Having just coming back from one of those rare events a dry NW200 when I get off my backside will post a few photos in the mean time if you were the Irish lad with his other eating fish and chips at Bushmills and wondered how anyone knows about Polish crash bars :icon_redface: if was me.
On the way to Dublin the Irish Rangers practice boarding the boat :icon_eek:
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The XR is nowhere near ready to get the job done so the old girl did it no problem.
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If you watch Game of Thrones the Dark Hedges!!
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Dun Luce Castle or what's left of it.
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Cheers Chris, one of the few places I really would like to get to before I croak, worked in the North a lot, but never got into the Republic. Should be easy for me too with Pembroke an easy ride away.
It's an absolute must,in a nice kind of way they live in a time warp be that the way they live or house prices :icon_eek:
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Is there a place where you can watch the whole road racing series?
For the folks in the UK there is just go to BBC NI on the IPlayer and you will get the 200 and Cookstown 100 not sure if the Tandragee is on there as well all from this year,but outside of the UK??.
I also see you put SW Holland is that Middleberg?
Thanks. I can VPN into the UK and watch it that way then. Nice.
Nope, not Middelburg, but close. Well done. It is Goes in this case. Been around here?
Quote from: ghulst on May 20, 2016, 12:20:40 AM
Thanks. I can VPN into the UK and watch it that way then. Nice.
Hurry up, I hear there are moves a foot to stop anyone accessing it without a UK TV licence
Quote from: ghulst on May 20, 2016, 12:20:40 AM
Nope, not Middelburg, but close. Well done. It is Goes in this case. Been around here?
Oh yes :icon_biggrin:,have good biking friends who live in Middleberg who I have known a looong time!! Was in Goes not all that long ago to visit the grave of Guy Gibson you will have to google him.
You should have given a shout. We could have had a drink. ;)
Quote from: Chris Canning on May 20, 2016, 11:54:11 AM
Was in Goes not all that long ago to visit the grave of Guy Gibson you will have to google him.
:icon_salut: Hero
Just had a little google to see why he was buried there.
Quote from: GavD on May 21, 2016, 09:51:56 AM
:icon_salut: Hero
Just had a little google to see why he was buried there.
I still find it incredible, and massively humbling, that at the time of his death he was still only 26.
I was wondering about the grave when you mentioned it, as I would have known about that being here. So I googled it and found that it was as I thought. He was the guy that came down in Steenbergen and was buried there, not in Goes. ;) But yes, sad to loose a guy like that like this.
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Quote from: Timbox2 on May 21, 2016, 10:31:16 AM
I still find it incredible, and massively humbling, that at the time of his death he was still only 26.
And that he died under not-quite-clear circumstances.
If you read reports about the wreckage the fuel was turned off,and I've seen several interviews over the years past about Gibson never seen a good word said about him apart from a good flyer and leader,oh and he had a black Labrador with a name that is now politically incorrect to mention :icon_biggrin:
Quote from: Chris Canning on May 22, 2016, 05:07:25 PM
If you read reports about the wreckage the fuel was turned off,and I've seen several interviews over the years past about Gibson never seen a good word said about him apart from a good flyer and leader,oh and he had a black Labrador with a name that is now politically incorrect to mention :icon_biggrin:
There was also talk that he might been a victim of 'friendly fire'. Apparently Peter Jackson (he of LOTR and Hobbit fame) wants to do a remake of Operation Chastise but has wrestled with how he would deal with the (historically accurate) issue of the dog with the N.... name. Oh the joys of this politically correct age. :icon_salut:
And to get back on topic. Any up to date pics of the NW200??