Recent snap of your Westfield

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

If they're not sorted already, check the fuse for the wipers and carry spares. The motors and mechanisms used for the reproduction parts we have to use now, can take a surprising amount of bedding in and freeing off. During which, they're prone to popping fuses. They do settle down eventually though, assuming all else is OK.

[Robin Parker (Red Spider) - Yorkshire AO]

Cold, damp, grey and miserable this morning, but enough about me, it's the breakfast meeting. 

[Geezergs]

Great little run, shame about the weather....👍

[Hafod]

No fog in Snowdon. 
Fantastic 100mile run out today and only got caught out in the fog bank when I dropped down into Conwy for my last 5 miles and no it wasn’t me who hit Santa. 

[Richard (OldStager)]

Mini road trip today, set out at 7.30am pitch black and 2 degrees , two and a half hours later and I arrived on the Wirral - I go on the A roads as I don't like motorways personally with a low, small car. Duties were performed , then the trip back same temp sadly and the roads were even busier, return journey taking 3 hrs with a 10 minute comfort break .

 

pics are not so good, still getting used to this phone, but the car in Barnston, Wirral.

I was tempted to stop en-route but to be honest my hands were so cold I could not work the phone 😄

 

 

Still thawing out to be honest and I have been back an hour , lol...

[Paul Gibney - Lancashire AO]

Good stuff great time of the year for a run if you can stand the cold.

[Richard (OldStager)]

55 minutes ago, Paul Gibney - Lancashire AO said:

Good stuff great time of the year for a run if you can stand the cold.

Had you seen me you would have said, Oh Look - there goes the Michelin Man...

 

3 jackets and two pairs of gloves, even then my hands were blocks of ice, and if you can make it out, I put my gloves on the silencer having just arrived, and waiting for my cousin to arrive - the benefits of side silencers, lol

 

Yeah was cold but car ran brilliant and I quite like driving an open car in darkness, apart from the other car's headlights, which even on dip still blind me. 120 mile round trip

Sadly I may have to do the same trip again in the coming weeks for other duties but still always great to get out and about in the car.

[Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative]

@OldStager I can recommend electric gloves, my right hand is the main place that I suffer with the cold.

[Richard (OldStager)]

20 minutes ago, Julie Hall - Joint Peak District AO said:

@OldStager I can recommend electric gloves, my right hand is the main place that I suffer with the cold.

Thanks Julie, back in my biking days I had heated grips and did wonder if they did gloves for cars instead, can you recommend a brand?.

[Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative]

20 hours ago, OldStager said:

recommend a brand?

 

Yes, Sealskinz. They have 3 heat settings and I recommend that you use them on No 1, the lowest setting, that way you don't get sweaty hands and it just keeps the chill off. They are not really for adding heat as such, just to stop hands getting cold, I hope that makes sense, not like a HotHands type thing.

[Davemk1]

 

Not the most exotic location for some car photos (my driveway) but having the car out and being driven in late December in the mountains of Montana, USA is a big deal. I skied yesterday and went for a blat today. Not bad.

 

I wanted to show off my new front suspension courtesy of Siltech Racing. I was running the stock narrow track Westfield A arms and I opted for the +35 mm kit from Siltech. It installed beautifully and was super easy to set up. I love the simple camber adjustment that comes with this set up. I’ve had it on the road a number of times and I’m very impressed with how supple yet grounded it feels. It really does breathe with the road while at the same time it feels hunkered down and stuck to the floor. I will no doubt be quicker racing next year with this configuration.

 

I finished it off with a new ARB (swaybar in American) of my own design and manufacture. It’s running in oillite bronze bushings and the lightweight end links (also my own work) are clamped in place by clamps made with the good folks at Clear Motorsport.

 

As you can see there’s snow on the ground here but the roads were dry today so I couldn’t resist taking it out for what could be the last time this year seeing as more snow will be here soon. It’s good to have this stuff mostly set up and benchmarked so it will be ready in the spring for next year’s race season.

 

Thank you Siltech and Clear.

 

Dave

[IainCameron]

One last blat before Christmas... quite a nice run and a quick stop to drop off my passenger at Rowton Castle, Shropshire.

[Simon Waterfall Syman84]

a little bit of automotive porn, collected today and what a fantastic job they have done, Christmas came early, I have been a good lad though this year 

[Gary Taylor]

An adventure day today lol !!!

started off out at 10am a tad fresh and icy but the forecast was to warm up, aviemore was -5 so thought I’ll go over the lecht, so a wee pit stop at corgarf and it was looking promising ( must have been looking the wrong way lol ) then up and over to Glen Sheil and Braemar, filled up with fuel and a helpful passerby informed me it was snowing at Glenshee, ach it’ll be fine- I’ll just tak it cannae , I answered.

So off I went along the Glen and it wasn’t bad then I climbed up past the ski centre on roads covered in slush and snow 😃 over and down the south side where it was just wet , now along here I came up with a plan duh and turned off onto the single track road through Glen Isla to Kirriemuir which a submarine would have been more suitable , now because in my eternal wisdom I had opened the roof panels there was more water in my lap and inside Tommy than out !!! Still better than the tv !!! So ontowards Laurencekirk and the plan  was to head over the cairn o mount but finding some floods that looked a little deep and it getting darker we turned back and took the main roads home .

so 185 miles and both me and Tommy home like a pair of drowned rats but happy as Larry .

Both dried down and warm now !

[Benrobson2999 - Kent AO]

great stuff Gary