TT Smackdown 2024 - poll in thread

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61

Nice one @GRamsay - ticks all boxes for me. Booked - so I at least have something when I get to next June and would normally start panicking :slight_smile:

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62

jobs a good un then, will crack on & book something later :+1:

63

The on site one has closed down not, not available unfortunately.

Unless iā€™m organised enough to sort somethign for the entire family, i think iā€™ll see if i can borrow my mateā€™s campervan and head up the evening before. There were about 9-10 vans in the main car park with people kipping overnight - obvs no facilities etc. The roads in to the car park do get busy the later you leave it though, so make sure you try to get the early wave when they ask next year. When i was walking from the car park to transition and back, the access road was bumper to bumper with cars.

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64

They donā€™t park you on the site anymore though iirc; itā€™s a field on the opposite side of the lane? So if you want to park on the actual site youā€™d have to go the night before and hope they donā€™t kick you out?

65

Correct. I donā€™t think theyā€™ll let you on the waterpark bit at all.

66

Still a Fiver to park though init?

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67

Canā€™t remember. Youā€™re probably right though. But with overnight camping ā€¦ thatā€™s a bargain! :rofl:

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68

Yeah it was.

69

Is it???

That feels like something Iā€™d remember :roll_eyes::money_with_wings:

Everyone: I stayed at Travelodge Swindon West.
It was Ā£29 for one night and full of triathletes.

Thereā€™s an Aldi and Lidl opposite.
Plus a Screwfix, B&Q, Home Bargains and all of the other good stuff we chat about on the DIY/Beer threads :rofl::see_no_evil:

ETA: Jesus!!! Itā€™s Ā£66 now :face_with_symbols_over_mouth::exploding_head:šŸ§˜šŸ»ā€ā™‚

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70

Dont drive up on the morning at like 2am, thinking ā€˜ahhh itā€™ll be fineā€™ after literally not sleeping moer than 20 minutes that night.

It wonā€™t be.

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71

I drove down at 4pm.
Went to Aldi, checked in, watched Casualty, slept.
Up at 4am.
Registered racked raced.
Off site by 11am, home by 3pm.

Jobs a good un

72

You forgot the bit where you were wandering around Transition trying to blag an AA battery. That must have taken a while :sweat_smile:

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73

AAA :+1:t3:
But yeah, carry a couple of spares now.

Plus I secure my saddlebag and BTA better :roll_eyes::face_with_hand_over_mouth:
Easily <2:25 on there next year :trophy:
(For the bike)

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74

Coulda-woulda-shoulda. Welcome to my world :rofl:

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75

You had options! :man_shrugging: :joy:

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76

Meh. Your 45s pale in comparison to my running PBs :rofl::rofl::rofl:

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77

I just hope thereā€™s no late night revelry at the Thames Head pub that night :sweat_smile:

Donā€™t forget your silk handkerchief to procure river water :+1:

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78

or your monkey

79

There will be plenty of revelry from me on the Sunday night so it will be fine.

80

But a monkey and a gibbon are very different things :man_shrugging:t4:

Gibbon is a lesser ape.
Monkeys (in the main) have a tail.

Simples.

So Iā€™ll bring my gibbon, you bring your monkey