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Scotland Drive - July 19th
- Thread starter rustedandrotten
- Start date
What a day!! The route that Simon and Ali put together was absolutely belting!! There was stretches where we didn't meet an oncoming car for 5-10 miles at a time! Just incredible!
Everyone's car was filthy from the morning rain but nobody cared because we were having too much fun!
Great to see all the usual culprits and meet a couple of new ones too! [cmilie=iconcheers.gif]
Everyone's car was filthy from the morning rain but nobody cared because we were having too much fun!
Great to see all the usual culprits and meet a couple of new ones too! [cmilie=iconcheers.gif]
Had a great day, thanks Simon and Ali once again!
Pictures from me - Scotland Drive
IMG_1356 by Ben Notman, on Flickr
IMG_1359 by Ben Notman, on Flickr
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IMG_1364 by Ben Notman, on Flickr
IMG_1367 by Ben Notman, on Flickr
IMG_1370 by Ben Notman, on Flickr
IMG_1378 by Ben Notman, on Flickr
IMG_1379 by Ben Notman, on Flickr
IMG_1386 by Ben Notman, on Flickr
IMG_1388 by Ben Notman, on Flickr
IMG_1389 by Ben Notman, on Flickr
IMG_1390 by Ben Notman, on Flickr
IMG_1395 by Ben Notman, on Flickr
IMG_1403 by Ben Notman, on Flickr
IMG_1410 by Ben Notman, on Flickr
IMG_1414 by Ben Notman, on Flickr
Pictures from me - Scotland Drive
IMG_1356 by Ben Notman, on FlickrIMG_1359 by Ben Notman, on FlickrIMG_1360 by Ben Notman, on FlickrIMG_1362 by Ben Notman, on Flickr]IMG_1364 by Ben Notman, on FlickrIMG_1367 by Ben Notman, on FlickrIMG_1370 by Ben Notman, on FlickrIMG_1378 by Ben Notman, on FlickrIMG_1379 by Ben Notman, on FlickrIMG_1386 by Ben Notman, on FlickrIMG_1388 by Ben Notman, on FlickrIMG_1389 by Ben Notman, on FlickrIMG_1390 by Ben Notman, on FlickrIMG_1395 by Ben Notman, on FlickrIMG_1403 by Ben Notman, on FlickrIMG_1410 by Ben Notman, on FlickrIMG_1414 by Ben Notman, on FlickrMany thanks to everyone that came! - Organising an event is useless without people making the effort to come! - I'm delighted to see that so many people took the time and effort to drive north.
Great to see familiar faces and new alike, hope you enjoyed the run enough to come again!
My numbers were a little higher than Iain's! -
Total of 571 miles in two days.
£161 in fuel
27mpg average (Can't of been trying hard enough)
1 sore back and ringing ears by the time I got home.
Best road for me was the road from Duns to Coldstream! After 15-20 miles of fairly fast straight roads this was an awesome step-up! - I had my GoPro on for this stretch which I will share 'some' of the footage on the forum.
Thanks again and to Peter who was more involved in the route that I.
Great to see familiar faces and new alike, hope you enjoyed the run enough to come again!
My numbers were a little higher than Iain's! -
Total of 571 miles in two days.
£161 in fuel
27mpg average (Can't of been trying hard enough)
1 sore back and ringing ears by the time I got home.
Best road for me was the road from Duns to Coldstream! After 15-20 miles of fairly fast straight roads this was an awesome step-up! - I had my GoPro on for this stretch which I will share 'some' of the footage on the forum.
Thanks again and to Peter who was more involved in the route that I.
first off thanks to Simon H for inviting me along and to help pick an enjoyable route.As a first experiance in the V, i could not stop smiling from Otterburn to Hawick, and then when he allowed me to drive, WOW, what a machine. I now know why you are all so enthusiastic about your cars. The acceleration,the gear change and the noise. Im sorry if we wernt travelling as fast as if Simon was driving, but it is his car!!!!!!. You are a great bunch of petrol heads, and i hope we will meet again, to enjoy another trip round the english/scottish borders. Keep enjoying your cars, and hopefully in the future(once ive pursuaded my better half) i may join you as a proud owner. Peter
cleedubber
Member
Welcome to the forum Peter....great to meet you, and thank you for your input into a great event
I can only echo everyone's thanks to Simon and Ali for their efforts in organising a top day.
A shame I couldn't fully experience the thrill of the roads.
I can only apologise that we held everyone up at times, Zowie is still not 100% and been off work the last 2 days
Great pics guys, thanks for sharing :approve:
I can only echo everyone's thanks to Simon and Ali for their efforts in organising a top day.
A shame I couldn't fully experience the thrill of the roads.
I can only apologise that we held everyone up at times, Zowie is still not 100% and been off work the last 2 days
Great pics guys, thanks for sharing :approve:
rustedandrotten
Well-Known Member
OK! What more can be said??! Brilliant day I think was had by all except for poor Cleedubber's girlfriend who decided that sunday was the day to redecorate the interior of his Vee, hope you got her home in one piece safely Neil!
The day started well and Ali and I were apprehensive as to how many were going to turn up, but slowly the cars arrived! Couple of late runners scraped in just on time and other than Pagey who slept in (time for a new Alarm clock!) everyone made it for the 1000 kick off. a great sight in the carpark of the Otterburn Castle! Initially it looked as if the weather might be playing ball after the deluges in the night but the skies still had plenty of water to come. Still, this didn't dampen the spirits and a great morning stint was done along the banks of the Keilder Reservoir, through Keilder Forest and along the border via some challenging and beautiful roads all the way to Hawick. Certainly wet and testing but for those running at the back there was a definite dry line, at the front it was another matter!! Great fun and didn't break anything! other than the wet the only other problem was 'Gandalf' in his Hymermobile wandering all over the place and holding everthing up!
Lunch stop at the Woll Golf Club was excellent and a great chance to chill out and compare notes, at this point Brembo had to head back home, thanks for the great photos Ben and Cleedubber managed to catch up after several enforced stops! Looking round the carpark, we had a selection of cars that were losing their showroom gleams but looking great sat in the sun just breaking through. Wonderful to see Simon's (Pugs9000) LY looking so smart in its fresh paint, the depth and quality of the finished item really put mine to shame (though that isn't that difficult!!)
Ali as usual was whinging that it wasnt fast enough, fine if you are running tail end charlie on a swept and dry road, but his 'navigator' wouldn't let him take the lead to find out what the wet end was like with a hoard of Vees breathing down your neck!
Farmer G was nearly in tears with his pride and joy getting wet and dirty but did a stirling job of trying to keep up, made a change from chasing him and when we lost him from the mirrors knew it was time to back off a bit!
The afternoon stint started with clearer skies and drying roads, at this point I handed my keys to Peter Ibbotson who had been sitting patiently in the passenger seat all morning calling the route! Peter and I have a long history of charging around this area at breakneck speed so it great to be back together for a day after a break of over 25 years! Peter is the one we should all be thanking for the route planning, maps and notes, he and his long suffering wife Diane were out the previous weekend check everything was good to go and Vee friendly! :bow:
Highlights of the afternoon for me were the stop at the Jim Clark Rooms at Dums where the custodian generously let us in after they were meant to be shut. Very interesting for those who understood the hisoric significance of this great man! There after a fantastic road down to Coldstream with loads of twists and twiddles with a few odd straight bits in between. After which we headed back towards the south on the Morpeth road, at a refuelling stop we parted company with a few people, some heading north and back over the Border, Ali and MrBluesky, IainT having left a bit earlier to head for Leith and others heading for Newcastle, Roma and Ravy(gravy)davy, great to see and meet all you guys! A slightly shorter train then headed back to Otterburn via Rothbury and Elsdon, to me this was the best bit of the run as the roads had dried and were quiet as this section had been closed for roadworks all day and had only just reopened, fast, flowing and very technical, Peter really got into his stride here! REM13 said afterwards that Claire had been quiet all day up until this point! I had been expecting a handbagging at the lunch break.
Got back to Otterburn at bang on 1800 so perfect timing, Farmer G, and the lakeland contingent peeled off to Corbridge for a fun run down the old roman road of the A68, another brilliant road! And the remaining 4 Vees parked up at the Castle for coffee before abandoning for a great meal at the Redesdale Arms up the A68, Phillv6 now realising the benefits of tgrailer ownership.
yesterday had a mini run back up to Edinburgh with Pugs9000 and REM13 in convoy and then peeled off for Aberdeen with tony and Claire, Simon heading for a couple of days R&R round Loch Lomond enjoy!!
Thanks again for everyone who came, without you all it would not be half as much fun and it all makes it seem so worthwhile :bow: [smilie=thanks.gif] I feel that has been a couple of great runs up here and if there is interest we will certainly put on another next year, what do you reckon Ali? I know Peter has signed up to the forum and has already posted and is looking at routes for next year!!
ROLL ON ORIGINE RS and GOODWOOD :race: :race:
The day started well and Ali and I were apprehensive as to how many were going to turn up, but slowly the cars arrived! Couple of late runners scraped in just on time and other than Pagey who slept in (time for a new Alarm clock!) everyone made it for the 1000 kick off. a great sight in the carpark of the Otterburn Castle! Initially it looked as if the weather might be playing ball after the deluges in the night but the skies still had plenty of water to come. Still, this didn't dampen the spirits and a great morning stint was done along the banks of the Keilder Reservoir, through Keilder Forest and along the border via some challenging and beautiful roads all the way to Hawick. Certainly wet and testing but for those running at the back there was a definite dry line, at the front it was another matter!! Great fun and didn't break anything! other than the wet the only other problem was 'Gandalf' in his Hymermobile wandering all over the place and holding everthing up!
Lunch stop at the Woll Golf Club was excellent and a great chance to chill out and compare notes, at this point Brembo had to head back home, thanks for the great photos Ben and Cleedubber managed to catch up after several enforced stops! Looking round the carpark, we had a selection of cars that were losing their showroom gleams but looking great sat in the sun just breaking through. Wonderful to see Simon's (Pugs9000) LY looking so smart in its fresh paint, the depth and quality of the finished item really put mine to shame (though that isn't that difficult!!)
Ali as usual was whinging that it wasnt fast enough, fine if you are running tail end charlie on a swept and dry road, but his 'navigator' wouldn't let him take the lead to find out what the wet end was like with a hoard of Vees breathing down your neck!
Farmer G was nearly in tears with his pride and joy getting wet and dirty but did a stirling job of trying to keep up, made a change from chasing him and when we lost him from the mirrors knew it was time to back off a bit!
The afternoon stint started with clearer skies and drying roads, at this point I handed my keys to Peter Ibbotson who had been sitting patiently in the passenger seat all morning calling the route! Peter and I have a long history of charging around this area at breakneck speed so it great to be back together for a day after a break of over 25 years! Peter is the one we should all be thanking for the route planning, maps and notes, he and his long suffering wife Diane were out the previous weekend check everything was good to go and Vee friendly! :bow:
Highlights of the afternoon for me were the stop at the Jim Clark Rooms at Dums where the custodian generously let us in after they were meant to be shut. Very interesting for those who understood the hisoric significance of this great man! There after a fantastic road down to Coldstream with loads of twists and twiddles with a few odd straight bits in between. After which we headed back towards the south on the Morpeth road, at a refuelling stop we parted company with a few people, some heading north and back over the Border, Ali and MrBluesky, IainT having left a bit earlier to head for Leith and others heading for Newcastle, Roma and Ravy(gravy)davy, great to see and meet all you guys! A slightly shorter train then headed back to Otterburn via Rothbury and Elsdon, to me this was the best bit of the run as the roads had dried and were quiet as this section had been closed for roadworks all day and had only just reopened, fast, flowing and very technical, Peter really got into his stride here! REM13 said afterwards that Claire had been quiet all day up until this point! I had been expecting a handbagging at the lunch break.
Got back to Otterburn at bang on 1800 so perfect timing, Farmer G, and the lakeland contingent peeled off to Corbridge for a fun run down the old roman road of the A68, another brilliant road! And the remaining 4 Vees parked up at the Castle for coffee before abandoning for a great meal at the Redesdale Arms up the A68, Phillv6 now realising the benefits of tgrailer ownership.
yesterday had a mini run back up to Edinburgh with Pugs9000 and REM13 in convoy and then peeled off for Aberdeen with tony and Claire, Simon heading for a couple of days R&R round Loch Lomond enjoy!!
Thanks again for everyone who came, without you all it would not be half as much fun and it all makes it seem so worthwhile :bow: [smilie=thanks.gif] I feel that has been a couple of great runs up here and if there is interest we will certainly put on another next year, what do you reckon Ali? I know Peter has signed up to the forum and has already posted and is looking at routes for next year!!
ROLL ON ORIGINE RS and GOODWOOD :race: :race:
Good summary their Chief...Although to be clear I wasn't winging about the pace, infact that was spot on! Wet roads plus Vee's = Caution for me.
Best road of the day (Up until I left) was the Duns to Coldstream stretch, that allowed us to stretch the legs up and down the box. The earlier roads imo were a little tight and bumpy; however would have been better on a dry day!
Bottom line - great run, thoroughly enjoyed it. Would folk be interested in another later in the year (late sept), possible starting around central belt?
Best road of the day (Up until I left) was the Duns to Coldstream stretch, that allowed us to stretch the legs up and down the box. The earlier roads imo were a little tight and bumpy; however would have been better on a dry day!
Bottom line - great run, thoroughly enjoyed it. Would folk be interested in another later in the year (late sept), possible starting around central belt?
Just sat down with a coffee at Simons place having washed nearly 650 miles of road grime off the Vee...what can be said that hasn't already...great to meet up with new and familiar faces, and drive brilliant roads. Big thank you to Simon, Ali and Peter for their hard work, it definitely paid off!
Hope everyone got home safe and well....we look forward to seeing you again soon!
Hope everyone got home safe and well....we look forward to seeing you again soon!
It wasn't the pace that was making me back off at times it was fear of my undertrays on the really choppy bits, but as far as I could tell (or hear) they didnt catch once :race: :approve:
PS Tony I enjoyed our impromptu high speed session on the final stretch back to otterburn!! :bow:
PS Tony I enjoyed our impromptu high speed session on the final stretch back to otterburn!! :bow:
rustedandrotten
Well-Known Member
Those bits of mutilated plastic on bridge just after the hotel at the start not yours then! :rofl:ColinG":18zqcnrf said:
Ali":12hkodid said:
Great write up Simon. Ali I would certainly be keen for another run, perhpas a litle less mileage if possible!
I do apoligise for heading off before lunch, I had too may beers, wine and port the night before that I slightly ruined it for myself!
The only drama I can add was a fight on the way down on Saturday, some country ned was having a go at the bus driver I was inches away from the front of the bus as I swung the V in, chap I was with is a rozzer so it was swiftly broken up, very odd as it was in the middle of nowhere!
I didnt take notes of figures, MPG etc but may do this next time! Will watch video tonight :approve:
cleedubber
Member
I'd definitely be up for another run up north, all just dependant on my lovely work schedule 
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