Britbike forum Forums General discussion The Rod and Tappet Hoops have been jumped....

An overseas Rally is just a couple of days away as I type, not so easy these days, after the plague. To get it sorted, and indeed to get things lined up to actually go, first of all I needed another passport, the wonderful French now stamp my passport each and every time I go over and return in the truck. So the pages on the 10yr passport have almost been filled in two years....

Took me 4 months of mucking around to get another passport, which involved letters from my company, photo copies of the stamped pages and of course even more money. BUT, and that's a big but you'll notice I now have a new one all nice and empty, ready for them French and their bloody stamps, that can only fit 6 on a page...

Next on the agenda the crossing, didn't want to use the ferry this time, and that proved to be lucky, as one lot have sacked all their workers. And the ships are parked up, leaving the only other company fully booked and queues a plenty. So it was the train that needed booking, easy you would think, and so did I. But then they want proof of the Plague jabs, what a joke that is pushing buttons and getting 'Apps' and whatever else, only to finally find I can't send them the information till tomorrow. And I can't do that as I'll be in the Hell Hole then....

So IF I can get the FORTY INCHER'S tank filled, which is a fingers crossed thing, due to them 'Save the Planet' lot, who are gluing themselves to the refinery stopping the tankers getting fuel, and making the stations around here run out of supplies....


So I tells ya, it ain't easy getting the pictures of our Rallies to all y'all, it could even be a bit tough even now, I've been sat on the motorway for 17hrs in the truck the other week, due to the winds stopping the only ferry company running, and the train having a breakdown. But I'll do me best dudes...


Thought I'd post this as an insight into what's going on over here at the moment post plague....

What a sad affair. How the French love their bureaucracy, give a Frenchman a hat and ........!
In a roundabout sort of way I'm glad my international rally days are done, reckon I've had the best of all times.
Carry carrying on Shaun

Funny thing you should say that Bryan old chum, for it was all the Bureaucracy that did it for me and the BSAOC international this year, simply could not be arsed with it all, but THAT yarn will have to be told in a nice warm pub, holding a nice warm English Ale with you sat next to me.....

In the meantime, the A10 is ready I'm almost ready, just got to get young Els her Stilton, and it'll be Belgium beer here we come. Naturally there will be mussels involved somewhere along the way, but you knew that already didn't ya lad.....

Can you not ride to Lydd and board one of these?

Sounds like the Chev Corvair of the air. I built an Airfix model of this aircraft as a kid,so I was interested to see a 1955 photo of them loading D Type Jaguars into one to take them to Le Mans for that year's disasterous 24 Hour race.


Hawthorn braked, Macklin swerved, and Levegh launched.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/D%C3%A9collage_de_la_Mercedes-Benz_300_SLR_au_Mans_1955.png/1024px-D%C3%A9collage_de_la_Mercedes-Benz_300_SLR_au_Mans_1955.png


See how easy it is to get off topic? That's the nature of the internet.

From your link, no crashes since 1997, so that's a good improvement...

Chin up bro. Keep up the good work.. We look forward to the post yarn and photos... I hope im sitting with you and Bryan when that t'other yarn is spoken of over a warm pint of ale.

And I was sooooooo looking forward to the Bull

I dont think we should blame the French. They are only carrying out the actions that we (the people of the UK) asked them to carry out. I.e. treat us like any other nation not in the EU.

John

..."post plague" but current control...

We just booked a trip to Greece, traveling thru The Netherlands.
No apparent travel or Covid restrictions coming or going, in NL, GR, or it appears, the U.S.- near as I can tell.

Well, look on the bright side, at least the new passport will be black, not like the EU-style purple ones...

Dark Blue, is what arrived for me

Shaun i have been reading on another forum that you lot now have to have a UK sticker on your rear number plate if you go out of county?