h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Spent the usual couple of months debating where the club should go on our annual 'big' motorcycle run, Hungary, Poland and Germany finally gave way to southern Spain, all sorted and routes, costs, time off being calculated....failed miserably to agree on anywhere we all wanted to go...again....back to the north...east...Ireland...Iceland?

Eventually the more plastic shrouded members have had their way and we will be travelling once again around beautiful France, talking in the Le Mans 24 hour moto race to keep the speedfreaks happy...me...I will be escaping the noise and boredom of watching others ride bikes really fast and going on a few bimbles, getting hopelessly lost in the nearby countryside, hopefully with some nice food, a glass of red and a full tank of fuel!
2017 looking pretty cool already, happy new year all from us stupid English bikers!

FWR

This sounds wonderful...especially as I'm sitting here with a bad cold, staring at the endlessly falling snow out my window...

Enjoy, bring back stories and pics!

Some parts of France seem to have high crime rates. Overall, though, the country as a whole seems benign

" the number of recorded crimes in France is around a third lower than that in the UK"
http://www.french-property.com/news/french_life/crime_rates_france_2011/

here's a link that says the Loire Valley has one of the lowest crime rates in France:
http://www.france4u.eu/article-i-id-i-79789-i-loire-valley-description.html

I'd stay away from Marseilles, though. Maye I'm paranoid because when I used an ATM in Rome, thieves stole my ATM card info and drained my account in Aix-en-Provence.

Nothing that a good helping of stupidity and horsepower can't overcome...tends to be very very little crime at biker bashes Paul

Still not my area...

Have fun, though !

*nudges SF* We could still all go there and have a hootoo flash mob and take FWR a few bottles of - to lessen the shock - with the TGV we can get there in a couple of hours.

Party time in France then... have bike will travel!

That's tempting !

Don't have bike, will travel.

So a left turn off the ferry and head towards Belgium?

I've never trusted Belgium because it doesn't rhyme with anything, not even orange.

Helium!

Or maybe panjandrum or humdrum.

I never will go back to Belgium
Because It was tedious and humdrum.
The food I've forgotten.
The weather was rotten,
With many a bossy panjandrum.

I adore the picturesque and hospitable city of Liege,
At the Sunday outdoor market, giant Flemish bunnies are all the rage.
In Bruges, the food is utterly great,
Pannekoeken with butter'll make you salivate.
Antwerp's a transport of delight.
Almost as cool as the Isle of Wight.
The zoo has an amazing primate collection,
And when you're tired of natural perfection,
You can wander over to the church with the tall steeple,
And gaze upon Rubens' paintings of very fat people.
Belgium, in short, offers pleasures a-plenty,
But perhaps we'll keep it for the cognoscenti.

You have a point, Dmitri, but the subtitle for this thread is "return of stupidity." I was trying to honor that theme.

Anyway, the next tiome I'm in brges, I'll try to remember some of what you said.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780536/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Well, considering what happened last time - A87873835 - I was trying to give FWR some tips. We want more of this kind of 'stupidity' in the h2g2 Post.

Speaking of which, 'In Bruges' is going to feature in some upcoming Post Stuff, as I recall...

And, speaking of bikers and FWR, be sure to catch the new Post issue - he's got some amazing work in this one.

When the bicycle first became popular, there were people who circumnavigated the globe without using any gasoline at all. Then somebody added a motor to two-wheeled transport, and eclipsed the original idea of getting around using pedals to power things.

For me, the word "biker" will always be first and foremost the original use of the term. "Motorcyclist" is a fine word, in my opinion.