Possible Scottish Rally /Run 2007

[guest18]

If you like the look of this...
Then you may be interested in a Scottish tour on a summers weekend next year.
I'm looking into the prospect but if I'm going to do it then I need to pick a date *soon* otherwise it won't happen...
I was thinking of around this time of year, over a long weekend (I'll try to put a proposed weekends dates up tomorrow sometime) with everyone meeting somewhere borders/centralish on the Friday night, riding North on the Saturday before camping somewhere remote then West and South in a loop before camping / dispersing on the Sunday night.
The idea is maximum quality Thumper time for the minimum holiday taken!
Hopefully I'll have a rough loop described soon but my thoughts include Spittal of Glenshee, Spean Bridge and Glencoe... so we're talking about some world class roads :-))
Oh and someone has already mentioned the words "Distillery Tour" lol

Whatchya think then chaps and chapessess?

[Steve H]

A tentative yes, if I have a reliable bike. Latter would be better so as not too be too close to the Annual Rally.

[beeman]

How about near midsummers day, always wanted to do Scotland when it is almost light all through the night.

[squirrelciv]

You know I'll be there :-) As for dates, things would be considerably easier to swing past beloved if there was a fair gap between Scottish trip and annual rally. Also, after being completely munched by Yorkshire midge last weekend, shouldn't you consider avoiding putting us on the Scottish midge menu???

[guest7]

Midsummer day sounds good to me too, that puts a whole month between this trip and the annual.

And while were talking of dates, does anyone have an opinion on moving the AR back a week next year to avoid the end of term holiday traffic?

GC

[Richard 003]

Midsummer day sounds good to me too, that puts a whole month between this trip and the annual.

And while were talking of dates, does anyone have an opinion on moving the AR back a week next year to avoid the end of term holiday traffic?

GC

I think you're going to have queues of tourist traffic for the whole of the holiday period. That's one of the benefits for Ixion of doing their Dales thing at the end of September.

[guest7]

Sorry to sound rude, but what queues of tourist traffic? I was talking about the motorways getting to the rally, on the rideout itself we saw very few vehicles. This was partly due to Steve's superb route-planning, but even on the odd A road we didn't see much traffic.

However, it did take me 7 hours to get there from Cardiff. Also the campsites were filling up around us. I think the weekend before would have meant a lot of us getting there easier.

It's hard to escape the fact that the Frdiay that the schools break up is going to see a big increase in holiday traffic on the motorways and A roads.

GC

[andy230]

Yes yes yes!!

I fancy this.  I'll still be living in london (well, with any luck!), but am definately up for this one.  Re. dates, longest day is a nice time, remember it will probably piss down, and yes we'll be eaten alive, but thats all part of the fun isn't it?!!

My hand is up, count my vote!

Cheers,

andy

[guest18]

Ok Chaps, Taking into account opinions so far...
Open your diaries and enter 22 - 25 June 2005.
Now underline it and make sure that you don't double book ;-)

Oh and Andy, it'll only rain on the West coast leg, the East is always lovely ;-))

Will doubtless chat more about this soon (but I'm away at the Imp Club rally in Stirling his weekend so I'll be offline for a little while).
Cheers,
Smudge

[andy230]

Ok Chaps, Taking into account opinions so far...
Open your diaries and enter 22 - 25 June 2005.


Ah!  Well done Smudge!!  I see you've now turned the MZ into a DeLorean-esque time machine!

:-)

andy

[Steve H]

The National Rally tends to run on the weekend of the longest day. That said any date will clash with something

[steveD]

Ok Chaps, Taking into account opinions so far...
Open your diaries and enter 22 - 25 June 2005.
Now underline it and make sure that you don't double book ;-)

2005!?~?...can anyone lend me a TARDIS?
steveD

[guest18]

ok ok ok, Two thousand and SEVEN!

lol that's what I get for posting in a hurry!

[guest18]

The National Rally tends to run on the weekend of the longest day. That said any date will clash with something

Doesn't that mean you can come on this one and score loads of points for going long distances...? Or doesn't it work that way?

[guest18]

You know Steve you really should allow an "Edit" facility in this forum!

Ok Chaps, Taking into account opinions so far...
Open your diaries and enter 22 - 25 June 2005.
Now underline it and make sure that you don't double book ;-)

Oh and Andy, it'll only rain on the West coast leg, the East is always lovely ;-))

Will doubtless chat more about this soon (but I'm away at the Imp Club rally in Stirling his weekend so I'll be offline for a little while).
Cheers,
Smudge