******Strata Weekend 2012 REVIEW ********

Comments and pictures on the weekend here guys, hope you had a great time :thumbup:

Arrived, crashed into a local, got p1ssed, went to bed. Result

Welcome back guys :thumbup:

What SI? No singing? :lol:

Cheeers
Roo

Weve been, weve seen, we almost conquered......

Sorry Full report to follow.
Thanks to colley for the great routes, and everyne for the great company.

And a big thanks to all those that worked on my car when I arrived. For the Lights and doing them with great humour and for the wheel bearing.

I will be back to write a full report.

Cheers All

Steve

What a weekend

I would like to thank everyone who attended and made it the weekend it was. The whether was like a box chocolates as we didn't no what we was going to get :lol:

However this did not impact on the weekend at all.
The lanes throughout the weekend was was great with strata being the main event which did not disappoint. I have loads and loads of videos and will post them once they upload, which will be sometime next week as my internet connection is so slow :lol:

There was no AA trucks need throughout the weekend as everyone set off for home under there own steam

However there was breakages and some small repairs needed throughout the weekend. This included mine.
Once again i would like to thank everyone for attending and will post some pics and videos later

What an AMAZING weekend, awsome lanes, stunning scenery, brilliant company just a shame about the weather, but strangely that probably made it better :thumbup:

!! Best part of it for me tho was getting air leaving the bomb hole!!! :dance:

(even if it disfigured my arse end!) and didnt get stuck once! :dance:

Massive thanks to you all and bring on the next one! (Dont worry il leave the idiot at home next time! :wink:

)

Thats it then mate, you got yourself a co-pilot!! :lol:

Hes ok, just not 24hrs a day! the smell of lager in the truck all day kinda puts you off, especially if its comin from a dribbling idiot shoutin down the cb every 2 mins! :oh yer:

Im sure youll see him again tho! :lolno:

Here are some pics

Not many as i took mainly video footage

Great Photos there Colly :clap:

Countryside looks lovely :dance:

The 2nd photo down, the Fronty which number plate aint correct, watch out you don't get a fix penalty fine with that :wink:

Cheers
Roo

WHAT A WEEKEND :!:

Massive thankyou to Ste for organising a fantastic weekend :thumbup:

and was good to meet some new people :wave:

so i can now put names and faces to usernames

well as for pictures and vids here they are but have loaded up backwards again!!(the videos do load they just take a while!)

http://s811.photobucket.com/albums/zz39 ... TA%202012/

enjoy!! Theres 15 vids and 300+ photos not been sorted either

Some great videos there Scott. :thumbup:

Hope you get your truck sorted today, hopefully it's not a big job.
It was good to meet you and the others and put names to faces.

When we all going back :thumbup:

Great stuff Scott! :thumbup:

Cant wait for the DVD now! :mrgreen:

I'll do my right up a bit later but that was a storming weekend. Well donw to Colley for organising a great trip.

I'd like to make a video of the weekend can everybody please use

https://www.wetransfer.com/

And upload their footage the recipients address will be

tom.meeson1@hotmail.co.uk

*mods i dont mind it being on here

Cheers guys look forward to seeing what you have shot!

Already put most on youtube Tom

Here's a few, more to follow.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEC414E4513018564

Superb weekend, company and lanes. Thanks again to Steve for organising it. The campsite setting (20 feet from the River Wye) was superb. The campsite didn't charge me for the kids which was an added bonus :thumbup:

Friday.
Arrived at the site in good time , caravan set up in 15 mins with the kettle on. Happy Days
Popped into Rhayader for some supplies and pulled out into the road and was swiped by a Ford Focus. A tiny scuff mark to both our cars, but no doubt that's the end of my no claims bonus :roll:

Had a few drinkies at the site whilst the sun was shining , then had a few of the lads around to the caravan for a few more :thumbup:

Saturday.
Felt a bit guilty waking up in a heated caravan when I saw Tom's face and had to listen to him telling me about ice on the inside of his tent :problem:

Not guilty enough to swap places with him though :lol:

We split into two groups and Colleys group set off first , which is a good result as we (me) are always slow to get going in the morning. Added to that the 3 month old alternator on the Troop started playing silly buggers so a jump start was needed.
Did some cracking lanes including Strata without any issues , other than nicking Dave's battery. (Cheers bud) Met some more Frontera's on route which was a suprise. Especially when I realised one of them was Postfinder (dissapointingly not on his scooter) Must say I was uber impressed with the Trooper on tiny wheels/tyres (70/15's) and no lift of any sort, it took all of Strata in it's stride.
After nearly 10 hours on the road I was knackered, the kids were asleep in the back of the car on the way back :lol:

Got to the carvan and put a DVD on and nearly fell asleep myself. We were all wiped out from a great day.

Sunday.
Yet again we (me) were late leaving due to me not prepared to miss my full fry up and the fact the girls were still asleep :-/
Did some superb lanes, which in my opinion were as good as Strata if not better which was a suprise. Had a couple of minor incidents. Two vehicles needed to be towed out . First was Dave's 2.8, second was Matt's Disco (Insert laughing smiley here). My Troop also lacked forward movement for a second, but matt and Stevd leaned on it and away it went :thumbup:

On the final lane (another cracker) one of my copper brake hoses decided to explode which was annoying. But credit to the lads they swarmed over the Troop and with some crimping and hammering of brake lines I was good to go again. Such a good job that I was able to tow the caravan all the way home without any issues. Nice one fella's :thumbup:

So all in all a superb weekend.

Thanks (in no particular order) to :
Colley for organising and the routes
My group for their very impressive rednecking skills
John for all the gate opening
My rugrats for all the gate closing
Export for taking over the annoying drunkard position from me , giving me a weekend off :clap:

And everyone else for making it a cracking weekend for myself and the girls. :thumbup:

Nice pics and videos everyone

Here are a few of mine :wink:

enjoy

http://s663.photobucket.com/albums/uu358/colley_2009/strata%202012/

Looks like a super cool trip there guys :thumbup:

Cracking pics and vids