Poll: RR10 - When do you lot want it?

[[TW]Fox]

So, they're fine to drive 30 miles-ish to Eurospec instead of the 100 miles to PS. Where members from the North have to drive 230 miles instead of the 150 miles to Powerstation.

Yeah, that's really fair.

Would you rather drive 150 miles to a meet of 10 people or 230 miles to a proper meet?

 

[cymatty]

My concern is that clearly the support you feel is there for PS simply isn't. I have attended every single RR day yet last years - the only one we had - was very quiet. A change of venue is perhaps needed to shake things up?

I agree there is no point organising one if no one is going to turn up. However there is also no point changing location to get a few people back if we lose half the people from up north who were going to turn up.

At the moment though no one is doing anything we are just going round in circles and at this rate any people who were interested will have dozed off as this thread has been going for 6 months.

I would love to start a thread to see what support there is for a powerstation meet at the end of April at least that is moving the thing forward. However I don't want to step on peoples toes who have already said they will organise it, I just wish they would do something as it appears they haven't in the last month.

 

[[TW]Fox]

I guess you've nothing to lose by doing that. Last weekend in April so 24th April? The next weekend is a bank hol weekend so I doubt many people will want that.

 

[cymatty]

this is usually the way it goes.

The RR days only happen when somebody stands up, organizes it and says "its here, on this day, deal with it" and gives everybody plenty of notice.

If you try and gather oppinion as to the best location, it turns out like the OcUK motors karting meet. Ie it never happens because everybody argues about which venue it should be.

I am trying to do this, people have seen that I am more than capable of organisng a meet, but I am aware some people will say no due to strange principle just to make it look a bad idea or just to be awkward.

Then we will be back to square 1.

 

[cymatty]

I guess you've nothing to lose by doing that. Last weekend in April so 24th April? The next weekend is a bank hol weekend so I doubt many people will want that.

Well either then or the weekend after the Bank Hols, I don't want to start with a definite date in case this is not available.

 

[-Ad-]

Eurospec sounds good to me.

Can have a chat with Romain about an ECU switch and custom remap for the Teg

 

[Fr0dders]

Eurospec sounds good to me.

Can have a chat with Romain about an ECU switch and custom remap for the Teg

its almost certainly going to be powerstation since the only one willing to organize it doesnt want to go there as it will rule out a large contingent of north members (like me) who will find their drive time down to eurospec increase to nearly 4 hours

8 hour round trip for a meet is a bit much, for anybody else except RoverDieselLover416i or whatever his name is

 

[cymatty]

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18120173

There, this is my last throw of the dice.

Shall I put your name down fox?

 

[agw_01]

Would you rather drive 150 miles to a meet of 10 people or 230 miles to a proper meet?

I'd rather do neither and get cymatty to do the driving

I don't think two meets a year is a good idea, that's where the interest really seems to die off. I certainly wouldn't drive down for a meet later in the year if I'd already been to the previous one.

However, how about one meet at PS and one at Eurospec. The southern members can do whatever they want at Eurospec and the Northern/Mids members (and those southerners who aren't too far away) can have a meet at PS.

Failing that, let's get back to arguing until we're all blue in the face.

 

[[TW]Fox]

I don't think two meets a year is a good idea, that's where the interest really seems to die off

How did you work that out? Last year was the first time we'd only done ONE meet and it was the first time the turnout was poor.

 

[ScoobyDoo69]

Sorry but how does a change of location for a RR meet make any difference?! If you are one of those people who won't come to PS but would go to Eurospec, why? What is so much different? You have to travel, you have to watch some cars, you then go for a drive, and the pub or something, why is it more interesting to you than doing it at PS?

40min for me vs 2hours 30 to Eurospec, making PS a cheaper day, but probably exactly the same as it would be at Eurospec, therefore, surely the most central location is the best?

 

[cymatty]

Sorry but how does a change of location for a RR meet make any difference?! If you are one of those people who won't come to PS but would go to Eurospec, why? What is so much different? You have to travel, you have to watch some cars, you then go for a drive, and the pub or something, why is it more interesting to you than doing it at PS?

40min for me vs 2hours 30 to Eurospec, making PS a cheaper day, but probably exactly the same as it would be at Eurospec, therefore, surely the most central location is the best?

Get your name down in the thread then.

 

[agw_01]

How did you work that out? Last year was the first time we'd only done ONE meet and it was the first time the turnout was poor.

It wasn't poor at all. Go and look at the pictures, there were at least 20 cars. I alone had 2 passengers. It seemed as busy as ever.

 

[[TW]Fox]

20 cars in total - usually we had 20 RUNNERS alone. It was very quiet - the topic of conversation in the carpark was dominated by 'is this.. it?'

 

[Fuzz]

Was it more because everyone had been on before too many times and had done their modifications, so just came to watch?

 

[Freefaller]

I'm tempted to just close this and ask someone to start a new thread as this hasn't really got anywhere has it?

Edit: Just seen Cymatty's thread. I'll close this thread.