Club Triumph's RBRR2012

Beans · Postby **Beans** » 01 Oct 2012 20:22

The Round Britain Reliability Run is once again being organised by Club Triumph and this years event is in aid of Children With Cancer Friday October 5th will see around 120 Club Triumph cars departing The Plough at Crews Hill, Enfield and begin a 48hour 2,000 mile, non-stop mararthon the length and breadth of the UK. Heading North towards Edinburgh, the regular participants will come across new checkpoints before heading off towards John O`Groats as breakfast beckons. Then as the field of entrants head South, after Glasgow, other new checkpoints will be encountered as night begins to fall on the Saturday, before heading towards the South West. Once again breakfast will be enjoyed on the Sunday morning, before the final leg of the event takes the entrants back to The Plough on the Sunday night, where the event finishes. The proceeds of this event along with sponsored donations, will be handed to the charity during the Annual Club Dinner and Award Presentations, in 2013.
The 23rd Round Britain Reliability Run is raising money for [url="http://www.childrenwithcancer.org.uk/"]Children with Cancer UK[/url].
Please help us to support this charity by [url="http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/charity-web/charity/displayEventDetails.action?eventId=9009&charityId=1000255&invocation=fur0030"] making a donation or sponsoring a team [/url].
You will be able to follow the progress of the entrants on the [url="http://club.triumph.org.uk/clubtriumph/events/rbrr/rbrrmessagediary"]RBRR message diary[/url].

For the benefit of any Triumph enthusiasts who may wish to visit the Controls and see the cars:
Control No1: Start: The Plough, Cattlegate Lane, Crews Hill, Enfield, Middlesex. EN2 9DJ. Cars leave earlier than normal at 18.00hrs. Should you come along to view the proceedings, please park in the LHS car parks, the RHS car parks will be full of Triumph cars!
Control No.2: Blyth Services, Hilltop Roundabout, Blyth, Notts. S81 8HG. Cars are due Friday 5th October from 20.45hrs
Control No.3: Carter Bar Lay By: Border of England and Scotland. A Passage Control and pich black, therefore not much of a spectacle! Cars are due Friday 5th October from 23.58hrs. Please park on the Southbound lay by, the Northbound lay by will be used by the Triumph cars, if coming bring a torch and take care crossing the main road.
Control No.4: Edinburgh Airport, Edinburgh. EH12 9DN: Taxi Bays. Cars are due Saturday 6th October from 01.24hrs.
Control No.5: Skiach Services, Allness. IV16 9XH. Cars are due Saturday 6th October from 05.21hrs.
Control No.6: Seaview Hotel, John Oâ€™Groats. KW1 4YR. Breakfast Stop. Cars are due Saturday 6th October from 07.51hrs.
Control No.7: Conon Bridge Hotel, High Street, Conon Bridge, Ross and Cromarty. IV7 8HD. Cars are due Saturday 6th October from 12.20hrs.
Control No.8: Morrisonâ€™s Garage, Stirling. FK7 8EP cars are due Saturday 6th October from 16.45hrs.
Control No.9: Tebay Southbound Services, M6 Motorway. Cars are due Saturday 6th October from 19.58hrs.
Control No.10: Gledrid Services, A5 Weston Rhyn, Oswestry, Shropshire. SY11 3EN. Cars are due Saturday 6th October from 22.26hrs.
Control No.11: Sugar Loaf Picnic Stop near Llandovery. LD5 4TE(Approximate location). Cars are due Sunday 7th October from 00.38hrs. Passage Control and very dark, so not a lot to look at!
Control No.12: Gordano Services M5 Southbound Services, Portbury, Bristol. BS20 7XG. Cars are due Sunday 7th October from 02.51hrs
Control No.13: Whitehouse Services, A30, Tongue End, Oakhampton, Devon. EX20 1QJ. Cars are due Sunday 7th October from 05.07hrs.
Control No.14: Lands End Hotel, Lands End, Cornwall. TR19 7AA. Passage Control. Cars are due Sunday 7th October from 07.28hrs. As a Passage Control, cars will not be on site for long.
Control No.15: Cape Cornwall Golf Club, St Just, Cornwall. TR19 7NL. Breakfast Stop. Cars are due Sunday 7th October from 07.43hrs.
Control No.16: Bude Museum, The Castle, Bude. EX23 8LG. Cars are due Sunday 7th October from 10.33hrs.
Control No.17: Badgers Holt, Dartmeet, Dartmoor, Devon. PL20 6SG. Cars are due Sunday 7th October from 12.21hrs.
Control No.18: Sixpenny Handley Village Hall, Common Road, Sixpenny Handley, Wiltshire. Cars are due Sunday 7th October from 14.46hrs.
Control No.19: TR Register Offices, 1B Hawksworth, Southmead Industrial Estate, Didcot. OX11 7HR. Cars are due Sunday 7th October from 17.11hrs.
Control No.20: Finish: The Plough, Cattlegate Lane, Crews Hill, Enfield, Middlesex. EN2 9DJ. Cars are due Sunday 7th October from 18.30hrs.
[url="http://www.club.triumph.org.uk/events/rbrr/rbrrupdatesept12"] Latest update from the organisers including details of Control Stops [/url]

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1980 TR7 DHC (my first car, now restored and back on the road)
1981 TR7 FHC Sprint (better known as 't Kreng)
[url="http://www.tr7beans.blogspot.com/"]My full Weblog[/url]</center>

TR Tony · Postby **TR Tony** » 01 Oct 2012 21:08

Amazing event, did it myself in 2008. You taking part this year Theo? I remember you were in the 2008 run.

I see there is a new stop at Sixpenny Handley Village Hall this year, that seems to be instead of Pimperne Village Hall. Not very far from me but I shall be away that weekend, great shame, would love to get along to see the entrants come through.

No postcode quoted for Sixpenny Handley Hall so for the benefit of any participants it is SP5 5NJ. I guess you will be coming in from the A354, if so then the village hall is at the far end of the village, take care driving through on the B3081 it is quite narrow in places through the village. Do you stay on the B3081 towards Shaftesbury after that stop? If you do then you will go down Zig Zag Hill - make sure you still have some brakes left after nearly 2000 miles [:)]

Good luck to anyone taking part.

Tony

1981 TR7 FHC Cavalry Blue
1980 TR7V8 DHC Jaguar Regency Red - sadly sold!
1977 TR8 FHC EFI Factory development car Inca Yellow

Wayne S · Postby **Wayne S** » 01 Oct 2012 23:29

I'm entered this year as well in the Grinnall - despite the gearbox having gone pop this week creating a bit of a last minute rush to get it swapped and sorted in time!

Its my 3rd RBRR and a different car on each one so really looking forward to this grueling event as ever!

My sponsorship page also resides here: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/trregister

Would be great to see some friendly faces at the control stops Beans has listed above!

Red 4.0 Litre V8 DHC Grinnall (with huuuuuge arches...!)

Beans · Postby **Beans** » 02 Oct 2012 07:46

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by TR Tony

... You taking part this year Theo? I remember you were in the 2008 run ...
make sure you still have some brakes left after nearly 2000 miles [:)]
Good luck to anyone taking part ... <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Thx for that, might come in handy [;)]
It will be my 4th run so far, and I am taking part as 2nd navigator [url="http://tr7beans.blogspot.nl/2012/07/club-triumphs-rbrr-2012.html"] this time in a Mk1 saloon[/url] (donations fot the charity still very much appreciated [:)]).
Won't do any driving this time as I will try to capture the atmosphere of the event with my cameras ...

1980 TR7 DHC (my first car, now restored and back on the road)
1981 TR7 FHC Sprint (better known as 't Kreng)
[url="http://www.tr7beans.blogspot.com/"]My full Weblog[/url]</center>

Beans · Postby **Beans** » 02 Oct 2012 07:52

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Wayne S

I'm entered this year as well in the Grinnall ... <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
Will be nice to meet you after so many years [;)]

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1980 TR7 DHC (my first car, now restored and back on the road)
1981 TR7 FHC Sprint (better known as 't Kreng)
[url="http://www.tr7beans.blogspot.com/"]My full Weblog[/url]</center>

steve_1360 · Postby **steve_1360** » 03 Oct 2012 20:16

I'm doing it again this year, 4th time for me too! First time in the 7

Beans · Postby **Beans** » 09 Oct 2012 12:36

Was again a great event, and team 44 even managed to finish precisely on time after 48:52 hours and 3207 kilometres [8D]
Pictures to follow once my new computer is installed and all pictures, data and software are transferred.
<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by steve_1360

I'm doing it again this year, 4th time for me too! First time in the 7
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Which of the TR7's were you in ?

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1980 TR7 DHC (my first car, now restored and back on the road)
1981 TR7 FHC Sprint (better known as 't Kreng)
[url="http://www.tr7beans.blogspot.com/"]My full Weblog[/url]</center>

steve_1360 · Postby **steve_1360** » 10 Oct 2012 16:06

I was in a blue FHC with no stickers by the end [:(!] I had used magnetic ones as the paint is rubbish. Managed to recover the last one which tried to escape on the M5 when it got stuck on the wiper. No real issues apart from spending most of the time on the bump stops when the fuel tank was full. We finished about 7:15. Good event, I think my co-driver didn't realise how hard it would be, he was going to work on Monday but didn't make it[:D]

Wayne S · Postby **Wayne S** » 11 Oct 2012 09:00

We made it in my Grinnall!! Car ran brilliantly all the way round - only small issue was at Skiach at 5am Saturday when the crank oil seal dropped out - but an easy fix and it happened just before a control so we were soon on our way again.

Amazing to see all the TR Register guys turn out to cheer us on along the way! Especially at the office at Didcot for the last control stop before the end.

This run never gets any less hardcore though... took until Wednesday to recover and this was my 3rd successful finish. Can't wait until 2014 to do it all again though!

My updates can still be seen on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/djwaynes

Red 4.0 Litre V8 DHC Grinnall (with huuuuuge arches...!)

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