Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles From: (Nick Pettefar) Subject: Trip Report - RCR and JOUST Organization: Why do you suspect that? Date: Tue, 31 Aug 93 03:39:23 GMT This is being ghost-posted for Nick through his account on elektro, since he doesn't have net access at the moment. Comments and flames should also be emailed to him at biker@infocom.co.uk - just to help him keep in touch with us out-of-touch types! ........................................................................ RCR II ------ After a great trip through the Shanendoah National Park, Charlie and I arrived at Cass and greeted the DoDers there. We were warmly received and everybody was friendly, interesting and nice! I enjoyed the chats, boasts, rides, scenery and even some of the food! The train, A Shay, I think, was intriguing, a transmission system borrowed from one of the early Spagthorpe combination Coal-train cum Racers, I believe. I hope Dean has found a place in his home for his new DoD girlfriend Muffy, and that she won't suffer the same misfortunes as the widely travelled Debby, her pneumatic predecessor. The video is fairly good, some people even had time to wave as they came haring around that mountain bend to find me stood in the road next to the PD waving a camcorder at them. The American music that was played during the picnic was almost stimulating, but the band were unable to play my requested Stairway To Heaven (the LZ version as opposed to the Neil Sedaka one) when they called for musical suggestions. Obviously not DoD material. JOUST ----- Having driven all the bloody way across bloody America and not receiving the bloody award for Long bloody Distance, I find myself ill-disposed to offer any compliments to any of you bloody Americans apart to say that you all seemed bloody good sports, all-round decent chaps and little-ladies and I had a not too unreasonably bad time, all things told. That git doing the awards was a bit of a cad who obviously came from a bad family but the people who helped get my/Charlie's PD going seemed fairly civilised and quite decent blighters too. The mountains and lakes in the vicinity were fairly stunning, even if it was a tadge on the warm side. To cheer everyone up, I will try and make it for next year's one. I hope to arrive on time for one of the rides then and will show you all how to ride, given decent enough tackle, that is. San Jose -------- Fun, fun, fun! This was what I had in San Jose! Meeting people at the Tuesday Dinner, pulling wheelies on Diana's Hardly, charging around the mountains on a super 350LC and generally thoroughly enjoying myself!!! The only down bits were discovering I didn't have any money and scratching Peter's wonderful bike. I hope that Peter has forgiven me and that it isn't too badly damaged. Everybody was wonderful and the fun factor was at level ACE! Even the hospital was ok. A wonderful chap called Charlie (from New Jersey) took me there and waited for me to be seen (Thanks!!!) and kept me and most of the staff entertained with his wonderful wit. The hospital was catholic and they broadcast prayers over the pa! Charlie kept asking people for the directions to the abortion ward and where to go for a vasectomy, etc. It was a great shame that I had to cut my visit short, but don't be sad, I'll be back!!! If any of you people want to visit the UK or Europe, you'll certainly find a bed/floor to stay on at my place and a bike to borrow (if I have one) so don't hesitate to contact me! More later. I am still looking for a job and so just have Email, not Usenet. Don't hesitate to contact me at : biker@infocom.co.uk for some blarney. PS:- UK DoD National Motorcycle Museum (NMM) Meet -------------------------------------------- Russell Brown organised a meeting at the National Motorcycle Museum at Birmingham for Ogri-ites and DoDers in the UK vicinity. Me and Madnet rode up the ancient Roman Fosse-Way up to Warwick and then headed up several wrong roads to eventually arrive late at the NMM. We went into the restaurant there and discovered that almost everybody there was in our gang! We got tea and bread-pudding and I found a spare seat next to Mike Sixsmith from Norwich who I'd first met in America. After the eats and pleasantries, we all toured the museum which was very interesting. I loved the Vincents and the strange Triumph prototypes including the four-cylinder bonneville. After this, we all assembled outside with our bikes for a photo-shoot and then set off for a ride into Stratford-Upon-Avon which we found to be crawling with tourists (mainly Americans!) so we headed off elsewhere before stopping at a Little-Chef diner which we half-filled. Most went home then but some of us went to annoy Roger Collier who lived nearby and had helped organise some of the do. After cups of tea and showing everybody my photos from my recent American tour, we wandered off home. ---------- Nick (the Biker) DoD 1069 Concise Oxford __________________________________________________________________ EMAIL --> biker@infocom.co.uk Teneo tuum intervallum! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~