I can imagine that works well, if the back marker stays at the back - LOL!

"The clue is in the title."
But Thank you Tim for volunteering. 
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Just to add my thanks to Darren for organising this years meet!
Also huge thanks to my international rescue team of michealc2710 and davef1uk for giving up their day to help get Big Red back on the road


It was great to meet up with new and old faces, well most of them anyway (joke) and finally I’m not changing my forum name to Diesel Dave !!

Great picks there Dave