Depending on interest, the idea is to set up some SMS groups for the Sydney area.

This is designed to faciltate getting members together for spontaneous cruises in their part of Sydney.

We still anticipate more long range web-organised Sydney based cruises being set up in the future (looks like Waldo has temporarily resigned - anyone interested in becoming the Sydney Cruise Director?).

However, spur of the moment stuff is harder with busy Sydney people. We're not on the net all the time and get-together opportunities pass most of us by. Hopefully, this will get more members together more often and stimulate more interest in other web-organised activities like mass cruises, etc.

The way it is envisaged to work is for regional groups to be set up (roughly, north, south, east and west). That way, if someone in the north group (say) decides he/she is going to give their local fave roads a workout, he/she can SMS the north group and anyone available and interested can join in. Of course, if a planned route is going to encompass the other regions, there's no reason why the SMS can't go out to all groups.

kunz has offered to set these up for us. If you're interested, please PM your mobile and suburb to him. If enough people participate we'll advise details of operation here.

All constructive suggestions welcome. This is still an early idea and we just wanted to see if there was any interest.

 

i think its a good idea, i'd say give it a go and see...

i'd join, but im "abit" too far away from sydney atm.....

maybe kunal can set one up for Vic ppl.... *hint hint*

 

Up to kunz I guess.

Query whether Melbourne needs one though. Seems to be a tighter knit 8 community down there with more group participation. Something Sydney is yet to really achieve. Hopefully this will get us started.

 

Eric, no dramas if VIC's want to be part of the groups. Everyone interested can forward their numbers to me via PM.

Setup can be done easily, I'll start adding numbers as I get them.

 

Kunal,
How is this set up? Sounds like a bloody good idea to me.

 

Sounds like an ACT group could be on the cards.

 

Would be great, as some of them are a bit slow to check the websites. Would save me having to send PMs all the time.

 

Tim Tam,

My company is an SMS provider. We provide bulk SMS using an online interface for companies to send SMS to their customers/employees etc.

 

yeah... get TT's number and register it for all the junk SMS services you can get... that'd make TT feeling special ;-P

 

Yes, just make sure that "junk" has something to do with ****!

 

Junk in the trunk?

 

Howdy guys,

I'm interested but live in the gong so bit hard for me.

But if anyone cruises near the gong way let me know.

Cheers

Chris

 

No reason not to subscribe. There's plenty of guys who live south and south west.

The only way this'll work is if enough people jump on board and give it a go.

So stop playing cool and send your mobile in. You know you want to.

 

super,
from memory, there are a couple of ppl from the gong.... sorry cant rememebr their forum usernames. i will PM you if i rememebr.

 

Ok its done, now waiting by my phone for SMS to come through and i'll be right hey.. Lol

Cheers

Chris

 

Good on you Chris.

Tell you what, my brother lives at Appin. Next time I'm down that way I'll send you an SMS and you can show me your local fave twisties.

 

Awesome.. keep em coming guys.. i'll set it up as soon as I get a couple more numbers; then we can just add them as we get them.

 

I'm in PM sent!!

 

Ok guys, its been setup.

At the moment we have the following users for the Sydney group:

(Super8)
(kunz)
(mikeyr)
(Revolver)
(kiet1)
(RXP33D)
(playa78)
(azzaboynt)
(d00nson)
(Ironhead)

Keep those PM's coming in if you're interested!

I'll give access to the online interface to some other people so they can manage the list and broadcast as the list grows..

 

I've received my introductory text.

 

wooo

 

I've sent out a test text message to all on the Sydney Group. If you didn't get it, let me know.