Was thinking about trying to organise a meet in Central London. We could do an early morning blast around the roads in the centre of the city followed by some breakfast in a real, traditional London cafe.

There are a number of possible sights to drive/cruise past.

A clear drive round all those sounds good right? Obviously, that's the catch - this needs to be done nice and early.

If the coops were to meet at a convenient location we could drive round the locations above pretty much undisturbed. We'd then pick up some breakfast and be home in time for the other half to smoke you a kipper. Alternatively you could bring the other half with you the night before, stay in London and make a morning/day of it - go on the London Eye for example or go for a walk in one of the fantastic parks.

If booked substantially in advance a travellodge room could be picked up pretty cheaply. I'd be willing to put one or two long term club members up at my place.

If anyone is interested please let me know. Also, if anyone has a suggested location in Zone 1 that they'd like to drive by please post and I'll add it into the route if that's thought desirable.

Steve

I love the sound of this, could get some great pics too

I like this idea

Sounds good to me I love the sights n sounds of London

Not shy of an early start If I'm free that day, I'll be there.

Great idea. Count me in.

I could be up for this.

i'm well up for this so i'm in

Would love to do this - am thinking of some VW-style night drives this summer - but I'll be on honeymoon at that time!

Let me know if the date changes

Aye, good idea... Although I'll be fccuked as my birthday is on the 30th... If the dates changes, could also be in...

i will be there guys,it will be fantastic i recon :Pthat is enough notice aswell

Good to hear there is some interest. I had been a bit worried that the early start would put some people off, but I genuinely think there will be something special about getting out there early in the morning and not just from a volume of traffic point of view.

I'll start putting some thought into the route over the next week or so, but if anyone has any requests on locations please shout.

Cheers

Sounds cool, may try to drag myself out of bed

im also well up for it
great idea steve!

I'm in too!

Presumably the route has some tunnels?

Not that I'll be likely to have another Coupe by then...

i feel another convoy coming on mario and chris into london town for this one

Deal!

Even Mrs Warnysouth is up for this one! (first ever!)

There are a couple of underpasses in the city, but the closest meaningful tunnel I can think of which would naturally lead into the rest of the drive would be the Blackwall Tunnel. I often go through there with the window a quarter down

Maybe somewhere in that area would be a good starting point although it's not ideal for people coming from the north or west. I was planning to suggest meeting somewhere central to make it fair on everyone, but perhaps Blackwall would be a suitable starting point. If this is not thought desireable then we could just go for the central meet/underpass blast option.

I think I've read somewhere that for various reasons it's not a good idea to post the route of anything like this too publicly, but with your chosen landmarks you could very easily fit in some very good, decent length, echo-ey tunnels with the tiniest of detours

PM me if the penny doesn't drop.

Cappo, that's probably true. I'd been thinking something similar as to the final route, but perhaps its also sensible to take a less overt approach to the planning. I've got a decent list of interested parties and, in due time, will form a PM group.

make sure im in it

Will do!

You're looking at a 3am start.

I did this a while back. Stopped off by brick lane for a salt beef and mustard bagel at 4am.

NB Thread locked and title amended at OP request - Cappo