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Old 3 Feb 2017
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Booked months ago, when just back from the Stans, and we will be on duty again, doing a presentation.

We will arrive Friday and will come with the car as we bring our little Brazilian dog: Scruffy !
Can't wait to go back and catch up with everyone
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Hi all. Due to being sold a complete write off, I now dont have a bike to ride until i can find £800 to fix it.

So if anyone wants my HUBBUK full weekend ticket with camping then its yours for £50.

A significant saving for one of the biggest and best meetings in the calendar.

I'm gutted not to be going but needs must.

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Hi all. Due to being sold a complete write off, I now dont have a bike to ride until i can find £800 to fix it.

So if anyone wants my HUBBUK full weekend ticket with camping then its yours for £50.

A significant saving for one of the biggest and best meetings in the calendar.

I'm gutted not to be going but needs must.

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Yes please for the ticket, Ted. I've pm'd you.

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TRF Ride Outs at HUBBUK

Just a quick one to say a big "Thank You" to those guys and girls who came out and had a go riding off road Thursday and Friday with myself and 3 colleagues from the TRF (Trail Riders Fellowship).
We really enjoyed taking you out - many for the first time off road, and hopefully building up your confidence to ride safely at the same time as having fun off road.
Thanks for all the positive comments after the ride and we hope to see some of you joining your local TRF group perhaps as preparation for longer world wide travels!
Pictures from the rides at https://youtu.be/AB9FiKert1Q
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Just a few of us left now and what a great weekend that was not just seeing some good talks but catching up with old friends and getting inspired to go somewhere.
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Had a great weekend and met some fantastic people. Thanks to everyone who helped make it that way.
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What an amazing weekend! My first bike event of any kind (bar runs to Ryka's and H-Cafe on weekends) and I get the impression I started at the top and everywhere else I visit will be compared against this.

In case they're reading: a big hi to David/Dai, Dougie and Sara, Damian, Tori, Mark, Tiffany, Will and Kate (different couple), Richard, and probably some others who'll hate me now. Lovely to meet you all.

And a big thanks to Grant and Susan, and all the volunteers and presenters.

The sweat hasn't dried from my ride home yet and I find myself checking out future events already...

-Matt
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First HUBB for me and the missus. What a fantastic inspirational weekend...we will be back.
Also thanks to the Hereford TRF guys that helped me get my old 1200GS on the fantastic green lanes rideout on friday morning...
My pulse rate has just returned to normal


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Another absolutely spectacular Meeting! Full of very inspiring people who got me fired up again and motivated for my next trip!

Here a couple of pictures of the people ultimately responsible for everything! They are the biggest influence in my life. Back in the days before I came across the HU (around 2004) I thought I was alone, having dreams of motorcycling the world. Then I found them ... and HOME!

Here a couple of photos of my heroes:

2006 at the Portugal meeting, and this year at the Baskerville Hall meeting!
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Another absolutely spectacular Meeting! Full of very inspiring people who got me fired up again and motivated for my next trip!
My sentiments exactly although for me it became a parody of the definition of British summers (three fine days and a thunderstorm if you don't know) I had four fabulous days and a breakdown (the bike, not me).

I'm not quite sure how I managed to spend four days there and not run across you though. Must be a reflection of how big an event its become and I have huge respect not only for Grant and Susan but also for everybody else "behind the scenes" who put in hours and hours of their own time to make it run smoothly.

Seasoned old stager that I am I ignored my wife's advice to check everything before I left because "I know what I'm doing" and arrived at Baskerville with a tent but no tent pegs. Anyone who saw me on Wednesday afternoon on hands and knees in the hedgerow might have wondered what was going on, especially as it was far too early for the bar, but this is what I was looking for:




I eventually found enough to keep the tent from falling over :



My wife hasn't stopped laughing yet!
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