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No probs. with Sat Navs on the RBRR- whatever gets you through the day/night, so to speak!

Lots of crews use sat navs and camera detectors. Useful as back up to the fully detailed road book.
Looking at the number of cameras present on the A68 (A1 just north of Scotch Corner to Edinburgh- a great road), its almost foolhardy not to use a detector-used by plod to raise revenue from the bikers who use that road.

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Tim provided postcodes for all of the stops last time precisely so that Tom Toms etc could be used.

I didn't need the roadbook or the TOM TOM to find my way as it was my 4th run in 2006

It was very good tho for giving an ETA and warning of "safety cameras" as Tim said

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And now RBRR 2002.

We used both of my cars - a Vitesse and the TR7. I spun the TR7 off the road at Oswestry, broke a valve spring on the Vitesse on Dartmoor and drove it back to the Plough on 5 cylinders before it came to a complete halt on the M1.

You can see the  TR pulling away to get to our hotel whilst I waited with the Vitesse for  the recovery truck

This was the weekend when I decided the TR7 really was "the shape of things to some"

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XtlAsoJredc

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Sorry for the quality. The co-driver got thrown around a bit... I might have to sort out some way of mounting a camera. Mute it to get rid of Steve's commentary if you like.


Stuck behind an idiot in a Merc;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK1kxzpgng4

After I'd gone past him (you can't beat a big convoy of Triumphs, one of my best memories of the event);
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iwc8r-P4-Q

Catching up to some saloons;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_rAAL1Bs1M

Being behind them (another great memory of the event for me!);
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r4W5phzCTc

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Yep. We followed him behind a saloon until the saloon pulled in and the Merc shot off. He kept riding on peoples arses but would never over take! Then he was behind that blue Spitfire for a while until I got fed up of his brakes lights always going on and blasted past both. Yours was the one with the waggin' blue tail? I was behind you for a while. If I knew it was you I'd have said hi.

I followed you a lot over the weekend and overtook you a few times. Did you notice my white 13/60? On the way to Land Ends I was behind you again but my car was feeling a bit sick so couldn't keep up.

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Here are the videos we captured from Car 66, the blue 2.5PI Mk1 (with the waggin' blue tail)

Start to Blythe Services
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifo34Rw60JY

Blythe Services to Edinburgh
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pE9NSasQcAw

John O'Groats to Conon Bridge Hotel
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqg-LdMruiM

Conon Bridge to Morrisons Garage
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SuNTbHmgBTA

Morrisons Garage to Lancaster Services
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7-YevvaKCI0

Lancaster Services to Gledrid Services
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cvdJBkEoJ4c

Land's End to Badgers Holt
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=a1eHEOO-6L0

Unfortunately due to a lack of electricity we weren't able to capture the entire 48 hours as planned. Will try harder next time!

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wasn't room in Katies  GT6 for a vid camera...having said that i did have a small camera that would have taken movie ...just never got round to it..and we did have sat nav ,as a back up only,  was handy when we had fuel finding probs and ended up a hour behind schedule..enabled us to cut and run and catch back up

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Dave was filming over Dartmoor but I never realised at the time and after making derogatory comments about a knob in a four wheel drive , driving with mobile phone in one hand, camera in the other hand and getting pickle out of a jar for his sandwich with a certain part of his anatomy, we decided not to show it! 😀

(But might if it meets demand  !)

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A bit late but finally uploaded the video we took of the 2010 RBRR; (On the Lands End to Scorrier section it might be possible to see a TR7 emerging from a hedge @ 0:33)
01 Start - Blyth - http://youtu.be/CN_fR_IhO8o
02 Blyth - Edinburgh - http://youtu.be/puO6RnvM_IU
03 Edinburgh - Skiach - http://youtu.be/usfmdDBAlE4
04 Skiach - John O'Groats - Conon Bridge - http://youtu.be/LmqM1VLHekM
05 John O'Groats - Conon Bridge - http://youtu.be/iv79jujH69Q
06 Conon Bridge - Stirling - http://youtu.be/U1oImP3o4wc
07 Stirling - Lancaster - http://youtu.be/EXxmeX9BUd4
08 Lancaster - Gledrid - http://youtu.be/f6vaH1Yq1YQ
09 Gledrid - Sugar Loaf - http://youtu.be/FGjyt4yB1Ps
10 Sugar Loaf - Gordano - http://youtu.be/0ZybZQ5rFIY
11 Gordano - Lands End - http://youtu.be/cpmpbrzXyNQ
12 Lands End - Scorrier - http://youtu.be/IABmeudqM6c
13 Scorrier - Bude - http://youtu.be/Nv6SqbU5QQM
14 Bude - Badgers Holt - http://youtu.be/iQmsim0aqEc
15 Badgers Holt - Pimperne - http://youtu.be/Urc4BTK2uhY
16 Pimperne - Didcot - http://youtu.be/du7GW4vfh8g
17 Didcot - Finish - http://youtu.be/9pPwZbf-Mr0

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Hello!

For those of you who don't know me, I was the tall, iPad-carrying, bespectacled bloke hanging around the Sixpenny Handley control.  I turned up in my BMW (sorry, no Triumph yet - long story) just after the control opened and promptly turned around to park elsewhere in the village, given that it was a busy car park!

Whilst I was there, I managed to take a bunch of video clips, just to give an impression of what it was like to see lots of Triumphs and tired crews, one of which is a short interview with Chatters and his beloved Acclaim:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X4GSxDxdhs

If you search for "RBRR 2012 Sixpenny Handley" you'll find the rest of them, 13 in all, or if you're having trouble, I'll post the links later.

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