Saw an interesting mod while bezzing round Birmingham on Saturday night (which was perhaps a bit of a surprise since most of said journey was spent with neck cranked up to look at the blur of a myriad road signs trying to find one that might point me in the right direction). Pulled up at some lights and something caught me eye. A black MG ZT poised in the lane beside me.. but it wasn't that - it was the wheels spinning that did it. Hang on.. was that "spinning".. but the car isn't bloody moving! As he pulls away, the hubs gave the effect that the wheels aren't spinning.. just how cool is that? :-)
The outer "trim" sits on a bearing, and acts as a flywheel. Whel the car stops moving the "trims" keep goign sometimes for several minutes.
Eventually as you move off, the wheel catches up with the trim, and both turn together.
Cool looking, but ultimate ricer, and a child could get their finger caught between the spinning outer and stationary inner part of the wheel, when at traffic lights. Must think of the children.
Yep they are called "Spinners" believe it or not ;-) You can get them from Wheel Mania in Birmingham. There are quite a few of them on up the track on saturday night now. They cost a small fortune though! Rich
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I work in Salford, they are born with silver axle stands in their hands.
local wagons try to avoid stopping at lights by slowing as much as possible without hitting walking pace, so that they can go straight through lights when they change.
I've seen 2 or three wagons who didn't know the area, stopped, had their doors pulled open, and half the load gone before the driver was out the cab.
IMO Salford is one of the roughest places I've been, seems a lot worse than say Chapeltown in Leeds that everyone reckons is terrible. Been on the estate near the McDonalds, just off the road where the Uni is?
I have a mate that goes to uni in Manchester. Last year he lived in Fallowfield, just near moss side. We drove through there on our way to his by mistake. And good lord, i was ACTUALLY afraid for my life. I didn't wanna stop, the doors were locked, and i feared my alloys been whipped off at the first set of lights...
This year he lives in Withington, which isn't too bad.
I go to the St James' hospital in Leeds quite often, next to Chapeltown, and the very first time i went (about 9 years ago) to stay in, they told my mum and dad not to leave the car down at the bottom of the hospital grounds, because apparantly at night 'they' come over the wall.....
I work near Regent Road (Dual carriageway) near the Sainsbury's, the Casino and the small park of KFC/Pizza Hut/Maccys just before you get back into Manchester.
The Ordsall Estate is between regent road, and the business park where I work.
Couple of years ago when they decided to have a bonfire night celebration, they stripped all the window frames and roof joists and doors from a small block of flats that was empty to be renovated. Left justa brick shell.
The bonfire was about 40 feet tall. On regent road last year, a student walking home was grabbed from behind, and thrown into the traffic on the dual carriageway, so they could snatch his backpack. Closed the road. He died. Witnesses could only say there was about 6 of them, and they were all in school uniform, and disappeared into the estate, no one was caught.
On that same stretch last year, there is a set of traffic lights at a cross roads. When all the reports of car jackings was on the news, we had two coppers with body armour manning the lights, as there had been quite a few attacks there.
Almost every unit on the business park has been broken into. They have prised up the bottom of the shutters on the canal side windows, and crawled in. They have put ladders up to unshuttered upstairs windows and thrown PCS out onto mattresses they brought with them. Funniest one was 3 dfoors down, when they took a sledge hammer to the wall undereath a shuttered window, sent a small kid through the hole, then legged it.
That included climbing round the canal buttress because the two path is blocked by a set of 8ft tall gates at night, while carrying the sledge hammer, and a bike to get away. All looked about 14, one left a sized 6 trainer print.
And from when they they were first spotted climbing round on CCTV, to when they were seen climbing back with bags of goodies was less than
Sounds like where me an my mates were wondering around looking for a chippy. As we were a bunch of 18 year old lads we were rather surprised when a few kids started lobbing bricks at us... Ended up in the MacDonalds :P.
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