MELBOURNE MONTHLY CRUISE - First weekend each month!

[bluefrog]

- ROUTE UPDATE - The Big Mama

ok, just for something different for all the hill-whores out there to try, I've updated the route for Sunday 6 November. All roads are sealed.

Starting point is now Knox shopping centre, and we'll meet up slightly earlier at say 8am, departing at 8:15am. If you miss the meet, just head to Gembrook and you'll find us all in a carpark on the west side of the train station.



starting here:



and some pics of the brilliant section of road between Warburton and Marysville : )

[Coralon]

Oh yeah definately in on this. Should have some new rubber to scrub in as well as a new exhaust note to soothe the wildlife

[bluefrog]

awesome, bring it on I say!

on the topic of exhaust notes .. the look on a few of the locals' faces as John's beast and the two R32's went past on Sunday was absolutely priceless!!

[DNA Tuning]

Ha, cheers Todd. Sadly I can't hear much of my exhaust in the car normally; though that's good for a daily I guess!

Your R goes hard; and very composed stable through the twisty stuff. Sweet ride! It'll be interesting to be following a wagon at our next drive =).

[kaanage]

- ROUTE UPDATE - The Big Mama

ok, just for something different for all the hill-whores out there to try, I've updated the route for Sunday 6 November. All roads are sealed.

That's basically the Polo cruise route that we did on Sept 3rd, put together by gavs. It's good but can get crowded as the weather gets better. Get going even earlier if possible.

[delxa]

I hope my R is delivered in time for this one!!! Won't be able to hammer it but will be great to start getting involved.

[bluefrog]

never know delxa you might be lucky and get it in time, I'll give you a 60/40 chance ; )

John I think I'll need to do this one in the R and enjoy wonders of AWD .. also I just had whiteline bushes installed on the R and can't feel a damn thing different so far, so this next cruise will still be in the R but hopefully with better cornering speeds

at least by December I'll have the Octavia's stock wheels replaced for the full black on black

[ZIO]

would love to get involved when I actually get the damn thing delivered.... probably ages away haha. (Still don't know)

[DNA Tuning]

The last turnout was amazing, and everyone was as keen as each other when it comes to attacking those hills; and it looks like we're generating more interest - looking forward to the next one! The new route looks good too, and I will have my GPS next time so I don't mislead people, ha.

Todd, the swaybar will be noticeable when you start loading the car up with lateral G's; it will be more crashy when cornering over bumps and so on but the benefits are worth it.

[bluefrog]

Just a thought for the November cruise .. the Targa High Country is on the same weekend around Mansfield and Mt Buller. Those that are keen to check it out can head to Mansfield once we get to Marysville (1.5hr drive).

We would need to get to Mansfield before 12pm cause the road up the mountain closes between 12 and 5:30pm. The targa cars then line up at the base of Mt Buller and go up one at a time at 30sec intervals, which provides a steady stream of cars for at least 1 hour, possibly 1.5hrs, up near the finish line at the top of Mt Buller. Apparently they're typically doing excess of 200kph as they pass the buller carparks.

If there's enough peeps interested we would change departure to 7:30am (meet at 7:20) and remove Olinda/Monbulk from the route to make sure that we get there in time.

After the Sunday race all the cars drive through the village square for the ceremony (v's Saturday where they all line up along Summit Rd for spectators to walk past and drool over)

The entrant list is here: http://targahighcountry.com.au/HighC...trantlist.html

Check out the rally-chick vid (one benefit I guess would be that the female co-driver's navigation would be understood! ; )



.. Dean's R (Volkspower) is shown here at 6:57: