Buxton Peaks Ride Out - Saturday 28th May

[Monty]

Anyone free this Saturday? Thinking Breakfast here at 10am ish.

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.... and then do the other side of the Peaks, Staffordshire, Cheshire and Derbyshire. It's the bit I've always saved until last on the other ride outs but always ran out of time. Will include Long Hill, Goyt Valley, Macc Forrest and bits of the Cat and Fiddle. Then maybe head over Itchy's leap in the other direction for lunch at the Royal Oak.

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[Kwacky]

I would love to but Mrs Kwacky is working so I've got the kids.

[Monty]

Next time dude

[Cav]

I'll be at Pembrey this weekend sorry mate

[Itchy]

[Blade]

Working dam it.

Have fun though and look forward to pictures

[rocket]

Weather depending I may come out to play

[Itchy]

Weather's looking good.

[Monty]

Looking great!

[rocket]

I'll be there or I'll be square

[rocket]

great ride started to gel with the zx10 on the last part of the ride. Hope you liked the strines hope your ok Itchy

[Kwacky]

That doesn't sound good.

[Itchy]

I came off.

It sounds worse than it is.

Going round a tight uphill right-hander, which seemed to tighten up more as I went round it...

My toe slider hit the deck, I pooped my pants a bit and the bike stood up as a result.

Now I know you're supposed to just try and lean it and hope for the best, but there just wasn't sufficient time (or skill!).

So me and the bike head for the grass verge and a massive chuffing rock. I think I hit the rock (I must have as there were scrape marks on it) and flew over the top, onto the grass and down goes the bike.

Once I met back up with Rocket and Monty and we pulled in to assess the damage, it took a good couple of minutes to list it all...

Yep. That's it. That one scratch!

Well, that and I knocked both mirrors out of place (and I whacked my hand on one of them, which hurts a bit) but as crashes go, I think I got off fairly lightly.

I'll do a write up later, going to chill for a bit now.

[Kwacky]

Blimey. That's almost a perfect crash

[Itchy]

I think I'd have only come off better if I'd landed on a bouncy castle.

[Perkles]

Sounds like a lucky escape ,good the bikes not to bad

[Blade]

Very glad to hear you and bike are ok Itchy

Which road were you on there is some challenging bends in the Peaks and Monty seems to know most of them

[Itchy]

We had migrated by this point to West Yorkshire.

So it was all Rocket's fault!

[rocket]

We had migrated by this point to West Yorkshire.

So it was all Rocket's fault!

It was Homle Moss

[Itchy]

Crash Corner!

Let's face it, if I can crash, pick it up and carry on, and still be giggling like an idiot at the next stop then it's not much of a problem!

Just been for another check of the bike. Can't find anything else.

My hand still hurts though. Not as much as when everyone shook hands as we departed and Monty's thumb clasped down right on my ouchy, but as I say, I walked away with absolute minimum damage.

Winner!