Anyone going to the Dragon Rally?
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Yearly call out - anyone going to the 2023 rally at the weekend?
Last years was particularly grim - never been as cold and wet in my life, not helped by my beer exploding in my dry bag full of warm clothes. Really bad.
Even the ambulance ladies remembered me from a couple of years before when I got dragged in to them with suspected hypothermia!
I’ll be on a T reg red/white R1 or (less likely) a 17 plate 60th anniversary R1. If you see a drone flying about it’s probably me.
Last years was particularly grim - never been as cold and wet in my life, not helped by my beer exploding in my dry bag full of warm clothes. Really bad.
Even the ambulance ladies remembered me from a couple of years before when I got dragged in to them with suspected hypothermia!
I’ll be on a T reg red/white R1 or (less likely) a 17 plate 60th anniversary R1. If you see a drone flying about it’s probably me.
king horrific. Almost put me off biking for a while.archie456 said:
srob said:
What MZ do you have? I had many happy miles on the pillion of my dad's ETZ250 as a kid!
I've got a Saxon 301, it's a great little bike.I remember watching a documentary years ago about Seymour Powell design house, who did the Scorpian I think it was called. Inspired my career, that program!
srob said:
archie456 said:
srob said:
What MZ do you have? I had many happy miles on the pillion of my dad's ETZ250 as a kid!
I've got a Saxon 301, it's a great little bike.I remember watching a documentary years ago about Seymour Powell design house, who did the Scorpian I think it was called. Inspired my career, that program!
srob said:
Ah is that the four stroke (Rotax?) engined one?
I remember watching a documentary years ago about Seymour Powell design house, who did the Scorpian I think it was called. Inspired my career, that program!
The Skorpion had the Yamaha Ténéré 660 engine.I remember watching a documentary years ago about Seymour Powell design house, who did the Scorpian I think it was called. Inspired my career, that program!
I have to say, hypothermia in North Wales isn't appealing.
Just watched a video of this year's rally.
Seemed very tame, in terms of location, compared to the magazine reports I remember from the late sixties/seventies. Back then it always seemed to be held in a remote location half way up a mountain in Snowdonia, whereas this year it was on the Anglesey Showground.
Seemed very tame, in terms of location, compared to the magazine reports I remember from the late sixties/seventies. Back then it always seemed to be held in a remote location half way up a mountain in Snowdonia, whereas this year it was on the Anglesey Showground.
gareth_r said:
Just watched a video of this year's rally.
Seemed very tame, in terms of location, compared to the magazine reports I remember from the late sixties/seventies. Back then it always seemed to be held in a remote location half way up a mountain in Snowdonia, whereas this year it was on the Anglesey Showground.
I've a few friends in the club and they do sometimes have issues securing grounds, and bear in mind that some are very prone to flooding - the Capel Curig site for example can literally be an ocean in winter. Seemed very tame, in terms of location, compared to the magazine reports I remember from the late sixties/seventies. Back then it always seemed to be held in a remote location half way up a mountain in Snowdonia, whereas this year it was on the Anglesey Showground.
There have been some absolutely appalling conditions over the past four or five years - I've been doing the rally for 32 years now and this year took a real effort to get motivated - who wouldn't knowing you are going to be pitching your tent on a flooded site (it looks not too bad but just standing water with grass sticking through), horizontal driving rain, 50-100 mph winds and knee deep mud. I actually find rallies like the Elefant in Bavaria a lot lot easier, the ground is frozen solid (usually), it's snow instead of mud and you aren't soaked to the skin and having to sleep in several inches of freezing muddy water.
So the site this year might have been "easy" (ie. well drained with good facilities) with that honking great aircraft hangar sized shed but if the weather had been like last year it would have been appreciated. I'm glad they played safe tbh. The weather was a bonus - not one drop of rain for me, and you could sit out on your deck chair and have some food etc and later we took our chairs inside. Winner. I even got home and my bike isn't dirty.
Scenery - you could see the mountains in the distance - and ride through them to get to the rally, so that was ok.
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