Bikers Classic at Spa
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Anyone from the forum make or ride in this event over the weekend? Plenty of OW01s about so Scunnylad MUST have been there?!
Apart from the total nightmare that was the Eurotunnel check in/M25 on the way home, we had the most amazing weekend, never been before but ill be back.
Last time I went to Spa was in 1993 and it was peeing down, I expected the same again but its was bloody hot and all the better for it.
We took 3 bikes , caught the 7am eurotunnel and by 12:30pm was checking in at our accommodation in the lovely village of Stavelot..
By 1pm we'd gone out on the bikes ...and returned again as the NS400 had shat all its water out and the (borrowed from my friend) 250LC was running like a bag o's
te.
We soon got the Kawasaki and LC running well and headed out for a nosey, id totally forgotten how vast the place was so it took us some time to find our parking area/entrance.
Bit of auto jumble stuff going on.
Took hundreds of photos over the 2 days we was there , some random examples.
Day 2 we managed to bluff our way in on the bikes and got to see far more of the circuit and the actual racing, maybe older and very old bikes and riders of all ages but they was not hanging around.
Outside the circuit, on one of the entrance roads was an event running called "Sultans of Sprint", some very cool bikes and way cooler people than us involved in this scene!
Lots of ladies both riding the bikes and managing the teams...was a real crack to watch and listen to ..
Bike and rider of the weekend for us!
Sunday we headed home via Bastogne to visit one of teh WW2 museums, by chance, we ended up passing Bastogne barracks and decided to go along for one of their tours, if your in the area, I would recommend it, lots of history about how the place was actually used and what went on during The Battle of the Bulge esp with the American 101st Airbourne division who where based there, very interesting and moving.
Place is still an operational Army base and the tour is free.
Many of the veterans have returned over the years, so our guide said, one or two are intending to jump(solo) next year for the 75th anniversary of D Day!
This section of the building was one of many used as a military hospital, dressings / beds etc left as was from 1944.
And loads of tanks and miliatary vehicles to end our tour on, alas we had to miss out on the beer tasting as the tour had lasted nearly 3 hours and we had the train to catch but in the end, there was no need to have rushed back for that...
All in all, an incredible and memorable weekend.
Apart from the total nightmare that was the Eurotunnel check in/M25 on the way home, we had the most amazing weekend, never been before but ill be back.
Last time I went to Spa was in 1993 and it was peeing down, I expected the same again but its was bloody hot and all the better for it.
We took 3 bikes , caught the 7am eurotunnel and by 12:30pm was checking in at our accommodation in the lovely village of Stavelot..
By 1pm we'd gone out on the bikes ...and returned again as the NS400 had shat all its water out and the (borrowed from my friend) 250LC was running like a bag o's
te.We soon got the Kawasaki and LC running well and headed out for a nosey, id totally forgotten how vast the place was so it took us some time to find our parking area/entrance.
Bit of auto jumble stuff going on.
Took hundreds of photos over the 2 days we was there , some random examples.
Day 2 we managed to bluff our way in on the bikes and got to see far more of the circuit and the actual racing, maybe older and very old bikes and riders of all ages but they was not hanging around.
Outside the circuit, on one of the entrance roads was an event running called "Sultans of Sprint", some very cool bikes and way cooler people than us involved in this scene!
Lots of ladies both riding the bikes and managing the teams...was a real crack to watch and listen to ..
Bike and rider of the weekend for us!
Sunday we headed home via Bastogne to visit one of teh WW2 museums, by chance, we ended up passing Bastogne barracks and decided to go along for one of their tours, if your in the area, I would recommend it, lots of history about how the place was actually used and what went on during The Battle of the Bulge esp with the American 101st Airbourne division who where based there, very interesting and moving.
Place is still an operational Army base and the tour is free.
Many of the veterans have returned over the years, so our guide said, one or two are intending to jump(solo) next year for the 75th anniversary of D Day!
This section of the building was one of many used as a military hospital, dressings / beds etc left as was from 1944.
And loads of tanks and miliatary vehicles to end our tour on, alas we had to miss out on the beer tasting as the tour had lasted nearly 3 hours and we had the train to catch but in the end, there was no need to have rushed back for that...
All in all, an incredible and memorable weekend.
podman said:
Lots of ladies both riding the bikes and managing the teams...was a real crack to watch and listen to ..
Ha ha ha... loving the unintended pun ...As for the weekend, looks like a great craic, having done a couple of classic car meets at Spa it really is a great circuit to watch stuff at ....
Cheers for the write up and pics ...
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