Off Road Driving Day - Bordon, Hampshire
MarkHTL
Common on Sunday 10 October from 10.00 til 16.00.
All types of terrain from easy to totally imposible (if this rain keeps up).
All routes are maned by club members who will give plenty of help, advise or
abuse acording to your driving style!
It is open to all types of Off Road Vehicles - so come along and squash a
Suzuki or two.
Cost -£15uk per vehicle & 1 driver - £2uk per addiional driver. Passenger free.
Broxhead Common can be found on the A325 just north of Bordon, Hampshire.
Map Ref SU 798372 - Landranger sheet 186, Explorer sheet 133
Be there or have a clean vehicle monday morning!!!!!!!!!!!
chris
Hants/Berks? I live in Alton and the AWDC is a bit remote....
Cheers... Chris
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Emma van Rixtel
I live in between Egham (Surrey) and Maidenhead (Berks) - does anyone have
the membership/contact details for a suitable owners club in this region?
Thanks
Emma
chris wrote in message <7t4br1$bvr$1...@news4.svr.pol.co.uk>...
>Sounds good, may get there if I can... but got membership details for
>Hants/Berks?
>Cheers... Chris
>
MarkHTL
Membership can be aranged on the day. Any excuse to get more money off you!
If you can not get there (must be all of 5 miles) try contacting Alan Smith on
01252 668403 or see the club web page at www.4x4web.co.uk/hbro for details.
NOTE that there is a new web site underconstruction which will be on line soon
at www.HBRO.co.uk. See you Sunday - White(ish) SV90 lookalike.
Regards - Mark
nobby_no_mates
->Chris - & anyone else.
->Membership can be aranged on the day. Any excuse to get more money off you!
->If you can not get there (must be all of 5 miles) try contacting Alan Smith
on
->01252 668403 or see the club web page at www.4x4web.co.uk/hbro for details.
->NOTE that there is a new web site underconstruction which will be on line
soon
->at www.HBRO.co.uk. See you Sunday - White(ish) SV90 lookalike.
->Regards - Mark
->
Can anyone turn up and play regardless of club membership and vehicle type ?
--
Nobby
MarkHTL
north wales. HBRO are mostly a competitive club mostly in RTV trials - many of
which involve camping/caravaning at the sites, often there is a disco and/or
ba-b-q involved. Green laning is now getting more active with new officers
running monthly(ish) outings. If interested come to the driving day at Broxhead
Common and meet us - see Off Road Driving Day thread and messages for more
details. Otherwise try club listings in the LR mags
Happy Rovering
Mark
MarkHTL
Yes - it is open to anyone, but I think that there is a 3 ton MAXIMUM weight
limit - so no heavy metal. Also there might be a MINIMUM tyre size limit -
nothing smaller than say 15" road tyres - depending on the weather before hand.
See you there
Mark
nobby_no_mates
->Nobby
->Yes - it is open to anyone, but I think that there is a 3 ton MAXIMUM
weight
->limit - so no heavy metal. Also there might be a MINIMUM tyre size limit -
->nothing smaller than say 15" road tyres - depending on the weather before
hand.
3 ton max ? I thought the army used it for playing in tanks ? Anyway whatever
I turn up in will be less then 3 tons and will have 15" wheels, the tyres
will be bigger :-)
->See you there
->Mark
All being well.
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Nobby
The Cunning Linguist
MarkHTL <mar...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Hants & Berks Rover Owners Club are running an Off Road Driving Day at
Broxhead
> Common on Sunday 10 October from 10.00 til 16.00.
> All types of terrain from easy to totally imposible (if this rain keeps
up).
> All routes are maned by club members who will give plenty of help, advise
or
> abuse acording to your driving style!
> It is open to all types of Off Road Vehicles - so come along and squash a
> Suzuki or two.
> Cost -£15uk per vehicle & 1 driver - £2uk per addiional driver. Passenger
free.
> Broxhead Common can be found on the A325 just north of Bordon, Hampshire.
> Map Ref SU 798372 - Landranger sheet 186, Explorer sheet 133
>
> Be there or have a clean vehicle monday morning!!!!!!!!!!!
Can non 4X4ers come along for a watch? I'm considering getting into this
lark but want to get an idea what I'm letting myself in for........
rix...@my-deja.com
> Can non 4X4ers come along for a watch? I'm considering getting into
> this lark but want to get an idea what I'm letting myself in for..
Is this also suitable for complete beginners in attempt to learn how to
drive my 4x4 off road??
If so, when would be the best time given that it is a long day 10-6pm..?
Thanks
Emma
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Before you buy.
MarkHTL
by foot else someone will try to extract money from you!!!!!!!!!
We get quite a few spectators - so come along and have a chat, and see why we
all spend so much time repairing our Land Rovers.
Regards
Mark
PS Wear wellies or decent walking boot cos we like MUD - and it gets
everywhere.
MarkHTL
A good place to come and get used to your 4x4. Plenty of marshals around to
give advise and help. Much better than going it alone - or going to some of the
commercial sites, where in my experience help is few and far between. There is
an easy course all the way round with harder sections looping off for the
brave, experienced or fool hardy.
Try to miss the early rush and the quagmire towards the end of the day - it can
get rather cut up. I would say 11.30 till you get fed up. It can take about 45
mins to do a full circuit. longer if you stop to watch the hard sections.
watching is also a good way to learn.
See you there.
Mark
White(ish) SV90 Look-alike (ie American soft top on caged 90)
PS Most 4x4s will give up long after the driver. Just go for it.
rix...@my-deja.com
emailing you to say I couldn't attend) and everyone else from HBRO who
organised this event.
Having owned my Series III (109) for a whole week(!) and have never
driven a 4x4 ever - I was a bit skeptical about taking it along given
that we bought it as a towing vehicle only - but it sounded like too
much fun to not try it. Everyone was just SO friendly and helpful. I
turned up knowing nothing and came away having learnt a great deal in a
very short time as well as a few basic observations of my own:
1. NEVER leave home in LR without rags, water and basic toolkit :-)
2. If going off roading - take wellies!
Drove the 30 miles there - no problem. Got there mid afternoon and
stayed till it started to wind down (despite being advised to go
earlier rather than later when it would be really cut up). I parked
outside whilst I decided what I wanted to do - but that was it, the
minute I mentioned that I *might* go round, anyone within earshot was
straight over encouraging me to take the plunge. They quickly checked
out my tyres and explained that they were a little on the small size -
but would get round, and I might find that being a LWB would have a few
problems. Eeek - time to pull out....
They mumbled something about free wheeling hubs to be tightened (or is
it loosened) - god knows what these do anyway? I knew I should have
read up about this, but oh well, everyone sorted me out and made me
feel very much at ease. And up into 4-wheel drive we went...
Everything from that point onwards happened SO fast. Luckily I asked if
someone would come round with me to show me how to drive the course -
which was just as well, having been round now (what they call easy) I
would never have done it on my own..
Luckily only got stuck the once - and was towed out rather efficiently
by some stewards standing nearby. THen on we went. Unfortunately, we
only got a 1/3rd of the way round, my LR could cope no more - and
overheated :( At which point I decided to call it a day and just watch
everyone else.
All in all I was chuffed to bits. The car is 25 years old, and for the
past 14 years I know it has never been off-road yet it looked after me
and gave me an exhilarating ride. So much fun I had, that I was really
disappointed to have to get into my sports convertible this morning
after a fun packed weekend in an old LandRover :(
Everyone checked back with me afterwards to ensure that I enjoyed it,
and to make sure I had enough water, to loosen (or is it tighten) my
fwh's and see us on our way.
So thank you again everyone at HBRO (so exciting, forgot to get
anyone's name) but I had so much fun. It was brilliant. I'm hooked..
When's the next one?
Emma
In article <19990930113843...@ngol06.aol.com>,
mar...@aol.com (MarkHTL) wrote:
> Hants & Berks Rover Owners Club are running an Off Road Driving Day
at Broxhead
> Common on Sunday 10 October from 10.00 til 16.00.
Paul Hawkins
<rix...@my-deja.com> wrote in message news:7tsuh2$umf$1...@nnrp1.deja.com...
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>
> When's the next one?
There is another event at Broxhead common, near Farnham, on 20th
November organised by a different club but all welcome.
Also look at the newsgroup uk.rec.cars.4x4 there are quite a few
events advertised there.
Paul
Patrick Manuel
(following the Off-Roading Log link). Excellent fun and better than the
last time I was there. I must do something about the brakes though - that
glop at Broxhead eats up linings like they were going out of style.
(I don't normally cross-post but there is a Broxhead thread running on
uk.rec.cars.4x4 so I have posted this reply there as well, apologies if
you see it twice)
I did have a name but now I'm only an email address ...
... and a web page http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/patrick_manuel