Reclaim North Wales bike ride

[bodgit]

Anybody attending this, on Sunday 13th
http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/Ne...-1400-members/

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/Ne...m-north-wales/

[bodgit]

This is today guys
if you,ve got a bike get on it and get down here


North Wales Police discourages innocent motorcyclists from entering the region by indiscriminately stopping as many riders as possible. Led by Deputy Chief Constable Clive Wolfendale, who has proposed banning motorcycles from national parks, the force admits officers stop around 400 riders every summer weekend including 350 who have committed no offence.
MCN’s aim is to remind the force whose roads they are by exercising our right to enjoy them within the law.
Reclaim North Wales - how you can get involved

• MCN will meet readers at two points at midday on September 13. Go to whichever is easiest for you to get to:
• The first is the Dragon's Rest Cafe, at the Caerwys Junction of the A55 in the north of the region. The second is the Ponderosa Café on the A542 Horseshoe Pass, Llangollen, LL20 8DR.
• We’ll then meet you again at 4pm in the car park of Swallow Falls Hotel, Holyhead Road, Betws-y-Coed, Conwy, LL24 0DW. The site, in Snowdonia National Park, has a restaurant and tavern and is near stunning waterfalls.

[bodgit]

just 2 photo,s from the horseshoe pass from yesterdays ride. Thousands turned out, You can see it but the bikes were queing up to a mile each side of the . Ponderosa Café we got there early and were "trapped" in the car park for 2 hours as it was jammed full. You can see in the 2nd photo the bikes tailing back to the pass llangollen side for a mile. Much the same at the swallow falls.
Every where we rode same story bikes every where. You had to be there to understand the scale of the turnout. Great day out.

Ponda rosa cafe early sunday allready almost packed.

Bikes trailing back to the pass,

[CBRDEAN0]

The police are trying to play the numbers down but the estimates are around 13,000 bikes attending the day.

Great result

[bodgit]

Thousands of MCN readers descended on North Wales on Sunday, transforming much of the region into one enormous bike festival in one of MCN’s biggest ever campaigns.
Over 10,000 riders are thought to have joined our effort to reclaim the area’s stunning roads from heavy-handed police who every weekend stop 350 motorcyclists who have committed no offence.
Around 5,000 of you went to the Ponderosa Café on the stunning Horseshoe Pass in Llangollen. At least another 3,000 of you went to the Dragon’s Rest Café near Caerwys, another of our key meeting places.
Finally around 10,000 of you converged at the final meeting point in Betws-y-Coed in Snowdonia National Park , filling the village with bikes.
One MCN reader described the scene as “like the TT, Bol d’ Or and BMF Show rolled into one.”
The day would have been a nightmare for North Wales deputy chief constable Clive Wolfendale, who used his blog to propose banning motorcycles from national parks.
For more on this, get MCN, on sale September 16.