Rideouts 2007

The Runs for 2007

The Theme is Wildlife and Castles

Contact any of the committee for more details. Click on the map for a larger view. Click on the hyperlink in the Run or Starting column to download a map to import into AutoRoute and an image to view on the screen. Note that the maps are compressed to a .zip file, so you will have to save them, unzip them and then you can access the files. All Autoroute files are compatible with Autoroute 2006 and Autoroute 2007. If anyone wants TomTom or Garmin itinerary files, please email alan@manhoc.co.uk

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Date	Run	Explanation and other points of interest	Map	Starting point
Jan 5-7	G-Mex	The annual Manchester bike show	G-Mex Centre	Meet there.
Jan 28th	Glasson Dock	A short run to get the bikes working again		M61 Services N 11am start
Feb 18th	Pancake Run	Our classic run. This time via Last of the Summer Wine country		McDonalds A6 Getting there
Mar 11th	Moreton Corbett Castle	http://www.shropshiretourism.info/castles/moreton-corbett/		Poplar 2000
April 1st	Sherwood Forest	Home of Robin Hood - Note the new start point and start time. The forest restaurant looks nice. See here for details		Poplar 2000 10am start
April 22nd	Hawkstone Park Follies	The Follies is a fantasyland of cliffs, crags, caves, deep woods and a series of extraordinary monuments built more than 200 years ago. http://www.hawkstone.co.uk/follies/hawkstone_park_follies.html		Poplar 2000 10am start (the follies are open from 10-3:30)
May 13th	South Lakes Wild Animal Park	Home of the Sumatran tiger. See http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/ for details		Little Chef Haslingdon 10am start
June 3rd	Kenilworth Castle	http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/kenilworthcastle/		Poplar 2000 9:30 start
June 23/24th	Aberystwyth	A weekend trip to Wales. Please contact a member of the committee for accommodation details.		Poplar 2000 9:30 start
July 15th	HOC Dinner run	A ride to join other HOC branches and meet new HOC members. We will be riding over to Squires Cafe for lunch.	No map because I don't know the route.	Birch Services W 10:00 start
August 5th	Dudley Zoo	http://www.dudleyzoo.org.uk/home.htm		Poplar 2000 9:30 start
August 26th	Dinorwig Power Station	Very famous - worth a visit		Poplar 2000 9:30 start
September	Our run to the Algarve	The Manhoc foreign rally. Other runs will be arranged for those who are not going.		See here
Sept 16th	Woodside Falconry Centre	Malcolm Lunn is leading this ride.		Birch Services W 10am start
October 7th	Sizergh Castle	Another Castle to visit.		Little Chef Haslingdon 10:30
Oct 28th	Birds of Prey Centre	In Lowther Castle.		Little Chef Haslingdon
Nov 25th	NEC show	Meet at Poplar 2000 to ride down to the show. 10am start.		Poplar 2000 10:00
Dec 9th	Midway Cafe	They serve a cracking all-day breakfast		Poplar 2000 11am start

Note: fill up well before we leave please to save time. We want to try and leave promptly at the time shown above. If you are late, we may go without you.

Birch Services – on the M62 between J18 and J19. Remember that Eastbound is towards Leeds and Westbound is towards Liverpool.

Poplar 2000 services. On the M6 at J20 (Lymm turn off) or the M56 J9.

Little Chef, Haslingden. On the A56, just North of the end of the M66. Go left at the first roundabout and it's on the right.

M61 services. There is only one set of services - just after J6 going North and just after J7 going South.

All runs start at 10:30 unless otherwise stated. Do not use the times in AutoRoute as a guide.

Contact any of the committee for more details

Click here to download an Excel Year Planner with all the run and meeting dates for 2007.

Note that we will make every effort to go on the runs unless the weather is dangerous. This means snow, ice and freezing temperatures.