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Tonight should have been our midsummer night's "Run to the sun" going to the east coast, and heading home late into the setting sun, but due to the lockdown the pub is shut, so instead we visited @BugMan at his home. Steve has been self isolating with his wife and not seen anyone from the club for around 3 months, so a run was arranged. It was supposed to be a small group of around 10 to 12 people, but things escalated with some NWKCOG coming along as part of a run they were organising. 6 of us met at the Swan and Cygnet for the half hour run to Steve's, taking a longer route to avoid speed humps and arriving first to get the pick of the cake made by Dawn. Luckily, not all of the NWKCOG came as there probably wouldn't have been enough room in the street, so 2 Westfields, 2 Tigers and a Grinnal Scorpion joined the 7 Westfields already there. Coffee and cake was consumed, cars and Carona talked about, and I hope everyone, especially Steve had a good time. Again, a big thank you to Dawn for the cake and their understanding neighbour's.

Please continue to send your complaints to @Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO, who never dreamed I’d still be doing this. 😄 😛

I can say it was fantastic to see people in the flash, and had great time catching up with everyone and some new friends from NWCOGS Cant say enough about my super wife, Dawn who just takes this sort of thing in her stride. MASSIVE thanks to everyone, this sort of thing is a really big thing for me in my fight against the big C A super day, so glad we had the drive expanded

Nice run out this weekend

Hello everybody, I had a trail membership which expired a while ago,and have now decided to cough up the 30 dollars to become a member. I'm looking forward to many ride outs will local groups! I trained as a mechanic in late 70's early 80's so the westfield is just down my street. After many years on sports bikes,thought i would try something i've always fancied so here i am.🙂

I didn't........................ but I'm grateful that Google/Bing or plentyofpuns, haven't run out of material for you!

Nipped our last night to give “Tommy “ his covid exercise 😂

Was taking mickey, although i did get sunburn.

Hi Brad, have hood frame, hood, full doors and a storm cap at the ready just needs frame refitting lol coming up Friday till Sunday booked into Barony Castle both nights 👍🏼👍🏼

Won’t hang around for long I don’t think. Good advert 👍

Bought Westy new trailer today, Disco getting tow-bar next week, just need Hotels to open for Scottish Lowland Navigation Mystery Run.

While googling about for tripmeter apps, I discovered that the UK Porsche Club hold a yearly 'tulip' navigation run around the Cotswolds. Costs £35 for members-only to enter, sells out the limited number of entry slots each year and they get to do 80+ miles 😲 in the luxury of their tin-tops! Here's us 'ard b'stards doing 200 miles scraping our arses on the ground in glorified go-karts! For free!

No vids from me then 🤣

Really keen to join in this year but as I'm so far away it all hinges on hotels/campsites opening up soon.

Believe me Gary when i go for a blast on my own round local country roads,im grinning ear to ear😁

Those who have joined in, and those thinking about it, here's a wee update and check-list of things you'll need. A clipboard and pen. I made one out of two, so that there is a clip at the bottom too, to save the route book flapping around in the back-draught. And, if you're running without weather protection, you could take the staple out of the book and put the pages in (4) poly-pockets so that you don't end up with papier-mache. Trip-meter. (something you'll defo want to sort and test before the run) In the spirit of the event, you should be using the trip function on your speedo, and most of us have the same VDO speedo. However, not everyone's speedo works, as we found out last weekend while checking part of the route - our mileometer was spot on but the trip was irratic. There are alternatives. a) On one of the motorcycle navigation runs I did back in NZ, the bike I had at the time had a dodgy speedo, so I rigged up a bicycle computer to good effect. You just need to make sure it can cope with speeds greater than a bicycle, mine is good for 80+. The cable needs extending for a car, but its a simple twin core wire to solder. b) A GPS tripmeter app could also be used on your ios/android phone, but they can be problematic if you lose satellite signal. Most are over-complicated and a dead-ringer for you choking your navigator in frustration - you'll want a dead-simple one that just shows the trip and running total mileage. The android one I found is 'Offroad Tripmeter 4x4', but it's almost £5. Has big trip counter and reset touch-screen buttons, and a separate reset for the running total - mind you change from kms to miles in Settings.

Whoops!!!

Cheers for organising it Robin, and thanks to Dawn and Steve for having us. It was really awesome to see everyone smiling especially Steve. Keep your head up mate!

Seems a lot of car that for the money. GLWS 👍

Don't see many ZEi, looks very nice enjoy it 👍. My dad's second wessy had the same wheels, lovely.

Saved £70 on last year with A plan not too shabby.

Can't believe how shockingly bad the weather was... Well if you liked it in the rain you would love it in the sun! It was gr8 to meet you both today. Thanks for making the journey down with all the relevant PPE👍😷

Thank you for today Martin, amazing car in the flesh even better than the photos show! Cannot wait to pick it up next Thursday! Cheers for the fantastic buy. Tom

👍Monica's just sorted me out £120 for the year. Tony

If Scotland is behind with accommodation stay just over the border in England and pop over

I think we best hang fire on the Anglesey day. According to the news there considering a local lockdown of Anglesey. Due to a recent increase in cases