Another Yorkshire Snotrun

[benjj]

Since my Rangie ate its turbo and entire engine shortly afterwards I am (hooray) back in the land of Snot after selling the Golf.

So, anyone up for a nice early dawn raid one Sunday morning? I'm pretty easy about location and start/finish points but would like to try and aim for a being-back-at-home time of around 10.30am ish.

If we can garner 5-10 cars I'll come up with a route or people can feel free to make suggestions.

Any car at all welcome, snotter, P&J or company eurocackbox.

IN:

Benjj - The Stuttgart Snotter

MAYBE:

[philmots]

I'm good for Sunday 5th August.

[YorkshirePudding]

Can't do the 12th or 19th Aug otherwise free to 3rd weekend of Sept.

[benjj]

Ok, first pass of AUGUST 5TH then.

[burriana]

What's happened to the RR Ben? Is this since we last saw you?

[benjj]

Yes Al, this is a new and exciting development

The turbo decided to expire in a catastrophically quick manner. As well as emptying the entire sump out of the exhausts in about 6 seconds (around £100 worth of pricey synthetic stuff) it then ate its own engine. Currently in a million pieces and hence the speedy purchase of some snotter pork as a daily beater. In HG right now of you fancy a coffee.

[burriana]

How long for? I can be in town for 12.15.

[burriana]

Having just seen it drive past, what a splendid choice of Snotter Ben. One of my favourites

[jock mcsporran]

Can do 19th August or first couple of weekends in September.

[philmots]

Is this still on?

[burriana]

Don't know, but Ben... just for your info, here are a few shots of the green lane that comes out by the Yorke Arms that we missed on our first run out. You would have managed it without the high setting. Took the children exploring on Sunday

[chevronb37]

Doubt I have a free Sunday 'til October now but would love to get involved. I took the Rallye along the B6255 a few weeks ago and it performed admirably. Would like to offer it another chance to stretch its legs - usually it's the old fibreglass shed which gets all the Sunday morning fun.

[benjj]

philmots said:

Is this still on?

Sadly not, it didn't really attract a crowd. Will try again for another in autumn.

Al, that's the fellow, nice little run.

[benjj]

Any takers if we try and put something together for a September Sunday?

Perhaps something a little tastier - meet early, blast over east past York, cheeky breakfast of bacon somewhere and then a run back over to Harrogate/Leeds.

I believe Al knows some of the nice roads over there

[soxboy]

May well be up for it on a Sunday (except for 23rd) if I can get the Golf to behave itself. It's developed an interesting problem of not starting again once it's warmed up which is a bit of a pain.

[YorkshirePudding]

Count me out Ben, busy the rest of this month.

[burriana]

I do indeed but it's a flipping long way - York is at the very westward boundaries of our usual patches

[burriana]

I do however know a most excellent breakfast stop... or two

[Willber]

Would be up for that in my MK2 GTI

[benjj]

Ah I miss my old MkII snotter!

I'm building the foundations of a plan - am thinking something new - Bowland Forest and around there. It is only a half hour or so blast from Harrogate way down the A59 and, as people would have it, some remarkable driving roads. I need to do a bit more research though - if anyone knows this area well I'd appreciate some hints on best places plus a decent breakfast stop.

Plan would be something like:

2 meeting places if required, 1 around Leeds way, the other Harrogate way.
2 groups RV around Ilkley/Skipton for the run down the A59 to FoB.
A decent 1-1.5 hr run
Breakfast
Another decent 1-1.5 hr run ending back around Skipton/Grassington kind of way where people can continue up into the Dales or break off and head home before the wife wakes up.