posted Thursday, August 08, 2002 02:20

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Hiya chaps, I know this ain't my manor ( ) but.............

Here's my plan

I want to try summat different with this whole meet thing.

It goes like this:

Meet Up at point A
Drive to point B
Stop and have a social in a suitable place (15 mins)
Drive to point C
Stop and have a social in a suitable place (15 mins)
Drive to point D
Stop and have a social in a suitable place (15 mins)
ETC

I reckon that a good few hours "Decent" driving can be had

Lets face it, we go to a meet, we drive to a venue and because that is the "Climax" of the meet, we stay there
We have ALL been there Kicking the floor, smoking more **** than we should, talking about the same old bollox when deep down all we want to do is DRIVE )

Hows about we make a DAY/ WEEKEND OF IT!!! ?

Imagine, pulling into a carpark with a few scoobs in it .............It fills up over a course of an hour...........You get given a route to end all routes that covers maybe 150-200 miles (in 20-30 mile chunks)...........You set off when you want, as quick as you want, knowing that at the next meeting place, there will be some scoobs either with you or just leaving on the next leg

Basically a ROLLING meet

It would cover a big distance but you get to take in :

Twisty Stuff
Windy Stuff (Wind-ey not windy as in windmill )
Roundabouts
Dual Carriageways
Motorways
Towns
Villages
Roads that we really should not be on
Roads with cattle grids on them!
Pretty much the whole nine yards.
Places that you never knew existed

You would only require the following:

A Passion for Scoobs
(Ideally) A co driver
Enough schekles to fuel ya beast
Enough Schekles to feed yaself and co-driver
A Tolerence for getting lost
A Spare day
Patience!

Obviously I couldn't dream of managing ALL of this myself so i would need help but I know a few folk (If you know what i mean )

Like the "BIG ONE" it isn't going to happen overnight so I will put the Idea out to tender and gauge response.

I truly believe that we could roam England for a day/weekend in a mini gumball rally stylee (Without the "I'm too rich to worry about speeding tickets" attitude) all you need is to commit yourself to the event

So:

One day or Weekend?

Can you make yourself availiable as a co-organiser during the organising phase or not? (Not a pre-requisite )

Up for a SERIOUS SCOOB Session

Consider the impact on family life! If ya kids don't travel or you can't get a dog sitter etc!

Can you commit to a time frame? None of this "I should be or maybe or i think so Hows about you put your £15k + investment first, just for ONE meet

Accept that the need of the many WILL outweigh the needs of the one (None of that...."I Know you are meeting on the 20th, but i've got a origami class then, can we make it the 21st" Bollox)

Who's in?

Mikey <Runs and takes cover cos last time he did this, 257 cars turned up >

R.I.P NICK

 

Mikey,

Sounds like a great idea!!

We did a similar thing for the last big notts meet - 1st pre meet in Hemel, 2nd pre-meet at services on the M1, 3rd pre-meet in Northamptonshire. Each with 15-30 minute stops, this worked pretty well - even when we all got lost

The benefit of doing the whole weekend is that we can cover more of the country and for those people that only want to do a few miles they can join in for a couple of meets and then head of home.

May I suggest that we also do the same as the Big one i.e. ask for voluntary donations from people taking part for charity (Rich Wild may like to nominate one..?)

Anyway - I'm definately up for helping out mate

Rich

 

Mikey,
I'm up for this
Willing helper if your coming down this way.

Though I think you should have gone to bed before the rambling started
Iain.

 

Mikey

I thought after our little chat yesterday i could sense you had something up your sleave
You can count myself and mejulie in for this i suggest a weekend thing maybe takin in lakedistrict or scotland or what about the norfolk broads or wales even Just a couple of ideas. with the option to camp or B & B campin is fun LOL
any way let us know what we can do

gossy

 

Sounds good!

I posted on the thread in Main but I was wondering if Mikey did his route for his area, then an appointed routemaster for southern can do his route (or routes say SW, S and SE), the only similarity being the endpoint in the middle of the country somewhere

how does that sound?

Justin

 

I lend a hand.....

 

if we not on holiday .....

well i'm sure that our holidays for this year are gone so 100% up for it

and yes, one of my hands is always ready to help to someone else

glo-glo

 

Keep it going mate how about making it local to me?

JIM