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Snow tw@ts II

MK9R - 11/1/10 at 11:01 AM

Driving at 5mph with 30 cars stuck behind, none of whom can get up enough speed to get up the next hill due to the snow tw@t!!! Saw a woman this morning doing just this with her face pressed up against the windscreen causing havoc!!

scootz - 11/1/10 at 11:02 AM

Was her face pressed against the windscreen cos she'd only cleared at 10cm2 of ice?

MikeRJ - 11/1/10 at 11:07 AM

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Originally posted by scootz
Was her face pressed against the windscreen cos she'd only cleared at 10cm2 of ice?

Without wishing to be sexist this is the standard position that the less confident female drivers seem to adpot; I often see them hunched over the steering wheel with their nose virtually on the screen.

scootz - 11/1/10 at 11:13 AM

How to turn a 20mph shunt into a trip to the Neurosurgery ward!

nick205 - 11/1/10 at 11:25 AM

...or the other form of snow tw8t who refuses to stay in line when everyone else is going nice and steady with good gaps and decides he has to overtake all and anyone on straights, bends, hills - anywhere.

I felt like pulling out on him to show him where the hedge was - I managed to stop myself

deezee - 11/1/10 at 11:50 AM

I too spent 10 minutes of my morning commute stuck behind a woman who chose to panic and stop everytime an vehicle came the other way down the country roads. Awesome

Mr Whippy - 11/1/10 at 11:51 AM

quote:
Originally posted by nick205
...or the other form of snow tw8t who refuses to stay in line when everyone else is going nice and steady with good gaps and decides he has to overtake all and anyone on straights, bends, hills - anywhere.

I felt like pulling out on him to show him where the hedge was - I managed to stop myself

well everyone’s different, can't say I hang around behind a queue of traffic that's crawling.

Quite funny, yesterday I was happily towing a loaded double axle trailer with 17inch low profiles on the Bluebird through snowed in housing estates picking up furniture and look of disbelief on some of their faces when they couldn’t even get their cars out and here’s some guy towing a trailer!

What is so difficult about driving on snow??

MK9R - 11/1/10 at 12:15 PM

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Originally posted by Mr Whippy

quote:
Originally posted by nick205
...or the other form of snow tw8t who refuses to stay in line when everyone else is going nice and steady with good gaps and decides he has to overtake all and anyone on straights, bends, hills - anywhere.

I felt like pulling out on him to show him where the hedge was - I managed to stop myself

well everyone’s different, can't say I hang around behind a queue of traffic that's crawling.

Quite funny, yesterday I was happily towing a loaded double axle trailer with 17inch low profiles on the Bluebird through snowed in housing estates picking up furniture and look of disbelief on some of their faces when they couldn’t even get their cars out and here’s some guy towing a trailer! What is so difficult about driving on snow??

I did try and go out in my mondeo first this morning and it was terrible, i could not get any traction at all, even just letting clutch out with no revs at all the wheels just started to spin. I got stuck on the brow of a hill, where as the astra behind even managed to get started again after i blocked their path. I eventually got it going with a piece of carpet, got home, dumped it and used the Disco!!! I suppose i should have realised the mondeo tyres were rubbish as i slipped off my drive and bounced off the neighbors house!!

norfolkluego - 11/1/10 at 12:23 PM

quote:
with her face pressed up against the windscreen causing havoc!!

She was THAT ugly?

A1 - 11/1/10 at 12:39 PM
it is hilarious watching all the beemers and mercs completely stuck with their wheels spinning... while we pull out of a parking space on the same hill with a048s on, no wheelspin or anything

trikerneil - 11/1/10 at 12:40 PM
My Mondeo has been great in the snow - so far.
I was around Basingstoke the night the snow caused havoc, there were abandoned BMWs Mercs and Porsches all over the place.
I just chugged on through no probs.

Neil

MK9R - 11/1/10 at 12:54 PM
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Originally posted by trikerneil
My Mondeo has been great in the snow - so far.
I was around Basingstoke the night the snow caused havoc, there were abandoned BMWs Mercs and Porsches all over the place.
I just chugged on through no probs.

Neil

Not blaming the mondeo, its the 3/4 worn kumho ecsta sports causing the lack of grip

DaveFJ - 11/1/10 at 12:55 PM
my civic is proving to be awful in the snow (probably something to do with 225 tyres )

but I was astonded the other day when i was forced to drive at the edge of the road through about 10" of the stuff because the bloke in a rangerover coming the other way refused to move across off the clear bit....

cd.thomson - 11/1/10 at 01:04 PM
no point me making yet another snow related thread but is anybody cycling about still?

I've got a short 10 miles a day commute on my bike and I've just started again after my winter holiday.

I managed to get halfway up the hill into town with my legs going at 5000rpm before I started to go backwards

Mr Whippy - 11/1/10 at 01:10 PM
quote:
Originally posted by cd.thomson
no point me making yet another snow related thread but is anybody cycling about still?

I've got a short 10 miles a day commute on my bike and I've just started again after my winter holiday.

I managed to get halfway up the hill into town with my legs going at 5000rpm before I started to go backwards

surely MB mud tyres are the thing to have. Last year I was using my racing bike in the snow which was ok except trying to stop, that was a bit hairy at points.

cd.thomson - 11/1/10 at 01:22 PM
its a racing bike im using now, slick tyres and all. Can't afford a mtb - I'm pretty sure this makes me a snow tw@t...

nick205 - 11/1/10 at 01:40 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy

quote:
Originally posted by nick205
...or the other form of snow tw8t who refuses to stay in line when everyone else is going nice and steady with good gaps and decides he has to overtake all and anyone on straights, bends, hills - anywhere.

I felt like pulling out on him to show him where the hedge was - I managed to stop myself

well everyone’s different, can't say I hang around behind a queue of traffic that's crawling.

No one was crawling, simply keeping good pace @ 40mph on a snowy/icey, windy cross-country A road. The pen1s in case chose to overtake multiple cars at a go on straights, bends and hills - places you wouldn't overtake in good conditions.

Like a say a pen1s in my book

Daddylonglegs - 11/1/10 at 02:01 PM
It's all about driving for the conditions. As has already been said, it's not a big deal driving in snow and ice, just common sense. I was tootling up a rather steep hill on the way to work about 20mph and steady, no throttle, no brakes, just pootling nicely. Mr Audi behind thought I was going too slow so decided to try and force me on a bit....soon dropped back when he started swinging left and right trying to get some grip, especially when their was a van coming the other way on a road that is only just 2-cars wide.

Once you lose traction that's it, so my theory is not to lose it in the first place. It still amazes me how many people think that they can burn away the snow and ice by revving the gits out of their cars!

Hey ho...

mcerd1 - 11/1/10 at 02:31 PM
quote:
Originally posted by cd.thomson
its a racing bike im using now, slick tyres and all. Can't afford a mtb - I'm pretty sure this makes me a snow tw@t...

what not even an old s/h steel framed lump ?
(I'm sure I could find you one if you where a bit closer)

cd.thomson - 11/1/10 at 02:38 PM
quote:
Originally posted by mcerd1
what not even an old s/h steel framed lump ?
(I'm sure I could find you one if you where a bit closer)

not when I could spend Ł50 on finishing the brakes off on the dax

[Edited on 11/1/10 by cd.thomson]

Mr Whippy - 11/1/10 at 03:17 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Daddylonglegs
It still amazes me how many people think that they can burn away the snow and ice by revving the gits out of their cars!

Hey ho...

Sounds like my dads approach which totally fails so far he’s not managed up his drive and blames the car but its just a normal FWD…it his driving that’s the problem and its his trailer that I borrowed at the weekend, then parked back where it was at the top of his drive

Like you say, just put down as much power as your grip can take and you'll keep going. This is where the fine control of an automatic gearbox comes into its own ;o)

Danozeman - 11/1/10 at 04:36 PM
There are some right nutters about in this weather. Iv had no problems at all in my bmw apart from lack of grip due to the 265's on the back. But slow and steady and i have no trouble.

The hill going into where i work people have abandoned cars at the bottom because they cant get up. Iv towed 3 van several vans up there with a fwd transit and not got stuck yet. As said dont let the driving wheels lose traction then your ok.

segan2b - 11/1/10 at 04:49 PM
quote:
Originally posted by cd.thomson
no point me making yet another snow related thread but is anybody cycling about still?

I've got a short 10 miles a day commute on my bike and I've just started again after my winter holiday.

I managed to get halfway up the hill into town with my legs going at 5000rpm before I started to go backwards

Wrong tyres?

DAN-MNR-ZX12R - 11/1/10 at 06:38 PM
My mercs toss in the snow, not helped by the fact that I cant turn my interfering traction controll or stbility control off compleatly.

As soon as I start to loose traction the car reduces the power to the wheels untill they stop spinning (which is wheels stopped compleatly) then the stability control assumes that if my back end is spinning I must be in a slide and applies the front brakes to compensate.

So to summeries the car stops the rear wheels from turning and puts the front brakes on and leaves me in the missuses corsa. ACE!!

stevebubs - 11/1/10 at 07:25 PM
quote:
Originally posted by DAN-MNR-ZX12R
My mercs toss in the snow, not helped by the fact that I cant turn my interfering traction controll or stbility control off compleatly.

As soon as I start to loose traction the car reduces the power to the wheels untill they stop spinning (which is wheels stopped compleatly) then the stability control assumes that if my back end is spinning I must be in a slide and applies the front brakes to compensate.

So to summeries the car stops the rear wheels from turning and puts the front brakes on and leaves me in the missuses corsa. ACE!!

Try turning it off, perhaps?

Ninehigh - 11/1/10 at 08:20 PM
quote:
Originally posted by stevebubs

quote:
Originally posted by DAN-MNR-ZX12R
My mercs toss in the snow, not helped by the fact that I cant turn my interfering traction controll or stbility control off compleatly.

As soon as I start to loose traction the car reduces the power to the wheels untill they stop spinning (which is wheels stopped compleatly) then the stability control assumes that if my back end is spinning I must be in a slide and applies the front brakes to compensate.

So to summeries the car stops the rear wheels from turning and puts the front brakes on and leaves me in the missuses corsa. ACE!!

Try turning it off, perhaps?

Winter driving should be part of the test. I know they can't always do the practical side but they should make sure you have a decent grounding on it.

bigfoot4616 - 11/1/10 at 09:03 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy

just put down as much power as your grip can take and you'll keep going.

generally i would agree but there has been a few occasions where bringing the clutch up at idle has starting spinning the wheels and no movement but giving it more revs and spinning them faster has got me going.
thats in an empty RWD transit, i should of put some weight in it as i'm sick of getting my shovel out the back

Simon - 13/1/10 at 12:26 AM
quote:
Originally posted by cd.thomson
no point me making yet another snow related thread but is anybody cycling about still?

Not for commuting, just for fun, tis was me at Bedgebury on Sunday

ATB

Simon

[Edited on 13/1/10 by Simon]

locostbuyer83 - 13/1/10 at 04:43 PM
that looks like hard work

MikeRJ - 13/1/10 at 06:54 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Danozeman
There are some right nutters about in this weather. Iv had no problems at all in my bmw apart from lack of grip

I think that is pretty much the main problem most people have in ice and snow

[Edited on 13/1/10 by MikeRJ]

Schrodinger - 13/1/10 at 08:28 PM
What is bugging me atm is that all of the roads around here that have been cleared have had the snow ploughed onto the footpaths at the side of the road so any pedestrian has to walk on the road and then gets showered in the sh!te from the middle of the road as well as some gestures.

:{THC}:YosamiteSam - 13/1/10 at 08:32 PM
no prolems up here in the north east - snows all gone now.. was even thinking of getting the busa out for a run soon.. blow some cobwebs off

JoelP - 13/1/10 at 08:41 PM
well its settling again in leeds, and moving north!

I went ar5e over tit this morning, lunch all over the lawn!

02GF74 - 20/1/10 at 09:40 PM
quote:
Originally posted by scootz
Was her face pressed against the windscreen cos she'd only cleared at 10cm2 of ice?

was it this one?

[Edited on 20/1/10 by 02GF74]