Northern Ireland - Sperrins Run Sunday 23rd September 07

[Step_7]

You should have asked for an alarm call, I'd have gladly rang you both when I got up....... at 5.30 AM to watch the MotoGP from Japan....

I hope everyone else realises that Andy and Stevie cost you your free breakfast....

Hope those who showed up enjoyed their day..... sorry for the slight navigational error, luckily Barry was there to get me back on track! I missed a turn near the end coming in to Desertmartin as well but I salvaged that one on my own!

[Luverly Lesley]

sorry i missed the run..... i'm currently operating on around two hours sleep over the last four days.... didn't think it was a good idea to do all that driving without someone to keep me awake...

[Step_7]

Its unlikely that you could have fallen asleep driving on those roads although my wee boy managed to nod off coming over the Barnes Gap - only woke at the bottom in the car park!

Mind you the lack of brake pads may have been a bigger problem if you had come along - mine were cooked nicely coming down into Gortin.

[ONED]

Once again Niall,

Thanks for the great run out!......may just have kickstarted something in me again!

[Banana Panceyette]

Sorry for missing it guys, had quite a busy week/weekend so was absolutely shattered. Hope you had fun though

[ONED]

....we did !!!

[Banana Panceyette]

Quote: Originally Posted by ONED (original)

....we did !!!

well organise another one that i can drag my @ss to then

[Hugo]

Quote: Originally Posted by Banana Pancakes (original)

well organise another one that i can drag my @ss to then

i thought you where talking about organising one?

[PmP]

Quote: Originally Posted by Hugo (original)

i thought you where talking about organising one?

She cant read a map tho...

That said her pirate name was Navigator something or other.

Sorry I didnt make the run, not feeling the best and it was just a bit far to go.

[Luverly Lesley]

Quote: Originally Posted by Step_7 (original)

Its unlikely that you could have fallen asleep driving on those roads although my wee boy managed to nod off coming over the Barnes Gap - only woke at the bottom in the car park!

Mind you the lack of brake pads may have been a bigger problem if you had come along - mine were cooked nicely coming down into Gortin.

it was more the drive to the run that i was worried about...... that road is sooooooo boring! and the brakes decided not to work properly last night, so it was definitely for the best that i didn't go it wouldn;'t have been as much fun in the escort (which i'm driving until the brakes are sorted)

[PmP]

Quote: Originally Posted by Andy Simpson (original)

When & where did you spot me?

Dual Carriage way between sprucefield and hillsborough unless your Mini has a twin, U didnt see the GP coming the other way???

Sounds like the roads were a bit too bumpy for me anyhow. What is the fasination with picking the tiniest, muckiest, bumpiest roads for these runs??

[ONED]

Quote: Originally Posted by PmP (original)

She cant read a map tho...

That said her pirate name was Navigator something or other.

Sorry I didnt make the run, not feeling the best and it was just a bit far to go.

No chance of getting you to Cork next year then!

[Luverly Lesley]

Quote: Originally Posted by PmP (original)

Sounds like the roads were a bit too bumpy for me anyhow. What is the fasination with picking the tiniest, muckiest, bumpiest roads for these runs??

would you perhaps enjoy a run down the M1 and back

[ONED]

Quote: Originally Posted by PmP (original)

Sounds like the roads were a bit too bumpy for me anyhow. What is the fasination with picking the tiniest, muckiest, bumpiest roads for these runs??

...they weren't....the roads where fantastic!.......alot of them were not a million miles from me, and I didn't realise how good some of them would be!!!!

There wasn't that much bottoming out!....though we did grab some Air!!

[Step_7]

Personally I enjoy that sort of driving on those roads but I suppose I can understand that not everyone does. I know that I didn't bottom out at all yesterday but I certainly heard Hugo catch the front a few times so it might have been a bigger issue for lowered cars.

Another reason for picking roads that are small and remote is that they tend to be empty of other traffic - if we always go out on bigger well-travelled roads you'll probably spend a lot of time trundling along behind other road users - easy enough to pass on your own but much harder to get a convoy past safely.

Having said all that the road down Gortin Glen is smooth, clean, flat tarmac with some cracking sequences of bends which would have been worth driving all the other roads just to get to!

I'm quite happy to drive on nice flat tarmac as well though, as I intend to do next weekend at the Ni-Minis trackday!