Time for a Spring Fling?

[Wellardmac]

porsh111214 wrote:

Thanks for a fun morning. Bucks county has some of the best back roads. Especially from east of 611 to the river because all you do is wind down to the river or wind up to the crest of the "canyon". I think that Steve found out what "Evoluition" in Porsche speak really means!!!

Count me in for the next one. I wouldn't mind to help lay out the next run if you need able and willing asisstance.

I would love to get some help! The attendance is starting to get beyond what is manageable by one person, so the more the merrier! I have routes that we can use this year, but hope to put together some new ones over the winter.

The process works something like this:
If I have a route, it's just a matter of doing a dry-run the week before the scheduled date to ensure that the roads are open and make any required route changes caused by closures or obstacles (I had to do that on this latest run due to parts of Rte 32 being closed. On the day of the run it's good to have people who know the route (and have a navigator) that are comfortable leading a group so that we can have more manageable logistics.

Putting together a new route takes a lot more time (at least for me). In the past I have typically worked out a rough plan of a route using satellite maps at Google Maps. From there I do a dry run to see if the route works - are there bad left turns and intersections that would cause issues for a large run group? Are there areas of population that I didn't see on the satellite images? Are there unreasonable speed limits or speed traps? During that dry run I'll work out changes to the route on the fly just using a map - trying to find ways that get us from A to B on suitable roads with low population. Once that's done I hit the computer to redraft the route. This process is usually completed at least a month before the date that I'm going to schedule the drive. After that it's just a question of doing a dry run on the weekend before the scheduled date to fine tune any issues that have come up since the route was planned.

If any of that is of interest to you, I'd love to have your help in any part - whether it's helping to come up with new routes, or just leading groups. Drop me a PM and we can work something out.