Seeing as I can't add public events to the calendar

A gentle drive through mid-Wales to assess suitable roads for the meets in July and September.

Anyone welcome, but bear in mind it may be a bit stop start as we'll be making notes as we go (eg cautions for nasty crests which may take the sump off your pride and joy).

I imagine we'll start about 9am, longest rooute so far is just under 200 miles, shortest is about 140.

PM me if you fancy coming along and I'll let you know where

Time to go outside and scare the normal people Aye did that last night, scared myself aswell, should be a good reccie, maybe if enough appear run the variants and converge to collect views

This is still going to happen, so if anybody else is wanting to come along fora drive on saturday let me know, will supply contact numbers etc.

OK, I have come up with what looks like a nice route on paper (well I actually have 1 main and 3 variants off it) Trouble is I keep spotting old favorites and modifying the route to include them, damn I hate OS maps, so many memories

The route starts and finishes at the same place. It includes about 50 miles of A roads, 80 miles B roads, and about 30-40 miles of C/unclassifieds. These are all over 4m wide according to the OS and there is only 1 stretch of B road (about 2 - 3 miles) which is narrow(passing places). The route includes quite a few twisty bits, some slightly faster bits, plenty of photo stops if thats your thing oh and the odd hairpin . There are also a number of pubs along the route and several ice cream van stops. So far I've counted 3 Shell stations either on or just off the route. Just need to check Optimax availability.

I have programmed the route into the sat-nav and it looks pretty good (even though it doesn't know about the forest drive through Dyfi forest

As I said before, it may be a bit disjointed as we need to get the junction tulips right to make it easier for the real thing. I reckon it'll take about 4 hours to drive the route, + a lunch stop (and possibly an ice-cream call or 2!).

Any takers let either myself or Colin know and we'll send you the start location

It's my wedding anniversary "unfortunately" but sounds like you will have fun. BTW why "tulip" ?

That's what the little arrow diagrams of junctions are called. No idea as to the history of them, but would hazard a guess that it was developed by one of clog wearing breathren or possibly because they look like tulips.

Legend has it they were originally used on the Tulip Rally in Holland... so RS is correct!