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[markaboot]

i've got 3hrs to sober up. last night was expensive!!
good night out tho

[sprintmini]

well im all set ready for the off.
Anyone else coming from Bury/manchester area?
I will be fuelling up at Rising Bridge around 12ish.

[JohnGordon]

iv heard the road from wennington to bentham is closed due to being flooded dont fancy trying going down a flooded road. ther is another route just abit longer but im sure we will see 2moz. i would think the main roads will be ok but not sure about the back roads. it shall be fun

pfft... Go faster and aqua plane it!

[glyn]

i will follow you JohnGordon!! see how its done

[JohnGordon]

i will follow you JohnGordon!! see how its done

haha no worries mate!

[AGoaty]

I'm sorry but I'm gonna pull out of this run.

It's been chaos around here and after being stuck in traffic for 2 hours on Thursday and then struggling to get anywhere near where I want to go, I have had enough. >

It's all frozen too over night too making things worse.

Got some photo's of me out in the snow for you though.....






I hope all goes well for you all and hope to see the photo's on here later.

[fergie]

hi guys nice one today. that run was fantastic.....
thanks for every one who came and for those that couldnt make it check out the pictures and then you can all see what you missed...
was the best one yet....

[Ethel]

When did you take the photos Goaty?

I'm only just north of you and our snow was pretty much gone by last night. I was over your way on Tuesday and had to turn round at Oxenhope the roads were that bad (wasn't in a Mini) good fun though.

[JohnGordon]

Truly amazin' run there ben, I think that route will have to be taken again at some point! I'm gunna attempt to upload what photos i got soon

Edited by JohnGordon, 06 December 2008 - 05:32 PM.

[mrslaphead]

Awesome run, would be great to do that in the summer.
Cheers
Chris

[markaboot]

sorry to anybody that got stuck behind me. (the yellow clubby)
sorry i was driving so slow and sorry if anybody got seperated because of that.

i had no brakes!!

so also sorry for nearly running into the back of who ever was in front of me. happend when we were coming down the hill with snow both sides just before the right turn.
was braking fine then all of a sudden my foot hit the floor. lucky id almmost stopped and i had a little braking left but not much.
took is easy round the next few bends because i only had about 50% brakes then they went completely. pressed the pedal and it hit the floor straight away.



thanks again to ben. loved those roads, was really good fun.
up to the point when i turned my pants a different colour.
coming back was the most stressfull drive i've ever had.

Edited by markaboot, 06 December 2008 - 05:52 PM.

[JohnGordon]

ok pics.... Please note no photo's were taken by me when driving


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[Southy]

Some good pics there John, looks like a very good run out, i must apologise for my lack of appearance at the run today, ive had a couple of problems with my car the last day or so....wiper stalks broke so no wipers and ive been changing a set of disc's and pads on my friends Bini as she couldnt stop XD

I very much hope to be at the next one with a couple more of my mates along for company

[mrslaphead]

sorry to anybody that got stuck behind me. (the yellow clubby)
sorry i was driving so slow and sorry if anybody got seperated because of that.

i had no brakes!!

so also sorry for nearly running into the back of who ever was in front of me. happend when we were coming down the hill with snow both sides just before the right turn.
was braking fine then all of a sudden my foot hit the floor. lucky id almmost stopped and i had a little braking left but not much.
took is easy round the next few bends because i only had about 50% brakes then they went completely. pressed the pedal and it hit the floor straight away.



thanks again to ben. loved those roads, was really good fun.
up to the point when i turned my pants a different colour.
coming back was the most stressfull drive i've ever had.

I was a bit worried when you dropped back but I kept seeing you in the mirrors so thought you would be okay.
Thanks for not running into the back of me, hope its something straightforward (cheap) to fix
Cheers
Chris

[markaboot]

sorry to anybody that got stuck behind me. (the yellow clubby)
sorry i was driving so slow and sorry if anybody got seperated because of that.

i had no brakes!!

so also sorry for nearly running into the back of who ever was in front of me. happend when we were coming down the hill with snow both sides just before the right turn.
was braking fine then all of a sudden my foot hit the floor. lucky id almmost stopped and i had a little braking left but not much.
took is easy round the next few bends because i only had about 50% brakes then they went completely. pressed the pedal and it hit the floor straight away.



thanks again to ben. loved those roads, was really good fun.
up to the point when i turned my pants a different colour.
coming back was the most stressfull drive i've ever had.

I was a bit worried when you dropped back but I kept seeing you in the mirrors so thought you would be okay.
Thanks for not running into the back of me, hope its something straightforward (cheap) to fix
Cheers
Chris

wanted to leave myself plenty room, took me a while to stop. plus there was the odd corner it got a little hairy.
should have pulled over really, was a little bit dangerous. but i had no idea where i was and didnt want to get left behind.
i've never concentrated on driving that hard before. wasnt much fun coming back.

so glad i didnt wreck anyones mini. that'd be worse than wrecking my own.

not sure what it is yet. looks like all the fluid leaked from the master cylinder. doubt it'll be a big job fixing it, probably just a seal gone somewhere.
haha guess what im doing tomorrow.