A big THANK YOU to the 33 (I think I heard 33 mentioned as the count) people who turned up for the ride-out yesterday (and those who meant to attend but were late..?? let us know what happened!). The weather was fantastic, hot and sunny :- )  After meeting up and having a chat we rode to Stratford-upon-Avon and chilled out by the river with chips and ice cream (nice!?). There were already hundreds of other bikes there and the appearance of us lot turned a few heads! Check out the images, I don't suppose so many SV's have been seen together. From Stratford we drifted off towards home with riders joining up where routes were the same. 

For me the highlights of the day were meeting the people behind the emails, the ride itself (someone's throaty end can in front and loads of bright headlights behind!) and the glorious weather.

Funniest moment....for me it was pulling into a lay-by when the group I was with realised we were lost. As everyone stopped and waited looking puzzled I thought I'd take off my glove and find my printed directions. No sooner had I unfolded the paper than someone went past pointing forwards and the group I was with roared off into the distance with me frantically trying to put the directions back into my pocket and pull my gloves on! By the time I was ready to pull out I glanced around and there was no one to be seen....great...thanks guys!! :- )  I ended up stopping for petrol anyway and knew I was in the right area when I approached a roundabout in Stratford only to find two yellow SV's going around (for what looked like the second time!). I tagged on the back and soon we were all parked up. Sorted.

So...thanks again to everyone (don't ask me to remember all the names!). There were people from the South Coast, one guy from the South West, one from Scotland and also from Yorkshire and loads of other places...thanks to you all. I just hope you got as much as out of it as I did.....if so we'll do it all again next year!