May 13th – 15th
Central Weekend
Location
Premier Inn West Harpole, Northampton
Details
The first weekend event of the season takes you through five of the counties in the heart of England along excellent roads with great scenery and picturesque towns.
We will be following the usual successful format of a full day’s ride out departing at 10:00am with lunch at Charlbury Garden Centre, and a coffee stop in the afternoon before returning for more food and liquid refreshments at our hotel.
A number of different rideouts will be available for those who prefer a shorter route or if you want to make you way to the lunch stop solo thats fine as well as we can advise on the roads not to miss (most of them). For those interested in a bit of culture you could always follow a twisty route to Bletchley Park and investigate the cracking of the enigma code.
May 28th – 29th
Bangelsey
Location
Bangor
Details
310 miles of wriggly roads on Sat, 310 miles of wriggly roads on Sun.
Unsuitable for those of a timorous nature. Sat night is reserved specifically for hangover construction.
June 10th – 12th
Western Weekend
Location
Ludlow, Shropshire
Details
The Western Region weekend will again be based in Ludlow, Shropshire and if you’re a regular, you already know it’s the perfect base to explore the wonderful roads of Wales. There are many pubs, hotels, restaurants and fast food places in Ludlow to suit everyone’s tastes.
As before, we’ll use the Church Inn, King Street and the Wheatsheaf Inn, Lower Broad Street, for socialising. These are real ale pubs and maintains the Western Region weekend tradition of the availability of good thirst quenching beer.
For the ride out on Saturday, everyone should meet in the Leisure Centre Car Park from 9.30am. and the first group will move off for 10.00am.
Take the B4361 out of Ludlow as though heading to the A49 bypass. The Leisure Centre is located within the road calming / hump area.
Ensure you have a full tank of fuel and you’ll need to go to Harry Tuffin’s supermarket complex on the Ludlow bypass for petrol or ensure you have sufficient to take you to the first stop on the ride out, which is about 90 miles.
July 1st – July 10th
Vichy and More
Location
To be confirmed
Details
As yet undecided
July 22rd – 24th
Northern Weekend
Location
Richmond, North Yorkshire
Details
This year the northern extravaganza will be back in Richmond, North Yorkshire.
Revellers are invited to start the fun on Friday evening in the Black Lion Hotel for traditional pub food and real ale.
The meeting place for the ride on Saturday will be the Nuns Close long stay car park.
Meet at 9:30am for a 10.00am departure with full tanks.
There will be rides into Cumbria and around the Yorkshire Dales. Routes are usually kept flexible, especially when the clouds are heavy, and we’ll do our best to find some sun and dry tarmac
The southern posse will be taking Friday off to travel to the venue by some great roads. There will be pickups / Lunch / Fuel Stops etc at Loomies, Wantage, Banbury, The Salt Box Café, Burton on Trent, and Buxton. So, if you want to latch on put out a shout.
August 12th – 14th
Eastern Weekend
Location
Melton Mowbray
Details
The Eastern Weekend will be returning to Melton Mowbray again this year.
We will be eating independently in town over the weekend and most people will probably be found in the Kettleby Cross, Wetherspoons at some point.
The ride out will depart at 10:00am from the Premier Inn car park.
There will be a number of groups to accomodate all tastes following the same route as last year with lunch at Willingham Woods biker meet up, and a coffee stop in the afternoon at Heckington windmill.
September 9th – 11th
Southern Weekend
Location
Newbury, Berkshire
Details
As usual a great finale to the weekend event season the Southern Event will once again be based in Newbury.
Newbury is in an excellent location just off the A34/ A4 junction making it easily accessible for those members travelling down from the north and this also means we are on the doorstep of some great biking roads.
accommodation can be found:-
http://www.visitwestberkshire.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=4686 .
For the ride out on Saturday, everyone should meet in the Pelican Lane Car Park from 9.30am. and the first group will move off for 10.00am
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