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What, no clubrun report?

Postby Sylv » Sat Mar 24, 2007 9:29 pm

Well here's what it looked like from the start :)

[img]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y261/mossieur/cr1.jpg[/img]

[img]http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y261/mossieur/ds1-2.jpg[/img]
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Postby Andrew G » Sat Mar 24, 2007 9:40 pm

That is one fantastic car, is it yours Sylv?
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Postby Jon H » Sat Mar 24, 2007 9:44 pm

That new tarmac looks nice :lol:
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Postby Bo-Gilly » Sat Mar 24, 2007 9:44 pm

That car's Grahaems'.

And yes, it is, FARN TASS TEAK
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Postby Ian A4size » Sat Mar 24, 2007 9:45 pm

We lurve the car CR report to follow.
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Postby Ian A4size » Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:49 pm

A motely crew at the station today, all the usual suspects- minus the racers ( well most of them) and the secretive TTers.
Earlier correspondence with the shadow and a few others saw a larger than expected 18mph+ group, so we split it into two- approx 17/18 riders in each group.
We had decided to do an interval session with steve calling the shots, and we absolutely flew out of CSS thanks to an almighty tailwind.
I dont think anyone broke a sweat up and over the col du M23.
As we had a larger than normal group ( last time there was only 10) it was a little hard for the back markers to hear what was going on, and a few times people were having to hoof it to get back on.
I must admit tho that this time we did not do so much "recovery" and the rest period consisted of a 20mph thru and off- which was fairly ragged at best, not much calling"last man" and "over"- but it did get better over time.
At times the wind was a problem -especially on the ifield loop.
Up thru the lanes at rusper/partridge i really felt it, almost wanting to pack as i got stuck on the front and not being able to come thru :oops: .
This caused a chuckle amongst my fellow riders for some reason.
Onto the lanes around lambs green and the wind did its worst, really slowing us up, sometimes we were down to 17mph, and that was a struggle.
The sprint was a strange affair, we had a coupla good sprinters, Toby and George- who both seemed to go off about 2 miles before ( trying and succeding to catch Bryan who went 3 miles before) the finishing post.
That left the rest of us playing catch up, i worked hard with Mike and Mark and another chap,but into the wind it was too hard and i sat up after frantically waggling my elbow for them to come thru.
Pretty tired after all my efforts on the home, but i did give it a few digs.
I was very pleased to watch the missus sit in on the way home and really give it some, i just sat at the back up the hill talking to George.
A good CR, just a little bit different with the interval stuff made it better than the norm.

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Postby Kevin Rynne » Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:57 pm

Graham I heard if we shoot out the tyres you can still make a getaway.
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Postby Alex P » Sun Mar 25, 2007 2:16 am

There was a time when the 17mph group was the major group (in numbers) of the CR but no longer, the 18s being the most popular with Ian and Steve at the helm.. 8)

With 85+ people out today it certainly was a great turnout even with a "mini" classic car show (notice how the chrome sparkles on the wing mirror in the photograph - must have taken ages to polish). The weather looked bright and promising with the tail wind on the way down however it was hard work on the way back and tried my hardest to hang onto the main group with Ian and Jo tearing it up but to no avail and dropped off but it was a blast whilst I could...and I spent the rest of the day trying to get warm again.
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Postby Sylv » Sun Mar 25, 2007 1:33 pm

[quote="Andrew Green"]That is one fantastic car, is it yours Sylv?


Nope, but my folks have this 8)

[url=http://img215.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00999ov5.jpg][img]http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/576/dsc00999ov5.th.jpg[/img][/url]

Kevin, you have any place in mind?
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Postby Andrew G » Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:54 pm

8) I do have a fondness for big citroens, they have a certain class.
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Postby Grahame » Sun Mar 25, 2007 6:42 pm

[quote="Andrew Green"]That is one fantastic car, is it yours Sylv?


It's mine, all mine! (well, Josie's as well) 8)

Mwahahahaha!

Alex, I've heard that's true (it's documented that the incident at the start of "The Day of the Jackal" did happen for real), but I'd really rather not try it out.
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Postby Elliot M » Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:46 am

Let me also say nice Déesse Grahame!

Replaced the Volvo?

If I had a car (and could drive :oops: ) it would be one of those!
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Postby Grahame » Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:40 am

[quote="Elliot M"]Let me also say nice Déesse Grahame!

Replaced the Volvo?


Nearly, but not quite. The Volvo went about 18 months ago to be replaced by my Father-in-Law's BMW 5 touring (why can't they just say "estate"?). The Déesse is to replace flying on holidays - the idea is Josie and I will spend our holidays for the next few years in Europe, so a LHD car will be useful.

The trouble is, I love the Déesse so much I'm thinking about selling the BMW to get a RHD Déesse Safari :shock: :oops:
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Postby Bo-Gilly » Tue Mar 27, 2007 12:06 pm

[quote="Grahame"]
The trouble is, I love the Déesse so much I'm thinking about selling the BMW to get a RHD Déesse Safari :shock: :oops:


That's it, the bug has bitten.

Another wallet-draining, time consuming, hobby has got hold.
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Postby Elliot M » Tue Mar 27, 2007 12:42 pm

This page may be of interest: 6 wheel, 8 wheel, and Erich Honecker's stretch limo CXs

http://www.cx-basis.de/cx_basis_2003/en ... lerie.html
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