Blackpool?

Any of you lot fancy a wee trip south for a night out in Blackpool

Trying to generate a bit of interest from down south so depending on this from both ends a date could be set

could be interested. sort it all out and tell me what date and ill see if i can get a sitter

I could be up for that, what date r u planning mac?

Ah the 5th November,I'm on holiday the fortnight before but should be back in time for this.

If its an overnighter I'd prefer to go down sat, - - - , pleasure beach-illumination ride then shoot up the road sunday night .

However if everyone else prefers to go down sunday and back monday I'll just get up really early and blat straight to work on the monday morning.

Yeah I could be up for that.

Any dates in mind?

me too depending on date, tis been almost 9 years since I was last there

let me know the proposed date and is it 1 or 2 nights ?

Hopefully to join in with the parade on the 5th Nov--------------see Pennine entry re
Mrs Fud

I would probably ride up and stay either the Sat or Sun night depending which fits in with everybody elses plans

I was thinking Travelodge[Family room] and sharing £56/4=£14 PER HEAD

We might need to get numbers organised for this soon mac in order to get rooms, etc, dont know how busy the place will be on the last night. Can we find out from a local if we are going to strugle for accomodation etc?
So Ecosse peeps, we probably need to decide and confirm soon. Worst case scenario it'll only cost £15 (room booking) if we pull out later.

Was quiet at work this morning so here, meekly submitted for your learned perusal is a wee (very rough ) route, someone with autoroute can come up with a polished version or tell me to bin this entirely.

Meet at Cumbernauld (central)
A73 - Newmains - Carluke, A724 - Carstairs, A70 - Carnwath, B7016 Libberton - Biggar, A702 / A72 Skirling, A701 - Moffat (fuel and food) (Depending on weather and feeling we can hit M74 -M6- M55 straight to Blackpool or)
M74- Carlisle, A595 - Bothel, A591 - Keswick - Windermere, A592 Newby Bridge(fuel and food), A590 / A6 Carnforth - Lancaster,(again motorway option here) A588 - Colkerham - Hambleton, A585 Es*****, M55 Blackpool.
Using my map and slide rule I reckon this is about 250 miles so probably about 6 hrs inc stops where as the motorway route is roughly 205 so probably just over 3 hours, but getting there is half the fun.

If its decent weather this should be a good run, if its poor then the direct motorway route is always an option and if its really bad I'd imagine our numbers would dwindle rapidly

Might be up for this...

Be good to go back down and savour the smell of chips again.

Count me in, I would prefer go down Saturday and back Sunday too. Avoiding the motorways wherever possible sounds good.

****e, thats the last weekend of the brum bike show, take its defo that date ?