Lincomb Autumn 2011

[Rob]

Of course Chris, Gav put in a great effort for the tyre pull and Halina was excellent at the water and croquet so could not have done it without them!

 

[Rob]

Some mighty fine parking:

Proof that trees always jump in the way when flooring it on the ball chalange, last time it was the rear, this time the front

Run Gav run!

Jim doing the tyre pull with awesome precision and speed:

Some flexing

 

[Lorin]

Superb weekend again. Huge thanks to Tony and everyone involved

I say it everytime but I'm already looking forward to the next one.

No major damage to report which is always good, few minor scrapes and dents.....

Driving home though it was evident that we had fairly substantial power loss. So I pulled over, stuck my head under the bonnet and let my technical ignorance and paranoia have full reign Having deduced that it must be something really bad (and totally unconnected) I gave Tony a call, who put me on to Ian, who put me on to Jon who sensitively corrected my illogical catastrophic reasoning I then drove home using all of the available 50bhp without an issue.

Could be the pump, or could be the turbo, but having calmed down a bit I reckon it might just be a fuel blockage but I'll update further once I know.

 

[Rob]

I reckon it might just be a fuel blockage but I'll update further once I know.

You have just reminded me that I have not changed my fuel filter since Russia and Mongolia I reckon I will gain a few hp when I change it

 

[Ben]

really was a great weekend, and beautiful weather. i got all the punches on saturday, so sunday was spent playing, and doing the 2 remaining special stages.

im very pleased with my new rear locker. my truck went up, over and through everything i pointed it at, apart from the very last 7ft bank that i had to winch up.

a few pics and vids.


camp site saturday morning.

Johnie's gorgeous 40 series.

out punch hunting.

some interesting punches this year.

80 stuck in hole.

spent a lot of time on 3 wheels.

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parked next to Trevor's 70.

managed to bend my steering bar quite badly, so need to make a guard. took a few pics of Roger's guard.

Tony kindly gave us permission to open up a few areas wed seen, one of which was an area with a large bomb hole, about 7ft deep, with a drainage ditch running through it.

sent Mitch in first.

looking up at the near vertical bank hes about to drive down.

down, and trying to drive up the other side.

couldnt quite get up despite all 3 diff locks been engaged. so we tried taking the top edge off to try and get some grip.

still couldnt get up, so using my truck as an anchor he winched out.

and he was out.

we had a look and decided on a better entry/exit point. so after moving a few logs and branches, we put the waffles across the drainage ditch.

and across.

a little bit of shunting and Mitch was in position ready to drop down into the bomb hole.

and dropped down.

across the bomb hole and trying to drive up and out the other side.

Mitch eventually got out after a few attempts. so my turn next.

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i couldnt quite get out, so i winched off Mitch. really need that front locker now.

and out.

pics of the damage, bent steering bar.

Roger's lovely 3 litre 70.

 

[Rob]

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[mike hatton]

bit unfair rob... andy was driving

 

[mike hatton]

Massive thanks to Tony and all the organisers and marshalls. Fantastic event. All the effort really shows.
Made up to get an enexpected joint 4th with Ben too .

 

[Rob]

bit unfair rob... andy was driving

Ok changed the title mate

 

[mike hatton]

bit unfair rob... andy was driving

Ok changed the title mate

No worries Rob,

Thought it a little unfair to compare my isuzu against a cruiser anyways, difflock and coils should put it in a different group.

Enjoyed seeing yours eating up the course as if it was tarmac!

 

[Crispin]

Great weekend, thanks folks. Thanks to TonyS, Ian, Toby and Co. for organising it.
Pics and video to follow soon

 

[Chas]

Fantastic week-end as usual, , even though I seem to have managed to stuff up my front diff going round the farm area punch challenge, there was some manic clicking from the front end like a machine gun on steroids, no idea how I managed that, it was before I attacked the wood area and did some hill bashing but after some expert diagnosis from IanR and JonW it was pinned down to the diff, but it was decided it would probably hold out to drive to JulianV who is only 28 miles from Lincomb, I got there OK without any problems, that short journey was fine, which is more than could be said for the 2.30pm train journey from Hereford to Paddington, this train stopped at about every stop imaginable , at Oxford it seemed like the whole population of Italy boarded the train, my carriage was jam packed with Eyties talking nineteen to the dozen at the top of their voices, I turned my hearing aid off and they still deafened me a few stops later some drifted away and it got relatively quiet, a few stops more and they all swarmed back and off it went again :angry-cussingargument:
I finally arrived at Paddington at 6.05pm in agony from my back because of a very uncomfortable seat, once there I saw a sign for Circle line to Kings Cross where I could pick up the Northern Line to Morden, but after what seemed like walking a mile I found the Circle Line wasn't running, why couldn't they have put a sign saying that at the beginning of my trek so I had to walk all the way back to where I had started from
It was good to meet up with old friends and quite a few people I've not met before, Carl and Anna, Chris from BOAB, and a few more I've already forgotten the names of

My thanks to TonyS for hosting and all the others who put so much into making sure we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves
As I said a great time was had, roll on the next one

 

[Jon Wildsmith]

Great weekend, nice to see everyone and have such good weather for it. Here are my pics:

CRJ going the wrong way through the tippy bomb hole

Rob, going the right way

There's a punch in there somewhere

Spot Crispin and wave him over

ATRAC at work

Dave on another tippy section

Don't let Rob park your truck

oops, testing the Gav plate

Supposed to hit the ball not the tree Rob

The winch test hill

Cycling my suspension on the elephants feet to check some clearances and have a pose

The 'out the window' technique

It was all going so well Gav

Run Gav, run

Left a bit

Those canes were tight!

Lunch?

Lorin AND AMY on the water jug special stage

Ben doing his best to get Mitch wet

Gently does it

change of tactics

 

[Chris Mann]

Too tired to post last night so am sciving at work to do it. Had an absolutely fantastic weekend. A massive thanks to TonyS and everyone else who organised the event. Food was outstanding as usual.

A big thank you to Justin Elliot again for letting me ride along with him. Had a blast, few hairy moments but we got all the punches and did well on a couple of the SS.

And I agree, you cant go down hill slowly and controlled when you've got the hand throttle pulled out.

Roll on the next one!!

 

[Andrew Prince]

A big thank you from the Prince family for great weekend - Tony, Ian, Toby and their better halves, thanks for the great organization and a fun weekend!
Having the family in tow limited our opportunities on the special stages but it was more important to keep the peace No damage this time, which was also a positive!

Looking forward top the next one, as are my [strike:3dvmupcj]back-seat drivers[/strike:3dvmupcj] co-pilots!

 

[Roger Fairclough]

It's good to meet people and finally put the faces to the names. Thanks to TonyS and the others for their hard working in setting it up.

A good site and event and hopefully we won't be on holiday next time and can join in both days.

Roger


PS - TonyS......extra good to see you after ?? years, we were both sooooooooo young when we went to the gym

Viv

 

[Gav Peter]

'Run Gav run' seems to be the call of the weekend!!! With all that running & the late night 'Poi'ing with Matt, I'm paying for it this morning.. I think it is Stacy's missus that has a good one of me 'in action' ( ) hurdling a rope on one of my many penalty laps around Muxley so I hope she manages to censor it appropriately & get it on here!!! BTW, Matt is going to pay for his poor geometry skills on the tyre pull next time out if I have anything to do with it!!!

Another brilliant weekend again - many thanks to Tony & all the guys for putting the show on again & once again coming up with such entertaining competitions in the woods/fields & congrats to Rob & Halina for taking the honours this time out

I'm afraid I didn't take a single photo all weekend so keep them coming folks

Cheers

 

[SpinDrift]

Many thanks to Tony, Ian and Toby, their other halves and the all the helpers for a great weekend. Top class.

The special stages were interesting and the events, fun.

Congrats to Rob and Helina.

Looking forward to the next one.

 

[Gav Peter]

Lunch?

Good lawd!!! Down Cubo!!!

 

[Paul]

I have the entire Gav tyre pull on video