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Re: Scottish Get-together 2014
By: Big Rich Date: September 21, 2014, 12:22 pm
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A brilliant day yesterday, great scenery, great drive and great
company. Thanks to gene for organising.
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Re: Scottish Get-together 2014
By: genem Date: September 21, 2014, 3:00 pm
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Happy to say that the Weather played its part and was tremendous
all weekend. A great bunch of people, from all over, Bedford to
the Black Isle. 31 miles of tracks yesterday and another 15
today, a bit higher up and out of the trees. We were just below
600m at one point today :-)
A few pics to give a taster...
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Re: Scottish Get-together 2014
By: prof-pat-pending Date: September 21, 2014, 5:23 pm
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a top weekend was had with top company whoo
big thanks to gene for the organisation yrck
will post some pics later blabl
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Re: Scottish Get-together 2014
By: genem Date: September 21, 2014, 5:35 pm
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....and thanks to Prof for the relay service, 5 tyres and a
huge ex MOD cooker delivered safe and sound. Thanks also to
Michael and Icey...
....now to work out how to use the cooker and what bits are
missing...
:-)
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Re: Scottish Get-together 2014
By: prof-pat-pending Date: September 21, 2014, 6:21 pm
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well the early finish idea failed miserably due to a pooley
wagon having to be limped back home to the garage
so it all ended up in the usual last minute rush of throwing
everything in the back of ermintrude and hopeing i hadnt forgot
anything major
ermintrude was full - infact too full (more on that later) it
needed a few re-tries before it all fitted a bit better
so with it all in the flask was filled the fags rolled and
several tons of sweets/drinks for the boy and off we went
according to the satnag it was 166 miles which would take about
3 and a half hours - yeah right !
start time was 17:15
first pic is hamilton services (M74) this was 9 '0' clock and
me,the boy and ermintrude was well - knackered
average speed was about 40mph - not good - there was too much
weight in and the temperature was too close to the red to try
harder
down hills was no better as it was sitting so far down - the
handling was ridiculous
phoned gene at this point and told him i was running late but
was still comming
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next problem came as i came off the M80 and onto the A roads
handling was getting worse and i could hardly see more than a
hundred yards - it was dark and the 'scotch mist' was making it
worse (mental note - buy new lights)
then 'BANG' - yep you guessed middle of nowhere,pitch black a
chuffing blowout
i crawled along and pulled it into a junction and got the torch
out
jack out,wheelbrace out - off we go - the boy held the torch and
i set to to change the wheel - but he wouldnt keep it still - so
i looked up to tell him to keep it still
thats when i saw the cloud - a clould off midges - i've never
changed a wheel so fast - i bet the little buggers must have got
at least a pint of blood from me before i got finished
but hey-ho we were mobile again - handling was better but not
great - so we plodded on and made it (well after a slight
geographical incident) and made to genes for 22:30
say hello tent up,set up and straight to bed - knackered
next pics are saturday - let the pics do the talking
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the early morning ritual of 'thawing out and sobering up '
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made it back home in 3 and a half hours and only broke down once
(10 min fix) no handling issues - but still a slight (but a lot
better) over heating issue
top marks to gene and family - put me down for next year
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Re: Scottish Get-together 2014
By: strang Date: September 22, 2014, 1:00 pm
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[quote author=genem link=topic=852.msg14906#msg14906
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Is everyone drinking Buckfast? ;)
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Re: Scottish Get-together 2014
By: genem Date: September 23, 2014, 3:51 pm
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No, John is on the wkd.
Celbrt
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Re: Scottish Get-together 2014
By: mistericeman Date: September 23, 2014, 4:00 pm
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Some stonking pictures there Gene .....
I'm only a tad jealous that we couldn't join you ....Mind after
the bloody SW's engine let go on the way to Wales ....Hmmmmm .
Hopefully I'll be going Tdi soon which will make next years trip
up to you a much more affordable AND pleasant experience Mbrns
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Re: Scottish Get-together 2014
By: prof-pat-pending Date: March 14, 2015, 2:29 am
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could do with the dates for this year (2015) gene whstle
you can book me down for a place again wdesmle
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