Appeal for routes and good meeting places

[ipsg.glf]

Last weekend, myself and 11 fellow motoring enthusiasts had a great days driving in Northumberland. This was organsed by myself and a friend. I did the people arrangeing and he sorted the routes.

I'm keen to do more of these in the North East/Northy Yorkshite area and, therefore, would like to make an appeal for routes. Preferred roads are NSL (obviously). I am looking at drives of around 1.5 hours each. The more the merrier.

Also, can anyone recommend driver friendly places (cafe, pub, etc..) for us to meet. The format for these drives is that people drive their own car and pair up with an observer. Then they sawp over. So at any time half the cars are left parked-up. Obviously, it is important that we find somewhere that is secure but also OK with this arrangement. Inevitably, we'll need refreshements and lunch/dinner at some point, so a good quality selection of food is also important.

I'm posting this in both the North East and North Yorkshire sections of the forum, to gain the maximum exposure.

Any help or guidance would be very grateful appreciated. If you have pre-planned routes, we will, of course, acknowledge them (XX from PH!) when we get them printed up.

[ipsg.glf]

Hi Bob

Thanks for the response. I can understand your position but I think we are doing quite different things. We restrict our numbers to around 20 (sometimes less). Essentially many of the participants are advanced drivers, some being emergency trained.

So, the format of a typical day would be to meet up then, say, if there were 8 cars going out, set off over 2 routes, maybe 15 minutes apart. The idea is to make swift, discreet progress across challenging roads. We don't convey under any circumstances.

I can understand that you want to protect your investment in terms of petrol. I would be happy to join/make a donation to cover any of these costs.

We are doing this to try and encourage young[er] drivers to look at the benefits of advanced driving, given the appaling record of <26 year old drivers.

I hope this better explains what we are trying to do. Many thanks.

[ipsg.glf]

Bob

YHM

[ipsg.glf]

Zebra

I'm based in Teesside. It is not a case of being unwilling to do it, it is just a case of the fact that I have no particular skill in such things (I was off sick the day we were taught map reading and navigational skills at school) plus that I am much more comfortable sorting the other aspects of ensuring that the runs out go smoothly.

I thought this would be a quick-win in terms of getting some routes so I could go ahead and organise some more Driving Days. If I have to do it all myself, it then becomes much more of a burden especially all the things that I am trying to juggle these days.

I really did think that it would be a case of:

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[ipsg.glf]

The Biker said:

Interested to know where the 'ipsg.' comes from? Possibly "I'm a Police SuperGrass"!?(Joke) As I guess the 'glf' stands for "Golf Lima Foxtrot" a Traffic Police expression for "Go Like F***" I used to have this very expression on a previous mode of transport!
Would hate to think we were trying to be infiltrated!!!

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Liken what we are doing to an IAM run, if you want. I'm not a Traffic Cop and even if I were, I am sure there are much bigger fish to fry.

Thanks for the route, wedg1e. Marvellous.

Edited by ipsg.glf on Tuesday 31st October 14:04

[ipsg.glf]

Wedg1e

Can you suggest an alternative starting point? I believe the retail park is used by the boy racer convoy type which we are emphatically not. Cheers.

Edited by ipsg.glf on Tuesday 31st October 14:11