Porthcawl today

[Pope]

Apologies for not having pics but my phone battery life is about 4 minutes at the moment 

Sent out a load of texts at midday as I fancied a spin, but not far due to skintness to decided on Porthcawl.

Headed to Higgy's and met him and Whizzy Rascal there.
Then DHD and Steve_Cardiff turned up closely followed by Rusty
Higgy got his cans delivered so chucked them on and headed off up the A48 towards Porthcawl 

My exhaust fell of AGAIN on route 
Safely stashed to pick up tomorrow hopefully it won't get nicked by Jippos 

Just before entering Porthcawl, where the Texaco is and the car dealership opposite we spot some commotion

2 Ambulances
Police car
Police bike etc etc

I then see Squidgys bike and my heart sinks 
I stop and see Squidgy stood there and luckily he tells me it's none of us

Apparently a guy on a hornet was chasing 2 Hayabusas, reached the roundabout too quickly, panicked, hit the front brake and went down.
Narrowly missing a lamp post 
Broken leg squidgy said

The standard of riding I've seen today everywhere generally has been poor too.
Some  followed us out of Ely and the passing he was doing on the A48 with junctions and traffic everywhere made me wince
Left him to it 

First sunny day and it's always like this, especially around the Porthcawl run

[DR-Z Ross]

  I'm almost glad I've been fighting wheel bearings all day.... hitting my thumbs with hammers are better than breakings legs  hope he's ok though whoever he is

[lumberjack]

 never been to  porthcawl is it worth a visit any good road's

[higgy2005]

Firstly a big thanks to Rusty, DHD and Steve_Cardiff for fitting on the new cans  Sounds soooooo good 
Met up with Whizzy Rascal at 10:30 and headed out to 'practice our control' on a big roundabout had some good fun.




Had a call to say a parcel was on it's way so headed back home where we met up with Pope, DHD, Steve Cardiff and Rusty who fitted the cans. Was like 60 minute make over; by the time I'd opened the new cans the old ones were off with Steve working on the one side Rusty on the other and DHD underneath fixing on springs. And of course Pope overseeing the procedure and me well I was the official photographer.




Final result:

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Not a gread video - didn't realise I took a photo when I meant a video DOH!
Thanks Again! 
As you roll off the throttle it pops like a good'n. 

Headed down to Porthcawl then as Pope said and the bike feels totally different to last weekend. Suspension adjusted and cans fitted have transformed the bike.

[blueracer]

Good write up pope hope the guy who fell off his bike gws    bike sounds nice higgy 

[whizzy rascal]

   Yeah was good day...higgy managing to get his knee on the floor so well done there ... Shame about the guy who crashed never nice to see that.. lovely weather and nice to see so many bikes out

[BadHarry]

Big shout to the guys for sorting Higgy out. ;-) hope he sorted the t's out as well as being the class photographer.

[snoopy]

Official photography   .. Great !!! good on them all for 'fixing yr bits'      Been lovely day ... loads of bike round our well ..every Tom, Dick, Harry, and George draging their wheels out around the county ..some a 'biiit' rusty ? maybe ?
but great day, just wish I had check computer afore I went out, would have met uyp with shazza and co  sooo sorry to Shazza  for not doing so next time... 

[NERO]

Nice write up Pope.............Debz has posted up a separate thread about the downed biker.

Higgy bike looking superb mate, big  to the guy's.

[The Stig]

Good Job Pope

It was the season for numpties today & I have to echo Pope on the standard of driving today

Porthcawl as peeps know is my hometown & everyone from here hides this time of year becuase them know what to expect

Complete tossers that are hell bent on crossing busy roads & duel carrigeways without out looking or having any preservation for life in general just to get a bag of chips this is closely follows by the younger sprogs of the family.

Thisw also goes for car drivers who are on the same mission for a tasty bag of fat & think that:-
A, People dont exsist in Porthcawl so there's no need for brakes

B, Traffic rules & regulations this includes parking) are not to be obayed on a sunny day thus leaving the family scrapper in the middle of a busy street in the afternoon & blocking traffic while the head of the household runs in & queues for chips is A OK

On the plus side me & the wife do occentionly go spotting for the worst dressed tripper & also have a competition to spot the first mark 5 cortina of the season

Ive not seen one yet

[TristanC]

Excellent report, exhausts look awesome Higgy. Well done to all for helping out  .

All I did today was clean all the crap off my bike from the past couple of weeks weather and clean and oil my chain.

Didn't go out as it was my little girls birthday. 

Shame I'm not nearer you guys, or I'd join you.


Tris

[Cwmdu86]

Sat in the house looking out the window because my cover note hadn't turned up after changing my bike, so I couldn't get tax.
 

I'll be doing the same tomorrow as well 

[NERO]

Sat in the house looking out the window because my cover note hadn't turned up after changing my bike, so I couldn't get tax.
 

I'll be doing the same tomorrow as well 

Get Tax on line.....much easier.