2011 D Day Recce Rides

[Nadeem]

Yep as per usual Paul, no problem.

[fabrice]

I know it's not an easy one to enforce but at some point we will have to communicate the timing of the ride and destination for people to choose to come along or not and at that point we'll have to make clear that a full tank of petrol is required.

We can also post on here for that effect and suggest riders to ask their pillions to help them remember to get petrol on Friday night or Saturday morning before meet up time.

[Nadeem]

Won't do any good - have tried this over 8 years and have yet to have even one ride where someone didn't need to stop for fuel, even after being told that they need a full tank. It just causes a lot of frustration, so it's always best to stop.

Take what happened in Torquay, most of us fuelled up on the Friday before arriving at the hotel, but some didn't and we had to stop at the first pump before our ride on the saturday morning. In fact two bikes decided to go off and get fuel five mins before we set off because they said they were low on fuel and wanted to go right now...

We didn't see them again till we got to Princetown as their sat nav took them to a disused petrol station and they missed the ride. We stopped at a pump about a mile & a half away....

There is not a hope in hell that we will have over a 100 bikes fully fuelled and ready to go on the Saturday - not even if you email them twice, send them a letter, talk to them on the Friday morning, mention it again on the Friday evening and generally wave a flag about saying 'make sure your bike is fuelled' ...

...because invariably some people think that it doesn't apply to them...and they thought they could get it in the morning...

[Nadeem]

Also bear in mind that one rider at last year's event didn't know which hotel he booked and was asking me....

[fabrice]

Originally Posted by Nadeem

Also bear in mind that one rider at last year's event didn't know which hotel he booked and was asking me....

... and I bet you knew the answer (i.e. "you're booked at the Red Fox and you're sharing a double room with me")...




...and it's how you're love story with Grant began !!! Lol

[Nadeem]

I resent that remark even if there is some truth in it...!!!!!!!!!!

[ZZR.Nigel]

Didn’t have a problem with fill up last year – When Paul said he was going to go I just told the rest of our group waiting to fill up to join Fabrice’s group ……………………………ooooops!

[Paul C]

... I had more than enough by that stage! We were blocking the road, pavement, garage... aaagggg don't remind me

[Nadeem]

The best that we can do, is at the meet up point, we can ask if anyone needs fuel and one of us can take them over and we'll then pick them up en-route as we all leave.

[motogp]

That will be me then if I am on the pink one...