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This is a long convoy, we will face the issues that come with long convoys. There is a Fewbie drive led by @JeromeFJ in the same area at the same time in case anyone is interested.

@Bashar Beasha, @Jaro Tuzinsky, @Jona, @Benjamin, @Mohamad Anwer, @Joseph Raju, @Mohit Gurnani, @Joji varghese, @Gary F, @Rajiv Sam, @Anoop Nair, @Gok Krish, @Bjoern cc: @Hisham Masaad I will be posting the convoy order in the afternoon. Request you all to check your calendars and exit if you have any other plans late in the day or tomorrow so that you don't have to leave the drive after the convoy order is prepared or be a no-show. Thank you

In ios apart from enabling always for location service as well as precise location, I also disabled “better location accuracy when plugged in” in power setting - this make the track recording a lot better for me.

@Haneef Thayyil what app are you using to record your drive?

@Gok Krish Don’t do anything. Just wait.

There is no specific announcement as such. It is only if you are interested. At least I will be driving to Qudra Roundabout through desert and if anyone interested they can join. More the merrier.

I can only think it was because of the Sonic drive - shouldn't have done it. Don't worry about it. The situation will take care of it by itself towards the end of the week.

For all those who are camping, if interested please bring I a radio; for next morning about 7:00 a.m. -ish someone will lead a convoy through Route 66 to Qudra Roundabout. It will be an hour to hour and a half easy drive.

Congratulations @Martin M. Well done 👍.

Congratulations @Mohit Gurnani well done. I’ll see you in more drives now.

Thanks @Mahmoud Taha (skull design), @Bashar Beasha (name suggestions), @Stumpy Paj (logo font & colour suggestions) & @Bravoecho (valuable inputs) for working on an off-off-road project to get the team logo and banner out.

you had our share of pop-outs. I can not even count how many times I thought I will have a pop-out in our drive due to wet muddy sand and sliding though them...

This is the first IM drive that I posted. It was only a portion of drive of the Team Looper practice run in which we started from the 2nd Dec Cafe and ended at Shuwaib. In that drive we did around ±85 km. But what I didn't realise at that time but later that we did a fantastic amount of milage on this drive about ±92 km. Today's rule was: do not fight gravity and giving in to the tracks and go where they take you. It was a miracle that we did not have any pop outs and only had few refusals that the driver could self-recover and at no time we had needed any kind of assistance from others in any of the refusals. In the morning when we started it was a bit nasty, due to all the wet sand in that area. everyone was struggling and perhaps looking back on the choices they made to join this drive. As the sun kept rising the convoy got into the rhythm and we found our matching tune. It was a lot more fun drive after we left Iftar Bowl and we found a some fantastic spots after we crossed Super Bowl behind, which is a trash bind for all intends and purposes. I loved the small technical patch we did. Frankly It has been ages that I have seen pristine desert. I could have driven more in that place, riding on the bland ridges it was 100% therapeutic for me. @Patrick van der Loo, @Bjoern, @Ranjan Das, @Bashar Beasha, @Jona, @Amir Amiri, @Rob S, @Rajiv Sam - Thank you all for joining. See you in the next one. My other phone shows 92.06 km for the same track and 26.6 kmph.