NW convoy on the Friday

[becca_viola]

Anyone interested?

If anyone's coming as a passenger and feels like being a really good Samaritan, I could quite do with finding someone to share a bit of the driving with.

I'll be coming from Manchester.

[lord summerisle]

hopefully us too.

We're coming from north of manchester... tossing up weither to go down the M6 or cross the 62 and down the M1 and join up with some others at Leister Forrest East services.

[becca_viola]

lord summerisle said:

hopefully us too.

We're coming from north of manchester... tossing up weither to go down the M6 or cross the 62 and down the M1 and join up with some others at Leister Forrest East services.

Leicester? M6/M69, I think - that bit that continues out the other side of the M1. M62/M1 is two sides of a rather large and wonky triangle...

[mightydquinn]

i am leaving from leeds. m1 south

[Fort Jefferson]

mightydquinn said:

i am leaving from leeds. m1 south

Are you going to join us again Dave? I promise not to get in your way.

[Alex@POD]

I'll be going from North Wales, happy to join a convoy near Manchester... Dunno what vehicle i'll be taking yet though!

[lord summerisle]

So... according to theAA its a 200-250 mile trip taking around 3:30 hrs.

hows about we start say Poplar 2000 services on the M6/M56 junction about for 10ish, leaving 10:30.

maybe stop at Stafford Services at 11:30-11:45...
continue down the M6 (i'm a cheapskate and avoid the toll unless i have to) and next stop - Corley Service Area 12:30-12:45
final stop if wanted Huntingdon Fenstanton Services 13:30-13:45
final push to Snetterton for 14:30

could reduce the stops a wee bit to just Corley - so 2x 2hr or so stints

[becca_viola]

lord summerisle said:

So... according to theAA its a 200-250 mile trip taking around 3:30 hrs.

hows about we start say Poplar 2000 services on the M6/M56 junction about for 10ish, leaving 10:30.

maybe stop at Stafford Services at 11:30-11:45...
continue down the M6 (i'm a cheapskate and avoid the toll unless i have to) and next stop - Corley Service Area 12:30-12:45
final stop if wanted Huntingdon Fenstanton Services 13:30-13:45
final push to Snetterton for 14:30

could reduce the stops a wee bit to just Corley - so 2x 2hr or so stints

That sounds like the biz.

Stopping every hour works for me - makes sure everyone (and their car) is well hydrated, keeps the comms up.

I don't know what the etiquette is with speed in convoys - is there a gentle(wo)men's agreement about sticking in the general region of 70 so that nobody has to choose between keeping up and points/fine or something?

Edited to add:
If anyone's bringing a passenger down (or indeed if anyone's planning to come but isn't bringing their own vehicle) who'd be willing to do a shift driving my Micra, I'd be hugely grateful: the PA I'm bringing to PF is too new a driver to be insured on it (tis free to insure an additional driver for up to a month) and it's a helluva long way for a sore-backed Becca to drive solo...

Edited by becca_viola on Thursday 10th May 15:46

[lord summerisle]

becca_viola said:

lord summerisle said:

So... according to theAA its a 200-250 mile trip taking around 3:30 hrs.

hows about we start say Poplar 2000 services on the M6/M56 junction about for 10ish, leaving 10:30.

maybe stop at Stafford Services at 11:30-11:45...
continue down the M6 (i'm a cheapskate and avoid the toll unless i have to) and next stop - Corley Service Area 12:30-12:45
final stop if wanted Huntingdon Fenstanton Services 13:30-13:45
final push to Snetterton for 14:30

could reduce the stops a wee bit to just Corley - so 2x 2hr or so stints

That sounds like the biz.

Stopping every hour works for me - makes sure everyone (and their car) is well hydrated, keeps the comms up.

I don't know what the etiquette is with speed in convoys - is there a gentle(wo)men's agreement about sticking in the general region of 70 so that nobody has to choose between keeping up and points/fine or something?

Edited to add:
If anyone's bringing a passenger down (or indeed if anyone's planning to come but isn't bringing their own vehicle) who'd be willing to do a shift driving my Micra, I'd be hugely grateful: the PA I'm bringing to PF is too new a driver to be insured on it (tis free to insure an additional driver for up to a month) and it's a helluva long way for a sore-backed Becca to drive solo...

Edited by becca_viola on Thursday 10th May 15:46

with the rev limiter in the car... thats what i stick too... (its a different story when the rev limiter is in the drivers seat! )

[mightydquinn]

Fort Jefferson said:

mightydquinn said:

i am leaving from leeds. m1 south

Are you going to join us again Dave? I promise not to get in your way.

I know these big AUDI's are allways getting in the way of these hot hatch's

Have you bought a bigger tent for this year.

[Fort Jefferson]

mightydquinn said:

Fort Jefferson said:

mightydquinn said:

i am leaving from leeds. m1 south

Are you going to join us again Dave? I promise not to get in your way.

I know these big AUDI's are allways getting in the way of these hot hatch's

Have you bought a bigger tent for this year.

No, I'm stopping in a hotel just up the road, it's only 6 months since my heart attack so I need my rest. John

[mightydquinn]

Fort Jefferson said:

mightydquinn said:

Fort Jefferson said:

mightydquinn said:

i am leaving from leeds. m1 south

Are you going to join us again Dave? I promise not to get in your way.

I know these big AUDI's are allways getting in the way of these hot hatch's

Have you bought a bigger tent for this year.

No, I'm stopping in a hotel just up the road, it's only 6 months since my heart attack so I need my rest. John

i hope you have booked a taxi!
as if your drinking all day and night you won't be able to drive back to hotel at midnight.

[big dub]

Gutted I can't join the convoy as I'll be working Friday

Will see you all first thing Saturday

Just look out for the now infamous green Lupo

[becca_viola]

We on for Knutsford at 'arf 10 then?

Any way we can wangle it to meet some more PF-bound folks en route, I wonder?

[mightydquinn]

becca_viola said:

We on for Knutsford at 'arf 10 then?

Any way we can wangle it to meet some more PF-bound folks en route, I wonder?

WE ARE COMING FROM WOOLEY EDGE
IS NUTSFORD BEFORE LFE??

[becca_viola]

mightydquinn said:

becca_viola said:

We on for Knutsford at 'arf 10 then?

Any way we can wangle it to meet some more PF-bound folks en route, I wonder?

WE ARE COMING FROM WOOLEY EDGE
IS NUTSFORD BEFORE LFE??

WTF is LFE?

Wooley Edge is on the M1, isn't it? Knutsford's on the M6, ages before we get that far South and East.

Knutsford services is between junctions 18 and 19. 21A is the big M6/M62 junction, 20's the M6/M56 with a lot of the Manchester, Wirral and North Wales traffic, 19 is the South Manchester and Cheshire traffic.

[paddy27]

LFE, its all over the place here. Its Leciecter Forest East Services. Just south of where the A46 meets the M1.

[lord summerisle]

mightydquinn said:

becca_viola said:

We on for Knutsford at 'arf 10 then?

Any way we can wangle it to meet some more PF-bound folks en route, I wonder?

WE ARE COMING FROM WOOLEY EDGE
IS NUTSFORD BEFORE LFE??

as said, Knutsford is before LFE... but coming from that direction to get to LFE means going north on the M1, turning at the next junction, and coming back down southbound

[lord summerisle]

becca_viola said:

We on for Knutsford at 'arf 10 then?

Any way we can wangle it to meet some more PF-bound folks en route, I wonder?

10:30 at Fording Knuts it is everything else the same?

[becca_viola]

lord summerisle said:

becca_viola said:

We on for Knutsford at 'arf 10 then?

Any way we can wangle it to meet some more PF-bound folks en route, I wonder?

10:30 at Fording Knuts it is everything else the same?

Reckon so.

Metallic blue Micra, will be in the crippy spaces by the front door of the services.