Chimay roll call, round one

Like I hinted, I want to take the XBR500 but I haven't been able to
find a rack for it yet.

 

I'd give it a crack, although I suspect that there'll be falling
asleep in hedges around the 1/2 point.

 

No TF, there's no way I'd trust the bonneville as even far as dover.

 

Find, as in for free ?

 

Statto and I started on this plan last time, but we gave up when the
racing started as it wasn't really a good strategt to be crawling
through hedgerows on the long straight out of town. Which prompts the
question.. Is it the full sized track again this year?

 

Oh, I keep forgetting I don't live in the provinces anymore.

Five or six hundred miles then. Same result, mind.

 

I don't think they have beer tents all the way round, do they?

 

Yes.

 

*snigger*

 

nearly all the way round, the time I was there, and there's a pub on
the bit were they don't.

 

That was the short course though, no?

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=50.054604,4.301062
&daddr=Rue+de+Thi%C3%A9rissart%2FN595+to:Rue+du+Grand+Prix+des+Fronti%
C3%A8res%2FN594&hl=en&geocode=%3BFbT3-wIdbn1BAA%3BFSLH-
wIdMadBAA&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=0&sz=14&via=1&sll=50.059343,4.28484&sspn=
0.039894,0.06609&ie=UTF8&z=14

The full course is rather longer:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?
f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Rue+du+Grand+Prix+des+Fronti%C3%A8res%2FN594
&daddr=Rue+de+Thi%C3%A9rissart%2FN595+to:50.057745,4.251709
+to:Rue+du+Grand+Prix+des+Fronti%C3%A8res%2FN594&hl=en&geocode=FXbF-
wIdQKFBAA%3BFbT3-wIdbn1BAA%3B%3BFSLH-wIdMadBAA&mra=dpe&mrcr=0&mrsp=2&sz=
14&via=1,2&sll=50.059784,4.276171&sspn=0.039894,0.06609&ie=UTF8&z=14

 

There's a sloping meadow opposite the start-finish straight. Everyone
pitches up there.

 

Used. Nothing on eBay at all. Free would be good, mind.

 

[snip]

yeah, probably.

whatever - there's a supermarket that sells booze just up the road
from the camping area (presuming it's still in the same place)

 

Me too. Probably Ducati but perhaps SO sidecar

 

Don't fancy taking the KTM?

 

he didn't last year but that means nothing.
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On 05 Jun 2009 11:09:11 GMT in uk.rec.motorcycles,
says:

[Chimay]

IME a UKRM led invasions of europe means you see people on the boat,
at a hotel/campsite but rarely when traveling. Any groups will tend to
be small.

 

That's probably the best plan: take some supplies with you for the
stretches in between beer tents.