Peak Riders News Letter - July 2012
Peak Riders News Letter - July 2012
Peak Riders News Letter - July 2012
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Kaptain’s Korner<br />
®<br />
Hello <strong>Peak</strong> <strong>Riders</strong>,<br />
June has been and<br />
gone! (The month of<br />
June that is).<br />
Now........ where have<br />
we been? <strong>Peak</strong> District<br />
with Andy, Green Lane<br />
Riding with Russ,<br />
SkegVegas with John G<br />
and as I write this, we’re<br />
off to Hog the Humber<br />
with Big Tone and join up with the rally crew who<br />
are there for the weekend. The rally crew have<br />
also been to the Circus Maximus Rally over in<br />
Chester and reported a ‘good do’ had by all.<br />
We’ve had some great Wednesday evening rides<br />
and of course Million Mile Monday which now has<br />
a new name (Ed: Worldride!) and covers 2 days<br />
to enable/encourage us to do more miles on our<br />
beloved Harleys!<br />
http://iwblogger.com/<strong>2012</strong>/harley-davidson-million<br />
-mile-monday-expands-to-2-day-world-ride-june-<br />
24-25/<br />
I’ve now got my bike back after Ian and his happy<br />
band of Techies have changed the main gearbox<br />
output shaft bearing which was the reason for<br />
excessive transmission noise. Anyway it’s riding<br />
beautifully now and it’s good to have my<br />
‘bathroom suite’ back.<br />
Still on the technical side of biking, I’ve replaced<br />
the fork seals on my Super Tenere trail bike and<br />
discovered it had ‘odd’ seals fitted because the<br />
two fork legs were also ‘odd’ and presumably one<br />
has been replaced at some time in it’s 20 year<br />
life. All back together now and not a weep of fork<br />
oil in sight.....result!<br />
Next Wednesday evening we’re off to the<br />
Waterfront Hotel where the Chesterfield Canal<br />
joins the River Trent at West Stockwith. We went<br />
for the first time last year and enjoyed some good<br />
grub and great views over the marina and the<br />
Trent. So if you’ve not been on a Wednesday<br />
rideout, come and join us, you might find you like<br />
it.<br />
Try to keep and eye on the ‘events’ section of the<br />
<strong>Peak</strong>rider’s website and in particular start times<br />
for rideouts. We try wherever possible to keep the<br />
10:00 for 10:30 start time, but we may have to<br />
vary this according to the routes and destinations.<br />
Sharron’s ride to Hunstanton on Sunday 8 th <strong>July</strong><br />
is setting off at 9:30 am so we are meeting at 9:00<br />
am at HarleyWorld. Should be a great ride, last<br />
year we stopped at Hunstanton on the return<br />
journey from our Norfolk weekend and we all<br />
spotted a whale on the beach!<br />
Keep supporting the rides and the Road Captains<br />
will keep on planning the routes and destinations.<br />
Russ and I are off up to North Yorkshire for a<br />
recce at 8:00 am Saturday morning..............the<br />
weather forecast is bloody aweful!<br />
Ride safely<br />
Geoff H<br />
Need a hotel for the Lightning Rally???<br />
<strong>Peak</strong> <strong>Riders</strong> have set up a fantastic deal with the luxury<br />
hotel ‘The Eastwood Hall’ for the Lightning Rally Weekend<br />
August30/31/1 st September, they are doing 2 nights<br />
Bed and Breakfast for two people for £120, just quote<br />
<strong>Peak</strong> <strong>Riders</strong> when booking.<br />
http://www.eastwoodhallnottingham.co.uk/Eastwood_Hall_Home.html<br />
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