Kent breakfast run Sunday 8th of April

[I Love Cake]

Going to have to bin this folks, work beckons, sorry!


Now Spring is almost upon us, here's the first run I proposed a while back.

Rough guide to the route-
Meet point.
Rye Harbour.
Headcorn aerodrome. (Breakfast)
Head off after breakfast or convoy back to the meet point.

IF I can get us a little peek around my friends race team, I will, but I'm not holding much hope as we're now into race season. The peek around would be after breakfast. Fingers crossed.

Meet Point 6:30am- depart at 6:50am
Cineworld Rochester car park (Under the bridge)
Medway Valley leisure park
Chariot way
Rochester
ME2 2SS

Then head to Rye harbour along some of Kents great driving roads. Stretch our legs there for a bit, grab some photos of the cars then head to Headcorn Aerodrome for breakfast. We should arrive there around 9am.

After breakfast, either head our seperate ways of, if lucks on our side, pop to the race team.

I will plan in a fuel stop for the run, I'm happy to lead although my car isn't the fastest. Will be obeying village speed limits strictly.

Precise copies of the route will be handed out at the meet point. Old school!

Hopefully I've not missed anything.

Please add your names to the list if you're coming.

1- Andy MX-5

Edited by I Love Cake on Thursday 29th March 12:23

[m4tti]

Which way will you be going through Kent? Could there be a mid way meeting point.

The distance from me to Rochester isn’t far off the journey time to Rye

[I Love Cake]

How about Tenterden Tesco?

Although the lack of interest might put a stop to the run, sadly.

[m4tti]

Yeah tenterden could work. I’m coming from Sevenoaks.

[klan8456]

Count me in (E46 M3 track car) if we can get a decent group together and the weather is OK (not raining / snowing!!)

Do we need 2-way radios, or just follow a pre-provided route map? Ideally I'd like to put it into Google maps so as to not get lost and not have to worry if we lose visual contact. Much less risk that way.

Thank you for organising.

Edited by klan8456 on Tuesday 27th March 10:42

[Red Devil]

I Love Cake said:

Going to have to bin this folks, work beckons, sorry!

That's a shame. If anyone is still interested in this please e-mail me.*
Meet at 06:30 - depart at 06:45 sharp. Finish around 09.00 for breakfast.
I can say that the start definitely won't be as far north as Rochester though.
Let me know where you're coming from so that I can pick a suitably central location.

 * Because I won't be putting any further details in the public domain.

Will include a stop, but for a photo op not fuel.
If everyone leaves home with a full tank the latter won't be necessary during the run.

klan8456 said:

Do we need 2-way radios, or just follow a pre-provided route map?
Ideally I'd like to put it into Google maps so as to not get lost and not have to worry if we lose visual contact.
Much less risk that way.

No need for radios. Any run I put together has a Google Maps link because that's what I use for route planning.
I don't have anything distracting like a sat nav in my weekend toy as I already know where I'm going.

There is a simple way to avoid loss of contact. Use the WW2 fighter pilot's rule: you're responsible for your wing man!
In 10 years I've only had a group get split up twice and one of those was due to force majeure.
A dozy woman decided that doing a random 3 point turn on a main road was a great idea.
Compounded by the guy in our group who was in front of her at the time failing to adhere to the pilot's rule above.

[Angpozzuto]

If this is still going ahead I'll be up for it

[m4tti]

If it’s dry I’m in! I’ve taken my weekend car out once this year, the weather has to change at some point

[Red Devil]

Angpozzuto said:

If this is still going ahead I'll be up for it

Is the Pope Catholic?

m4tti said:

If it’s dry I’m in! I’ve taken my weekend car out once this year, the weather has to change at some point

Good. I shall be most disapppointed if you don't.

Room for more. Miss it, miss out...

[Angpozzuto]

m4tti said:

If it’s dry I’m in! I’ve taken my weekend car out once this year, the weather has to change at some point

Same here, the only time mine came out this year it snowed

[Red Devil]

But the upside was a complete absence of traffic.
The conditions were nowhere near as bad as all the doom merchants were predicting.
Not a problem provided one adjusts to them. A fun drive doesn't depend on V-Max everywhere.

No new messages in my Inbox atm. Where is everyone?

[fatboy18]

Sadly I think forums are becoming places for the few, Facebook seems to have taken over many peoples lives , I don't get it, but maybe that's because I refuse to join it.

Best of luck, Good roads in that neck of the woods.

[Berkshire bred]

Red Devil said:

But the upside was a complete absence of traffic.
The conditions were nowhere near as bad as all the doom merchants were predicting.
Not a problem provided one adjusts to them. A fun drive doesn't depend on V-Max everywhere.

No new messages in my Inbox atm. Where is everyone?

Sorry Tony this is a bit to far afield for me, unless you fancy bringing it more newbury way

If you organise a run a bit closer to home I will be all over it.

[m4tti]

fatboy18 said:

Sadly I think forums are becoming places for the few, Facebook seems to have taken over many peoples lives , I don't get it, but maybe that's because I refuse to join it.

Best of luck, Good roads in that neck of the woods.

I think a run out with fewer, shall we say a slightly more select group is more appealing to me.

I’ve seen one of the Facebook groups and they have over 100 people joining a drive... which is a recipe for disaster.

[Red Devil]

Berkshire bred said:

Sorry Tony this is a bit to far afield for me, unless you fancy bringing it more newbury way

Fair enough. Not this time.

Berkshire bred said:

If you organise a run a bit closer to home I will be all over it.

Never say never.

m4tti said:

fatboy18 said:

Sadly I think forums are becoming places for the few, Facebook seems to have taken over many peoples lives , I don't get it, but maybe that's because I refuse to join it.

Best of luck, Good roads in that neck of the woods.

I think a run out with fewer, shall we say a slightly more select group is more appealing to me.

I’ve seen one of the Facebook groups and they have over 100 people joining a drive... which is a recipe for disaster.

I'm another Faceache refusenik.

I quite agree about group size. The bigger it is the more difficult it becomes to keep it together.
The most I have had on one of mine was 24. I simply divided it up into 3 squadrons of 8.
Red, Blue, and Green. Each with a flight leader who knew the route.
With a time gap of about 3 minutes between them. Worked a treat.
No pressure to 'keep up' and nobody got lost.

100 cars is just ridiculous. Such large gatherings nearly always lead to trouble and bring unwelcome atttention.
I long ago stopped going to London tunnel runs for that very reason. Too many jerks driving like ds.

[m4tti]

Here the one I’m thinking of... and this was in the snow.

[I Love Cake]

m4tti said:

Here the one I’m thinking of... and this was in the snow.

It snowed on the way home. Meet / rub was a bit too fast n the furious for me. Lots of engine revving at the Tesco meet point, attracting unwanted attention from store staff & baffled customers. Put me off going again.

[m4tti]

Yeah I saw a couple videos... it had that air of a local supermarket carpark on a Friday night

Edited by m4tti on Monday 2nd April 10:53

[LotusJas]

I won't be attending this one, mostly due to weather. Will consider in summer.

Last "run" like this I did was probably 15 years ago, in the Elise. Presumably it's over narrow country roads?

Just asking because my current car is *extremely* wide, so not suited to the type of roads we used for the old Lotus runs.

[m4tti]

The weather at this stage is looking ok according to the met office.

How wide is your car in inches lotusJas?

Edited by m4tti on Monday 2nd April 20:59