ED Chapter........?

[Dee Woffaz]

Does anyone know of, or is anyone involved in motorbike meets and rideouts? Im relatively new to the area and as the summer is round the corner id like to stretch out my leathers and dust off my bike. Before I?m met with a host of NIMBY?s envisaging chapters of unwashed bearded extras from the Mad Max movies raising hell on a rape and pillage spree; I?m looking for sports bikers preferably looking for a ride out, ideally after the omnibus edition of the Archers on a Sunday.:))

[spoiltdog]

Dont know of any chapters in the area Boxhill on a Sunday is a good place or the Ace Cafe

[womanofdulwich]

try peckham rose. im sure she will post later.

[Sue]

I'm pretty sure there are a group of people who meet in Crystal Palace at a cafe opposite the bus station - or used to - but yes, PeckhamRose will know.

[PeckhamRose]

Well it's nice to know I got a rep as a biker, at least!

I have been trying to locate a long message I left about a year ago with heaps of useful links (bikesafe.com etc) but it seems to have been wiped.

To my knowledge there is no East Dulwich bikers group although there are quite a few of us on here who are indeed bikers. But we don't meet up!

I am a member of TheLondonBikers and strongly suggest you join them. Look them up (remember the 'The').

They do rideouts and are linked to other useful biker groups and informative stuff like FirstAid courses for bikers (FBOS - First Bike On Scene (tho they all agree that should be 'Second Biker On Scene' since the first will possibly be the poor sod involved in the accident)). ANYWAY, for now that is all I can recommend as a bikers group. They're good folk. But to be brutally honest, I see biking as a solitary thing and prefer to ride alone! Having said that, I also tend to work weekends (all over London, on my bike; nope, not a courier!) so rideouts are not possible anyway, but a meet up with you me MrPr and other bikers on here to bomb down to Thanet or Bexhill or somewhere one weekend day that I am free would not be a nightmare!

Anyhow, welcome to the forum. And I hope you have a garage. Some reports of bike thefts have been posted recently. And if it is a Southwark Council garage then yes, a 50% increase in rents! Oh - and mine's a Virago 535cc.

(This thread is really useful when student sons and daughters of members want holiday work, I get 'em to clean my bike. Life's too short to clean chrome though.)

Here it is at the High Pennines which is perhaps a bit too far for a day out.