My Guide To Wales

[ben@gerickes]

You may or may not know that I went off to wales on the bike with a group of mates and a truck load of camping gear. We pitched up at a really nice camp site in Llandovery. Reccomend it! Anyway if your intrested, as always I made a vid. You might find it boring I thought it was funny!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKi2XikiJJc (PART 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR9em40qlvw (part 2)

[sniffer dagenham]

I love the girls going over the bridge, quote" look at this for a fiver"

That cracked me up!!!!!

[ben@gerickes]

Yer I know..... Thats why we take them along to laugh at lol

[Morris]

Haha looks like you had a great time, whales looks very wet and cold. lol

[Lateshift]

whales looks very wet and cold. lol

that tends to be the case when you live in the sea ;) :D

[ben@gerickes]

It rained on the way there. But the saturday was really sunny. Sunday rained a bit and monday was bone dry! So not too bad.

[NinjaMad]

So how did the guys get back then in the end without the bikes what happened to them??

[ben@gerickes]

Well the R1 died just over the seven bridge. The exup valve was at fault. My mate rob had AA cover and pretended it was his bike. We managed to get the R1 a mile up the road to the services (where u saw us sitting). Scott who owns the R1 was picke up by his missus in the truck while the rest of us waited for the AA. So 2 hours later they arrive with yes the wrong type of truck for a bike where the AA man proceeded to look at the outside of the bike before diagnosing it with a fueling problem.... MORON! So then 3 of us leave and sprint down the M4. 100 miles later near the m4/m25 junction Rob who has the mini gixa signals me to pull over. His back wheel was nearly locking up. We stripped it down at the side of the road checked the chain, sprokets bearings etc. All were ok. It seemed gearbox related. So now rob calls the AA again. Asks if we can wait for the R1 to catch us up and stick the gixer on it too. Nope no can do. So then we wait another 2 hours for a mechanic who knows nowt about a bike to turn up. Finally as you see in the vid me and jamie on the SV650 set off making it home just before 9! Both bikes arrived at the same time on trucks in maldon by 10.30pm! What a day. Neither bikes are fixed. We have stripped the R1 exup down cleaned tightened and rebuit. It runs fine but stutters every now and then so hes booked it in to be looked at. The gixa hasnt moved yet as the poor fella's clutch went on his car the very next day! Gutted :(