Suzuki V-Strom (VStrom) Owners Club DL250, DL650, DL1000 & DL1050
Other Stuff => The Blue Oyster bar => Topic started by: Fat Rat on April 17, 2021, 17:42:02
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Last year was the first year we ever had problems with Vans and Motorhomes making it up the field, the rain we had was biblical. So we have taken the plunge and are concreting the main Campsite entrance with enough run up that all should now be well.
Since last year we have replaced all of the drainage from the Showers and installed a new Septic Tank with a mega soakaway.
This weekend have started the groundwork for the Shower/Toilet going behind the Cabins. I should have the concrete base in next week and I will start the blockwork the week after.
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Is that bamboo in the last picture?
Isn't it a f*cker? A real b*stard, good luck digging it out.
Have fun. :thumb:
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Slab laid.
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Looks like they got it wrong in this video. See 1:13...
http://youtu.be/gou1cspUfdY
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Technically, it's outside :)
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A few blocks laid today.
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Concrete laid.
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When can I park my van on it ?
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Never!
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Can I quote you on that? lol lol lol.
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Not quite ready to take a Shower in, but it is getting there.
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Looking good but don't ask me for tiles this time - today was my last day selling the fecking things! :happydance: :dance: :obscene-drinkingchug:
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Your name shall also go on the list
lol
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:grin: Don't forget, this is only an alternative to one of the plastic event loos. I had started looking at ripping out the internals and plumbing in a proper loo in one of them. Throwing up a few blocks (which I will timber clad) seemed like a better job :thumb:
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The inside is rendered, electrics are in. The timber is due in this week so I can make the door :thumb:
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Well, to use the local vernacular... Tidy :)
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Looking good 👍
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Almost there. The tiler finished yesterday, yours truly had a stab at the plumbing :fix: It should be ready in a week or so for the Cabin Dwellers to piss in a bit of comfort.
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Nice work :thumb:
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Is that hole large enough to flush down?? :haha: :haha:
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Yes. If your aim is good enough.
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Other than fitting a loo roll dispenser, which arrives tomorrow, the VIP bog is ready for Cabin Dwellers :dance:
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Is that the same model shower as the other two? They're the best electric showers I've used. Very good flow, pressure and temperature. What wattage are they?
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Can we start a plumbers corner?
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The other two are slightly more powerful at 10.5Kw, the new one is an 8.5Kw. I cheaped out on the shower because I had a length of armoured cable in the shed which I used to supply the new VIP bog and it isn't quite large enough to handle the 10.5Kw. :shy:
Two Cabin Dwellers have used it tonight and gave it the thumbs up. I want to see what happens in the morning when there are three showers running at the same time.
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I know it saves the
lazy VIPs walking to the the other showers/toilets but it's passing trade for the dragon wagon ... :stirpot:
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Not at 3am :smirk:
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And now with the toilet roll dispenser, honestly, this isn't real camping :smirk:
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Do you have a receptacle in which I could place my Gentlemans Tena pants? I have observed your signage advising me against placing them in your lavatory. :)
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You will find a suitable receptacle either side of your bike, you probably know them as panniers :thumb:
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Harsh.
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He has a small case on the left pannier mount with the letter KTM on:
Knickers, Tena, ( Men's)
I've wondered why he never has to stop for a piss on the 300 mile Sunday jaunts. This explains things.
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Don't worry TLP. The small sizes probably are flushable.
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Harsher.
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For those who don't want to go down the Tena Pants (mens) route.
SWMBO (for a small fee) will simply install a catheter. :fix:
Run the tube down your leg and down the outside of your boot.
May want to flash the haszards to warn those following you. lol
You could use the same option to run the tube out the side of the tent to avoid the midnight walk to the toilets. :obscene-drinkingchug:
One mate bought and fitted "The Urinator" to his dry suit.
Basically a tap attached on the outside of the suit with a pipe long enough to get to the nether region attached to a catheter condom.
He tried to demonstrate the how it worked while on the boat.
We looked at the tap expecting a golden stream over going over the side.
Nothing.
Looked at his face and saw the look of surprises then shame.
He then said...
"The condom has come off"
lol lol lol lol lol lol
Should have bought a smaller size...
He blamed the water temperature, it was August.
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Spike Milligan relates in one of his books (Rommel? Gunner who?) how it got very cold when they were in North Africa in WW II. In order to solve this very problem one of his fellow squaddies got hold of a bicycle inner tube and turned it into a normal tube by making one cut. When in his sleeping bag he put one end .. well you get the idea I'm sure.
Anyway apparently it worked fine until the night someone tied a knot in the far end of the inner tube.
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Pictures to follow (once I start laying blocks), I have already laid the concrete slab and the drainage is in but here is a Newsflash!
The Plastic event loos are gone and they will be replaced with block built, flushable loos (people still won't flush them :angry-banghead: ) I think you already knew that was happening.
The thing that is news is that I am tagging on a small Drying Room (with a Heater, Tumble Dryer and hanging space) for the times when people arrive from places that don't have the same consistently good weather that we do and may need to dry their clobber :whistle:
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You need to be careful Andy, the way you're going on will encourage people to treat your place as a holiday camp.
Flushing lavatories?
Whatever next?
An accommodating host?
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An accommodating host?
Hmm, I may need some help recruiting one.
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I know where I'm setting up my tent next year!
In the drying room! :dance: :dance: :dance:
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You should. At £70 per night it's a bargain!
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They are taking shape.
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Looking good :thumb:
A fresh coat of creosote for the existing shower black to match the new one? :shy:
I could have offered you a nice GRP enclosure if you'd asked. lol
would have blended in lovely. lol
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Coming along nicely :thumb:
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Looking very nice. Is yours the best camp sight in Wales? I will probably visit during the summer, I hope you have everything complete by then. :sunny: :auto-dirtbike: :thumb:
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Are we the best?
Well, if Carling made Campsites.......
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Best campsite in Penboyr. :thumb:
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There are many fine sites in Wales.
Andy's place is well maintained and in a great location to explore the Mid and West Wales.
And has the Dragon wagon for food, what more can a bike want?
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More cabins ... :grin:
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I want more Cabins but Dragonlady isn't as keen.
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Yurts. With their attendant rental rates. :shock:
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Bribery..... lol
Yurts will bring a different kind of customer.... :crazy:
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Yurts like wot they have in that Monaco?
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There is a place fairly local that have them, it attracts the wrong sort. Hippies :grin:
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Your place attracts pyromaniacs. :shy:
All those lovely wooden benches to burn. lol
I'm in agreement on the yurts attracting hippies in their 90grand mercs.
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Cabins on wheels maybe...
🙂
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Have you seen the price of them (Shepherds Huts)?
We would have to charge silly money to recoup the investment.
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Sites do charge silly money for yurts and glamping pods, even the ones with a just a steel plate to put your stove on and no hot hub!
Edit.
Also the more fancy stuff you offer the more of an arsehole you attract.
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Yup. People who don't "get" camping, and don't want to.
But even normal sites have started attracting a lot more arseholes. The sort that turn up with a brand new 10 berth tent, pitch it half an inch from you, unload an enormous radio, giant barbecue and four crates of Stella from the back of the Ford Ranger, then wifey turns up in the suv with six kids who decide your porch is an ideal place to play football. "Oooh, it's lovely here in the middle of nowhere, you can let the kids just run free."
I've stopped using my two favourite Dales sites now, got one good one in the Lakes and one in Cornwall. Oh, and one in wet west Wales.
Moaning old git territory, probably. :old:
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Podtastic!
Unless we change our minds overnight, one of these will be heading towards us next week (Double bed only).
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If you do , I'll book it for the vstrom weekend ... :thumb:
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:thumb: You have first refusal.
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Brilliant.. just pm me once you need deposit / payment :)
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You haven't asked me how much, you are clearly not from Yorkshire :grin:
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lol
It's only a slight upgrade from the sheds cabins :icon_wink:
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Price TBC lol
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There's enough time to save up ... :grin:
Does it come with free wood and matches ? :shrug:
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26p a pack!
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Free firewood and matches? What are you, a communist?? This stuff doesn't grow on trees you know.
Anyway, order placed, the Pod will be here on Thursday. As soon as it arrives I will get some images uploaded and added to the booking system :thumb:
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Anyone want to have a go at naming the Pod?
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Pillion Princess Pod
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Vespa veranda
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Sweet pea pod
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Mister Snugs Cat Den.
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Dome Home
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Oh my pod
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Looks too much like a large coffin to me.... lol
Name the Pod? "Rat hole".
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I might break convention and go with Kawasaki Pod (it is green).
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Tuono Tunnel.
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The Hurley-Pugh Humpbacked Hovel.
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BMW POD Because it's a tad poncey ie "Having an arrogant, self-important or pompous manner" lol
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Brockett..
That's why I'm renting it the Aug weekend .. :stirpot:
As most bikes are "Adventure" these days
Call it the "Adventure Cavern"
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The green Hobbit house is available to book now! https://www.bikerscampsite.co.uk/book.htm
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Nissin Hut
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Today was the day, the Hobbit house has landed.
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Surely you mean " The Princess Pillion Pod" !!
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Given the unrest surrounding the Ukrainian border how about The Anderson Shelter?
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You might need a bit more lead for the roof though...
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About 250 yards from my bungalow is the building that once housed the East Anglia Nuclear Strike Command Control Centre. I do hope that Putin chap knows they've moved out. :shock:
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He does now....
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If he was on here what would his user name be?
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Vodkapecks?
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Antibeakski
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Fatratski
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Fuckoffski
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lol lol
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He is a biker and has been known to ride with the Nigtt Wolves. He was not on a VStrom though. I wonder if Boris knows how to ride a motorbike?
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Boris on a motorbike... an act requiring balance, skill, attention to detail and good judgement? What could possibly go wrong?
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Where would you get a helmet to fit the floppy haired idiot from anyway ?
Oh, I know -
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Progress.
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Looking good mr Rat :thumb:
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Is that to the right of the showers/kitchen (as was in 2019?)
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In front of the Toilet/Showers, where the Portaloos were.
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Yeah that's it.
I guess numbers of loos and showers is always a tricky balance, but increasing facilities can only help with good reviews and hopefully bring you more trade etc. :thumb:
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These seemed so simple in my head :icon_no: They have been a lot of work just for somewhere to piss :smirk:
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Starting gate for giraffe races?
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If there's a few quid to be made, Giraffe racing it is :smirk:
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Looks like Stonehenge if you squint.
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So do lots of things, if you squint.....
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I'll be the first to admit that my building skills aren't top drawer but Rusty, that's harsh :bawl:
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'Tweren't me, your honour. Blame TLPower. Or, more accurately, his dog.
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Do I want to know why he was photographing this?
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He's retired, needs a cheap hobby.
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Why can't he test breakfasts like a normal retiree?
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"Normal"? You've met Barbel Mick?
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I'm still here you know!! :old:
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........ well you're logged in sat in a cafe somewhere anyway.
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Your quote Mt Rat
These seemed so simple in my head :icon_no: They have been a lot of work just for somewhere to piss :smirk:
Perhaps you should have just planted a tree? Nice job though. :thumb:
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Or a hedge... :grin:
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........ well you're logged in sat in a cafe somewhere anyway.
:icon_exclaim: How did you know? :clap:
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We have doors!
Nothing is plumbed in but we have doors (photographed at a suitable distance so you can't see my dodgy carpentry).
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Is this picture upside down ?
I can see the dodgy workmanship from here, the doors open the wrong way ... :stirpot:
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Maybe that's the ladies' loos then.
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Who decides which way a door should open?
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I can see quite a few people finding themselves locked in when someone slides the outside bolt across! :whistle: Surely the bolts should be on the inside, even if the doors open outwards!! :shrug:
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The door should open so that you use your left hand and pull it towards your body from the right, leaving your right hand free to attack whilst using the door as a shield.
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But I'm left-handed.
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There are bolts on the inside and outside. The ones on the outside are so we can lock them shut with a padlock if needed.
The doors open the same way on the other two toilet buildings. Call me a rebel.
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Best toilets I've ever seen, when the wife goes first thing put the outside bolt in and padlock it, disappear on the bike for the day!
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People are now looking at their doors and thinking ... hang on.. 🤔 lol
I always thought doors were opened with your left hand swinging towards the right , as Mr Nick says ..
Then again , I suppose it also depends on the position of the door 🚪
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It depends on whether you're going in or out. Can't always be on the left, or the right.
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Surely doors are hung to be least intrusive to a room. You wouldn't open it into a hallway and you wouldn't open it so that it covered a light switch.
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My front door most assuredly opens into the hallway.
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We are not posh enough to have a hallway.
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Sorted....
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Bloody hell, I don't remember hanging those, but the way that one is slightly lower than the other, it could well have been me.
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We are not posh enough to have a hallway.
How odd. Where do you keep the suits of armour and the dinner gong?
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In the Butlers' accommodation obviously.
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Looking good. :thumb:
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Was born in a barn slow just leave all doors open all the time.
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Just in the nick of time. Done!
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The second picture is titled "done1"
I hope you flushed it.
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Actually, that test hasn't been carried out. I may try that later after dinner.
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Looking good 👍
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want me to come round tomorrow and give the pluming a good test?
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I would be afraid to let you in there, given the amount of (flammable) timber.
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best to let the creosote dry first!
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Looks almost too good to drop a batch in !
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Looks perfect to me, coming from a man who can't nail two planks of wood together. :thumb:
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The Kawasaki Pod is looking pretty cozy now it is all fitted out.
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Looking good ... :thumb:
Not quite a kawasaki green though .. :shrug:
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Looking good :thumb:
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I put the finishing touches to the small (but perfectly formed) Drying Room yesterday. I wasn't sure how I was going to heat it, I did consider putting a Log Burner in there but decided to keep it simple and install an oil filled Rad controlled by a coin operated timer.
I insulated the ceiling with the same stuff I used on the Cabins, which performs well.
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A fresh coat of creosote for the existing shower black to match the new one?
Yep, did that too. I even took the doors to a place to have them 'dipped and stripped' :thumb:
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Excellent work.
These coins of which you speak, I trust you shall be selling them at above face value?
Very astute having a machine that only accepts florins. :thumb:
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I have no conscience. I will happily provide £1 coins for £1.25 each :smirk:
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With you throw in a pack of matches for that?
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Matches can never be free, it's not like they grow on trees.
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So, a little later than planned (yes, I forgot), I am ordering the name plates for the new loos. They are
1. BMW Bog
2. Kawasaki Khazi
3. Pillion Privy
For those of you that suggested those names, please send me your name, date of birth, mothers maiden name and the last three digits on the rear of your Credit Card to receive a prize. :thumb:
In other news, we have had the Marquee up for most of this season and the wind has pretty much destroyed it.
So, welcome to the Dragons Den. This will hopefully be in place in time for the August meet. Obviously it is flammable so certain people will need a full body search before they go in (you know who you are).
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That looks very familiar.
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We can only dream of being able to provide that level of customer service.
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Rename the loos Tom, Dick and Harry.
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Is the quad race going to be replaced by fence jumping on an old Trumpet?
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The slowest spends a night in the cooler
https://youtu.be/UfKXK7NKZSk (https://youtu.be/UfKXK7NKZSk)
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:whistle: :whistle: :whistle: :whistle:
:auto-dirtbike: :auto-dirtbike: :auto-dirtbike: :auto-dirtbike: :auto-dirtbike:
Plus with us lot it'll be more like...
https://youtu.be/t6Ikn2zkfEk
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Yes, fence jumping on the Wehrmacht's staple machine, a 6t.
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Maybe josh can bring a street twin from work and we can try jumping the wire then.
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The groundwork and base is in for the
Tenko shed. I sneaked in a bit of extra bike parking too.
The shed will be here on the 17th of August, once it is in a retaining wall needs to go up around it, a bit of creosote, a bit of electric and Bob is your aunty.
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Well, here it is.
I am laying a concrete slab in front of it, hopefully before next weekend.
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You've been a busy lad. That looks rather good.
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Looks great .. :clap:
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That looks really good :thumb: but will it have air conditioning for next weekend when it will be really, really hot & sunny like it normally is on the August bank holiday meet? :)
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That table looks sturdy enough to sleep on.
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Or dance. Or cook.
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Looks sturdy enough to take several large breakfasts ... :grin:
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Very nice.
How will the hosepipe ban affect your options when Diver sets fire to it?
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:shock: lol
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I'm booked into a cabin too :crazy:
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Because I am a
disorganised twat forward thinking bloke, always open to change, pouring a concrete base in front of the newly erected (and painted) Dragon's Den wasn't a problem at all. It was just a matter of completely masking the front of the shed and then doing some acrobatics hanging out of my Digger bucket to put a finish onto the slab.
That and praying the rain would stop.
Now it's just a case of patrolling the area for a few hours to stop the four legged bastards from walking through it. :icon_batterup:
Pimms and lemonade outside the Dragon's Den by the weekend. :obscene-drinkingchug:
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:clap:
I should have got you to do my drive FR...
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I am available. I may turn up late, things might disappear from the workplace, my general attitude will be poor and I am eye wateringly expensive.
But, I am available.
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Just like every other tradesman then.
don't forget to plead poverty when your fancy new van arrives lol
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We have had our Broadband upgraded to Fibre, we now have 900 megatoids download speeds :lala:
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I expect from such a glamorous campsite there would be no desire to innerweb the outside world? One day I intend to visit and test your Michelin star food and luxurious grass on which to pitch my tent. I'm sure I won't be disappointed. :thumb:
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There is very little in the way of glamour. That's always going to be a stretch with a place full of hairy arsed bikers :smirk:
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Well the food was great, the grass plush and the sunrise impressive when I was there.... but I am sure that's all part of the standard service.
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Fat Rat.
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
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Is it just me or does anyone else think that this "lol" looks how you might imagine to men to look in Fat Rats shower? You know what I mean :icon_no:
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Possibly just you, then. I'm pretty sure I never spend any time imagining men in showers. A harmless hobby though, if it fulfils you that's all that matters.
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This weekend sees our new 'Piaggio Pod' get its first use :thumb:
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Looking good... :thumb:
But .....
Piaggio...? lol
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Pannigale. Panther. Pitstop. Pan-European.
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My name is Andy and I am unafraid to declare that I like Vespa's.
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Anything with a clutch is OK with me!
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You'll be liking beaks next ... :stirpot:
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:nobeak:
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My first two wheeler was an 1950s Vespa. Made under licence in Bristol by the Douglas motorcycle compay. :auto-dirtbike:
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Too much? :smirk:
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Someone will nick it.
Does it mean anyone who stays there has to have an Italian style breakdown?
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It means they need a bit of style :smirk:
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Yes unless you have a scooter.
However a :thumb: for the Pod.
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Ooh, may have to try that Piaggio pod. Got to be a reason to get my Vespa on a nice run out!
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Hmm, I may have to rename it 'Pointy Pod'.
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Beak Barn
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Suspicion of that image Andy.
Ticks far too many boxes, a Vstrom, people sat in deckchairs sheltering from the hot sunshine under a parasol, even gender balanced.
Ai generated if you ask me...
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yeah the shadow from the parasol doesn't look quiet right lol