MELBOURNE MONTHLY CRUISE - First weekend each month!

[Buller_Scott]

It'll be interesting to see how many rock up this Sunday I guess..

how do you mean? i cant view the link - are there going to be lots of people, or few people?

[N V]

Here is what I posted...

Is it fair to say that the "1st weekend VW cruise" is dying a slow death?

During this 2013-'14 spring/summer period, we're lucky to get numbers worthy of a trip and so now that it's coming into winter... well... you don't even get posts in this forum anymore. Fortunately vwwatercooled is more active.

Added to this are people starting up other endeavours (I know of WaterCooled forum's Monday meets, Friday nights, WestSide meets and now coffee meets), and I'm sure people's activities of selling cars and moving around has also had an impact.

Is it time to rethink the future "get togethers" of the Melbourne VW community as a whole? because presently there seems to a lack of interest for this event and and movement toward having various event types throughout the year.

Anyone wish to comment? or discuss?

I think it would be sad for this event to fully die as I really do enjoy getting together and having a chat over breaky about all-things VW.

I also don't know what the solution is.

Perhaps before any discussion of solution or ideas, I think it would be good to get a baseline of just how many people are actually interested in getting together in the first place.
If it's a low number – well then I guess it speaks for itself...
If it's a high number, then that suggests it's worth tabling some ideas.

Are moderators able to help here with any stats about who visits certain [VIC] related Event posts?

I'm not wanting a flame war either, I'm just curious if anything is thinking what I'm thinking...

thoughts anyone?

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there's few responses so far over at the other forum...

[Buller_Scott]

right, gotcha.

i think that there are people out there who do enjoy the pleasure of driving, i certainly know that i loved going to the first of the month drives.

but i think that as time passes, people have lost interest (going by your post - not dissimilar to the melbourne westside meets, last time i checked), and perhaps a VAG only first of the month isnt the kind of direction that would see decent numbers rocking up - same cars, same route, same same.

admittedly, it's a fantastic route - safe, gorgeous corners, fulfilling... i dunno, maybe people are also a bit wary of all the tour de france dudes practicing for the giro d'italia every weekend up in the hills.

i think that there might have to be a big pool of people involved, so that even if numbers are little from each group, there's still a decent turnout each time - cue james' (waterboy) aussie hot hatch facebook page - maybe make it about a genre, rather than just a single breed/ family?

it'd probably be easy to get nicer numbers if this was opened up to other groups (e.g. VIC imports club), but then you'd also have the "that kind of person" factor to deal with (yes, it does take a certain kind of person to hang out in their grey import/ falcodore at the sunshine maccas parking lot on a saturday night, we all know this).

how many people are you looking for at these meets? is it more about 10+ cars, or are people just as happy if it's only like 3 cars?

[Swainey32]

I'll come along this time finally no plans tomorrow, excellent! see you bright and early at knox.

[Deadpool]

Looks like it's gonna be pissing down tomorrow, hope the weather clears up.

[Swainey32]

says 0-2mm on bom which isnt much

[N V]

well,

My Mrs in the recently upgraded Supercharged MK5 R32 and me in my MK5 R32 are rocking up, so am looking forward to the cruise, good company and decent coffee at Warburton.

[Swainey32]

Cheers for the cruise today, was a good run, will be attending more of these. Cross my fingers no snow next time haha

[nomadx38]

Here are some photos from the cruise today. If your not comfortable about your No. Plate been shown let me know and I shall remove it

Enjoy and thank you guys for the epic day!

[tomd3969]

Anyone know if a cruise is happening this weekend - I assume its this weekend as the 1st june falls on the Sunday?

Looks like Saturday may be the pick, rain developing in the arvo.