Author: Paul Wirdnam

Once again, Paul Swaddle has raised the bar with the quality of his report on last Saturday’s White Horse run.  Shame his bike let him down; anyone know who the previous owner was? 🙂  Many thanks for organsing the run Paul and sorry I couldn’t join you (family commitments!). Paul’s report and photos follow…. After…

Last Sunday, we had our newest run, Young Ryan’s Express, and it was organised by our youngest Run Organiser, Ryan Jeffrey. A proper event, staged mostly over the infamous Dorset motorways, which are narrow lanes with grass growing down the middle! A good turnout despite the dire weather predictions. Many thanks to everyone who came…

A whole bunch of photos from today’s excellent Dorset Dakar : mainly taken by Paul Wirdnam, David Johnson-Newell, Ray Dickinson and Colin Jacobs.  If you’re a Facebook user, Paul Miles has posted another batch, with videos, on that platform, I’d like to personally thank Andrew & Alison Rae and Ray & Linda Dickinson for all…

Many thanks to Paul Miles, our Chairman, for putting another one of these alternative runs together.  It certainly makes a welcome change from our  many standard runs.   All who took part seemed to enjoy it.  His report follows below. BTW: all three Velocettes that took part failed to complete the run. I’m not surprised 🙂…

Report by Rod Hann on his Mid-Week Run held last Wednesday.   Sorry I wimped out soon after the start Rod, but from the top of the A37, Bridport looked in the middle of a rain storm — how wrong was I.  🙁 The June Mid Week Run took place on Wednesday 21st June and started…

Report by Rod Hann below.  What a fantastic turnout and the new venue of Shillingstone Railway Station seem to work well.  Many thanks to Rod and Carol for organising another great run. Sunday 4th June saw the 14th running of the Jeff Clew Memorial Run. A bright and sunny warm day encouraged 39 entries to…

Report by Paul M / Pinky (text) and Paul W / Perky (photos and videos).  Please note: there are many more photos and videos taken by many of the riders and these can be viewed on our new “The GIANTS Run” Facebook page.  You do not have to be a Facebook user to view these…just…

Below are some photos from last weekend’s rather wet Relay Rally.  The weather kept many away but we still had about 25 riders come through our Section Checkpoint which was at Shillingstone Railway Trust. I was in a small group that started at Shillingstone at about 9:15am.  We sheltered there for 30 minutes while it…

Today’s Bluebell Run turned out to be much better that we could have hoped for…  The rain forecasted never happened and it ended up being a warm and sunny afternoon.  And we had a decent turnout despite various other events taking place today (Stafford Show, Twin Dragon’s Run and a Marston Sunbeam Run).  But the…

After a long dreary winter, I could not have hoped for better weather yesterday for our second Hot X Bun Run – it was glorious and that was reflected in the good turnout. We had 24 people signing on and several of those had pillion passengers. Philippa and I had brought 30 hot X buns…

Report by Ray Dickinson, photos by Paul Wirdnam Thanks to Peter & Richard Miller for a very enjoyable & interesting run, on roads we seldom use. On Friday we learnt that Peter had been taken into hospital and rather than cancel the run, with help from Paul Wirdnam who arranged all the paperwork, I agreed…

Last Saturday (11th), the Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance held a “thank you” event at Henstridge Airfield for some of their fundraisers.  They invited approximately 15 groups with five people in each group and our Section was one of the groups invited. It was a really cold day out on the exposed airfield but it…