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bjk
04-12-2012, 12:22 PM
'Sup, SA dudes (well, xeon8 and Zenki :) ). We've been jabbering about it in other threads for a couple weeks, so I figured it was actually time to sort this out. Would be cool to do something before the 'silly season' sets in and everyone is uber busy.

What days/times are people generally free? I'm good for most mornings and early afternoons till I work at 5pm, with Saturdays usually being totally available.

Once we know when, then we can decide what we want to do. I know the beach was suggested. If anyone is feeling adventurous, the way up through the hills to Lobethal is a riot. Keen for any other routes/photoshoot locations too.

Peace out,

Billy-Jack

Sam_323
04-12-2012, 01:09 PM
Let me know when and where... If im not working, im in!... familia back on the road, so am busting to get that up the gorge again real soon.

I have 2 more weeks of gridiron to film on sat nights, and then free.
sat morn, sun morn, day... would be cool beans...

just no cop-active periods!!

bjk
04-12-2012, 02:29 PM
Let me know when and where... If im not working, im in!... familia back on the road, so am busting to get that up the gorge again real soon.

I have 2 more weeks of gridiron to film on sat nights, and then free.
sat morn, sun morn, day... would be cool beans...

just no cop-active periods!!

Good to see another Adelaide member lurking about! :D I have no idea when cop-active periods are, haha. You might have to enlighten me on that one. Maybe we could do a beach day and photoshoot, and if people are keen, a run through the hills at night when there's less traffic, as it's a b*tch trying to overtake during the day.

xeon8
04-12-2012, 06:16 PM
I'll have to see when I'm free. Work is quite hectic at the moment, I've been working every day from 9-m. I do have a few Saturdays off though so I'd be down then.

As for ideas, a hills cruise sounds cool; I love those. Lobethal is a sweet drive, I should have my strut bar by then so I'd be keen to test out the handling. Also a photoshoot along the beach sounds good :) Just need the wax and polish out :rolleyes:

bjk
04-12-2012, 06:30 PM
I'll have to see when I'm free. Work is quite hectic at the moment, I've been working every day from 9-m. I do have a few Saturdays off though so I'd be down then.

As for ideas, a hills cruise sounds cool; I love those. Lobethal is a sweet drive, I should have my strut bar by then so I'd be keen to test out the handling. Also a photoshoot along the beach sounds good :) Just need the wax and polish out :rolleyes:

Which saturdays? Sounds like that will be our best bet. I don't seem to have anything in for the next three weeks... the 8th, the 15th or the 22nd.

So we could run down through hills maybe in the early morn (when do you guys wake up? haha) then head off for some beachin' and photos.

xeon8
04-12-2012, 06:35 PM
I've got the next 3 Saturdays off so I'd be keen to go out on either one of those days.

Plans for hills in the morning then beach after that sound perfect. Should be a nice cruise :)

bjk
04-12-2012, 06:40 PM
Weeeell, should we pencil in the 15th? Gives you a bit of time to get your strut bar on and any other people to see what they're doing.

xeon8
04-12-2012, 06:45 PM
Sounds perfect!

bjk
04-12-2012, 07:22 PM
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bLajhH13sgg/TbIvJhyXsBI/AAAAAAAACK4/kKyBTVlXLpA/s1600/Mr%2BBurns.gif

Sam_323
05-12-2012, 02:05 PM
i cant do the 15th, could do the morning, but Gridiron SA grand final that im filming will be on in the arvo-evening... so, possibly the morn for the cruize, but after... prob not.

bjk
05-12-2012, 02:15 PM
i cant do the 15th, could do the morning, but Gridiron SA grand final that im filming will be on in the arvo-evening... so, possibly the morn for the cruize, but after... prob not.

That's cool. Maybe we could hills in the morning (I think that was sort of the idea) and then beach afterwards.

bjk
07-12-2012, 10:18 PM
Bump for where are you Zenki? :)

xeon8
08-12-2012, 11:57 PM
I'm still good for the 15th, and would be down for a morning cruise!

As for photoshoot locations, I usually take most of my photos up in the hills (Gorge, Montacute and Norton Summit roads). Beaches are awesome spots too

Zenki
09-12-2012, 12:55 AM
I would love to come out for the meet & cruise but I am rostered to work on the 15th at noon so I won't be finish until 9-10 :( How about the 13th?

bjk
09-12-2012, 08:23 AM
I would be okay for the 13th, have work, but it's still ages of time to do stuff.

What about you guys, xeon and Sam?

xeon8
09-12-2012, 11:33 AM
No can do for me on the 13th, rostered on at work from 11-8 :( I'm not free from work until the 17th so I'll have to be the party pooper and suggest catching up sometime that week. I'm incredibly sorry guys :(

bjk
09-12-2012, 12:28 PM
You guys are all so difficult. :( :p

How about we start afresh, hahaha. What nights are people free? Like, late. I finish work at about 10pm weekdays, and a night hill cruise would be good for less traffic, and we can work out a day thing for later/next year.

I don't know how much you guys value your sleep though. :)

Are you free the night of the 13th Zenki? If xeon isn't too exhausted after his work, and maybe even Sam might get along. I'm always up for a drive (well, almost always) so I'd be good for something after 10pm.

xeon8
09-12-2012, 03:22 PM
You guys are all so difficult. :( :p

hahaha :o

I'm good for a cruise on the 13th at night; It was just during the day that I was working. ~10pm sounds good to me, too.

As for free nights, I'll be free every night. Its just with Christmas around the corner, work is calling me in literally every day to help out. (with the odd one or two days free, in which case others aren't free then at the same time :o)

bjk
09-12-2012, 03:39 PM
Cool, cool. Well, we'll wait for zenki and Sam to get back. If not maybe it'll just be us two, haha.

Zenki
09-12-2012, 09:28 PM
10pm thursday night sounds good to me ;)

we will work out the day cruise later on

bjk
09-12-2012, 09:46 PM
10pm thursday night sounds good to me ;)

we will work out the day cruise later on

Sweetness. Maybe we can find somewhere lit for a pic, but I'll bring my GoPro along for our dash too.

Anyone have a DSLR? I have an okay camera, but it's not fabulous at night.

xeon8
09-12-2012, 09:54 PM
Yep, I'm bringing my DSLR and possibly a tripod for mad long exposure shots :)

bjk
09-12-2012, 10:18 PM
Yep, I'm bringing my DSLR and possibly a tripod for mad long exposure shots :)

Yet more sweetness. :cool:

Zenki
10-12-2012, 02:52 AM
where are we gonna meet though?

bjk
10-12-2012, 07:25 AM
where are we gonna meet though?

This be a good question. As the clock strikes ten I will be finishing work at Marden, at the shopping centre on the corner of Portrush and Payneham roads. If you want, you guys can meet me there. It depends where we want to cruise.

If we go up the Norton Summit through to Lobethal, we could meet at the service station on the corner of Portrush and Magill rd?

xeon8
10-12-2012, 10:00 AM
I'm happy to meet at either place, they both are about 5 minutes away from where I live so thats not a problem

bjk
10-12-2012, 10:32 AM
Cool, may as well meet at my work then. Also gives me a good reason to not stay back later, haha.

If you go down Marden rd off Payneham, you turn left into the shopping centre, then another left into the undercover parking. I'm usually along that strip.

xeon8
11-12-2012, 03:54 PM
Sweet! Super keen for this meet now :)

Sam_323
11-12-2012, 11:42 PM
sorry guys, thurs night would be perfect!
but can only take the familia out twice a week, currently that stands at wed and sat.
ill be riding my push bike home from work that night. as i finish at 10pm that night
have fun.

bjk
12-12-2012, 12:25 AM
sorry guys, thurs night would be perfect!
but can only take the familia out twice a week, currently that stands at wed and sat.
ill be riding my push bike home from work that night. as i finish at 10pm that night
have fun.

Bummer. :( We'll have to plan ahead for a date when we can all be there.

Sam_323
12-12-2012, 07:38 AM
after gridiron season here would be best... :)
bit more time up sleave, however, after i finish filming gridiron season start work on the astinas... time and money will be going into them :)
but will be keen none-the less

xeon8
12-12-2012, 10:18 PM
Sorry to be a killjoy, but could we make it 10:30pm instead? I'm working late (9pm (but probably wont leave until 9:30)) all the way up at Modbury, so its a fair drive home, and then back to Marden. Thats all :)

bjk
13-12-2012, 09:09 AM
Sorry to be a killjoy, but could we make it 10:30pm instead? I'm working late (9pm (but probably wont leave until 9:30)) all the way up at Modbury, so its a fair drive home, and then back to Marden. Thats all :)

Yeah, no worries. It'll give me time to warm up the engine a bit. ;) Get excited, kids.

Also having a slightly overdue wheel alignment done today, haha.

Sam_323
13-12-2012, 02:57 PM
Ended up taking familia out. What's exactly happening. I'll try and come along.

bjk
13-12-2012, 03:43 PM
Ended up taking familia out. What's exactly happening. I'll try and come along.

At 10.30 we'll be meeting in the carpark of the Marden Shopping centre, off Marden road. Turnoff is about here:

edit: blarg, the map didn't work, but if you're heading north up Marden road, the turnoff is left into the carpark (just past Kent rd), and then pull another into the carpark where we'll be.

Think the plan is to do a run up through Norton Summit way to Lobethal.

http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=magill&daddr=Lobethal,+South+Australia,+Australia&hl=en&ll=-34.931823,138.77861&spn=0.162407,0.338173&sll=-34.920634,138.638449&sspn=0.040607,0.084543&geocode=FY5G6_0dmwZECCkfxFk7VMqwajHAt45iVDYDBQ%3BF e5k6_0dzw1HCCm5kpu8hUO3ajHwto5iVDYDBQ&oq=lobe&t=h&mra=ls&z=12

Then photos and wherever everyone wants to go after that. That's about as far as planning got on my end, haha.

Zenki
14-12-2012, 09:14 AM
REALLY SORRY GUYS! I totally forgot about the meet last night, was thinking that it's Thursday next week! Bummer!

How did it go? Any photos

xeon8
14-12-2012, 09:29 AM
No worries :) We'll organise another day cruise/meet sometime :)

And yep, got some photos. Will upload them when I can get them (or most of them) to actually upload to Photobucket!

bjk
14-12-2012, 11:34 AM
REALLY SORRY GUYS! I totally forgot about the meet last night, was thinking that it's Thursday next week! Bummer!

How did it go? Any photos
I'm afraid we'll have to excommunicate you for this failure. :) And I haven't even met you yet! :p

No worries :) We'll organise another day cruise/meet sometime :)

And yep, got some photos. Will upload them when I can get them (or most of them) to actually upload to Photobucket!

NOOOOO NOT PHOTOBUCKEEETTT.

xeon8
14-12-2012, 01:12 PM
NOOOOO NOT PHOTOBUCKEEETTT.

What do you have against Photobucket? :p

I've also edited some pics from last night, they turned out pretty awesome :D Will upload them too when I get the chance.

bjk
14-12-2012, 01:31 PM
What do you have against Photobucket? :p

I've also edited some pics from last night, they turned out pretty awesome :D Will upload them too when I get the chance.

Because whenever I'm using google images, if I ever get one that's a photobucket picture it either never loads or the user's account has been deleted.

xeon8
14-12-2012, 07:00 PM
I only uploaded a few pictures, but they turned out a little yellow due to the street lights etc, so I tried editing them to change the hue but they just wouldn't turn out properly :o

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z365/xeon980/IMG_0775_zps2b6dcb93.jpg

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z365/xeon980/IMG_0770_zpsb92ec14d.jpg

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z365/xeon980/IMG_0763_zpsd5382159.jpg

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z365/xeon980/IMG_0754_zpsf09a138f.jpg

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z365/xeon980/IMG_0751_zpsd0aaf43f.jpg

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z365/xeon980/IMG_0733_zpsfa0063e4.jpg

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z365/xeon980/IMG_0725_zpsabd5263f.jpg

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z365/xeon980/IMG_0724_zps005b65a7.jpg

Had to get a shot of Adelaide lit up at 1am in the morning :) haha

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z365/xeon980/IMG_0776_zps9cb33ef9.jpg

Zenki
14-12-2012, 09:10 PM
Should we do another one on Sunday night? or beach cruise on Monday afternoon? Any of you free one of those dates?

xeon8
14-12-2012, 09:24 PM
Sunday night is fine, Monday afternoon isn't good for me. I think the next meet should be in the afternoon though, gives us plenty of time to go for a good cruise down to the beach (or similar), then through the hills later on in the evening when there isn't much traffic around. It all depends on who is free or not though.

bjk
14-12-2012, 10:12 PM
I'm going opposites to xeon. Sunday night is not great, but monday would be fine, haha. Agreed on starting in the afternoon though. Day pictures are going to be a lot easier to take, haha. And I want a rolling shot of my car. :)

xeon8
14-12-2012, 10:48 PM
I'll have to check the roster for Monday. Pretty sure I'm working (hence why I said Mon afternoon wasn't good) but I'll double check. I hope I'm free for another cruise :D

xeon8
16-12-2012, 05:33 PM
Good news, I'm not working tomorrow! :D I'm keen for a cruise, let us know of times, meeting spots etc :)

Zenki
16-12-2012, 08:39 PM
Good news, I'm not working tomorrow! :D I'm keen for a cruise, let us know of times, meeting spots etc :)
Sweet! Says about 4-5pm? My car is booked in for a service tomorrow, should be finished by then!

P/S Let me confirm with the mechanic and see if he could finish my car in the afternoon because it's a full service including wheels servicing as well, don't know if he would take long. I'll get back to you once I give him a call tomorrow morning.

bjk
16-12-2012, 09:01 PM
F-yeah, not working either!

Someone else organise times and places. :p I'll be there.

xeon8
16-12-2012, 09:09 PM
Hmm, not too sure where to meet. Haha does anyone have any ideas? Also 4-5pm sounds good, too; Gives me a bit of time to get the car all clean and shiny ;)

HAIGHIE
16-12-2012, 09:41 PM
good to see you's getting a seen happening down in SA spreading the AGT comunity.

will be looking out for future meet pics :)

bjk
16-12-2012, 09:53 PM
Sweet! Says about 4-5pm? My car is booked in for a service tomorrow, should be finished by then!

P/S Let me confirm with the mechanic and see if he could finish my car in the afternoon because it's a full service including wheels servicing as well, don't know if he would take long. I'll get back to you once I give him a call tomorrow morning.
Will keep an eye on this thread then!
good to see you's getting a seen happening down in SA spreading the AGT comunity.

will be looking out for future meet pics :)
We may be small in number, but we are mighty in strength.

Metaphorically speaking, that is, haha.

bjk
16-12-2012, 09:58 PM
Also, had a little fiddle with a few of your shots Nick. They're less yellow... but also less brilliant as a side effect. Not sure if they're any "better" or not.

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/351/b/e/parked_by_modnar_redrosid-d5oabpi.jpg

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/351/f/5/lobethal_by_modnar_redrosid-d5oabnk.jpg

xeon8
16-12-2012, 10:15 PM
Definitely less yellow which is a good thing, but to me the colours look a little bit washed out instead? Good effort though, still better then my editing... I probably made them more yellow if anything! :o

bjk
16-12-2012, 10:23 PM
Definitely less yellow which is a good thing, but to me the colours look a little bit washed out instead? Good effort though, still better then my editing... I probably made them more yellow if anything! :o

Yeah, that comes with dropping the saturation. As I said, not sure if better, more just like different, haha. Whatever we do Monday, we're getting day shots, haha.

xeon8
17-12-2012, 11:20 AM
So, whats the plan for today then? :)

Zenki
17-12-2012, 12:57 PM
Just got informed by my mechanic that my front & rear sway bar links are gone and need to be replaced asap, also broken front engine mount and slightly leak at the driveshaft he would need a car until tomorrow to do it so today is no good for me now :( Sorry for being a fun killer guys :(

bjk
17-12-2012, 12:57 PM
Plan:

1. Make plan.
2. ???

Edit: in light of the above. Wait?

xeon8
17-12-2012, 01:15 PM
No problems, Harry. We'll wait for another day to go for a cruise :)