Green Laning Around Thetford Forest and Review

[BoxCleva]

What happened to foggys spotlights ?

[RatCav]

All in all a great day out ... even considering the mishap with the Clutch Slave Cylinder ... mind it was 21 years old and cannot really complain. Thumbs up to the RAC guy. Worked it out it was 1 hour and 40 mins from initial phone call till back on the road again. Cannot argue at that service. He did say he would try his best to get me rolling again as he was a green laner (albeit a motocross one) as well.

Big big big thank you to you guys for hanging around as well. I would of totally understood if you lot headed off as I wouldn't want me to ruin what was a brilliant days driving. All I can say is (quote from Fogman) "We ain't leaving a Fogger behind!!!" I think we have just started a new branch of "FOG Marines" lol.

Hipo ... thanks for organising it and working with Rob to plot the route (looking at the map you just posted we ceratinly covered some distance)

Thanks to Chloe (the wife) for providing some exceedingly good cakes ... and Rob for the picnic blanket ... and Fogman for the tea and coffee making facilities.

Highlights .... those massive divots where we all got some air .... the water splashes so we could act like big kids .... and especially the final night run in the dark through that really tight, twisty turny, lumpy bumpy railway embankment lane.

Will post the few pics I got this afternoon when I have edited out reg plates etc.

Chloe says:

I am glad you all enjoyed the cakes!

Thank you for MickH and Fogman for lettting her ride shotgun.

I thought your wheel would fall off through the divots.

The water splashes were my favourite bit.

My bum hurts after bouncing around all day long

[fudge]

but did I spot a haircut on the fudge....people will talk Matt, moved back to M&D's and new haircut...ie does your mummy cut your hair!!!????

no comment

but great fun, thanks to fogman for picking me up, even tho it seamed i could have done all that in mine with the front diff buggered.

here is my pic's and vids












and vids
https://picasaweb.google.com/the.toddy/Fronty#5585896651797128162
https://picasaweb.google.com/the.toddy/Fronty#5585895026661790658
https://picasaweb.google.com/the.toddy/Fronty#5585893995596451794

[hipo1024]

DAMN IT! I was hoping no one got a shot when I had my bonnet up! lol. Just a slight case of the rad fans wernt turning on so I just jumped the relay with some wire and went around the rest of the day with the fans on full tilt.

Here are my vids:








Looking forwards to the rest of the pics

[mickh]

Firstly thanks and well done to Dan for making this happen. It was good to meet some members and have a day playing at what we all enjoy. Between Rob and Dan they did a pretty good job of finding us places to go for quite a few hours,so may in fact that poor old Gary lost out on his fish and chips,although I don't think he would starve after the things he kept pulling out of that tardis of a food bag he had. Nice to have a couple of techy mechy peeps there in the guise of Neal and Fudge. Finally thanks to Chloe for bringing a couple of suitably decorated cakes along and some non techy conversation. Hope we can all meet again and have another go when theres some wet weather on the cards.

[andysd1]

dont mean to put a damper on things, but the video part 6, is that bit of track of the main track, as this would be classed as of peast,

[hipo1024]

from what we could make out from the map and the GPS, yes its the track and the other path is part of the forestry commission. Well thats what I understood it as being. And RatCav (who was acting as our legal advisor lol) gave it the go ahead . Sorry Neal, I dont mean to drop you in it there

[fogman]

got to say what an awesome day that was, so glad hipo suggested & got it running & thanks to him & rob who both went to long lengths to find all the good lanes as well as keeping us all legal throughout the day
the weather was excellent as was the company & ofcourse the wide & varied cake selection supplied by mrs RatCav [ chloe] although i think the extra weight bringing them was probably responsible for the trooppers breakdown by the way did anyone get a pic of me towing the trooper ? cos id like that as a new avatar & im also glad that i wasnt the only 1 with an xxl lunch box, despite what mick has said he can tuck it away

What happened to foggys spotlights ?

that was fudges doing the, 1 spotlight kept appearing & disapearing from my truck during the trip, think im gona call my truck cyclops now

im afraid i didnt get many pics as i was too busy enjoying myself so cheers to those that did

the mud looks like clay today & is well & truly baked on !
& is it just me thats got a neck ache from hell today ?

[fogman]

dont mean to put a damper on things, but the video part 6, is that bit of track of the main track, as this would be classed as of peast,

if you look at the 3rd & 4th pics in the post bobbins put up on page 2 andy i think we found the same spot that they did although from the opposite direction

[andysd1]

cool, no worries bud, just me being me, iv had it drummed in to me so much over the years,

[RatCav]

To be honest it was a bit vaugue as to which side was the route and which wasn't. We went with the fact that the other track was closer to the actual forest with all the forestry comission signs on so went on the other one ... well that was my conclusion anyways.

Oh and the decorated cakes:



Most of my pics were already reproced earlier. I however spent most of my time enjoying myself to take more. Chloe tried taking some but couldn't hold the camera still enough and they came out a bit too blurry

[fogman]

you cant tell from the pic but each cake had a fog members name on the top of it, you dont get that at other fog days out do you

can anyone tell me how many miles we did on the lanes please ?

[mickh]

Forgot to set the miles so can't help you there. More importantly what I would like to know is how many cakes did Fogman get through.

[RatCav]

.... and bananas .... and packets of crisps ....

[fogman]

in all honesty i thought i might fade away before i returned home through lack of food

zeroed my trip at start of day & clocked up 160 in total

[rospicer]

Great pics and vid's guys... Looks like you had a great time

[hipo1024]

can anyone tell me how many miles we did on the lanes please ?

from the meet point to the break point we did 36.7 miles. and I clocked up a total of about 170miles total cost of fuel was about £35 for all 170 miles....not too bad I guess. and no, sorry I didnt get a shot of you towning lol....you were too eager to get off I didnt get a chance to get the camera out lol . Altho when the rope snapped I didnt think you had killed your truck too it didnt fill me with much confidence, but as I said, it was only a snapped rope.

[RatCav]

I was going to say. Its roughly 60 miles from Fogmans to the Premier Inn ... thats 120 miles travel and 40 miles Green Laning. Not too shabby.

[fogman]

cheers dan, i estimated approx 40 miles on the lanes but that sounded a bit on the high side, i aint worked out my mpg yet, im too scared & broke to fill it up again

[hipo1024]

lol, I know the feeling well! we did do a fair amout of miles on the lanes I have to say! and all in all ending in the dark on that last lane just some how made the day complete! so Thank you Neal for breaking down, we might not have had the chance otherwise lol

Im looking forward to Robs vids from his incar camera!