madmog
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Club RR Member Number: 46
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Has anyone got up-to-date information on the fuel situation in France at the moment? If there's none I'd need to go via Portsmouth -> Caen/Cherbourg filling up just before getting on the ferry. Or maybe take a modern car (haven't done the calculation on whether that could make it from Calais yet).
Is it all pickets, burning tyres and 1 hour queues for rationed petrol or is it exaggerated in the media?
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Jun 14, 2016 19:31:20 GMT
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Howdy guys!
So i'm getting excited now! Just about to book tunnel tickets and wondered if anyone was planning or fancied meeting up maybe not far into france so we can have a bit of a convoy to Lemans? Or maybe a detour via some 'refreshment' purveyors if you know what I mean :-D
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Jun 14, 2016 20:26:38 GMT
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I think I'll be doing Newhaven -> Dieppe as someone did that last year and it is nearer my home  In other news I hope to send the first batch of tickets out this week. |
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Jun 14, 2016 21:29:45 GMT
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coooool.
Well I just booked dover-Calais arriving in Calais around 1:30 on the Thurs, so be cool to see if we could manage to do a meet-up enroute to Lemans
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Jun 14, 2016 21:44:32 GMT
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Think we're gonna pop into Paris for a cold one - according to the map it's only a couple of inches away!
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ScORTED
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ITBs = Bwaaaarp
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Jun 21, 2016 11:54:54 GMT
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I'd advise avoiding Paris like the plague; it added a good couple of hours to our trip to la Sarthe last year even just going around the outer ring road (we came from Germany)
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"In engineering there is an answer to everything, It's just that we're usually too ignorant or too dim to see it." Keith Duckworth If you'd binned it into something that either didn't move, or survived intact (like I did, well, technically I landed on top of it, skillzorz... |
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scimjim
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Club RR Member Number: 8
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Jun 21, 2016 22:10:08 GMT
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Hope it's okay to post this here HW - if not, please move.
Due to a family illness, I won't be able to go to the Classic Le Mans this year.
This means that I have some tickets available at a discount.
4 X 3 day entry tickets - usual price €53 / £41 each, yours for £30 each
4 X 3 day paddock passes - usual price €35 / £27 each, yours for £20 each
3 X 3 day parking in the Rouge car park - €18 / £14 each, yours for £10 each
Offers on the whole lot will attract further discount.
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Jun 22, 2016 12:32:25 GMT
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I've formally booked onto this now, and will bringing my girlfriend.
scimjim - I've PM'd you regarding the passes you have to move on.
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"In engineering there is an answer to everything, It's just that we're usually too ignorant or too dim to see it." Keith Duckworth If you'd binned it into something that either didn't move, or survived intact (like I did, well, technically I landed on top of it, skillzorz... |
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scimjim
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Jun 22, 2016 21:28:06 GMT
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Thanks ScORTED
just these left now
2 X 3 day entry tickets - usual price €53 / £41 each, yours for £30 each
2 X 3 day parking in the Rouge car park - €18 / £14 each, yours for £10 each
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scimjim
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Club RR Member Number: 8
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Jun 22, 2016 21:47:46 GMT
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just these left now
1 X 3 day entry ticket - usual price €53 / £41, yours for £30
2 X 3 day parking in the Rouge car park - €18 / £14 each, yours for £10 each
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scimjim
Club Retro Rides Member
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Club RR Member Number: 8
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just these left now 1 X 3 day entry ticket - usual price €53 / £41, yours for £30 2 X 3 day parking in the Rouge car park - €18 / £14 each, yours for £10 each Just the parking tickets left now - thanks all. |
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have just received tickets, is there elecric hook-ups for the tents ?
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Jun 23, 2016 12:00:59 GMT
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have just received tickets, is there elecric hook-ups for the tents ? There isn't. There is a central recreation room type area that has power if you need it. What were you thinking of hooking up? |
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Jun 23, 2016 12:20:04 GMT
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oh dear
no cold beer.
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ScORTED
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Jun 23, 2016 12:24:34 GMT
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bucket + cold water = coldishbeer |
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"In engineering there is an answer to everything, It's just that we're usually too ignorant or too dim to see it." Keith Duckworth If you'd binned it into something that either didn't move, or survived intact (like I did, well, technically I landed on top of it, skillzorz... |
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Jun 23, 2016 12:55:01 GMT
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I'm sure we'll be able to work something out. Our hosts also have beer on tap  |
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scimjim
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Club RR Member Number: 8
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Jun 23, 2016 13:03:42 GMT
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assuming turboscim is Pete? as we can't go this year, I've just sold my RR chalet tickets to another Scimitar owner, so I'm sure you'll have cold beer |
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Jun 23, 2016 15:29:41 GMT
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Phew, a big enough bucket is called an oil drum !
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vader
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Club RR Member Number: 93
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Jun 30, 2016 21:25:18 GMT
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Well, like a Numpty I took my Stag apart to fit a new external belt driven water pump, got most of it back together then decided I might like to throw myself of my motorbike-on my drive way! Result, dislocated collar bone and a Stag unfinished! I'm hoping my mate can sort it out and get it ready. He will also have to drive my car there and back. Feel a bit of a plonker.
Anyhoo, hoping to make it over on the Friday, look out for a red stag and a passenger with his arm in a sling!
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Triumph Stag
Ducati Supersport
Shanks’s Pony
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Jun 30, 2016 21:47:17 GMT
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Finally booked my ferry Portsmouth to Caen on Friday at 8:something ... so a 6am start for me on the Friday ... and again on the Monday on the way back as I'm on the 8:something from Caen to Portsmouth ... if you see me, I'll probably be asleep! |
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