brown trouser moments behind the wheel! (contains car banter) Was off to Kielder today to watch the RAC rally with my dad. Was heading to the second stage of the day, came to a left hand bend, and my back end went! Thankfully i was going slow and nobody was coming the other way so it was light work correcting it but still it was a bit When i got out the car at the next stage i noticed the tyre was a bit flat....checked on the way home and it was only at 7psi! Any similar tales? Perhaps with a not so happy ending?
zoning out on the m25 after a long day and nearly going up the back of countless cars on a 4-5 lane motorway. superbikes overtaking at the precise moment im changing lanes or making right turns (and indicating!) and just missing killing the stupid bell ends by a ball hairs breadth. hitting a badger at 135mph in the twinspark and seeing it vapourised like it was being hit by a star trek phaser. One of those was a lie.
i went for a lash with my mate in his evo VIII 320, we raced up and around the ashington backroads against his mate who was on his Gixxy, tremendous
driving along the m1 and my twinport evolution modified cam kia picanto lost all stability due a misplaced minstral in my glove compartment. My pirelli slick racing tires let me down after hellish understeer mixed with hellish oversteer then some more understeer............and a rougue fole basking in sunshine, and i lost control. After trying to engage the 'auto stabilisation instrumentation I had no choice but to eject taking my recaro seat with me. scary stuff
ive nearly mt the raper a few times, most horrific was when my mate had to do handbreak turns up a steep as fuck hill in the lakes near penrith/windermere way. backend nearly went over the ledge everytime i used to get in the car with peter i used to say a little prayer, but its ok now because he can see
When i haven't been driving: Being the front seat passenger in my mates Ford Escort driving from London to Deutschland...he'd had little sleep due to looking after his newborn son when he picked us up this particular night. We got through the Euro Tunnel and headed through France, Belgium and Holland before hitting Germany...by this time i'd fallen asleep, the next thing i remember is waking up and seeing the back end of an articulated lorry getting very close to the cars front end! I looked to my right and Carl, the lad who was driving, was asleep - i screamed at him and he woke up in time to swerve left, away from the HGV but we were doing about 70. He then had to swerve right to not hit the central reservation...but that caused the car to spin like fuck...as it hit the other side of the road (and a ditch) it ended up rolling 6 times, ending up on its roof Luckily, because we all had seat belts on we all walked away! When the car was recovered and it was put back on its wheels - the roof was like an upside down V, almost like a Tent. The combination of roll bar and the fact that we all wore seat belts stopped us all being decapitated that night!!
Driving to the shops in my dads ford escort at at least 30mph in a 30mph zone to pick up groceries then pulling a reverse park manouver to fit into a parking space.
When i have been driving: Me & my mate were driving back from Germany to England and stopped in a service station in Holland to get some supplies. As i was pulling out of it to rejoin the road i looked right then left and went to pull out, just as my car nudged forward my mate was like 'STOP', that very second an HGV flew past us If he hadn't seen it my XR2I would have been chopped in half...i'd say he saved our lives that day!
