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Hi
Hope to see you Friday at Chard for the ride out.
I,m the guy with the yellow Tiger 800
See you Friday
BrettG

Welcome along Brett

Hiya Brett, see you tomorrow

As it stands I'll probably have to only make it to the stop at the Lookout Cafe and turn back from there - need to be back home earlier than I'd like.

I will be coming

Just tested my bike after fitting a new chain & sprockets and nothing fell off so I guess I'm good to go.

See you all at the meeting point, I'll be the one wearing the orange carnation.

Say on Google maps Rainbow cafe temporarily closed ??

Artty wrote: ↑Aug 22nd, '25, 10:52 Say on Google maps Rainbow cafe temporarily closed ??

Yeh, just out of date I think. If you look on their FB page they confirmed the bike night yesterday.
https://www.facebook.com/RainbowGarageCafe

Thanks to our Jug for organising and leading today's rideout. Lots of cute Dorset villages, lots of traffic in places, mostly offset by lots of traffic free roads (I lied about the 'lots of traffic free roads' bit, but we did get to ride SOME bits of tarmac that weren't crawling with grockles!). Any downside was compensated for by the two cafes we stopped at 'The Lookout Cafe overlooking Weymouth bay and our rideout destination the Rainbow Garage Cafe between Wool and Dorchester. Both are excellent and recommended watering holes.
Nice to meet up with some fellow seasoned Grey Ones today in the shape of Alan, Brian and Artty, and a couple or three trainees too - and that includes our illustrious leader for the day who is now a nominal Junior Grey One.

Pity I couldn't make the whole ride. Didn't quite make curfew, getting home at 18.05 with some careful passing of just a little traffic

Thanks to all for coming out and putting up with traffic.
I got to show you guys some of my favourite Dorset roads and also my favourite cafe.

Avengers assembled.
cafe
The bike meet at the Rainbow garage

And that was us done, from here we set off for home.
The traffic had now mostly cleared and just when the sun was becoming a PITA a dark cloud came over so we could actually see where we were riding.

Until the next one guys.

Thanks Richard for organising the ride, really enjoyed getting out somewhere new.

Thanks Richard
Great day been a while if rode some of those roads close to home, two good coffee/food stops until the next one