Red Marley ’11 – now with pics!!.

[Radar]

Anybody fancy doing this one?

Say a 50 mile loop on the bikes, bit of brekky and then into the meet about 11:30am

[katana]

Yep I’m up for it.

Might have to meet you there – depends on what time I kick out my weekend visitors.

[ses310]

I might well be up for that, will have to check with the Mrs first though and make sure she hasn’t got anything else planned

[imperialdata]

Not here unfortunately, which is a bummer because I would love to do this run.

[TT07]

Will be working throughout the day, pity really as my Dad lives at the farm!

[Radar]

OK Kat/Ses, looks like us three!

[katana]

What time are you thinking of leaving?

Looks like my visitors are leaving early Monday am

[Radar]

Could you be at mine for 9:30-10ish, have an hours tootle and or cuppa before heading over to RM

[katana]

10ish would be better for me

[Radar]

quote:

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Originally posted by katana

10ish would be better for me

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Thats fine or a little later if it suits you

[TT07]

Looks like we will be visiting my Dads after all, so will keep an eye out for those attending!!

[Radar]

Ok TT. I will be there with Katana and Thumper.

Andy Miles will be floating around too as will Ses310

[Radar]

In the end I rode to Red Marley this year with Thumper and Katana. We also met up with Ses310 and his girlfriend who had driven there.

The event pits pre 1970 classic dirt bikes against a monster hill in the wilds of Worcestershire. Always a popoular event locally and this year the very resonable £7 gate entry went at least in part to Help for Hereos

The bikes race in a variety of catorgories and engine sizes in groups of four with the fastest two making it through to the next round. Riders from 16 to 75(!) take place and the roar of brit bikes on open pipes and the crackling of Chezch two-strokes feels the air. All this as the sweet smell of Castrol hangs in the air…brilliant.

The official website will give the details…

https://redmarleyhillclimb.com/Welcome.html

A few pics from another grand day out:

My Thundercat, Katana’s Fireblade and Thumper’s Tiger. Sometimes I feel like I am typing in code!

The event is set in stunning Worcestershire and was blessed with bright sunshine this year

The bike park threw up some nice bikes too:

A proper off-road bikes, before BMW spoilt everything with huge bikes saddled down with more kit than an average army

Rare Laverda twin, pretty bike…

Ice cool

Traditional trike shot

Thumper has dreams about Monkey bikes…

Blimey! A GT750…how rare

A sublime way to get to physio…

Loving the wicker top box…more British than a huge wedding costing millions!

We also had a wonder around the trade stands and pits

Inventive use of an old beer barrel!

This electric off road bike was also on show and four of them atacked the hill with some gusto. However the run was performed in silence…this electric power is all very clever, but is dubious environmentally and lacks any kind of drama in competetion

This Enfield Fury really caught my eye, but £6000 is proper money

But this what the day was about…

The mighty hill itself…

Waiting for their turn for a crack at the hill…

State of the art riding gear was not exactly the order of the day!

Out of the gate!

You have got to keep it wound on

Not everybody makes it!

Recovery can be tricky

We made it to the top on foot…thats Thumper and Katana up there

This the view from the top

The races came thick and fast all afternoon

We even managed to spot Ses310 in the throng

No day out is complete without a ‘light salad’!

Cracking day out!

[ses310]

Great pics there Radar, still haven’t got round to taking mine off the camera! Will post some when I get chance.
It was a brilliant day and for once the english weather was fantastic!

[imperialdata]

Cracking shots, especially the rider about to fall off.

Once again I was on holiday so missed this event, I really fancy it. Any ideas how much it would cost to compete in the hill climb?

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