GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
A Talbot Sunbeam Lotus? Yes. Briefly. pos. hugely entertaining pos but a pos nonetheless.
Noise pollution
- Thread starter Drago
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OP
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Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
There a lad at work on one of our response teams, turns up for work in the nice weather in his Rolls Royce (the rest of the time he uses his Merc convertible). He has a business buying and selling Bee Gees memorabilia all over the world and makes 3 or 4 times his salary in his spare time.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
I knew a girl who owned one. She wasn't the best driver in the world but she was convinced that you could drive round a corner at any speed as long as you were strong enough to hold on to the steering wheel. She put this theory to the test with me in the passenger seat on a road in Wales. I have never been as scared as that before or since.
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
That's weird. The bloke who nicked mine wrote it off on bend on the A44...
Piemaster
Guru
- Location
- UK City of Culture
Or a VW.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
She's got an alibi.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
That's what he says....
mybike
Grumblin at Garmin on the Granny Gear
- Location
- Not 'emel 'empstead
The 1ltr eco engines have a nice note, but you can't really hear them
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
I'm sure we could get this lot to pay your village a visit @Drago
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auUTawLGy9Y&feature=player_detailpage
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auUTawLGy9Y&feature=player_detailpage
DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
OK, I'll admit that I love burning off boy racers at the lights. 
Not that my car is capable of out-accelerating them, but despite being old and decrepit I'm still blessed with pretty good reflexes, and it's rare that I can't get at least a couple of yards ahead before they start moving. And after I've made my point, I'm happy to let them roar ahead.
Yes, it's juvenile I know, but I don't care.
Not that my car is capable of out-accelerating them, but despite being old and decrepit I'm still blessed with pretty good reflexes, and it's rare that I can't get at least a couple of yards ahead before they start moving. And after I've made my point, I'm happy to let them roar ahead.
Yes, it's juvenile I know, but I don't care.
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Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
My wife's Prius has the performance of an elderly sloth dosed up on valium. That said, it's an auto so with the ICE and electric hoover motor firing together get off the line and up to 30 very smartish. Ideal for nipping into fleeting gaps in the traffic, though the nefarious could use it for surprising people at the lights if they had a mind to do so.
Jody
Stubborn git
OK, I'll admit that I love burning off boy racers at the lights.
Getting the jump on a set of lights doesn't mean you burned them off. You probably look worse than them for trying.
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Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Years ago I was at the lights on my Gixxer 11 when a lad in a 911 pulls along side.
Vroom! He revs his motor, I look across and he makes eye contact. Vroom. He wants to play.
I twist the throttle. The Gixxer thunders. Vroom. The Porker revs.
The lights turn green and the Porker rockets up the road in a cloud of exhaust, clutch and rubber.
I sedately turned left into work.
Vroom! He revs his motor, I look across and he makes eye contact. Vroom. He wants to play.
I twist the throttle. The Gixxer thunders. Vroom. The Porker revs.
The lights turn green and the Porker rockets up the road in a cloud of exhaust, clutch and rubber.
I sedately turned left into work.
DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
It just means that no matter how much bigger their engine than mine, my brain talks faster to my feet.
I'll settle for that, thanks.
Jody
Stubborn git
It just means that no matter how much bigger their engine than mine, my brain talks faster to my feet.
I'll settle for that, thanks.
Or the bewildered yout' can't work out why the old guy sat at the side of him set off like a scolded cat, especially when he had no intention of racing.
