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T.8ATH
Member Since: 22 Mar 2011
Location: Nottingham
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Hi All
Been a member here for a year but not a big poster!
Does anyone have details of the route Fifth Gear took when they went from West to East across England? I thought it might make a decent week's holiday!
Thanks
Tim
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 13th Mar 2012 9:54 am |
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Peely
Member Since: 12 Dec 2011
Location: Lancs
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You mean the one they did in the Lada Riva or summat and the RR following/filming yeah, I too would be interested ?
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| 13th Mar 2012 10:11 am |
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leeds
Member Since: 30 Aug 2010
Location: West Yorkshire
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Believe me you do NOT want to do the route that Fifth Gear took 
I can say that with a lot of confidence, as we landed up basically shepherding them from coast to coast.
They originally wanted to film the route in 1 day in a Santa Fe. We got them up to 2 days and a Lada. They did a small fraction of the decent route. It took us two days of 7-8 hours driving per day to do a decent route from St bees to Whitby
Now if you want a good route have a few words with Barbara and she might send you the route. If you are coming to YOG at the end of the month then Barbara will have the real route on her iPad
Brendan
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| 13th Mar 2012 10:38 am |
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T.8ATH
Member Since: 22 Mar 2011
Location: Nottingham
Posts: 158
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leeds wrote:Believe me you do NOT want to do the route that Fifth Gear took
Just an idea!
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| 13th Mar 2012 10:50 am |
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Peely
Member Since: 12 Dec 2011
Location: Lancs
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Interesting, I watched it again recently and could have sworn they said they did it in the day ? 
That was a little sneaky then !
Just did a quick bit of research and it is definately a Lada Niva, St Bees to Whitby and it did take 2 days, here if you fancy killing 5mins .................
http://fwd.channel5.com/fifth-gear/videos/...-challenge
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| 13th Mar 2012 10:55 am |
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leeds
Member Since: 30 Aug 2010
Location: West Yorkshire
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They only did a small fraction of the number of green lanes that were possible due to the amount of time they spent setting up shots.
We were due to leave St Bees at 9am, left at 12 noon by the time they had taken initial shots.
It is a good green laning trip, but needs a minimum of 2 days if you want to drive and experience the green lanes properly.
Do the green lanes from St Bees to Whitby and it is 
Take a filming crew with you and you have to hit a lot more tarmac to do it in 2 days
Brendan
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| 13th Mar 2012 11:35 am |
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T.8ATH
Member Since: 22 Mar 2011
Location: Nottingham
Posts: 158
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I found this but it only has a few videos: [url]http://fwd.channel5.com/adv/jonny-green-lane
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| 13th Mar 2012 12:21 pm |
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T.8ATH
Member Since: 22 Mar 2011
Location: Nottingham
Posts: 158
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And i didn't post the link correctly! Sorry.
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| 13th Mar 2012 12:21 pm |
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Peely
Member Since: 12 Dec 2011
Location: Lancs
Posts: 283
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Link edited into my previous post
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| 13th Mar 2012 12:26 pm |
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T.8ATH
Member Since: 22 Mar 2011
Location: Nottingham
Posts: 158
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Peely wrote:Link edited into my previous post
Ta
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| 13th Mar 2012 2:57 pm |
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T.8ATH
Member Since: 22 Mar 2011
Location: Nottingham
Posts: 158
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I also found this: http://vimeo.com/23730175
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| 13th Mar 2012 3:21 pm |
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Peely
Member Since: 12 Dec 2011
Location: Lancs
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That's a bit more like it !
Think I'll give it a couple of weeks before setting off in mine after collection next week tho ! 
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| 13th Mar 2012 4:26 pm |
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GSLRO
Member Since: 10 Sep 2008
Location: Sunderland
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Have a route that intended to do later this year!
Done most of it but not in one go, but plans for a weekender with camping.
T.8ATH The video above we met up with the group nr Reeth / Hawes, the D3 did not do all the lanes due to width restrictions, the others all did it in Defners you will see us 2min 50secs into video.
I have the D3 route 
George Club N.E.R.D.s
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| 19th Mar 2012 2:08 pm |
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