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General => General discussion => Topic started by: dan7 on 25 October 2005, 21:40
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Just found the best roundabout in town. Racing a Renault Clio Sport something and took a nice big roundabout a bit faster than I should've. Rear wheel lifted loads, I sh@t myself but it must've looked f@#king Ace!!! Just thought I would share this magical moment with you all. ( I'm still smiling!!!! ) :cool: :laugh: :evil:
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turn into corner, brake hard. Jobs a good un.
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What was it Jeremy Clarkson said about those, something about being like a little excited puppy cocking it's hind leg.
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your next test is to get it airborn ,
that will leave you smiling for weeks :grin:,
feels great but fooks your sump :evil:
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the mk4 used to try and c0ck its rear up but since its on its @rse now it just sits there... dreadin any airborn moments in it as i think ive still left half me cat and other under car stuff in various fookin pot holes in leeds!!! :laugh: :laugh: so i hate to think what other damage could be done......
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there is a nice little hump bridge in my boyfriend's village, if you go 50/60mph over it (in a light car) you can usually get air born (all 4 wheels!!!), well in a my old nova anyway, the mk4 is a bloody heavy tank and it wont lift off at all :sad: not even one wheel!! :angry:
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I got airborn (very!!!!!!!) in my rover before i got my Golf, on the Portaferry road, only ppl from Belfast will know that :wink:. I was smiling until i got out and realised I had wrecked my downpipes when landing.......and my nice chrome tips where ground flat along with my rear towing eye, Doh!
I dunno how high i got, but high enough that the car bounced back into the air after landing!!!!
ah well, you live and learn,
Warren :smiley:
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I managed to get my Mk4 Polo airbourne on a road in between Ullswater and Ambleside in the lake district. A superb bit of road to drive in a nimble car.
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Worst time i had getting airbourne was in Erith (manor rd if anyone knows it) basically its a big long road with loads of warehouses on it.
I was seeing a girl in the estate at the other end of the road so drove up and down it quite a bit late at night. there was a lump in the road about halfway down which had real potential for a jump :evil: i was gradually increasing the speed everytime i hit it getting up to about 50-55mph but it wasn't really getting up :sad:
One night in the pouring rain i was feeling particulary brave and hit the thing at about 70mph :laugh: went straight up in the air (must have been a good couple of feet) and whilst enjoying my flight a rather large lorry pulled out of one of the warehouses about 100m down, naturally i shat myself and hit the brakes as soon as i hit the ground, the wheels locked up but somehow i just managed to get out of its path when another lorry pulled out behind it and straight into my new path, things were getting hectic now, i'm less than 50m from 2 lorrys in the pouring rain and all 4 wheels are skidding and im still doing at least 40mph. by some form of unbelievable luck i managed to squeeze the skidding car between the two lorrys and out of harms way. i stopped the car immediatley and sat on the kerb in the rain for a good 15 mins before i could face getting back in the car.
i've not been so keen on jumping since!!!
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hey mk1madj Erith is just up the road from me manor road is danagerous lorry country lol
have you had ago at that fast road up bronze age way near thamesmead end.. the bumps up there are excellent although you have to slow back down to 50mph at the speed cameras :sad:
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hey mk1madj Erith is just up the road from me manor road is danagerous lorry country lol
have you had ago at that fast road up bronze age way near thamesmead end.. the bumps up there are excellent although you have to slow back down to 50mph at the speed cameras :sad:
I get goosebumps anytime i see the Erith McDonalds as thats where i'd been on that dark & scary night :cry:
Not sure ot the road names around there (i'm from Bromley) but i think i know the one you mean, does it go from abbey wood to thamesmead via belvedere?
those roads around thamesmead are fun too aren't they :laugh:
where do you live then? :huh:
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yes thats the one the big straight bumpy road throught the marshes... such fun :evil:
i live well i say dartford but, iam sort of sandwiched in the middle of dartford crayford and erith..
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Oh yes i know the one :grin:
Your not in Slade Green are you??? thats where i was going on that dark & scary night :shocked:
Funny that, i say Bromley but im kind of sandwhiched between Bromley Sidcup & Orpington
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well thames road hahahaha...
what was you doing in slade green?? there is nothing there lol
i dont know bromley very well other than the glades, my mum works n sidcup and my sisters boyfriend lives in orpington :laugh:
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Thames road sounds familiar :undecided:
My brother lives in orpington :grin:
Gotta go, someone's leaving and there's drinks in reception :laugh: