| Subject: Aviemore; Getting there.... |
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Jim Ewen
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Date Posted: 10:34:32 04/19/02 Fri
If you're travelling to Aviemore for the race, and not 'local', this may help.................
To Scotland; by road (from the South, I assume!) up the A9. Easy enough, but watch for speed cameras from Perth Northward; they have grown in number this year. Also there are more unmarked patrol cars in use now, as Spring is the time when the many mid-life crisis myopic bikers are smearing themselves all over the countryside.....The A1 East Coast is also well equipped with cameras, but the A7 from Carlisle to Edin. and the A74 Carlisle to Glagow-ish are both 'free'
To Scotland; by air, Flying to Inverness is really the best way, but it's a smaller airport with fewer flights than Aberdeen. Aberdeen is British Airways from London, or KLM / Northwest from Schipol, as well as Easy Jet etc. If you really must end up coming by this route, the rest might be relevant......If you are rail-ing it up here from England, you have no problems; enjoy the views.......
To Scotland: by air; once you get here, Aberdeen to Aviemore is the bitch; only 50 miles West, but could be a looooong 50 miles.....taxi from Airport to centre of town will be around $15
To Aberdeen; on the cheap; Lots of road freight goes up the East coast to Aberdeen (Fish and Oil related, mainly). If you are broke, chase up a haulier and see if they can help; I've got big deliveries / lifts up here this way for the cost of a couple of pints to the driver / his Boss etc.
Aberdeen to Aviemore; Car hire; probably best way
Aberdeen to Aviemore; by rail: do-able, but you need to change trains in Inverness to get to Aviemore. Service from Aberdeen is around hourly. Total journey takes around three hours and costs $40 / £27 return
Aberdeen to Aviemore; by bus; No. Sell a kidney first if economics are likely to force you do this, but if you are really strapped for $$$£££, this is a cheap option which will work....but take the Kwells with you. Again Aberdeen to Inverness, then change to Aviemore. Hourly service. Costs around <$27 / £18 return
In Aberdeen, the Bus station and the Rail station are next to each other. There is a Travel Lodge a two minute walk from the station, and the only two board shops in town both either a two or a three minute walk respectively....not a lot of stuff other than traditional skateboards, but they do stock bearings etc., and the guy will try to help. Nearest stockist of anything more exotic is Edinburgh, 130 miles south, though their stock is a little better
If you get into deep shit in the Aberdeen area for any reason, call me on 01569 731229 (House) or 01224 851255 (work) or 07719 475216 (Mobile) and I'll see if I can help. I'll be at Friday practice, but going home that night to come back across on Sat & Sunday, so if you have the misfortune to break any non-organic bits on the Friday, I can perhaps do some panic welding / straightening jobs for you. Find me if you need this. I'm one of the three Jocks who are entered to date, and chances are that we will be easily found as we will probably all look pasty and white next to the vast numbers of West Coast Yanks floating around.....! I can personally be found running perpetually at the back of the field on a luge. (The other local entrants will no doubt also help out anyone who is 'stuck'.....I'm sure we'll make ourselves known!)
Might not matter, but on Monday 3rd, it's Liz Windsor, Jolly Queen of England's Golden Jubilee, and many of the more Royalist organisations / places (even up here!) have declared a Public Holiday; some things might be closed / quiet on that day......
Chalky: Met you once at Dalby. Best of luck with your recovery, and I recommend design / fabrication time in your workshop as good therapy and rehabilitation for as long as you can't ride.... assume you will recycle the titanium into something useful?
Mr Cool: re. your pursuit of sponsorship / advertising for the event and the programme; try Granite Reef Boardriders in Aberdeen, Tel 01224 252752, or at www.granitereef.com . This guy spot on, is keen, and wants to try this sport. He might go for the £xx 'standard' ad, or the "better, new, improved Sponsor deal', of double the £xx and give him an opportunity trial on a luge?; he has a mo-bike thus has leathers and helmet. He will probably turn up over the weekend and might be on to give some wider support in xchange for exposure to his shop. These guys are also usually good for sponsor prizes from their stock...?
Will you have any advertising bumph? If I had not caught a BBC Scotland TV article last year, I'd never have know of the event. If you do get advertising printed, send me a swatch and I'll spread it around.
Other sponsor / advertiser options locally might be:-
Board Sports @ Urbanology Elgin, www.urbanology.demon.co.uk
Boarderline Aberdeen 01224 626996 www.boarderline.co.uk . (They have previously sponsored / supported roller hockey events we have held around here, and the owners have Aviemore connections, so they might be keen)
Boardwise, Lady Lawson St. Edinburgh, 0131 229 5887
Skate / Snow / Surf, www.espscotland.uk.com , Elgin
Craigdon Sports, Craigdon House, Inverurie, 01467 625855
There is a board shop in High Street, Aviemore; I assume you have them on board (sic). I'll chase up all / any from this end as I can
Hope some / any of this is useful
Cheers
J
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