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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… Read more

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 🙂… Read more

I was a bit concerned that the turn out would be low for this run as there were 2 other local events, but 21 bikes plus 5 pillions signed on! I was pleased to welcome a group of 6 bikes and a Lomax from the Somerset Section. The Virginia Ash opened to provide coffee and… Read more

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… Read more

Well, amazing weather, great views and excellent fish and chips, the perfect evening! 11 bikes plus 4 pillions met at The Halsey Arms for a run of 20miles over Bulbarrow to Winterborne  Whitechurch then over Okeford Hill to Okeford Fitzpaine. The roads were very quiet and the views amazing. Unfortunately because I had to get… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

Four of us met at Yeovil for the ride to meet others at The Halsey. But no one was there! Oh well, the weather was fine, roads were dry and with plenty of daylight we set off for an hours run. As Ryan came straight from work he used his improbably quick 125 Honda which… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

The gods shone upon us last Sunday. You can’t trust long range weather forecasts. Earlier in the week we were forecast a rather wet miserable Sunday, but by Saturday the forecast was sunshine and no rain and that’s how it was, although there was a fair bit of surface water on the minor roads from… Read more

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… Read more

11 signed on for the run, not a disappointment, but I expected a bigger turnout. Something to do with 5°C air temperature perhaps. It was on the chilly side, in fact it only warmed to 6.5°C, which was definitely cooler than my February Winter run. Ray Dickinson had the answer with a string vest, I… Read more

The annual Bristol Classic MotorCycle Show took place last weekend at the Bath & West Showground, Shepton Mallet and the Dorset Section had a stand as usual.  I’ll leave the words to Andrew Rae (our stand organiser) who, with his group of kind volunteers, did an excellent job over the full three days. Well that’s,… Read more

Well third time lucky! After cancelling this run twice due to bad weather today dawned fine, roads were dry and frost free, so the run was on! The event that never stops giving did have one last go at putting a spanner in the works. When doing a final check on Saturday we found a… Read more

Bernard’s Report on today’s run follows : A surprisingly good turn out, 17 signed on at Dikes supermarket car park. The weather had been pretty grim leading up to Sunday, So much so that I revised my route to avoid two planned river bridge crossings and one ford. The ford was at Fifehead Neville so… Read more

Many thanks to Peter Miller for organising another New Year’s Day Run; his report follows: The weather proved relatively kind to us for this year’s run despite all the threats to the contrary. Heavy rain over previous days meant that the Stour had flooded many of its surrounding fields. However, the roads traversed by the… Read more

Report from Phil Allen following last Sunday’s Mince Pie Run.  Thanks for organising this Phil, always difficult at this time of year — I think you did well with 12 riders on a rather damp and drizzly day. For the last run of the year the Mince Pie Run from Blandford Forum was rather a… Read more

I wasn’t riding today, but did manage to get to the start at the Shell Garage at Orchard Park in Gillingham. Great weather and a great turnout and all in support of The Blood Bikers.   Ray and Linda Dickinson’s report follows, and thank you both for putting on a great route!  Glad to see we’ve… Read more

Report from Andy Grew, the Run Organiser: Report from today’s undersubscribed run. I had originally planned today’s route for the Valentines Run, which had to be cancelled due to a severe storm. I thought as I had the route sheets and Paul W had prepared the GPX file this would be easy. But no! The… Read more

Last Sunday was our 43rd annual Veteran and Vintage Run.  I say “our” but this run has been organised by Rod and Carol Hann for all of those 43 years; quite amazing really, so thank you both for doing yet another one 20 riders signed in and 33 people sat down for an excellent buffet… Read more

The 4th and final Mid-Week Run for 2022 took place yesterday and I’m glad to report that numbers were up compared to the previous three.  The glorious weather probably helped… It started from outside the Hambros Arms in Milton Abbas and headed into the Purbecks for afternoon tea, coffee and cakes at the Cake House… Read more