planning a visit to the lakes?

[dobbie82]

Hiya you lot, esp E30beemerlad and AARONM3, if you find any clear roads up here in the lakes, post it on here.... the roads here drive me nuts! 20mph a lot of the way and no chance of overtaking!

THere is only one Gatso in the whole of cumbria... im not kidding... its in INGS village just b4 u get to windermere. There are a few mobile camera vans occasionally but they got yellow and orange stickers all over them.. cant miss em.

If u gonna bomb along the a591 (the windermere to keswick road) can u a) watch out for the sheep on the road.. b/f had a luck escape a few months back.. the sheep didnt fare so well! farmers aint good at looking after their stock round here

b) watch out for me!.. i usually waddling along the road somewhere!

Hannah

[E30BeemerLad]

Hi Hannah, yeah a591, that's the road i was meaning. Also a road going up from windermere towards a village called Crook, was staying at a hotel up there, a few nice twists and turns along the way an grounded the exhaust out on turning into the hotel car park

[dobbie82]

gutted that u grounded ur exhaust eh or was it just standard? the road between Grasmere and Keswick is quite good, its about 12 miles... but remember to behave... the limit is 70mph on the dual carriageways..

[E30BeemerLad]

it's dropped about 35mm and has scorpion dtm, got the exhaust and mudflaps. Seem to be forever catching the exhaust on speed bumps. Bloody estate i live on is riddled with them too, plus i love pissing people off who charge up behind you as you slow to 5mph for a speed hump

[M3Compact]

its in INGS village just b4 u get to windermere.

Just by the petrol station in the 40 limit 'dual carriage' section?

[dobbie82]

yep, its near the petrol station in the 40mph bit.. they are easy to see as they are on the central reservation.

[AARONM3]

Cheers for the topic start Hannah- I'll be sure to take loads of pictures and note the roads . Funny thing is I'm going in the 348 and I kinda wish I was taking the M3... how wierd is that??

[E30BeemerLad]

348 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I am correct in assuming a slikce of maranello here right?

[AARONM3]

That's the one

[E30BeemerLad]

well you're a very fortunate individual indeed.

One of my favourite shapes that, for some reason the purists sit on the fence, but i think they look fab, particularly in black. Nice chunky looks

[AARONM3]

A like them as well a visual half-way house between the 'rossa and the 355- still erring nicely on the side of slightly vulgar

[zaust]

I cracked my lsd housing just outside cockermouth last year (not happy), the roads up there are no good for anything but a citrone bx...

[E30BeemerLad]

yeah but the scenery makes up for it, in fact I found myself being quite happy just pottering along in 2nd and 3rd, 6 pot and exhaust burbling away and resonating off the stone walls and village high streets

[dobbie82]

b/f took me out for spin this afternoon, from grasmere 2 J36 of m6 (bout 20 miles each way) was rather slow cos of sunday drivers... but nice spin all the same... oh and an alloy wheel dont half vibrate at 100mph when it aint balanced!

(I am due to drop sprog any day now so not allowed to go for spins by myself! )

drove around the village this morning and this evening... but not the same!

[dobbie82]

so AARONM3, did you have a nice time up here? been very quiet on the tourist front here.. Got me car parked outside but only noticed one person looking at it so far!

Gutted.. the only people around here at the moment are the coffin dodgers and students who cant afford an e30

[E30BeemerLad]

Hannah, why u selling?

[AARONM3]

Hi, thanks for asking- had a great time cheers despite the weather for the most part being a bit poo. Went to Windermere, Cockermouth, Ambleside and several other random places that the sat-nav sent us that were mostly down single-track roads! Great fun in a Ferrari!! Stayed at Orton Hall.

Must say I found the roads very bumpy but mostly well surfaced and even the 348 managed not to ground out despite hacking along at a fair old pace for some of the time and it being stupidly low- although there were a few arse-clenching moments coming over crests to find not insubstantial drops that I wasn't sure I was going to make!!

Not sure if it's particular to Orton but all the supermarkets seemed to be miles away!! Hence driving 30-40 minutes in the pissing rain yesterday just to go to a Morrisons.

Good to see a lot of petrol stations though so at least when I was lost I never run out of gas!!

[dobbie82]

selling purely for financial reasons.. i cant really afford to keep her.. My partner and i are both in love with the car. But cant justify having her sitting there.. he takes her out for runs to keep the engine happy, and cos he loves driving her, but beginning to see her as dead money sitting there when someone could give her a good home. (I have a manky rover as a runabout)

I got her advertised at 1495 dont really want to let her go for much less than that.

Really need to come see her to appreciate her.

(rather disturbing that i call my car "her" yet call my unborn child "it"!)

[dobbie82]

yeah roads are a bit on the bumpy side... and i wish i had thought about supermarkets before i moved here!! nearest one is a small booths supermarket in windermere about 8/9 miles away but if u want a proper one like asda, its about 20 miles away.

Im just lazy and pay twice as much as i need to by shopping in spar in ambleside!

Hannah

[AARONM3]

Yeah, we were in Ambleside yesterday and the Booths was suggested but I thought I'd pass another one on the way back to Orton.... nope!

Good luck with the sale btw.

[dobbie82]

ta for the good luck

[E30BeemerLad]

That must have been some quality time in that fezza Aaron

[AARONM3]

It was, but I was knackered at the end of each day as the combination of driving a former supercar in the rain and not knowing the roads was really tiring! I was hoping I'd get some cool shots like your sig but I got plenty of the car and plenty of scenery but not the two together!

I'd love to go back in the E30 though.