Nah - I usually do, but it’s a 4 hour round trip.
And I’m not a massive fan of The Lakes 
Good man @Poet is that 5/6? TTers in for it now?
I’ll recce the bike but only in the week before.
I think we’ll be in the lakes from Wednesday the second
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I’m hoping to get over and do the bike and run but not sure when I’ll manage it.
I could do the run on Sunday after my 50 but my legs will probably be battered by then.
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I might try a quieter mid-week trip at some point. I want a couple of local rides to get myself familiar with my clip-ons before going up…& I want to choose a day with a decent forecast.
@Poet
@Adam
@Chriswim
@jeffb
@Doonhamer
Then I’ve seen one name on the startlist who used to be TTer 1.0
Pretty sure @Toyota_Crown will rock up…
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if still entries available in a week will press the button
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PUSH the button, surely?
Then we can sing the cool song…“I’m busy throwing hits, while he keeps missing…”
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You could learn to drive for less than that.
(well in the 90s when I did it 
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Think I paid less than £100, about 12 lessons in 10 weeks.
Intensive is the way to go. I failed first time, then got a different instructor, did several 2h lessons a week and sailed through second time. Plus I found the second Instructor much more chilled.
My Dad taught me. Passed within 6 weeks of turning 17!
Promptly wrote my first car off two weeks later 
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It wasn’t really intensive, just 1 lesson PW, but roads were a lot quieter. Test wasn’t the same either, no theory test etc, just a 40 minute drive round asking a couple of signs and if I could read a number plate.
I drove my parents car a lot as well with my dad in the front supervising.
Although after passing I don’t think I actually drove again for about 3 months.
IS this a car thread or Helvellyn 
I’d ridden motorbikes since I was six, so my first lesson, the instructor was massively surprised I could use a clutch.
12 lessons later and I’d passed…but it took months, as the test centre in Whitby closed down, so I had to wait for a test over in Scarborough…which had bloody dual carriageways and traffic lights!
All my class mates just got to drive around Whitby, with it’s two sets of lights and one roundabout.
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I grew up on a farm … so i had to unlearn all the bad habits from driving all sorts of vehicles since i was about 10! WHat, i can’t hold the steering wheel with one hand, with the other arm out the window!? I was one lesson a week for a few weeks as well. I remember it was £10 per lesson, but that was a few quid cheaper as it was my best mate’s dad that was the instructor. Mark I vauxhall corsa diesel!
The hardest test was when i went for my B+e (trailer) about a decade after passing my first test, for the same reasons as above., But all my bad habits were even more engrained!
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My first driving experiences were towing a trailer behind a wee Massey Ferguson as my Dad threw out bales to the cattle. I couldn’t touch any pedals, my Dad had put in gear & ran back to the trailer, I was just steering.
Anyway…Helvellyn, I did my first brick run for 4yrs today in 30degC. It was grim, I’m normally pretty good in the heat I’m hoping it was more of a bonk than a heat issue.
without totally derailing the thread … that was the exact same as me! Dad forking out silage from the feeder trailer and me steering up and down the fields at like 2mph!
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