ABR Dambusters run 2013- The 70th Anniversary of Op CHASTISE

[Nicko]

All sounds good to me....180 miles will make a nice day of it with a bit more sightseeing and history.

Let me know if you want me to look into anything.

Nicko

[picos mestizo]

Mark wrote:----- was just looking at Google Maps to be honest, Brian----

Man after my own heart........I still find Google maps the easiest for route planning.

I do have all the other electronic gizmo's but quite frankly I'm still a bit shy of them.
However my intention is to master them this year so I can lead a few TRF ride outs rather than play the lazy follower.

So a Google route will be fine for me Mark then I can try to transpose it to my Garmin for my own benefit on the learning curve to "Master Navigator"

Don't worry I'll still have the paper version on the tank bag.

If anybody is in the same boat as me with all this wizardry perhaps we can exchange notes on route.

Some of the guys I ride the lanes with have 3 devices on there handlebars & a small flip chart.
Puts me to shame--so things have got to progress this year--time to get proficient with it & moove onward & upward to "Ride Leader"

[karnevil]

hmy:
180 miles in one day


How many longway round style back up trucks will there be?
who will be doing the filming?

My Mum says I must not go near any woods,there may be Lions,and Tigers or Bears......
Lions and Tigers and Bears,Oh my......
lions and Tigers and Bears oh my!

[picos mestizo]

Shouldn't he be on the Pub or Ha F***ing Ha thread.

[big al]

Ferry´s confirmed outbound only x3, any recomendations where we can meet up and ride to the port together?

[picos mestizo]

Hello big al,
Don't think my route to the ferry will suit you.
I plan to go clockwise round the M25 from Hemel Hempstead over the Dartford bridge then left onto the A2 all the way to Dover. Brian.

[MarkN]

Ferry´s confirmed outbound only x3, any recomendations where we can meet up and ride to the port together?

Where are you riding from? I'll be doing the M27 yawn, M3, yawn, M25 double yawn and M20 zzzzzzzzzzz

If any of that suits you sir, let me know.

[MarkN]

hmy:
180 miles in one day


How many longway round style back up trucks will there be?
who will be doing the filming?

My Mum says I must not go near any woods,there may be Lions,and Tigers or Bears......
Lions and Tigers and Bears,Oh my......
lions and Tigers and Bears oh my!

As someone who commutes 250-300 miles a day it'll be nice not to ride on motorways etc.

As a few of us have BMW's, I'm sure there will be at least one support truck.

I'll be doing some filming/recording with the GoPro

Your Mum's quite right, in fact, you shouldn't go outside unless the nurse is with you! :whistle:

[snaphappy]

I know this is a way off but I just wanted to throw this into the mix.

On the Thursday night we're not too far from Eindhoven and we have all day to do about 100 miles to our next stop over. Just looking at the maps, would anyone fancy following the Operation Market Garden route, through Nijmegen to Arnhem and visit the John Frost bridge before heading east?

The total mileage for this detour is about 180 miles for the day.

If you are planning on having a shufty round the area then maybe you could have quick visit to Steenbergen, it's not too far from Eindoven and that is where Guy Gibson VC is buried, he crashed there and died returning from a sortie, aged 26.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Gibson#Memorial

However if you getting off at Calais the route via Brussels will be the better option, bit quicker, bit more scenery, bit less trafic.

[MarkN]

Mark wrote:----- was just looking at Google Maps to be honest, Brian----

Man after my own heart........I still find Google maps the easiest for route planning.

I do have all the other electronic gizmo's but quite frankly I'm still a bit shy of them.
However my intention is to master them this year so I can lead a few TRF ride outs rather than play the lazy follower.

So a Google route will be fine for me Mark then I can try to transpose it to my Garmin for my own benefit on the learning curve to "Master Navigator"

Don't worry I'll still have the paper version on the tank bag.

If anybody is in the same boat as me with all this wizardry perhaps we can exchange notes on route.

Some of the guys I ride the lanes with have 3 devices on there handlebars & a small flip chart.
Puts me to shame--so things have got to progress this year--time to get proficient with it & moove onward & upward to "Ride Leader"

Hi Brian,

Just had the map out for places etc and put it into Base Camp.

If you come go to the east of Eindhoven you will see the N279 and then the N277/ N271 to Nijmegen we could then follow this road to Arnhem.

From Arnhem follow the N336 to Emmerich Am Rhein, Rees, Wesel, Dinslalen, Bottrop and Essen. After Essen the 483 to Huckswagen has lots of green sides to it on the Michelin map, so that has got to be done.

The only bit I'm not sure about is going through Essen, but if we go south we get trumped by Dusseldorf and if we go north we get flak from Dortmund. And both these option mean we lose the 483 So, you pays your money and takes the choice....