Pakenham Healesville Cruise 2010

[EvilDaifu]

Pakenham Healesville Cruise 2010

DATE: Saturday 10th July 2010 (please note this is now a daylight hours cruise and NOT a night cruise)

TIME: Start 10am Please note new start time

DESCRIPTION: Meet at Bunnings Pakenham to start winding our way up past Gembrook through some really good twisties northwards to Launching Place. Then dog leg up to Healesville and owing to the predicted inclement windy wet weather - keep on going through more twisties up through Toolangi before heading back into town towards Yarra Glen where we will lob into a local eatery and hunker down for the winds and showers predicted about lunch time. Now here's one of the advantages of this cruise - especially since we know the bad weather is due for midday. From here on, just head on home where convenient or you can follow us back to Pakenham. For those going all or most of the way back, we cruise a relatively straight stretch through to Healesville then double back to Woori Yallock before taking a fairly bendy road through to Cockatoo then back down through some last minute twisties to finish up back in Pakenham.

All on sealed roads and round trip about 3 1/2 hours (about 185km) all up including lunch pitstop.

Please be aware there are some sweeping bends and incredible twisties on this route - best let any passangers know of potential motion sickness

MEET:

Bunnings Pakenham for 10am departure - 855 Princes Highway, Pakenham (for those with GPS )

If coming from the city, make sure you turn left at the traffic lights into Bunnings otherwise you end up driving up some distance to do a U-turn.

Please have sufficient fuel before departure. There is a Shell for V-Power 98 Octane next to Bunnings Pakenham.

If you are want 100 Octane, you can get Premium 100 at these United Fuel Station

BAYSWATER 477 Dorset Road 03 9729 0722

CROYDON 338 Dorset Rd 03 9723 8370

HOPPERS CROSSING 160 Old Geelong Road 03 9748 3601

MULGRAVE 2223 Princess Hwy 03 9546 4286 (on the left just past Westall Rd on the Princess Highway heading away from the city)

PATTERSON LAKES 1 Thompson Road 03 9772 1766 (but currently out of order says *Beep*)

POINT COOK 1 Wallace Avenue 03 9931 1430

ROUTE:

Roads

Terrain

NEW LUNCH PITSTOP:

Yarra Glen

BRING:

Optional, but strongly recommended, UHF 40 channel CB Radio to keep across road hazards and general chatter.

Camera with good flash.

Coinage for lunch.

Warm clothes - let's face it - it's Winter and it gets pretty cool up them there hills during the day

RULES:

1. Obey all laws whilst on the cruise; this means no speeding, no overtaking over double lines (no matter how safe you think it may be), etc...

2. There is a designated cruise leader who will lead the way and set the correct pace for all cruise members.

3. Use the Buddy system - always make sure you can see the car behind you. This will give people behind you an indication on where to turn to make sure nobody gets lost.

4. CB Radios - if you don't have one, follow the maps and directions given out. It is highly recommended to have CB as it enhances the enjoyment of the cruise being able to hear about road hazards and join in on the social chatter.

5. Please turn up to the meeting points with a sufficient fuel in your tank and enough time before the departure time.

6. By attending this cruise you agree not to hold FordXR6Turbo.com, it's Administrators, Moderators, Cruise Controllers, or Owner responsible / liable for any damage and / or grief sustained (simply; you are responsible for your own actions).

CRUISE LIST:

1. EvilDaifu

2. bunna

3. captain (bunna's mate)

4. Hudson (bunna's mate)

5. kvbaby

6. Rudiger

7. ahmet123

8. Rusty XR6T

9. shmitt

10.Yoshi

11.deek

Maybes:

GR8XR6

Jman

MAD_XR2 (Jman's mate)

WAAPSH

Dillz

So post up if you want to come along. It's a good way to meet your fellow FordXR6Turbo.com enthusiasts and enjoy the rush of rumbling through in a line of XRs

Edited 09/07/10 01:31 PM by EvilDaifu

[Worm]

Me a maybe... Assuming Bunnings Pakenham (if there is one)...

[EvilDaifu]

Hope so - here's what the Internet told me and everybody knows the Internet is right

Bunnings Pakenham

Edited 30/06/10 01:58 PM by EvilDaifu

[Jman]

Sweeeeeet.

My tune will be all finished by then and have my new tyres on.

CRUISE LIST:

1. EvilDaifu

2. Jman

Maybes:

[GR8XR6]

Put me down as a maybe....

Maybe I should sort my tyres soon.

[Worm]

Wonder if *Beep* will bring out the 10/11/12 second beast?

That's if it's still going!!! The big 1/4 mile run is on the 9th!!!

[R-SPEC]

Might tag along after the photos if I can get a hold of you gooses

[EvilDaifu]

Last time when I was part of the photo shoot, ended up spending a lot of time chatting with the others. So might be the case again. You have one more than we did as well. But you are also starting about 2 hours earlier.

Edited 01/07/10 09:55 AM by EvilDaifu

[bunna]

I'm in, plus a likely 2 more nitro fg turbos

[EvilDaifu]

I'm really sorry to do this to those that said they'd be definites but I drove the first part of the route tonight between Pakenham and Launching Place and it's way too dangerous to take a cruise through there at night - the road is really twisty (hairpin turns twisty) which makes visibilty difficulty and I nearly hit a wombat who was just starting to cross the road. We'd have been farrked if it was in the middle of the road after turning a corner with a possie of cars following behind me. The cruise route as described is best done during daylight hours.

Having said that, the roads I went on are way too good to not do at all and it's a pretty short cruise. We could still do it as a lunch at Healesville on Saturday 10 July? I'll scrub the list and start it again so I know who's keen to do it on Saturday during daylight hours. It would be a 11am departure from Bunnings Pakenham (yes there really is a Bunnings there now despite what Google Maps says ) on Saturday 10 July.

Edited 01/07/10 01:59 PM by EvilDaifu