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Nearly tapped again
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Re: Nearly tapped again -
10-19-2005
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You know this afternoon I detailed to another URCM member the delights of wearing the shoulders off Kermy's rear tyres. Anyway just for a laugh I decided I'd increase my tyre pressures to 35 PSI to compare notes. Tim Kemp, what's the A-Class like on 35s all around? Ours is a "bit skitterish" *cough*. Skitterish as in, two dozy duffers in a silver 5-series pulls on to the gloriously wide slip road that goes from the A162 to the A64 this evening at the heady pace of 36 mph... http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.c...multimap.y=140 ...I decided, pah he's sticking to the inside edge of the corner, I'll zip around the outside and be done with it. Down into third, off we go, hmm, think I'll lift off a little.... rrrrrrrk! Kinda big nasty rear endy slide, not unlike the time when I swapped the perfectly secure rear tyres with the cheapo Chinese front tyres, so we had a grippy front end and greased slicks at the back.  Hindsight being a wonderful thing I probably should have banged on the brakes or crashed it, because instead banging on the power* just made the slide gradually fade out and us nip onto the dual carriageway. Aforementioned duffers twigged that I was a bad boy or something so proceeded to flash his headlights at me. Then I spotted that the BMW had a funky camera type thing on the dashboard. I should have spotted that sooner, slap me, oooh slap me. Anyway, car pulled up next to me, officer closest looked over and shook his head, wagged his finger and they accelerated away... Heh. Phew. Type thing. In fairness my police contact tells me they won't stop me unless they're wearing uniform or I do something really stupid... *Power in the Ka sense, so not much really. |
As an aside, running 35s all around in the wet is, hmm, interesting.
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Questions (AT) forgotten (DOT) what.this.was.now> wrote in message news:l06cl11a2hneevmnt36f66l461jnaub35f (AT) 4ax (DOT) com... Apparently on date Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:44:26 GMT, "DervMan" dervman (AT) ntlworld (DOT) com> said: Aforementioned duffers twigged that I was a bad boy or something so proceeded to flash his headlights at me. Then I spotted that the BMW had a funky camera type thing on the dashboard. I should have spotted that sooner, slap me, oooh slap me. Anyway, car pulled up next to me, officer closest looked over and shook his head, wagged his finger and they accelerated away... I shall have to video Police, Camera, Action next time then and see what Lurid Tales the producers can invent for that section of footage... "Drug dealers in a stolen Ka, the driver got an extra two years for attempting to ram the pursuit car off the road..." <cut to helicopter chase of bloke running to catch a train, then handcuffing of a Geordie too drunk to let them get on with it. So I'm not the only one to spot inconcistencies in the stories?  nearly as bad as the americans |
going to get away from the highly skilled police persuit driver, who has
several minutes worth of advanced training under his belt!"
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Questions (AT) forgotten (DOT) what.this.was.now> wrote in message news:l06cl11a2hneevmnt36f66l461jnaub35f (AT) 4ax (DOT) com... Apparently on date Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:44:26 GMT, "DervMan" dervman (AT) ntlworld (DOT) com> said: Aforementioned duffers twigged that I was a bad boy or something so proceeded to flash his headlights at me. Then I spotted that the BMW had a funky camera type thing on the dashboard. I should have spotted that sooner, slap me, oooh slap me. Anyway, car pulled up next to me, officer closest looked over and shook his head, wagged his finger and they accelerated away... I shall have to video Police, Camera, Action next time then and see what Lurid Tales the producers can invent for that section of footage... "Drug dealers in a stolen Ka, the driver got an extra two years for attempting to ram the pursuit car off the road..." <cut to helicopter chase of bloke running to catch a train, then handcuffing of a Geordie too drunk to let them get on with it. So I'm not the only one to spot inconcistencies in the stories? |
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35 is probably too high a pressure for the weight / tyre combination, but then I guess you're ahead of me there... Hehehe! |
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Apparently on date Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:23:11 GMT, "DervMan" dervman (AT) ntlworld (DOT) com> said: Questions (AT) forgotten (DOT) what.this.was.now> wrote in message news:l06cl11a2hneevmnt36f66l461jnaub35f (AT) 4ax (DOT) com... Apparently on date Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:44:26 GMT, "DervMan" dervman (AT) ntlworld (DOT) com> said: Aforementioned duffers twigged that I was a bad boy or something so proceeded to flash his headlights at me. Then I spotted that the BMW had a funky camera type thing on the dashboard. I should have spotted that sooner, slap me, oooh slap me. Anyway, car pulled up next to me, officer closest looked over and shook his head, wagged his finger and they accelerated away... I shall have to video Police, Camera, Action next time then and see what Lurid Tales the producers can invent for that section of footage... "Drug dealers in a stolen Ka, the driver got an extra two years for attempting to ram the pursuit car off the road..." <cut to helicopter chase of bloke running to catch a train, then handcuffing of a Geordie too drunk to let them get on with it. So I'm not the only one to spot inconcistencies in the stories? That's something of a long shot there... 35 is probably too high a pressure for the weight / tyre combination, but then I guess you're ahead of me there... Hehehe! A tad obvious. |
Yes, yes indeed it was, but the point wasn't that it would, just how quickly
it would...
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