North Essex Christmas Laning 30th December

[BadBoy]

Do you get bored between Christmas and New Year

If so, I will be running a laning day in North Essex on Friday 30th December if enough people are interested (for group safety a minimum of 4 vehicles are required).
I plan to depart/finish from Marks Tey Railway station by 9.30am (located at junction 25 of the A12 near Colchester)

I have not had time to run the route so most of the lanes we will be doing are untested. With that in mind the whole day will be on a trial and error basis and I have to limit to 6 cars on a first come basis.
Some lanes may be very scratchy and there will be several fords on the route. All the fords can be bypassed if you don't want to go paddling. Many of the lanes are likely to be very wet and muddy so good A/T tyres are required as a minimum. Having your own recovery gear is desirable .

I have no lunch stop planned for this day so please bring left over turkey sandwiches & drinks with you and we'll find somewhere to stop enroute.

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[andytats]

I would put my name down but I'm working that night.

[Retro Pedro]

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I would have loved to come to this to get away from the family for a day but it's over 3 hours from me so I'm gonna have to give it a miss.
It's a full days driving there and back without the getting muddy

[bobbinsjob]

I have the kitchen pass as Maria is at work. Just gotta break eldest daughter's arm into looking after littlun for the day.


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[bushwacker]

hi ya sorry i can not make it to this one, dreaded tax is due at the end of the week , £120 and 80 ltres of sqiurt, the war office says no ........pete

[BadBoy]

No worries Pete,
Me and Retro will definitely be doing as much of the run as we can with our copilots.

[andytats]

I now have the night off work & a pass from Lisa.


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[BadBoy]

Great to see you can make it now Andy.
Make sure you have your muddies on. Looking how soft the ground is locally I think we may need them

Do you still want to borrow my coil spring compressors? If so I'll bring them with me.

[andytats]

Mud's will be on. Yeah i still need the comoressors if i can borrow them.

[BadBoy]

Spring compressors packed

Final bump for this thread.
If you want to join us tomorrow please add your name (to the 6 max)

These vids show some of the lanes we will be doing tomorrow (warning they contain ovals) .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppHr9zGlVS8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kaj-HGqUrWY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idVl5G76WdY
Admin/Mods - vids intentionally not embedded as not mine and contain ovals. Please do not edit

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[Retro Pedro]

Paul - I've just sent you a p.m. regarding meet place and time.

[BadBoy]

Got it Pete.
Time and place remain as my original post @ 9.30am
Postcode for meeting point is CO6 1EE

[Retro Pedro]

Cheers Paul - I'm going to pick Paul up at 8a.m. from his, so I reckon 1 1/2 hours from Orpington to the meet place should be easily doable (just got to make sure we miss the shoppers).

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Just checked out the you tube clips, wish I could make it but family still at mine and swmbo would throw a fit if I skived off for the day

[Retro Pedro]

Just checked out the you tube clips, wish I could make it but family still at mine and swmbo would throw a fit if I skived off for the day

Plan A: Sneak out the back door without them noticing - Plan B: Bring them/her with you
Nearly got caught with the same dilemma - but youngest daughter and her boyfriend have done enough damage this week (announced they are getting married - bang goes my new tyres) and wifey said she would rather sit in front of the telly than get thrown about in a motor on bumpy dirt tracks all day.

[Hound Dog]

Pete I know I'd like to be laning with you and Paul but Ive got to goto the in laws for dinner hope you all have a great day

[JEOH]

Hi Folks,

lots of fun I wish. It is a bit too far away... Hope you can do some fine pics for us?

[bobbinsjob]

Well I'm all ready to go. Bring it on

[andytats]

a great day out thanks to Paul & Ian
sorry that Pete had abit of a problem so was unable to attend ( hope you get it fixed soon)
i will leave the write up for paul to do
now for a couple of video's
with my dash mounted camera