Scottish Borders run/meet, SUNDAY 21ST MAY 2017

[craig3.2]

Hi do you have room for one more

Yes,will add your name to the list of those attending.
See you there

[gemeit]

Hi do you have room for one more

Yes,will add your name to the list of those attending.
See you there

Thanks

[craig3.2]

For those coming to this,can you please Confirm if you area Definite,so i can start getting an idea of Numbers,thanks.
Most of you i saw at the weekend,but please confirm anyway,cheers

[Pbondar]

Hello, we are confirmed , Peter and Mo for this one!

[MefiEcosse]

Definitely!

[metal licker]

Only a maybe at the moment due to work but still hoping to get there

[_Billy_]

Hi Craig,

Please remove me from the list ...

Erm...I'm pretty ashamed to confess here that I ALMOST killed my Z4MC back in early January - I was northbound on the M77, passing Kilmarnock, overtaking a truck at night, doing about 65, hit a patch of water, aquaplaned spinning a 180, miraculously squeezing backwards/sideways through a short gap in the barriers on left (not much more than length of Z4!), hence fortunately avoiding the on-coming just-over-taken truck, down about 7-foot down an embankment into a field. Had the section of barrier re-started again a few inches sooner, the barrier-ramp would have likely flipped the back of Z4 up (going backwards after 180), potentially rolling-me-over down embankment, rather than just sliding down into field as I did... Although not much of a defence, the Police told me that it was a bad spot for it, mentioning another car having ended up down in the same bit in same field just weeks before...

So yeah, despite my shame, I was lucky not only that the accident wasn't a lot worse, but the insurance worked out extremely well for me also! Although it was an insurance-write-off, due to obviously large BMW-part costs etc, the damage wasn't actually too bad considering, and I got letter from DVLA few weeks after advising that the car had a new owner, so hope/assume someone found a bargain to fix with used parts...

With the insurance settlement, i've since found myself a 2005 M3 Convertible (i'd got little jealous of your Z4 convertibles on road-trip last summer!), but do miss the Z.

[gemeit]

Yes from me

[patriot66]

Hi Craig. I'm a definite for this and really looking forward to it.

[AlfaScozzesi]

Hi Craig,

Please remove me from the list ...

Erm...I'm pretty ashamed to confess here that I ALMOST killed my Z4MC back in early January - I was northbound on the M77, passing Kilmarnock, overtaking a truck at night, doing about 65, hit a patch of water, aquaplaned spinning a 180, miraculously squeezing backwards/sideways through a short gap in the barriers on left (not much more than length of Z4!), hence fortunately avoiding the on-coming just-over-taken truck, down about 7-foot down an embankment into a field. Had the section of barrier re-started again a few inches sooner, the barrier-ramp would have likely flipped the back of Z4 up (going backwards after 180), potentially rolling-me-over down embankment, rather than just sliding down into field as I did... Although not much of a defence, the Police told me that it was a bad spot for it, mentioning another car having ended up down in the same bit in same field just weeks before...

So yeah, despite my shame, I was lucky not only that the accident wasn't a lot worse, but the insurance worked out extremely well for me also! Although it was an insurance-write-off, due to obviously large BMW-part costs etc, the damage wasn't actually too bad considering, and I got letter from DVLA few weeks after advising that the car had a new owner, so hope/assume someone found a bargain to fix with used parts...

With the insurance settlement, i've since found myself a 2005 M3 Convertible (i'd got little jealous of your Z4 convertibles on road-trip last summer!), but do miss the Z.

Sorry to hear that Billy

We were wondering what had happened to you but as long as you are okay and still enjoying the

[MefiEcosse]

Sorry to hear you're new news Billy, I hope you enjoy the new car!
I'm sure you'd still be very welcome if you want to join any of our meets!

[DaveZ4richardson]

Hi Craig, put me down Craig seeing as I missed last weekend's please.

[cerbera]

Where's the proposed meet for this?

[craig3.2]

Hi Craig,

Please remove me from the list ...

Erm...I'm pretty ashamed to confess here that I ALMOST killed my Z4MC back in early January - I was northbound on the M77, passing Kilmarnock, overtaking a truck at night, doing about 65, hit a patch of water, aquaplaned spinning a 180, miraculously squeezing backwards/sideways through a short gap in the barriers on left (not much more than length of Z4!), hence fortunately avoiding the on-coming just-over-taken truck, down about 7-foot down an embankment into a field. Had the section of barrier re-started again a few inches sooner, the barrier-ramp would have likely flipped the back of Z4 up (going backwards after 180), potentially rolling-me-over down embankment, rather than just sliding down into field as I did... Although not much of a defence, the Police told me that it was a bad spot for it, mentioning another car having ended up down in the same bit in same field just weeks before...

So yeah, despite my shame, I was lucky not only that the accident wasn't a lot worse, but the insurance worked out extremely well for me also! Although it was an insurance-write-off, due to obviously large BMW-part costs etc, the damage wasn't actually too bad considering, and I got letter from DVLA few weeks after advising that the car had a new owner, so hope/assume someone found a bargain to fix with used parts...

With the insurance settlement, i've since found myself a 2005 M3 Convertible (i'd got little jealous of your Z4 convertibles on road-trip last summer!), but do miss the Z.

Glad you were ok,pity about the z though.
Hope you enjoy your new wheels

[craig3.2]

Thanks for all the replies,folks.

I will be finalising the routes in the next few days,so don't have an exact meet point as yet,but will pm you all an approximate location,so you can book a hotel or b n b,etc

Cheers