Peak District Run Out, Sat 3rd August

[Trevor Little (Trevturtle) - Treasurer]

Another  brilliant  day Thank you.  Drive down wiggly roads with great views, eat good food with good people. 

 

@Julie Hall - Peak District AO thanks again for organising, it makes all our drives much easier.  

[Stuart]

Second that - and thanks for welcoming the ex-pat.  Great to meet you all and will definitely be up for doing it again if you'll have me.  Perhaps not every week with a 2+ hour drive at each end.  I actually made great time on the way back without too much motorway.  Home at 1635 which was perfect 'cos at 1645 it started to pee down 😊

[Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO]

A great run out as always! Given my recent tinkering with rad, dash, EWP, throttle cable and gear selector, it was good to confirm correct operation of all items!

 

Thanks @Julie Hall - Peak District AO for the planning that goes into these great runs!

 

I 'think' this pic has all 11 Westfields in!

 

Glad @Stuart got home dry! I did by about 20 mins. I susect others may have not!

[Weekend Warrior]

A great day out, lovely scenery and great roads ,Food ,ice cream and company all excellent .

It was my first time up  here and I loved it ,I can see why so many people join these run outs .

In the words of Arnie I’ll be back. 👍

Thanks @Julie Hall - Peak District AO For being a great host and  @Trevturtle  for showing me the way back .

 

[AndrewBClarke]

Don’t want repeat what has been said by the others so I will just say it was brilliant. Thanks for all the effort sorting out the route and for herding us all. 

[LukeW]

Yeah top day @Julie Hall - Peak District AO and the wscc owners for coming out to play! 

👍🏼

 

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

Fantastic day, horse/cow poo now thoroughly washed off car! All shinny again ready for next time.

 

Great day, great friends, glorious V8 sound track in front, heavenly Honda’s behind! Fantastic.

 

Great to see @Stuart and @Weekend Warrior coming up/over to join us as well as the regulars.

[Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative]

Oh what lovely comments guys, thank you, we have enjoyed every minute of today all because of you xxxxx

We met at Matlock and there were Dave Eastwood, Ian Kinder, Andrew, Stuart, Trevor, Steve, Chris, Rob, Luke and arriving lastly was Bill. Bill was nearly as late as us, since I got in the car to a flat battery this morning. My headlight bracket had broken in the week and so Glen had fixed it and had used the lights a lot to check the alignment of the beam, draining the battery in the process to 7V. Good job we have one of these handy little clicky things.

 

Matlock

 

Matlock

 

 

Tyre kicking in Matlock

 

Off onto the country lanes

 

through the villages

 

waiting for a bus? No, just some Westfields

 

until we arrived at The Queen Anne in Great Hucklow where we promptly compared cow poo. Dave won!

 

At The Queen Anne where we would have sat outside if the wasps weren't so friendly

 

PaulVX was waiting for us in his BMW 240i

 

 

 

Ian and Trevor worry me sometimes as they seem to be very close to each other, don't mention rear wings to Ian though will you

 

We all enjoyed our lunch in the pub and few people had to leave for family duties.Trevor had an idea and the troops were gathered

 

 

let's have a group photo

 

yes, here he is, trevtrouble

 

Next is the most hilarious bit, we all got in our cars ready to go for cake, I had a last look around before setting off, to find Ian's car was empty. Ready? you will laugh at this, he had left his steering wheel in the pub and had sat in the car and done what? God only knows. He coming running out of the pub with his steering wheel shoved up his t-shirt, but we won't mention it will we?

Speaking of steering wheels, I jumped in my car this morning and set off, late as previously mentioned, and drove down the road with a wonky steering wheel. The current husband had been feeding his cleaning OCD and had put the steering wheel back onto the boss in the wrong position. This is it with the wheels straight.

 

With all wheels in place we took the lovely route to an outdoors cafe, The Smithy in Monyash and had ice cream. There was the usual large gathering of motorbikers, cyclists and walkers so it was a case of park where you can. We all dispersed in different directions from there.

Stuart's satnav had said it was 2 hours 40 minutes for his journey home, so I think that is a record, well done Stuart and it is comforting to read that you had a good journey back. Nobody is local so you all deserve a pat on the back, not a cow pat though!

 

Thanks for coming, being great company and good drivers, hope to see you all next time xxxxx

 

 

 

[NigelO]

Seems I missed a good day out - the downside of Saturday jobs....

 

@IanK (Bagpuss) - you might have sorted your rad, dash, EWP, throttle cable and gear selector, but you seem to have mislaid your front numberplate 🙄

[Weekend Warrior]

12 minutes ago, NigelO said:

Seems I missed a good day out - the downside of Saturday jobs....

 

@IanK (Bagpuss) - you might have sorted your rad, dash, EWP, throttle cable and gear selector, but you seem to have mislaid your front numberplate 🙄

There’s a reason for that  he was at the back and didn’t want to get done for loitering. 😂

[Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO]

24 minutes ago, NigelO said:

Seems I missed a good day out - the downside of Saturday jobs....

 

@IanK (Bagpuss) - you might have sorted your rad, dash, EWP, throttle cable and gear selector, but you seem to have mislaid your front numberplate 🙄

Damm, there's always something you forget to put back on...................................

 

[BillyPee]

Huge thanks to @Julie Hall - Peak District AO for another well organised run out in the Peaks and to everyone else who made it so enjoyable. 👍

[rjc4176]

Thanks for a great day nice to do a few miles in the car surrounded by good company 

[Chris Emm]

Cracking day. Cheers folks and thanks for the ‘good luck’ wheel arch splashes of poooh!!!

[aeg]

Well @Julie Hall - Peak District AO after looking at your great day out yesterday we had to go it alone today in the hunt for cake, mission successful 😋 glad you all had a fab day hopefully catch up next time Andy & Becky