BTAP Convoy (Basingstoke)
Discussion
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Gentlemen and Ladies. I realise many of you will want to go earlier and if you set up an earlier convoy - great.
But I will go to the Basingstoke Leisure Centre at 1:00pm and will leave to get to Tot Hill Services on the A34 near Newbury for 1:30pm (ish). Optimax is available there.
Thence via the A4/M4 to the Swindon Marriott.
If you'd like to join me - brilliant...see you there! If you want to go earlier...please don't feel obliged to wait - many others will be doing just that.
Gentlemen and Ladies. I realise many of you will want to go earlier and if you set up an earlier convoy - great.
But I will go to the Basingstoke Leisure Centre at 1:00pm and will leave to get to Tot Hill Services on the A34 near Newbury for 1:30pm (ish). Optimax is available there.
Thence via the A4/M4 to the Swindon Marriott.
If you'd like to join me - brilliant...see you there! If you want to go earlier...please don't feel obliged to wait - many others will be doing just that.
Hi Don,
We'll be there. I'll def be stopping for fuel somewhere, probably before we leave, tho'.
What's the general route?
Leaving at 1 should be ok, give me time to give it a bit of a wipe before we leave (though looking at the forecast it doesn't seem worth the bother).
edited to say: now I've read it properly, I guess we'll go A4 to that reclaimation place, then north to the m4.
>> Edited by whatever on Friday 1st November 13:04
We'll be there. I'll def be stopping for fuel somewhere, probably before we leave, tho'.
What's the general route?
Leaving at 1 should be ok, give me time to give it a bit of a wipe before we leave (though looking at the forecast it doesn't seem worth the bother).
edited to say: now I've read it properly, I guess we'll go A4 to that reclaimation place, then north to the m4.
>> Edited by whatever on Friday 1st November 13:04
plotloss said: Don,
I reckon us Heston crowd, assuming picking up people at Reading at 1.45pm should be going past the Newbury exit at about 2-2.15pm we could get a right old convoy going?
Matt.
Yep. If we're at Tot Hill at 1:30pm then we should be joining the motorway not far from you chaps. We probably won't join at the Newbury exit, though...we'll at least go on to Hungerford junction.
Keith - yep. 1:00pm chosen so a wipe down is possible prior - although you're right it may not be worth the bother. But there again..if it is raining horribly then the car park tyre-kick will, no doubt, be held indoors - staring out at the rain running down the collective prides and joys. Ah well...the party's indoors.
Matt. Were you thinking of stopping at Chievely and picking up a few more Phers...or just having a few people "fall-in" around there as you thunder by?
If its the former we could drive on from Tot Hill to Chievely, meet up and do the last few junctions on the Motorway. If its the "fall-in" thing then we might join there or perhaps one junction further up north of Hungerford.
If its the former we could drive on from Tot Hill to Chievely, meet up and do the last few junctions on the Motorway. If its the "fall-in" thing then we might join there or perhaps one junction further up north of Hungerford.
Chievely is the one after Reading isnt it?
Perhaps the best way to do this would be to sit in the slip roads a la Le Mans and when the phone goes you know to start your engines?
On the other hand its probably a lot safer, and a lot more fun to go careering round wet service station car parks!
Matt.
Perhaps the best way to do this would be to sit in the slip roads a la Le Mans and when the phone goes you know to start your engines?
On the other hand its probably a lot safer, and a lot more fun to go careering round wet service station car parks!
Matt.
AJLintern said: Well I'll be at the Tot Hill services at about 1:30, if I don't see anyone I'll continue on to Chievley services.
Nice to have met you, Andy.
You must come along to one of our Pie and Drive things where we have a proper programme of activity, a convoy etc. It'll be next year now but I guarantee it'll be worth it....
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