THUNDER IN THE TUNNELS 9!!!!!!!!

[chris1972]

cshaw600 said:

1 MADMAX2 Chimaera 400HC - 128db LOUD worcestershire
2 GasMunky The potentially very fast but currently invisible TVR Gay Town
3 Slideways
4 Lestershaw
5 KSV ( First timer ) Chimaera Bucks
6 ChopperTVR
7 TVR500Morgan Chimaera Berks
8 Tuscan 22
9 Chimpofdarkness Lean Machine Watfordshire
10 Grey Ghost Chimaera 450 Sarf Essex
11 Ph1l5 Chimaera Berks
12 Seeby Chimaera Epping
13 Harrytsg chimaera Epping
14 Macey Tuscan Berkshire
15 TN1 Sagaris East Sussex
16 B3NNL Tuscan Somerset
17 aide Cerbera 4.5 RR London
18 Phazed Chimaera 4.6, stripey preturbo, Engine No 4! The Garage
19 Nigel Cerbera 4.5 Ashford
20 clivef Sagaris isle of wight
21 Vee8ight (virgin tunneller) Cerbera 4.2 Lincolnshire
22 QB Chimaera Bogstandarda Norfolk
23 Hoofa chimaera 5.4 supercharged
24 SimonPercy T350t Milton Keynes
25 PoleDriver 4.5 TVR Either Cerb or Wedge Hampshire
26 Chris1972 Chim 500, Deal, Kent
27 Marpug Griff500 W.Sussex
28 NiceCupOfTea S2 Bromley
29 Skiver Chim Suffolk
30 cshaw600 cerbera woking
31 barneycerb hampshire
32 NiceCupOfTea S2 Bromley
33 jamienshelly Chim 400 East Sussex

[BlackpoolRock]

chris1972 said:

1 MADMAX2 Chimaera 400HC - 128db LOUD worcestershire
2 GasMunky The potentially very fast but currently invisible TVR Gay Town
3 Slideways
4 Lestershaw
5 KSV ( First timer ) Chimaera Bucks
6 ChopperTVR
7 BlackpoolRock Chimaera Berks
8 Tuscan 22
9 Chimpofdarkness Lean Machine Watfordshire
10 Grey Ghost Chimaera 450 Sarf Essex
11 Ph1l5 Chimaera Berks
12 Seeby Chimaera Epping
13 Harrytsg chimaera Epping
14 Macey Tuscan Berkshire
15 TN1 Sagaris East Sussex
16 B3NNL Tuscan Somerset
17 aide Cerbera 4.5 RR London
18 Phazed Chimaera 4.6, stripey preturbo, Engine No 4! The Garage
19 Nigel Cerbera 4.5 Ashford
20 clivef Sagaris isle of wight
21 Vee8ight (virgin tunneller) Cerbera 4.2 Lincolnshire
22 QB Chimaera Bogstandarda Norfolk
23 Hoofa chimaera 5.4 supercharged
24 SimonPercy T350t Milton Keynes
25 PoleDriver 4.5 TVR Either Cerb or Wedge Hampshire
26 Chris1972 Chim 500, Deal, Kent
27 Marpug Griff500 W.Sussex
28 NiceCupOfTea S2 Bromley
29 Skiver Chim Suffolk
30 cshaw600 cerbera woking
31 barneycerb hampshire
32 NiceCupOfTea S2 Bromley
33 jamienshelly Chim 400 East Sussex

I changed my name on here so edited it but must have copied the wrong one. All sorted and up to date now

[ph1l5]

Did we sort a date for this yet ?

[TV8]

There is a TVR meeting at Brooklands in May. It would be rude not to!

[ph1l5]

SOLD Thats the date then

[QBee]

Sounds good to me - might even make it to Brooklands this time.

Note to organiser - can we start an hour later please, meeting at 7.00 and departing Docklands at 7.30?

This is not a whinge, it was a very well organised event and huge fun, and Mr Chips did a huge amount of largely unseen work getting it all together, for which I applaud him.

However, for those of us who don't live that close to London, it was a hideously early start, there was a lot of freezing extremities off getting there, followed by a lot of standing around in the station car park in the dark eating bacon sandwiches and stamping feet to keep warm, followed by a fair bit of frustrated queueing on the approach to the Blackball Tunnel because it didn't open until 7 am.

Having got up at 3 am to get to the start well before 6.00, I was then too tired to do Brooklands (danger of falling asleep at the wheel on the long drive home). With a 7 am meet up time, and less time in the station car park, I could have had an extra hour and a half in bed, got up at 4.30, and turned up at around 6.59 am and still been fit to enjoy Brooklands.......

[ph1l5]

QBee said:

Sounds good to me - might even make it to Brooklands this time.

Note to organiser - can we start an hour later please, meeting at 7.00 and departing Docklands at 7.30?

This is not a whinge, it was a very well organised event and huge fun, and Mr Chips did a huge amount of largely unseen work getting it all together, for which I applaud him.

However, for those of us who don't live that close to London, it was a hideously early start, there was a lot of freezing extremities off getting there, followed by a lot of standing around in the station car park in the dark eating bacon sandwiches and stamping feet to keep warm, followed by a fair bit of frustrated queueing on the approach to the Blackball Tunnel because it didn't open until 7 am.

Having got up at 3 am to get to the start well before 6.00, I was then too tired to do Brooklands (danger of falling asleep at the wheel on the long drive home). With a 7 am meet up time, and less time in the station car park, I could have had an extra hour and a half in bed, got up at 4.30, and turned up at around 6.59 am and still been fit to enjoy Brooklands.......

The problem with that early is the everyone is on the road by then. if we are doing a summer run hopefully it will be warmer you could always travel lodge the night before and join up with some of the more local people ? £38 a night near me.

[chris1972]

QBee said:

Sounds good to me - might even make it to Brooklands this time.

Note to organiser - can we start an hour later please, meeting at 7.00 and departing Docklands at 7.30?

This is not a whinge, it was a very well organised event and huge fun, and Mr Chips did a huge amount of largely unseen work getting it all together, for which I applaud him.

However, for those of us who don't live that close to London, it was a hideously early start, there was a lot of freezing extremities off getting there, followed by a lot of standing around in the station car park in the dark eating bacon sandwiches and stamping feet to keep warm, followed by a fair bit of frustrated queueing on the approach to the Blackball Tunnel because it didn't open until 7 am.

Having got up at 3 am to get to the start well before 6.00, I was then too tired to do Brooklands (danger of falling asleep at the wheel on the long drive home). With a 7 am meet up time, and less time in the station car park, I could have had an extra hour and a half in bed, got up at 4.30, and turned up at around 6.59 am and still been fit to enjoy Brooklands.......

Hmmmm.... TRAFFIC. It is best to be early IMO. I have spent many hours queuing to get through the Blackwall tunnel. I'd rather do Thunder in the Tunnels than Steaming Out The Tunnels with an over heating Chim.

[QBee]

It's a democracy, I will go with the majority

[ph1l5]

QBee said:

It's a democracy, I will go with the majority

Come down the day before

[QBee]

chris1972 said:

Hmmmm.... TRAFFIC. It is best to be early IMO. I have spent many hours queuing to get through the Blackwall tunnel. I'd rather do Thunder in the Tunnels than Steaming Out The Tunnels with an over heating Chim.

Point taken......but I am only proposing arriving at the Blackball Tunnel at 7.40, not 6.40***, or 7.10 as it was in reality.

• *(By the time the tunnel opened and we actually got to the tunnel mouth with either rather warm engines (left running at a standstill for 20 minutes) or rather cold extremities (engine turned off to avoid overheating), it was 7.10, so i am suggesting getting there say 30 minutes later, but after a much later rendezvous.)

I will definitely be there this time, I might just be sensible and cut my arrival time a little tight, but as i will have the route in my Thomas Thomas, I will be able to catch up if I misjudge it or get held up.

[NiceCupOfTea]

QBee said:

Point taken......but I am only proposing arriving at the Blackball Tunnel at 7.40, not 6.40***, or 7.10 as it was in reality.

• *(By the time the tunnel opened and we actually got to the tunnel mouth with either rather warm engines (left running at a standstill for 20 minutes) or rather cold extremities (engine turned off to avoid overheating), it was 7.10, so i am suggesting getting there say 30 minutes later, but after a much later rendezvous.)

I will definitely be there this time, I might just be sensible and cut my arrival time a little tight, but as i will have the route in my Thomas Thomas, I will be able to catch up if I misjudge it or get held up.

It sounds silly but even on a Sunday morning that hour will make a huge difference to the traffic levels, and it would have been a miserable drive around London.

Also worth pointing out that the tunnel isn't normally closed overnight - iirc there was a breakdown or something on the last run.

[QBee]

This, from www.Londontraffic.org:

Blackwall Tunnel Fixed Closures
Check the traffic feed for any unexpected temporary closures.
Maintenance closures typically take place on Sundays from 12:00am to 9:00am or 10:00am.

[B3NNL]

QBee said:

This, from www.Londontraffic.org:

Blackwall Tunnel Fixed Closures
Check the traffic feed for any unexpected temporary closures.
Maintenance closures typically take place on Sundays from 12:00am to 9:00am or 10:00am.

Ahh yes, the benefit of hindsight...

Maybe that would have enabled us to have joined the run rather than spend the night in the Premier Inn on the wrong side of the river followed by a two hour tour of the area trying to get across as the tunnel was closed, followed by admitting defeat and driving straight to Brooklands and being there before it even opens!
Surely I must get a prize for being able to be in the capital on the day as one of the largest convoy drives on TVRs and not see another sodding one!
If I miss the next one I'm selling the car and buying a Prius, because thats all I'll deserve!

[lestershaw]

why dont you stay at stansted or harlow and join the convoy coming from harlow, usually about 10 cars?

[B3NNL]

There are lots of whys in what occurred. We could have joined countless convoys as we had come accross from Somerset. But no, being clever bds we came the night before to be refreshed. unfortunately our London road knowledge was somewhat lacking and the tt nav was being just that! Probably didnt help that I was too tight to buy an A-Z and insisted on stopping at every petrol station to have a quick look at theirs for an update.

[Blues]

The first few TiTTs encountered sufficient challenges with Blackwall Tunnel that it was taken out of the run completely at one point. It no longer features in the London Tunnel runs either, for the very same reason. This was one of the reasons why the double (or even triple) loop of Rotherhithe tunnel was introduced. The two-way system in Rotherhithe provides much more fun than Blackwall anyway

[aide]

Blues said:

The first few TiTTs encountered sufficient challenges with Blackwall Tunnel that it was taken out of the run completely at one point. It no longer features in the London Tunnel runs either, for the very same reason. This was one of the reasons why the double (or even triple) loop of Rotherhithe tunnel was introduced. The two-way system in Rotherhithe provides much more fun than Blackwall anyway

Here here. Start at westferry circus. Two years ago we started there and it eliminated the early issues we encountered last time with blackwall.

[QBee]

aide said:

Blues said:

The first few TiTTs encountered sufficient challenges with Blackwall Tunnel that it was taken out of the run completely at one point. It no longer features in the London Tunnel runs either, for the very same reason. This was one of the reasons why the double (or even triple) loop of Rotherhithe tunnel was introduced. The two-way system in Rotherhithe provides much more fun than Blackwall anyway

Here here. Start at westferry circus. Two years ago we started there and it eliminated the early issues we encountered last time with blackwall.

Bloody good idea, less off -freezing of tits too......

[MPoxon]

aide said:

Here here. Start at westferry circus. Two years ago we started there and it eliminated the early issues we encountered last time with blackwall.

Not a bad shout.... certainly easier find.