As suggested on another thread...whats been the worst weather on a rally for you ?

For me, Yarmouth, Easter 08. Wind and rain all the way there. Gale winds on the sea front so it was almost impossible to walk. Weather was so bad i had to spend nearly the whole weekend in the Barking Smack :wacko: and got up on the morning to go home.......4-5 inches of snow.
Thought that would be ok......set off, got on the A11 for a total white out blizzard :angry:

Had to pull over at one stage for 10 minutes as it was impossble to see where i was goin at 25 mph. Pulled into a layby and saw a phone box..........hhmmmmm ,that might be a nice place to kip for the night i thought :blink:

Eventually carried on , then........sunshine ! Realised i wasnt dead n carried on :banging

Hopefully this weekend at brid :D :D :D :D :D

i'll go with you on that, ended up in hospital in a ventilator, and nebulizer. after my lungs near collapsed plurasy and well on the way to pnumoania, my lungs have not been the same since left me on inhailors and heavily astmatic, rode there at 45 degree angle and eventually back home at 135 degree. i was staying extra days in flatlet wit h me family. and had to cutl the holiday break short.
as i was so ill.

makes my wet weekend in weymouth sound abit lame :blink:

Weymouth -wet - 1983 I assume??

Also, Belfast 89 was bad, snow, rain, sleet -plus high winds.

So bad the ferry had to return to harbour.....

Mersea Island 1997. Travelled then still from Germany, stopped over in Antwerp and continued towards Oostende on the thursday. Gale force winds which was constantly changing directions and monsum like downpoors. I got blown off the road with my scooter and ended up in a water filled ditch with only the headset showing and the rest of the scooter and all my gear submerged in mucky water ;jaw ;jaw

Needless to say I didn't give up, got a taxi and a trailer to get me the last 20 miles to the ferry and drained it off the water etc next morning in Ramsgate after a cold night in the ferry terminal asleep in a dripping wet sleeping bag. :rolleyes: Still made it to the kids play ground at Mersea before it went bang with a bang, home journey was far more comfortable with the AA. :banging

Weymouth 1983.

It's the golden showers you hav to be careful of!!! :o :lol:

IOW 85 was pretty dire travelling down in the constant rain and the campsite was a frakking quagmire, Skegness 2007 was pretty dire on the way back too with the gales and raining like stair rods and of course Great Yarmouth but I never had to travel for that so had it easy!!

I was going to say the I O W but I coul`dt remember the exact year that the camp site was just a mud bath.Runied my new pair of Forest Hills I had bought only on the Thursday !

skeggy 99/2000,cant remember,when the field was bout 4 foot deep in water

Yarmouth 08 for me too - didnt have to travel far only up from Essex but I have never been so cold.
Visor icing up on the inside and me peering out of a hole the size of a fag packet

My new "waterproof" gloves were sodden thru within about 10 mins.............

Once the snow stopped and the rain started, it was heavenly!!!

yarmouth o8 aswell ,persauded mr g to wait till the monday to ride back with me and hoping the weather would improve,how wrong we were,at one stage i not only could not feel my feet ,but could not see them for snow slush and ice ,worst conditions in all my scootering days ,in a word ,frightening,4x4s ,coaches and lorrys still over taking us

Same for me, the A34 under about 3" water :rolleyes: , not a lot of fun. Enjoyed the rally thou :beer .

Yarco 08 for me too......got lucky with the weather on the Friday ride there with Olly an MrG, cold but dry, i could only do the Friday, so had to head back on Saturday on me lonesome..........................................i think my tyres had a permanent 45 degree flat worn into them!.......winter gloves that i have used for 3 or 4 years that i found out were totally useless when the weather was "proper" wintery!.......But put me head down, stopped for fuel twice, and a Double Whopper with cheese, and cup of coffe coming of the A14, when my hands started to get that red hot ice cold burning pain ouch!............Hat off to Sparky though who drove down in it and took 9 or 10 hours or something!! :clap

Also similar situation going to Llandudno mod rally in 87 or something......riding through wales somewhere in a blizzard.....we had to ride in the middle of the road because we couldn't see the kerbs at the side of the road it was falling and settling so quick!....eventually arrived at the hotel around 1am i think, and the guy got out of bed to open the door for us......and offered to open the bar!.....HAPPY DAYS!.....his misses came down about 2 hours later and caught him drinking by the fire with us, gave him a right bollocking, shut the bar and dragged him back to his pit. :lol:

Yarmouth 08 the only thing that kept me going was seeing all those lambys brokendown waiting for recovery :D :lol: :P

the misfits do at shipston on stour 08 was wet on the way ,as me and jules rode down the fosse on the friday afternoon ,the rain was that bad the warterboard wer shutting the roads one side and the old bill the other,we rode threw some very deep floods and hats of to the missis for carrying on ,we had a room in the local so once ther we wer fine ,felt sorry for the campers tho

I know some of the AFSC lads had their tents blown away at Yarmouth n ended up sleeping in some derelict shed thing. :o

Friday & Saturday were fine just know how Moses felt parting the waves when it came to the journey home this morning and Howden Bridge on the M62 wasn't the best idea should've stayed on the A614 :rolleyes:

self heating RUC canned dinners .................Luvely :wacko:

this mornin was rather shite as well ;) top of the wolds it wer like midnight ,and fekkin wet

widdas do this year was bad for bill, rupert and goldie :D
i had checked the weather and arrived a day early to avoid it ;)

Warmwell a few years back, in a gale with pissin rain. leaning into the wind at 45 degree angle. Had to pull over several times as I couldn't see eff all. Dodging fallen branches and learning that there were power lines being blown down.

Yes Ralloo was bitter that weekend, bought the tents up but we all ended up staying in the big barn all huddled together like penguins in the antarctic ;jaw

so mbad on the friday i had to put a shelter up in the marquee to protect the decks!

goldie sporting the latest in rain wear


next where the decks were at first


it was a wet one ;)

llandudno 92/93 we got there and it was lashing down and some silly cunt forgot the tent pegs so we tied the flysheet to the scoots an slept on the inner and in the morning we had 3 inches of water under us, it was fucking windy too, we needed some tent pegs so we went on a mission round the campsite and blagged a few (sorry if any of your tents fell over) but that night was even worse with wind and rain and a tent pole snapped ripping a 2ft hole in the side of the tent, oh happy days
the aa tent blew away too