Mercedes-Benz Goes Back to Nature

[Guest notti]

Hi all!

I just returned from a convoy of 40+ cars complete with police escort (we didn't stop at any traffic lights!) to Kuala Rompin organised by C&C yesterday and was wondering if there are any SG Merc members who has participated in the event as well.

It was a very exciting funfilled 3 Days-2 Nights stay at Summerset Resort.

Would like to exchange photos and contacts.

As a newbie, I look forward to any interesting B-Road drive organised by brudders and sizters here.TQ! :pray:

[Guest wuyiche]

Hey notti, you can check with gaston, pm him... he may have gone up in his M-class....

as for B road drives, check out the following thread...

http://www.sgmerc.com/forum/index.php?topic=2574.45

do join us on the 20th if you can...

[Guest GASTON]

Hi all!

I just returned from a convoy of 40+ cars complete with police escort (we didn't stop at any traffic lights!) to Kuala Rompin organised by C&C yesterday and was wondering if there are any SG Merc members who has participated in the event as well.

It was a very exciting funfilled 3 Days-2 Nights stay at Summerset Resort.

Would like to exchange photos and contacts.

As a newbie, I look forward to any interesting B-Road drive organised by brudders and sizters here.TQ! :pray:

Hello Notti,

I too went for the back to nature drive by cycle. I drove the M Class. Which car did you take? With over a 100 people joining the event, we most probably have missed to Chat.

I do remember stopping on the lights though....

You got to give it to Pit crew for handling over 40 cars in a convoy. I think they did a pretty good job. The hotel could be so much better though.

I broke convoy on the way back, for I found it too slow to run with over 40 cars in a convoy. what time did you manage to get to the shell station to return the walkies?

[Guest Titan]

Hi GASTON & Notti

I too went for the Back to the Nature Drive :punk1: I drove the black SLK. GASTON, are you the one that I loan you the umbrella?

Agreed that the Pit Crew did a great job to lead such a big convoy :thumbsup: We only managed to reach the petrol station at about 6pm++ as there is some confusion towards the last 45mins drive when we are heading into a small town w heavy traffic.

[Guest Cklasse]

I guess you guys now know the importance of walkie in a convoy drive.

We always insist on having a walkie for our B-road drive and encourage members who join our other drive to get one too.

[Guest fruitcakepablohoney]

Hi guys, glad you enjoyed your trip. Next year, sgmerc will be organising another trip so watch out for it. :iconsalut:

[Guest notti]

GASTON ]

Hi all!

I just returned from a convoy of 40+ cars complete with police escort (we didn' wrote:

Hello Notti,

I too went for the back to nature drive by cycle. I drove the M Class. Which car did you take? With over a 100 people joining the event, we most probably have missed to Chat.

I do remember stopping on the lights though....

You got to give it to Pit crew for handling over 40 cars in a convoy. I think they did a pretty good job. The hotel could be so much better though.

I broke convoy on the way back, for I found it too slow to run with over 40 cars in a convoy. what time did you manage to get to the shell station to return the walkies?

Hi Ghaston,

I remembered, you went with your wife and daughter. I drove in a blue B class. Only the place of interests and convoy to lunches/dinners has no police escort as those are pretty near where we stayed and therefore considered safe. But other than that, all of us felt what foreign head of state feels like (feedback from most of the participants) I remembered covoy #2 has problems catching up and they have to stop at traffic light a couple of times though.

Yah, I saw you broke the convoy after lunch and the first thing we thought was you are travelling to another state For the rest of us, the convoy experience reminded some of us of military movement order. Some imprefections spice up the trip. otherwise it will be another city driving that we have in spore

Are you guys local?

[Guest notti]

Hi FCPH,

I would love to join in on the 20th Dec B drive but I am slated to be in KL during that weekend.

Next year will be better. Looking forward to meet you guys for the first time!

[Guest notti]

Hi GASTON & Notti

I too went for the Back to the Nature Drive :punk1: I drove the black SLK. GASTON, are you the one that I loan you the umbrella?

Agreed that the Pit Crew did a great job to lead such a big convoy :thumbsup: We only managed to reach the petrol station at about 6pm++ as there is some confusion towards the last 45mins drive when we are heading into a small town w heavy traffic.

Hi Titan,

Say hi to Irene *chuckled*

We should catch up

[Guest Titan]

Hi GASTON & Notti

I too went for the Back to the Nature Drive :punk1: I drove the black SLK. GASTON, are you the one that I loan you the umbrella?

Agreed that the Pit Crew did a great job to lead such a big convoy :thumbsup: We only managed to reach the petrol station at about 6pm++ as there is some confusion towards the last 45mins drive when we are heading into a small town w heavy traffic.

Hi Titan,

Say hi to Irene *chuckled*

We should catch up

Hmmm ... blue B class then I surmise you are our dinner buddy 8.)

[Guest GASTON]

Hi GASTON & Notti

I too went for the Back to the Nature Drive :punk1: I drove the black SLK. GASTON, are you the one that I loan you the umbrella?

Agreed that the Pit Crew did a great job to lead such a big convoy :thumbsup: We only managed to reach the petrol station at about 6pm++ as there is some confusion towards the last 45mins drive when we are heading into a small town w heavy traffic.

Hello Titan,

Yes indeed. that's me. Very much appreciated. I hope I didn't get you soaked by taking your umbrella though. I spoke to you about your boot space right? Are you going for the B road drive on the 20th and the D and D on the evening of the same day? I signed up for the D and D, hope to catch up with you guys there again.

there is also a wine tasting session H20 is organizing for the 12th. I may try to make it on that one too. If I'm not mistaken there are still slots available on that. Please check the latest announcement section.

Past 6? :yawn: am I glad I took off. :3some:

got a chance to push the M Class on the B road.

[keltanky]

got a chance to push the M Class on the B road.

oh my, M on B ....

hmmm no bounce?? :la:

but its sure nice to have a high driving commanding position

[Guest GASTON]

I guess you guys now know the importance of walkie in a convoy drive.

We always insist on having a walkie for our B-road drive and encourage members who join our other drive to get one too.

Hi Cklasse,

We had walkies on the convoy. It was the vertex from Nick. So we had decent radios on the trip. The problem was having one, on occassion two lead car, running a 40+ convoy on the same channel. I forgot to take note, but I think the convoy would have been as long as 500 meters! IMO, they should have broken down the convoy into smaller groups of 7 or 8 and used different channels for each convoy but the obvious lack of leaders and sweepers would have made it impossible to do that. For all its worth, they did a good job handling that many cars and everyone reached home safe. That's the most important thing.

Cheers!

[Guest GASTON]

notti ]

Hi all!

I just returned from a convoy of 40+ cars complete with police escort (we didn' wrote:

Hello Notti,

I too went for the back to nature drive by cycle. I drove the M Class. Which car did you take? With over a 100 people joining the event, we most probably have missed to Chat.

I do remember stopping on the lights though....

You got to give it to Pit crew for handling over 40 cars in a convoy. I think they did a pretty good job. The hotel could be so much better though.

I broke convoy on the way back, for I found it too slow to run with over 40 cars in a convoy. what time did you manage to get to the shell station to return the walkies?

Hi Ghaston,

I remembered, you went with your wife and daughter. I drove in a blue B class. Only the place of interests and convoy to lunches/dinners has no police escort as those are pretty near where we stayed and therefore considered safe. But other than that, all of us felt what foreign head of state feels like (feedback from most of the participants) I remembered covoy #2 has problems catching up and they have to stop at traffic light a couple of times though.

Yah, I saw you broke the convoy after lunch and the first thing we thought was you are travelling to another state For the rest of us, the convoy experience reminded some of us of military movement order. Some imprefections spice up the trip. otherwise it will be another city driving that we have in spore

Are you guys local?

Hello Notti,

Yes, that's us. I guess it was easy to identify us for we were only 1 of 2 ML's in the whole convoy. You must have been in front of the convoy coming up from Singapore so you were close to the patrol car. I was always at the tail end of the convoy so, we had to stop at some junctions. Did we get the chance to sit together in a table during the trip?

Yeah, I broke convoy because I wanted to speed up. :yawn: Had a dinner party to rush home too. ;D This was the second time I rode with Pit Crew so they expected us to break convoy anyways. They actually expected us to break convoy as early as coming up to the destinationas soon as they mentioned the speed limit. ;D I wonder what they were thinking. :bboyspin:

Nope, we are not....

As mentioned above to Titan, I will be in the D and D and most likely be at the wine tasting by H20 on the 12th. It would be great to catch up with you sometime soon.

cheers!

[Guest GASTON]

got a chance to push the M Class on the B road.

oh my, M on B ....

hmmm no bounce?? :la:

but its sure nice to have a high driving commanding position

Plenty of bounce.... plus the road were tight and uneven.....so more bounce. ;D

[Guest wuyiche]

I guess you guys now know the importance of walkie in a convoy drive.

We always insist on having a walkie for our B-road drive and encourage members who join our other drive to get one too.

Hi Cklasse,

We had walkies on the convoy. It was the vertex from Nick. So we had decent radios on the trip. The problem was having one, on occassion two lead car, running a 40+ convoy on the same channel. I forgot to take note, but I think the convoy would have been as long as 500 meters! IMO, they should have broken down the convoy into smaller groups of 7 or 8 and used different channels for each convoy but the obvious lack of leaders and sweepers would have made it impossible to do that. For all its worth, they did a good job handling that many cars and everyone reached home safe. That's the most important thing.

Cheers!

hey gaston, you can go back to nick and ask him to tune your walkie to receive the sgmerc frequency.. it'll be easier next time should you decide to join sgmerc for a drive...

[Guest GASTON]

wuyiche ]

I guess you guys now know the importance of walkie in a convoy drive.

We always insist on having a walkie for our B-road drive and encourage members who join our other drive to get one too.

Hi Cklasse,

We had walkies on the convoy. It was the vertex from Nick. So we had decent radios on the trip. The problem was having one, on occassion two lead car, running a 40+ convoy on the same channel. I forgot to take note, but I think the convoy would have been as long as 500 meters! IMO, they should have broken down the convoy into smaller groups of 7 or 8 and used different channels for each convoy but the obvious lack of leaders and sweepers would have made it impossible to do that. For all its worth, they did a good job handling that many cars and everyone reached home safe. That' wrote:

hey gaston, you can go back to nick and ask him to tune your walkie to receive the sgmerc frequency.. it'll be easier next time should you decide to join sgmerc for a drive...

Hi Wu,

doesn't it work with our radios? we got some 12 channels programmed on it was hoping SGMERC channel was one of them. Have you tried it on your walkie? will check with Nick if SGMERC freq is on my radio already. Thanks for the advise.

Cheers!

[Guest wuyiche]

well in my case ... sgmerc was not on...

I asked him and he programmed it in for me.. think the 12 channels that were programmed in by him may be all PCS channels.

btw .. suppose this goes for notti and titan too... if you guys haven't picked up a walkie... and you think you might like to join us for drives... check with nicholas chia from T3 bikes... PM me and i'll pass you the number..

OR better yet - we can all ask our fellow forumer NARMI !!! :clap: you guys can get the walkie's from him and ask him to tune them to sgmerc's freq... :2guns:

[Guest GASTON]

well in my case ... sgmerc was not on...

I asked him and he programmed it in for me.. think the 12 channels that were programmed in by him may be all PCS channels.

btw .. suppose this goes for notti and titan too... if you guys haven't picked up a walkie... and you think you might like to join us for drives... check with nicholas chia from T3 bikes... PM me and i'll pass you the number..

OR better yet - we can all ask our fellow forumer NARMI !!! :clap: you guys can get the walkie's from him and ask him to tune them to sgmerc's freq... :2guns:

Thanks Wu. will check with Nick.

Cheers!

[Guest notti]

Hi GASTON & Notti

I too went for the Back to the Nature Drive :punk1: I drove the black SLK. GASTON, are you the one that I loan you the umbrella?

Agreed that the Pit Crew did a great job to lead such a big convoy :thumbsup: We only managed to reach the petrol station at about 6pm++ as there is some confusion towards the last 45mins drive when we are heading into a small town w heavy traffic.

Hi Titan,

Say hi to Irene *chuckled*

We should catch up

Hmmm ... blue B class then I surmise you are our dinner buddy 8.)

Yes, Georgia recieved sms from irene already. Have you collected your 2 dogs, hope they didn't slim down while you are away

I am leaving the side decals till end of the year cos it looks kinda neat

[Guest notti]

Hello Notti,

Yes, that's us. I guess it was easy to identify us for we were only 1 of 2 ML's in the whole convoy. You must have been in front of the convoy coming up from Singapore so you were close to the patrol car. I was always at the tail end of the convoy so, we had to stop at some junctions. Did we get the chance to sit together in a table during the trip?

Yeah, I broke convoy because I wanted to speed up. :yawn: Had a dinner party to rush home too. ;D This was the second time I rode with Pit Crew so they expected us to break convoy anyways. They actually expected us to break convoy as early as coming up to the destinationas soon as they mentioned the speed limit. ;D I wonder what they were thinking. :bboyspin:

Nope, we are not....

As mentioned above to Titan, I will be in the D and D and most likely be at the wine tasting by H20 on the 12th. It would be great to catch up with you sometime soon.

cheers!

Hi Gaston

Wow, are you working late? still writing threads as almost 2am!? Yes, I reckon you are in the last of the few cars in convoy #2. I was driving behind car #43 (the other M Class) but have to maintain a safe distance because of it's height even though the marshalls asked us to keep the convoy " tight "

This is the 2nd time you are with PitCrew? Is your first organised by C&C as well?

No, we didn't manage to share tables cos most of the time we are "booked" by Titan and the 70 something yrs old couple (Mr & Mrs Ong) with the s class

I will be in KL on D&D and would catch up to extend our friendship in merc alumni

[Guest notti]

well in my case ... sgmerc was not on...

I asked him and he programmed it in for me.. think the 12 channels that were programmed in by him may be all PCS channels.

btw .. suppose this goes for notti and titan too... if you guys haven't picked up a walkie... and you think you might like to join us for drives... check with nicholas chia from T3 bikes... PM me and i'll pass you the number..

OR better yet - we can all ask our fellow forumer NARMI !!! :clap: you guys can get the walkie's from him and ask him to tune them to sgmerc's freq... :2guns:

Wu

Thanks we will keep that in mind. How much is Narmi's or Nic's walkies selling for?

[Guest wuyiche]

notti ]

well in my case ... sgmerc was not on...

I asked him and he programmed it in for me.. think the 12 channels that were programmed in by him may be all PCS channels.

btw .. suppose this goes for notti and titan too... if you guys haven' wrote:

Wu

Thanks we will keep that in mind. How much is Narmi's or Nic's walkies selling for?

better that you ask them... i'll pm you nic's number. you can seperately pm narmi.

[Guest Titan]

Hi GASTON & Notti

I too went for the Back to the Nature Drive :punk1: I drove the black SLK. GASTON, are you the one that I loan you the umbrella?

Agreed that the Pit Crew did a great job to lead such a big convoy :thumbsup: We only managed to reach the petrol station at about 6pm++ as there is some confusion towards the last 45mins drive when we are heading into a small town w heavy traffic.

Hello Titan,

Yes indeed. that's me. Very much appreciated. I hope I didn't get you soaked by taking your umbrella though. I spoke to you about your boot space right? Are you going for the B road drive on the 20th and the D and D on the evening of the same day? I signed up for the D and D, hope to catch up with you guys there again.

there is also a wine tasting session H20 is organizing for the 12th. I may try to make it on that one too. If I'm not mistaken there are still slots available on that. Please check the latest announcement section.

Past 6? :yawn: am I glad I took off. :3some:

got a chance to push the M Class on the B road.

Hi GASTON,

Don't mention about the umbrella, you have your little girl w you and keeping her dry is important . Unfortunately will have to miss the up-coming events, will be away on the 16th-22nd of Dec, nonetheless we will catchup soon.

In the convoy, by chance am always either behind a M class :tongue1: or a S class so have to keep the distance and not able to close up the gap and seeing the road ahead is ..... :2guns: After the whole trip, the car drives and feels different... Everything seems to be smooth and good, perhaps its finally properly run it :punk1:.

[Guest Titan]

well in my case ... sgmerc was not on...

I asked him and he programmed it in for me.. think the 12 channels that were programmed in by him may be all PCS channels.

btw .. suppose this goes for notti and titan too... if you guys haven't picked up a walkie... and you think you might like to join us for drives... check with nicholas chia from T3 bikes... PM me and i'll pass you the number..

OR better yet - we can all ask our fellow forumer NARMI !!! :clap: you guys can get the walkie's from him and ask him to tune them to sgmerc's freq... :2guns:

Thanks wuyiche for your tips, will PM Narmi