Long Distance With The Roof Off

[boggy]

Hiya everyone,

Just posting to see if anyone else has done any long distance driving without there Roof on ? drove from Hornchurch to Brighton on Saturday, had a great afternoon, evening early Sunday Morning then back again on Sunday early afternoon all the way home at high - middle - low speed's with the roof off car didn't miss a beat (Eml Issues) what a great blat

All in all around 200 miles with the roof off Large !!!!!

Boggy

>> Edited by boggy on Monday 8th May 15:39

[Mr_C]

I drove from Bouloigne (sp) to the Nurburgring with mine off 2 weekends ago.

Top stuff.

[Nick J]

I drove from Cheshire to Leeds, Leeds to Nottingham and Nottingham to Cheshire via A6 Buxton, the Cat and Fiddle. It was amsome, had a bit of a play with some bikes. Roof off all the way the weather was really nice one of the best driving 24 hours Ive had so far

All in all 200ish miles

[turnamere]

Did Falmouth to Shropshire, Shropshire to Trossachs, Trossachs to Isle of Sky over 3 the corse of 3 days a couple of years ago all with the roof off, would have managed more but for the Biblical rain that accompanied the second half of our driving holiday.

Did Falmouth-Exeter-Barnstaple-Croyde(on my own)-Porlock-Barnstaple-Newquay-Falmouth a couple or weeks ago; about 350 miles in all and the roof was in the boot throughout. The weather was great, frosty at first but clear, since it was pre the great Gooby roof removal Bank Holiday Weekend!

I find roof off lets the gearbox whine out and lets the zorst/Hurricane noise in, I just occasionally become aware of a loud chattering noise from SWMBO if she has forgotten to wear about 8 fleeces for the journey.

[BalhamLotus]

Did London to Bristol on Saturday (about 130 miles) on the back roads (M3, A303 Marlborough, stop at Chippenham then on to Bristol on M4) all roof off.

Nasty combination of traffic jam and heavy rain on M3! Then back on Sunday all on M4 as had to get bak for lunch.

Longest was London to Le Mans and back last summer. Seriously red forehead after, but around 800 miles of roof down driving over the weekend.

Can't wait to do it all again in a couple of weeks!

[s works]

200 miles? Pah!

2 longest I've done were Kent to Manchester and Kent to Bournemouth all roof off. The Manc one I did almost all motorway miles and was shouting when I got there thanks to wind noise

Now someone will come along and tell us about one of their euro trips in a minute ( TONY!) and tell us they've done 1,000 or something

[TheYeti]

Went to Leeds from Cambridge, then back via Birmingham, to Cambridge, then Bishop's Stortford, to Norwich, then back to Cambridge. God knows how many miles, but hy hair stuck up and wouldn't go down for three days afterwards!!!

Just awesome fun though.......................

[TonyHetherington]

s works said:

( TONY!)

you called? All the trips I've done have been roof off the whole way (except for one VERY wet afternoon in Germany when we got royally peed on and were stuck in traffic!).

So the longest trip was 3000miles in 10days, all with roof off, but the longest individual journey was 541 miles which was day one of the Tuscany trip in September

[kevin ritson]

London to Stelvio and back in 10 days, roof on from Calais to Dijon, purely because it was p*ssing down. (Had to speed up for James's roofless Caterham whilst slowing down for Alex's '48-shod Elise...work that one out...). That part of the journey started at 2 in the afternoon, apart from a 3-hour ferry section (don't ask...) didn't stop driving until noon the next day and only because they'd closed the Mont Blanc tunnel to 'normal' traffic

Took the Autostrada from the France-Italy border to Lake Como on one stretch - quite an experience doing so many miles keeping with the flow of Italian traffic...

A day spent driving from Stelvio to Mulhouse near the French border (ie: through Switzerland) was enough to make me forget about enjoying the roof off experience!

[GCCK]

Last year, Birmingham > Le Mans in a day. 500+ miles. Then Le Mans > Birmingham a couple of days later. All roofless. Worth having wraparound sunglasses (or driving glasses in the dim/dark) to stop your eyes getting sore. Otherwise, just do it!

[bogie]

last 4 years Lemans roof off....always wear earplugs as high speed cruising makes you feel like youve been in a nightclub after a few hours !

[bignath]

Regularly do Cornwall to London or Liverpool to London round trips with the roof off. Makes the journey more fun...

[steff]

bogie said:

last 4 years Lemans roof off....always wear earplugs as my stereo install is like being in a nightclub after a few hours !

[dunxs1]

Leeds to Isle of wight a couple of years ago,- stayed for 5 days and didn't have the roof on once- just put shower cap on at night to keep dew off. top weather though.
Dunx.

[anonymous-user]

200 miles eh? Gosh!

[beachbum]

Bournemouth to Hethel.
Hethel to Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes to Bournemouth.

540Miles, roof off all the way

[gooby]

beachbum said:

Bournemouth to Hethel. Hethel to Milton Keynes Milton Keynes to Bournemouth. 540Miles, roof off all the way

Beachbum did Bournemouth to Walshy Day - drove around all day on walshy day then home to bournemouth with the roof off. Nothing remarkable apart from the temp didnt get above freezing all day and with the wind chill it bust have been -60 in that car!

Truely nuts

I was cold just looking at him!

[TonyHetherington]

beachbum said:

540Miles

TonyHetherington said:

541 miles

pah, wimp!!!

[Gruffy]

s works said:

Now someone will come along and tell us about one of their euro trips in a minute ( TONY!) and tell us they've done 1,000 or something

I'm surprised at you all! Sounds like this will probably take some topping...

>3,000 miles in 5 days on the reconnaissance trip for the Furball 5000. That was in late November. Snowed for two days including a pretty hairy blizzard coming out of the San Gottardo tunnel and rained for one. Roof stayed in the boot the entire time. In fact, the roof hasn't left the boot since I got a garage back in November.

>> Edited by Gruffy on Tuesday 9th May 15:25

[135sport]

Cambridge to Avonbridge (near Falkirk) ~360 miles.

And Stelvio 2000 the whole trip without roof, just to keep Mark (340r) company in the wet parts across Belgium.