The main purpose of this trip for me is to deliver stuff and collect wad of readies from other dude, i'm not driving 50 miles with 4 alloys in the back :) It just seemed to be a convenient oppertunity, seen as tho there'd be 2 of us there, and one would have had to travel anyway.
I could do Scarborough Karting, but i'm not allowed to kart.
S**te enough to hold a Toyota MR2 Turbo off the drag strip line, eh? :p
You could watch us? :p
OOooooooooo really :) ?
I think some kind of video camera could be used for the production of "Northern Monkey Usenet Karting Meet," with a running commentary.... would be neat.
Sorry I hit SEND before I put the above in!
Can I go karting as an owner driver? :p
In news: snipped-for-privacy@uni-berlin.de, DervMan decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows
heh, Dervys not the only Ka powered poster tonight.. I'm in one an all...
Quite amusing too. Motorway cruising speed appears to be somewhere around valve thrash.. 110ish indicated. Bit tail happy on the twisties above 90 though :-(
For THEM????
Ours is currently very tail happy in the twisties, but this is probably because I think I've managed to break something expensive in the suspension somewhere...! :-/
Just ignore it :) I think the 405 had summet major in the front suspension since i took avoiding action for some reason to remain un-discussed (stupid white vans...) over a drive and hump in the grass. Front end always felt very 'floaty' after that...
Current suspicion is that we've broken a rear spring, but something's not right, something is certainly not right. I have to slow down for twisty bits, and as you probably appreciate, deceleration is to be avoided at all costs in the Ka... :-/
Something certainly wasn't right last night when we had some major untoward sideways activity that nearly resulted in a stuffing-it incident, although the good part of this was that the arse tailgating in the Civic Type-R gave me _lots_ of space after that, presumably because he thought I was a right nutter...! :p
Heh, my carlton is good for that sort of amusement, I got some (partially unintentional) serious sideways action round a wet roundabout and watched a solitary IS200 slow to walking pace to take the same roundabout behind me. I anticipated the slide but my correction of it was (and always is) messy - I'm not a very experienced RWDriver.
Douglas
I really want to try and get the GT4 sideways, and drifting, but I keep thinking about that diff bush that needs doing, then imagine hard objects approaching from strange angles, and bottle it.
Guess I need to get it there accidentally on a softish surface first, hten push things on tarmac after that.
7 words for you:
"Flat empty car parks in the snow" Its usually best when dark IME as well.
Most supermarket car parks, round here at least, have too much furniture (trolley stands and bollards etc.) but my nearest B&Q is perfect. If you're being sensible it's difficult to get enough speed up to do any serious damage even if you were to hit something. A quick lick of the handbrake from less than 20mph can see a happy 360 degrees.
Failing that, get to be mates with someone who has a field and/or gravel track. (c:
Douglas
Ours has carfully laid out rows of brick/plants dividers.
Ikea might be better though, that is nice and open apart from the lamp posts.
Come to the meet, i know of several places around here, gravel or grass, whatever takes your fancy ;)
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