Please join us for our first East Bay Area run in 2008.

Date: 02/10/08
Where: Peet's Coffee & Tea
3518 Mt. Diablo Blvd.
Lafayette, CA 94549
Time: 8:30am (9am departure)
Lunch: Bosco's Bones & Brew (11:45 am)
11922 Main Street
Sunol, CA 94586
End: Ed's Mudville Grill (3:15 pm)
6200 Center Street
Clayton, CA 94517

Our run will be 143 miles long and will last approximately 6.25 hours (including lunch & stops).

Maps are available online and RSVP on the Calendar. Bring some snacks, water, camera, cell phone, and 2-way radio set at channel 7, subchannel 21

 

It looks like this will be another very well attended run.
If you have participated in REME events, then you know what to expect. We drive, socialize, and eat (and we occassionally go on field trips to really cool places).

If you have not participated in one of our events I encourage you to experience REME.

 

Thats the same day as the Fourth annual Kieths run on Mines Road. Alot of Norcal people will be busy that day.

 

Larry, our run has been posted on our site since the second week of December (the whole 2008 calendar is posted). Worse case is that our mutual members will have a choice.

As it stands now, we are going to have a pretty good group on the run. You are welcome to join our run if you want to reschedule your Keith's run.

 

Looks like we are going to have an outstanding turn out for our first East Bay run in 2008. Maps are available online and RSVP on the Calendar.

 

Just a "heads-up" that it has been reported that Redwood Road and Palomares Canyon Road are heavily patrolled by the Alameda County Sheriffs. Apparently due to recent local residence complaints of fast cars and motorcycles. So watchout and keep an eye out.

Also Patterson Pass Rd. is very twisty and fun, but does have some blind curves.

So let's all have fun, but be safe

 

Howard reports that Patterson Pass Road is pretty consistant in size, shape, and activity as to the other roads we routinely travel on during our monthly runs. We should take the CHP warnings seriously though.

 

Right in my back yard ...!

CRRIKEY and I arn't racing that weekend (planned on doing some prep)

At the very least we will come to Eds and say "HI".

 

30 cars are signed up to date...

 

COR BLMY, will you be joining us on the run or just for lunch?

 

Please join us for our first East Bay Area run in 2008.

Date: 02/10/08
Where: Peet's Coffee & Tea
3518 Mt. Diablo Blvd.
Lafayette, CA 94549
Time: 8:30am (9am departure)
Lunch: Bosco's Bones & Brew (11:45 am)
11922 Main Street
Sunol, CA 94586
End: Ed's Mudville Grill (3:15 pm)
6200 Center Street
Clayton, CA 94517

Our run will be 143 miles long and will last approximately 6.25 hours (including lunch & stops).

Maps are available online and RSVP on the Calendar. Bring some snacks, water, camera, cell phone, and 2-way radio set at channel 7, subchannel 21

 

Kat and I preran on Sunday.

Video Here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo7dB4OVEt0

 

We hit 32 cars today which RSVP'd

 

Checking the weather forecast for Sunday, looks like this:
Roads - Twisty & smooth
Views - Spectacular
Lafayette H61 L 44 Partly Cloudy 10% chance of precip.
Oakland H64 L 46 Partly Cloudy 10% chance of precip.
Sunol H65 L44 Partly Cloudy 10% chance of precip.
Clayton H63 L44 Partly Cloudy 10% chance of precip.

 

WOW... Looks like it's going to be a beautiful weekend. As of this morning, we have 36 REME member cars signed up! My guess we will have at least 38+ with a few MOASF participants!

If you can't make this one, we have a Mount Tam Run planned for March 1st.

 

Sunny weather, lots of cool cars cars, fun with friends... don't miss it!

 

Wow what a day... beautiful weather, 38 beautiful cars, fantastic lunch, and 143 miles of pure driving pleasure. A big thank you to Kat for planning the run and being our new South-East Bay Area Chapter Chairman.

 

Wow, you guys looked AWESOME! We were heading up in our '05 MCSC from Santa Cruz to visit Mom in Moraga, and were just getting to the end of the twisties coming from Redwood/Canyon when we said COOL a mini TWO minis THREE MINIS woooow look, a whole MINI rally!

So many gorgeous MINIs and Minis like we've not seen before; it was so tempting to flip a U and get in line...

We'll join you next time! Thanks for spicing up Canyon!

Marco & Bea, waving at you from the cool blue S cabrio

 

For photos of this run (and past runs) please visit the REME MegaBBS Photo Gallery.

The photos are indexed by the date and event.

See the Miniology Electric Crayon Video.

 

Marco, Our next run is on March 1st in West Marin & Southern Sonoma County. Please join the fun. Membership in REME is free and you can sign up using our online application. You will need to register separately on our REME MegaBBS where you can RSVP for all events.

I look forward to meeting you on one of our future runs!

 

Haven't figured out how to post pictures on the REME site yet, so here's my favorite photo from today's run:

 

great mirror shot...

 

hi I'm ben and I was wondering if you know of cheap maintenance besides the dealer, I want to save money on maitenance on my mini cooper 05 S

thanks
ben
thien703@yahoo.com

 

PM sent

 

Redwood Empire Mini Enthusiasts made it to both the front page of the Pleasant Hill - Martinez Record (02-13-08) and page 16 of the Concord Transcript (02-14-08). A brief summary of our run was listed as well as a few photographs!

With around 35 participating cars, REME took the east bay by surprise. Thank you to Kat Noble, our East Bay Chapter Chairman for organizing the run and to everyone that sent me copies of the newspaper. They will be stored in the club archives.

REME will have a Marin County Mount Tam run on Saturday, March 1. We already have 34 cars signed up. Please join us Saturday Morning for a full day of fun and driving.