70000 on M45

[Milkfloat]

70,000 on the M45 is a top speed. That road is a racetrack.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

70,000 on the M45 is a top speed. That road is a racetrack.

70,000MPH?

You could easily go into orbit at that speed..... No wonder so many drivers seem to be complete and utter Space Cadets!

 

[Milkfloat]

70,000MPH?

You could easily go into orbit at that speed..... No wonder so many drivers seem to be complete and utter Space Cadets!

Quite regularly, when they get to the roundabout at the end, they do end up in orbit.

 

[Drago]

70,000MPH?

You could easily go into orbit at that speed..... No wonder so many drivers seem to be complete and utter Space Cadets!

Orbit around the Sun perhaps!

 

[Stephenite]

I posted this on CC back in 2011 https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/123456-on-the-clock.85703/

123456 km. :P

 

[classic33]

Standard Class 7?:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BR_Standard_Class_7_70000_Britannia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BR_Standard_Class_6
not
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BR_Standard_Class_7

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BR_'Clan'_Class_locomotives

 

[steve50]

My astra has just over 127,000 miles on it and still going strong. My wife asked me if 127k miles was a lot, I replied "Australia is about 10,000 miles away, so our car has theoretically been to Australia and back around twelve times" kind of puts it into perspective.

 

[Profpointy]

70000 is a fair mileage. Nearly as much as my current car had done when I bought it !

 

[DRM]

Is it a year old yet? I once serviced an Escort at 15months old it had never been off of Heathrow airport yet it had managed 98,000 miles.

I once had a Vauxhall Astra that at 6 months old had just under 59,000 miles on it, not longer after that I jacked that job in as I was hardly ever home

Youngster My current Golf has over 160,000 on the clock and it's predecessor Golf had 220,000 miles on it when I parted with it.

My old Discovery had 265,000 on it when we sold it on.

 

[Drago]

My old Discovery had 265,000 on it when we sold it on.

Yes, but it was on it's twelfth engine and weighed 600kg more than new due to the weight of patches welded on

 

[tyred]

My 205 will soon be seeing 200,000 and it's not even using any oil. I have no idea why some car buyers are afraid of high mileage cars. With reasonable care, most cars from the 70s onwards will take a few hundred thousand in their stride.

 

[mr messy]

My 205 will soon be seeing 200,000 and it's not even using any oil. I have no idea why some car buyers are afraid of high mileage cars. With reasonable care, most cars from the 70s onwards will take a few hundred thousand in their stride.

Is it broken down outside the Giro minute countdown clock?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

My astra has just over 127,000 miles on it and still going strong. My wife asked me if 127k miles was a lot, I replied "Australia is about 10,000 miles away, so our car has theoretically been to Australia and back around twelve times" kind of puts it into perspective.

Also somewhere close to halfway to the moon.

 

[steve50]

Ahem... that would be 6 times (20,000 miles for the round trip).

Yep, I stand corrected.

 

[screenman]

But that is as the crow flies, not many cars do that.