Events that should exist

[ravenbait]

There must be a 200km route visiting some Pictish Stones you could call the Glamis Rockers.

Sam

[cygnet]

There should be a South London version. 24 hours from Tulse Hill.  Come on Audax Club Hackney, that's got you name all over it.

That was a Carter USM track…

*cough* 24 minutes from Tulse Hill

I found myself discussing Carter at the end of the ACME R&R when one of the riders had one of their T-shirts on.

24hrs from Tulse Hill will make a good future Arrow though. Fruitbat was a bit of a keen cyclist, he might have ridden for a local club

[FifeingEejit]

There must be a 200km route visiting some Pictish Stones you could call the Glamis Rockers.

Sam

You know, all the names of my events have been nicked from other people, need to find some Pictish stones now.

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[ravenbait]

There must be a 200km route visiting some Pictish Stones you could call the Glamis Rockers.

Sam

You know, all the names of my events have been nicked from other people, need to find some Pictish stones now.

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https://ridewithgps.com/routes/44645372?privacy_code=SCemM2bsJ1q8vh75fERTS8jXIocbX6D6

Sam

[FifeingEejit]

Ah you're a step ahead of me nicking the name   

[ravenbait]

I'm not nicking the name when I came up with it! I'm not sure that route works -- I only know some of the roads -- but I thought it might be a nice starter for 10 given that it starts at Dundee train station. Feel free to nab and amend it.

Sam

[FifeingEejit]

A step ahead as in you have the stones and thus a route (it's pretty usable, few tweaks I'd do)

[ravenbait]

A step ahead as in you have the stones and thus a route (it's pretty usable, few tweaks I'd do)

  Tweak away! I considered sending it up Drumtochty to go past the relatively obscure one in St Palladius's Church, but that climb from Clatterin Brig is a bastard and I don't like hills.

Sam

[CarlF]

I reckon you could make a matching 400 by not heading over the hills at Abernyte but instead extending via Forteviot, Dunning, Fowlis Wester and Fortingall (and there's probably somewhere else I'm not thinking of that you could take in on the way back from Fortingall to the stone at Keillor )

[Flite]

I'd like to steal a name from my mis-spent younger days when there was a car rally called "The Everyhope"
It would include several of the highest tarmac public through roads in England (so you wouldn't have to go up Gt Dun Fell).
A look at the OS map of the Durham Dales area will explain all.
Just enter one of Andy Berne's audax for the full experience.

[ravenbait]

I reckon you could make a matching 400 by not heading over the hills at Abernyte but instead extending via Forteviot, Dunning, Fowlis Wester and Fortingall (and there's probably somewhere else I'm not thinking of that you could take in on the way back from Fortingall to the stone at Keillor )

Struan, the Priest's Stone at Pitlochry, Dunfallandy, Logierait, and maybe you could squeeze in Gellyburn?

Sam

[FifeingEejit]

I'd like to steal a name from my mis-spent younger days when there was a car rally called "The Everyhope"
It would include several of the highest tarmac public through roads in England (so you wouldn't have to go up Gt Dun Fell).
A look at the OS map of the Durham Dales area will explain all.
Just enter one of Andy Berne's audax for the full experience.

I just googled that, first result was the Durham Auto Clubs facebook page as a post on it mentioned that, and their banner is my former driver (ok I only did a couple of events with him before my sinus problems at the time really got in the way, also he's been dead about 14 years now) and this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K4RtKPccOw

[drossall]

I've always thought that the Ugley Nasty rides should be revived, although I believe that the originals were a circular route from Stevenage.

Starting in the next town north and, like some other events, using the ferries, how about the Hitchin a Ryde?

Or, connect Christmas Common, beloved of south Chiltern events, with the hamlet of Cold Christmas, near Ware in Hertfordshire. The event could be the Christmas Wrapping or, less inspiringly, the Common Cold.

[Flite]

I just googled that, first result was the Durham Auto Clubs facebook page as a post on it mentioned that, and their banner is my former driver (ok I only did a couple of events with him before my sinus problems at the time really got in the way, also he's been dead about 14 years now) and this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K4RtKPccOw

Well that video was good few years after we decided we could no longer afford to go rallying.
When we competed, I seem to remember the Everyhope using white roads as special stages rather than forestry stages.
We did plenty of forest events as well. Mostly the Scottish National series - events like the Snowmans, Granite City, Saltire, Jim Clark, Red Hackle...

[peter simplex]

I've always thought that the Ugley Nasty rides should be revived, although I believe that the originals were a circular route from Stevenage.

Starting a little north of Nasty, a variant on the old Windsor-Windsor-Chester route to Moore:  the Cottered - Crank - Cottered  [600] Merseyside weekender. Suitable for riders of older machines.   I hope I'm not giving Lightning Phil ideas.

[FifeingEejit]

The Saltire was a St Andrews and district event back then, dad told me about hurtling round the farm roads of north Fife (a fair whack of the land owners were in the club) as time keeper with Andrew cowan in the driving seat, when we set up the first edition of the classic/targa.
Partly to calm me down after I forgot to call a bridge as he'd missed a call for an airy crest.

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[paddyirish]

You could also advertise it as the Stoner Hill 100

I once did a DIY that took me to Drinkers End and Druggers End (both in Herefordshire).

Drunken Drove, Great Massingham in Norfolk

[JellyLegs]

It would need some backtracking or comedy off road to avoid major A road sections but a 100km for Halloween only, starting somewhere around Chelmsford and taking in Broomfield, the blink and you missed it hamlet of Black Cat, High Wych and Eastwick?

[Lightning Phil]

I've always thought that the Ugley Nasty rides should be revived, although I believe that the originals were a circular route from Stevenage.

Starting a little north of Nasty, a variant on the old Windsor-Windsor-Chester route to Moore:  the Cottered - Crank - Cottered  [600] Merseyside weekender. Suitable for riders of older machines.   I hope I'm not giving Lightning Phil ideas.

An over distance 660km, you may as well make it 700km to bring the min speed down. Cottered does have a village hall as well. Thankfully for you, I already have an SR series running. No plans to add more events till I get bored with current ones.

[ravenbait]

The Saltire was a St Andrews and district event back then, dad told me about hurtling round the farm roads of north Fife (a fair whack of the land owners were in the club) as time keeper with Andrew cowan in the driving seat, when we set up the first edition of the classic/targa.
Partly to calm me down after I forgot to call a bridge as he'd missed a call for an airy crest.

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Sounds like something my parents would have been involved in. I have the odd fragment of memory of standing in a muddy field with Jim Cook singing the praises of his Ford Escort. That was around the time my dad was driving the 4WD Cortina.

Sam

[Cudzoziemiec]

You could also advertise it as the Stoner Hill 100

I once did a DIY that took me to Drinkers End and Druggers End (both in Herefordshire).

Drunken Drove, Great Massingham in Norfolk

Bad Massingham! Not great at all!

[drossall]

How about The Great Debate, running north and a little west from Plymouth? Compulsory coffee stop every time the border is crossed, to inform a vote at the end on whether the jam or the cream really should go on first?

[Lightning Phil]

The hunt for Nessie 1000. A one way from Lowestoft Ness to Loch Ness

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

An event that takes in Bignor Hill, to misquote a royal epithet that was probably never uttered.... Bugger Bignor.

[Flite]

The Saltire was a St Andrews and district event back then

Indeed it was. My abiding memory of the Saltire is tunnel vision in the dark along long,long straight forest roads in Tentsmuir. Followed by two 90⁰ turns and foot down for the next long straight. Well placed till we broke a wishbone.

driving the 4WD Cortina.

4x4 hadn't really arrived in rallying back then, but the rear-engined Hillman Imp had fantastic handling for the time.
Well it did when my husband was driving....