LR drivers ..... old farts ??

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Mr.Nice. <mr.nice@*nospam*clara.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:16:52 +0100, "Ralph A. Schmid, DK5RAS"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Tim Hobbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >>The quality of driving is far worse at weekends - the motorways are
> >>full of people who rarely drive on motorways and local roads are full
> >>of chavs and drunks.
> >
> >Even worse during summer holiday...all those idiots who drive all day
> >1km from home and back again, once in the week 3km to a supermarket,
> >and then, once per year, their great day is coming - they enter a
> >motorway
> >
> >
> >
> >regards - Ralph
>
> In the summer our small winding cornish roads are suddenly having to
> deal with a massive amount of traffic.
>
> Driving in cornwall is not like driving anywhere else I've ever been,
> the roads are narrow, stopping for close clearence (inches) passes are
> very common and most tourists have no clear idea where the corners of
> their cars are, when you are passing with 2 inches clearence at 10-20
> miles per hours you better damn well knw where you car ends, the
> locals do, the tourists do not.
>
> And don't get me started on the parking...
>

Ditto in the Peaks - only the worst drivers are the
"professional" drivers - they know *far* more than the
locals ;-)

Richard

>
> Regards.
> Mark.(AKA, Mr.Nice.)

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"Mr.Nice." <mr.nice@*nospam*clara.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:16:52 +0100, "Ralph A. Schmid, DK5RAS"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Tim Hobbs <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> In the summer our small winding cornish roads are suddenly having to
> deal with a massive amount of traffic.
>
> Driving in cornwall is not like driving anywhere else I've ever been,
> the roads are narrow, stopping for close clearence (inches) passes are
> very common and most tourists have no clear idea where the corners of
> their cars are, when you are passing with 2 inches clearence at 10-20
> miles per hours you better damn well knw where you car ends, the
> locals do, the tourists do not.
>
> And don't get me started on the parking...
>
>
> Regards.
> Mark.(AKA, Mr.Nice.)
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My series is prone to roll somewhat lately, it is inherent in the suspension
I suspect, however I dare say that replacing the shocks might help
considering the state of them, they look like the originals fitted 30 years
ago

It's obvios really that you drive within the limits of the vehicle, anything
will flip if you drive it fast enough.


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"Ian Rawlings" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On 2004-12-19, Hirsty's <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Never mind LR voted safest on the road ( need to be )
>
> Are you thinking about the insurance company stats that stated that in
> fatal accidents where the occupant of one car dies, the surviving
> occupant is most often in a Defender? Personally I think this
> illustrates that the Defender is the *least* safe vehicle on the road,
> certainly for other people..
>
> I drive a 110 commercial, no trim, no anti-roll suspension, every time
> I've had to hit the brakes hard in that thing I've scared myself
> silly, it's so dynamically unstable. My worst nightmare is hitting
> the brakes while cornering, the empty back end with no weight on it
> would overtake in a moment. On Top Gear maybe 6-9 months ago they did
> a "moose test" with a classic range rover, a swerve left then right,
> and it flipped over at 45MPH.. Mind you they did put a full roll cage
> on it so that added weight up top.
>
> I love my defender to bits but I treat it like a tank with nasty
> spikes inside!
>
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