5th Anniversary Ride Out/Annual Inter forum meet

The truly horrible summer has completely ruined the organisation of decent ride-outs, with the exception of the Brett memorial I have only managed a couple of brief rides with Thumper all summer, so lets hope September, or even October picks up and gives us a so called “Indian” summer.

Well it is 5 years since thebikeforum was started as Forum99. To mark this anniversary I think we ought to have a big meet-up and ride-out to thank Imperial Data who has consistently provided us with a superb forum. We could roll this in with the inter forum ride out that we have done in 2006 and 2007 with Bikers Cafe and some from GBB, ROC etc

I have met many superb people through this site, toured Europe twice and had some brilliant days out riding in good company. Dates I propose:

1. Sunday 21st September
2. Sunday 28th September
3. Sunday 5th October

Let me know your preferences.

Mine is the 28th at the moment

As for the route, I think TT07 suggestion from a few months back remains a good one:

Yes it is Wales and mainly North Wales at that, so as good as everyone has to travel to get there, and with a finishing point in Mid Wales everyone has to travel to get back! My suggestion is as follows:

Start Point…. The Ponderosa Cafe at Horseshoe Pass. Thats 37 miles from Liverpool and 81 miles from Birmingham.
Finish point …. McDonalds at Newtown, Powys. Which is 79 miles from Liverpool and 71 miles from Birmingham.

Note: There are no re-fuelling facilities at the Horseshoe pass

The route between the 2 points being 105 miles of A roads with some absolutely amazing scenery is as follows:

From The Horseshoe Pass head North along the A542 to the roundabout (trip 3) turn left onto the A5104.
Travel from that island down the twisty roads to the A5 (trip 12) where you turn right.
Approaching Betws y Coed turn off the A5 sharp left onto the A470 (trip 33).
From that turn continue along the A470 through dramatic wide open scenery through the Snowdonia National Park into Blaenauu Ffestiniog where you drop down through possibly the most exploited landscape in the country (trip 44) where you turn left through the town and down into Ffestiniog (trip 47).
At Ffestiniog turn sharp left still on the A470, from that point you continue along the A470 turning left through Trawsfynydd along what is possibly one of the straightist bits of road around these parts again with a dramatic mountainous scene to the right and along the A470 by-passing Dolgellau where you rise up before dramatically dropping down Dinas Mawddwy.
At an island turn right (trip 76) continuing along the A470 towards Cemmaes Road, where you turn left (trip 82)through Carno and Caersws where you turn left (trip 100) towards Newtown along the A489 where you arrive at the destination (trip 105).

Now these roads maybe well-trodden by some, like myself, but unknown by many. There are many other routes around this area but taking those would no doubt be difficult to keep a bunch of riders together.

Previous meet reports, to give a flavour
2007 Interforum Ride Out

Enroute to Abbo 2007

2006 Inter Forum Ride Out