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jessica said:
jessica said:
awaiting a date for hubbies spine operation, Everything hinges on this event for me.But if I can make it I will.............
Oops !!!!Dawn raid is doubled booked with Tatton Park....
Sorry but I always fancied a lock in in Tatton......
Quick revision of plans then we can be wide awake and first through the gates at Tatton on Sunday!
>> Edited by DavrIan on Thursday 1st April 07:06
Nonny Nimity said:
Excellent date. I think thats D-Day isnt it?
Yep. Might have to make some mention of this in the road book.
I mean, hopefully if we're all getting in our cars just about dawn, we'll have to just have a think about what was happening at that very same time, just what, 300 miles south of where we'll be, 60 years ago. Young men and women going through quite a different dawn experience. Lets celebrate the freedom they fought to give us.
Nicely put.
Hi all,
Just a line to say I'm going away for a long weekend, to Monaco for the GP Historique, and on my return I shall be cracking on with the final touches to the roadbooks and will start e-mailing them out.
Don't forget to book the Travelodge if you don't want to travel to the start location in the early hours, you can cancel up to 12 noon on the day.
Summers coming, with those lovely mild mornings...
NN
Just a line to say I'm going away for a long weekend, to Monaco for the GP Historique, and on my return I shall be cracking on with the final touches to the roadbooks and will start e-mailing them out.
Don't forget to book the Travelodge if you don't want to travel to the start location in the early hours, you can cancel up to 12 noon on the day.
Summers coming, with those lovely mild mornings...
NN
Could be up for this,how good are the roads, don't want to spend all the time catching my exhaust. 
Steveburriana500 said:
Already booked in oh 
Can you email me and let me know how many we have attending?
Will do, next week if you don't mind, when I can devote my best attention to the job.
Stainless, ooh, that's a tricky one. I do think there is one section that has some lovely fast straights, but is in a remote part of the county that obviously gets some hard weather through the winters, and the road undulates a bit. I think the rest is ok. There is some single track road, but you can't get up to a high speed on these parts - the views are good though.
And there's some great twisty quick stuff - in fact care is needed, 'cos there are one or two tricky bend-over-brow-off-camber type corners to watch out for.
Of course I don't know how vunerable your exhaust is, but to be honest, given the state of the UK's roads, if you can drive quick elsewhere you should be ok in Derbyshire.
There definitly isn't any rough stuff - I know what sort of cars will be coming along, and I think the roads are fine for hooning.
Hi All,
I'm just about ready to start e-mailing the roadbooks out. However, a problem I haven't thought about, so some advice please: The roadbook is 13 pages in all. To create each page I create a page in Word, print it off, draw the tulips in and then scan it and save it as a jpeg. This means I now have a file of 7 megs or so, way too big to email. If I were to resize each page to what, 72 dpi what would this mean when you guys come to print each page? (Well I could try it and see, of course.) Should I rescan the sheets and save it in another format? Which would be more suitable?
As regards organising lists of whose coming etc. I don't really want to do things that way. I sort of figured it best by saying "this is what we are doing, this is when and where etc" and you guys then turn up. The thing to do as I see it is to book the travelodge. If you want to come up as a group etc, fine, but you need to sort that out. You can get an idea of whose coming by re-reading the posts, I suppose.
Or maybe if we get the e-mail issue sorted and I start sending them out, we start another thread on who is definitly coming along.
As someone said, time is running, we need to get sorted for definite, now.
Just one more thing, I was up in the peaks earlier this week, having a bit of a blast in a sporty car (nothing that special) but does have low profile tyres. Someone on an earlier thread was asking if the roads are rough, and whilst I never once bottomed out or scraped the exhaust, I did notice the road surface more than I had before. When all is said and done some of the roads are quite remote and have harder winters than most in England, I dare say. Can't help thinking that maybe the more specialised cars, I suppose I'm thinking of exotica, might not be suitable. I would think TVR's and Porsche's would be fine, not sure about Ferrari's etc. If any were thinking of coming, that is. Don't want to put anyone off, and I think it's a great route, but maybe not all of it is suited to 3 figure speeds. Ahem.
Most roads are dual width, but there are some single width sections to link interesting bits together, or for other reasons of interest.
Due to the early start, I don't think there will be any establishment open for us to meet up at en route, but there is a couple of spots, one in particular, that has a great view and room to stop on the road, where the coffee flasks and breakfast bars could be opened/consumed. From that one spot you can see where you've been abd where you're going, for a few miles.
I had a great evenings thrash around earlier in the week, up there. If North Derbyshire is an area you don't know very well, come along and give it a go. It really is great driving country.
Oh, I'm from the Midlands myself, in answer to the query above. happy to travel up in a group.
Oh and one last thing. One aspect that was bothering me was finding a good venue to finish at. The route takes us back down the Cat & Fiddle road to Macclesfield, whereupon we hack our way back to the Little Chef at the Travelodge, which is a bit boring. Or we could stop somewhere in Macc, but a bunch of nice cars in all that Saturday shopping traffic? Hmmm. So we could finish at the Cat & Fiddle itself, which i think would be quite interesting. I'll give them a bell over the weekend, but the last time I was there (and I haven't been often) I noticed they're much more geared to the 'tourist' shall we say, than when I was last there before, which was some years ago. I reckon they might do us all coffee and breakfast/brunch/lunch or whatever if I give them some notice.
So then, I just need a quick answer to the e-mail prob and we're up and running.
Nonny
I'm just about ready to start e-mailing the roadbooks out. However, a problem I haven't thought about, so some advice please: The roadbook is 13 pages in all. To create each page I create a page in Word, print it off, draw the tulips in and then scan it and save it as a jpeg. This means I now have a file of 7 megs or so, way too big to email. If I were to resize each page to what, 72 dpi what would this mean when you guys come to print each page? (Well I could try it and see, of course.) Should I rescan the sheets and save it in another format? Which would be more suitable?
As regards organising lists of whose coming etc. I don't really want to do things that way. I sort of figured it best by saying "this is what we are doing, this is when and where etc" and you guys then turn up. The thing to do as I see it is to book the travelodge. If you want to come up as a group etc, fine, but you need to sort that out. You can get an idea of whose coming by re-reading the posts, I suppose.
Or maybe if we get the e-mail issue sorted and I start sending them out, we start another thread on who is definitly coming along.
As someone said, time is running, we need to get sorted for definite, now.
Just one more thing, I was up in the peaks earlier this week, having a bit of a blast in a sporty car (nothing that special) but does have low profile tyres. Someone on an earlier thread was asking if the roads are rough, and whilst I never once bottomed out or scraped the exhaust, I did notice the road surface more than I had before. When all is said and done some of the roads are quite remote and have harder winters than most in England, I dare say. Can't help thinking that maybe the more specialised cars, I suppose I'm thinking of exotica, might not be suitable. I would think TVR's and Porsche's would be fine, not sure about Ferrari's etc. If any were thinking of coming, that is. Don't want to put anyone off, and I think it's a great route, but maybe not all of it is suited to 3 figure speeds. Ahem.
Most roads are dual width, but there are some single width sections to link interesting bits together, or for other reasons of interest.
Due to the early start, I don't think there will be any establishment open for us to meet up at en route, but there is a couple of spots, one in particular, that has a great view and room to stop on the road, where the coffee flasks and breakfast bars could be opened/consumed. From that one spot you can see where you've been abd where you're going, for a few miles.
I had a great evenings thrash around earlier in the week, up there. If North Derbyshire is an area you don't know very well, come along and give it a go. It really is great driving country.
Oh, I'm from the Midlands myself, in answer to the query above. happy to travel up in a group.
Oh and one last thing. One aspect that was bothering me was finding a good venue to finish at. The route takes us back down the Cat & Fiddle road to Macclesfield, whereupon we hack our way back to the Little Chef at the Travelodge, which is a bit boring. Or we could stop somewhere in Macc, but a bunch of nice cars in all that Saturday shopping traffic? Hmmm. So we could finish at the Cat & Fiddle itself, which i think would be quite interesting. I'll give them a bell over the weekend, but the last time I was there (and I haven't been often) I noticed they're much more geared to the 'tourist' shall we say, than when I was last there before, which was some years ago. I reckon they might do us all coffee and breakfast/brunch/lunch or whatever if I give them some notice.
So then, I just need a quick answer to the e-mail prob and we're up and running.
Nonny
I've resized the pages to 1084 x 700-odd pixels and the file size is 1.2 megs, which is much better but would still be a slow process to e-mail. The printed page is perfectly legible, but does not have a professional finish to it, but that's not important, I suppose.
Or perhaps I could e-mail to someone who has got the dogs doo-dahs of a mail system at work and could pass them on, maybe?
Let me know,
NN
>> Edited by Nonny Nimity on Saturday 29th May 00:49
Or perhaps I could e-mail to someone who has got the dogs doo-dahs of a mail system at work and could pass them on, maybe?
Let me know,
NN
>> Edited by Nonny Nimity on Saturday 29th May 00:49
Guys and Gals
If your run finishes mid morning why not join us and the other 30 odd TVRs on the TVR stand at tatton park classic car show and display you cars. By reading your thread it seems you would be dead close
Can arrange to meet you at the gate with entrance tickets that get you in and on to the stand.
If your run finishes mid morning why not join us and the other 30 odd TVRs on the TVR stand at tatton park classic car show and display you cars. By reading your thread it seems you would be dead close
Can arrange to meet you at the gate with entrance tickets that get you in and on to the stand.
Just a thought Nonny...
Could you mail / e-mail the route book to the Travel lodge and get them to make the required number of copies up, and the 'Dawn Raiders' could club together to cover the cost? A cheaper option might be to e-mail the doc. over to a Kik Kwik (or whatever its called!) shop and get them to make the required number of copies.
HTH
MOD.
Could you mail / e-mail the route book to the Travel lodge and get them to make the required number of copies up, and the 'Dawn Raiders' could club together to cover the cost? A cheaper option might be to e-mail the doc. over to a Kik Kwik (or whatever its called!) shop and get them to make the required number of copies.
HTH
MOD.
Hi Mod,
The idea was to have you guys print the book off yourselves thus avoiding any printing costs. I reckon I can persevere over the weekend, shall be home for the duration laying slabs etc
But what I need is your e-mails, guys, 'cos I can't send attatchments via the PH site email links.
So come on everybody, send me an e-mail and I can send you the roadbook by return. I've already sent some out, can I have a confirmation that someone has recieved it, please?
More than anything though, right now I NEED YOUR E-MAILS
The idea was to have you guys print the book off yourselves thus avoiding any printing costs. I reckon I can persevere over the weekend, shall be home for the duration laying slabs etc
But what I need is your e-mails, guys, 'cos I can't send attatchments via the PH site email links.
So come on everybody, send me an e-mail and I can send you the roadbook by return. I've already sent some out, can I have a confirmation that someone has recieved it, please?
More than anything though, right now I NEED YOUR E-MAILS
Larco said:
Guys and Gals
If your run finishes mid morning why not join us and the other 30 odd TVRs on the TVR stand at tatton park classic car show and display you cars. By reading your thread it seems you would be dead close
Can arrange to meet you at the gate with entrance tickets that get you in and on to the stand.
i'm not a TVR but i'd be up for this if i'm allowed... i'm in no rush to go home... would it be free though, i plan to burn a tank or two over 125 miles so keeping costs down afterwards is vital
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