Touge Alliance

Being a Saturday evening we were expecting big things from the now annual "Spit-roast Cruise"

With the evening beginning with tea at 6:30pm at Cafe B, we had quite a few people rock up for a massive feed including many plates of chips & wedges provided by some generous Touge members. Thanks to Jessie's step dad for making dinner a riot :lol:

After we had finished stuffing ourselves we headed to the cars to have, what turned out to be, an "interesting" cruise.

We moved off in an orderly fashion through Athelstone to go UP Gorge Road - normally only get to go down (nothing dirty intended) - on our way to Lobethal. We had a couple of indiscretions on they way but nothing our illustrious leaders couldn't sort out.

We had a little break in Lobethal for a chat, wee & shift of road position then moved on the "back way" to Mount Lofty Summit.

Whilst this stretch of road seemed to like holding the water it was a smooth cruise with many great tight corners & looooong sweepers. The thick fog was also hanging around making the wet even more fun. A couple of us got the unfortunate pleasure of meeting a white Honda on the way, who decided it was his night to be a TOOL!! We eventually made it to our stop & came across an interesting surprise.

Touge was not the only club to meet up here; HardTuned.com rocked up shortly after. There was also a wedding reception that was also on made car parking tight.

After watching HardTuned.com depart we made our merry way down Greenhill Road, which was a winner, as the weather had started to dry up & the roads were drying nicely.

Unfortunately the rest of the Touge crew seemed to get the unfortunate pleasure of meeting the white Honda on his way down the mountain, but his attitude had not changed & caused many a near miss, including oncoming traffic.

We all finished up at Burnside Shopping Centre for a chat with people dispersing in many different directions

Saturday August 28 dawned a cold morning as Touge Alliance members Jason Bradbrook and Jared Green met with a couple friends in the Adelaide Hills town of Kersbrook. While cold and windy it wasn’t raining which was a relief – the weather reports had been forecasting rain all week. The initial meeting was a cruise to a ‘Come and Try’ event at the Collingrove Hillclimb, one of Australia’s premier Hillclimb venues.

For those who don’t know, Hillclimb is a speed event, where one car and driver runs over a defined course against the clock. In competition cars are classified into categories so as to even out the contest and having cars of like potential performance running against each other. However, the real contest is the individual one where each driver tries on each run to improve their individual time i.e., the hill and the clock vs the car and the driver. Come and Try events like this one are an opportunity for those who have never competed at a Hillclimb to participate at low cost and minimal requirements.

This is a massive hello to all our new sponsors, and friends who have come to have a look at the new content on the website.

You can find out more about the club, and what we do through the links in the menu above.

We also have our official email now activate (info@tougealliance.com) and have Google Analytics tracking the page hits on our website.

What does all this mean? That's easy!

We are much easier to contact now for one, not to mention we also can see the types of visitors coming to our website.

If anyone has any questions regarding the new content, please drop us an email at info@tougealliance.com

- Jared Green

Hello, and welcome to Touge Alliance.

This website is yet another step for us to become branch out, and become an active member of the Adelaide car scene. Not to mention, allow for us to better communicate as an organisation.

Chances are you are one of our current members or friends and were alerted by SMS to come here and sign up to the website. Please do so via this link

Automatic user registration for the website will only be open for the following week, running from the 1st to the 7th of May 2010.

The forums, and higher levels of this website are unfortunately only open to paying members. I will be culling any accounts of users who have not spoken to about a date to become a paid member with Jason, or myself by end of day on the 7th of May 2010.

It isn’t expensive at the low cost of $40.00 AUD per annum. Touge Alliance will give you the opportunity to not only hit the track, but more importantly be surrounded with like-minded individuals who love their cars and the touge. We’re exclusive for a reason.

We need your support; so please, signup and get active!

- Jared Green
(aka: Bladeoz)