on a serious note i drive a lot for work and see all sorts of stupid things happen most days.
I tend to avoid driving out of work in the evenings unless i can go through the lanes or a way that is not busy
I now hate driving and am giving it up for ever.
There are too many clueless twats out there ruining it for me.
If anyone wants an old Golf GTI and a nearly finished Sylva, come round and pick them up.
I'll leave the shed open and you can take all my crap tools too.
(I had a much more wordy dissertation typed up on the subject but managed to delete it, so the above will do for now.)
Driving is no longer enjoyable.
Discus.
im setting off from kent now. See you in 5hours or more. Leave the keys out for me
on a serious note i drive a lot for work and see all sorts of stupid things happen most days.
I tend to avoid driving out of work in the evenings unless i can go through the lanes or a way that is not busy
That's what Jody Scheckter said after leaving Ferrari, and he has never driven a car since.
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Originally posted by zilspeed
I now hate driving and am giving it up for ever.
There are too many clueless twats out there ruining it for me.
Discus.
driving for pleasure if a hard one as you either need to drive into the middle of know where and hope no one else with a caravan has had the same
idea, or just enjoy a stolen 5 minutes per hour where you can enjoy the roads when there is a clear patch, and grumble along the other 55 mins.
Combine crap drivers, with the way speed has been demonised, then throw into the mix the stupid noise rules which are crippling race tracks and it
seems that sports cars are pretty useless machines...
that said, when it all comes together, either on track or on a clear road its a pretty good thing!
ill take the golf please
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Originally posted by tomgregory2000
ill take the golf please
I was on my motorbike yesterday out in the country and enjoying the ride back from Matlock when I came round a bend on the top of a rise and nearly
ran into the back of a Polo with two ladies sat in it enjoying the view, sphincter puckering stuff 
We live on a junction of a one way street so I
only have to look out of the window to see stupidity at any time of day. At least three a day go the wrong way down the street, even when someone is
waiting to pull out they force their way past them to go the wrong way.
Nobody should be surprised by your statement.
This country is chocco, full, stuffed and rammed to bursting point with people and cars with woefully inadequate roads designed for a couple of horse
and carts, and then when its possible to break 20mph they introduce the speed traps.
Then throw in the weather as an extra bonus.
New Zealand anybody??
Still, I think the fact that people are building these cars is a cry for motoring freedom in the first instance.
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I now hate driving and am giving it up for ever.
There are too many clueless twats out there ruining it for me.
If anyone wants an old Golf GTI and a nearly finished Sylva, come round and pick them up.
I'll leave the shed open and you can take all my crap tools too.
(I had a much more wordy dissertation typed up on the subject but managed to delete it, so the above will do for now.)
Driving is no longer enjoyable.
Discus.
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Originally posted by zilspeed
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Originally posted by tomgregory2000
ill take the golf please
Nah, you wouldn't want it.
It's a MK3 8V, therefore the worst car in the world apparently.
I know what you mean, I live 23 miles from work and have a 14 year old white van with the same power of a modern ride on mower but I can still get to work in 25 mins at 5am, However i takes me 45-50+ mins to get home at 5.30pm everyday, I cant understand how people dont think that if you get overtaken by a old rusty van (which had 52bhp when it was new 193,000 mils ago!) struggles to get past (there is a 1mile straight bit - so perfectly safe I would just point out), how do these people not think "oh perhaps i should concentate on my driving rather than smoking,talking to my passenger,texting/talking on the phone,eating etc etc" I have had to give up Motorbikes and the general folk of norfolk seemed to want to murder me by simply pulling out on me or coming round the corner on my side of the road or just generally not having a clue!
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Originally posted by tomgregory2000
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Originally posted by zilspeed
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Originally posted by tomgregory2000
ill take the golf please
Nah, you wouldn't want it.
It's a MK3 8V, therefore the worst car in the world apparently.
Your right there
i was hoping it was a mk1 or mk2
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Originally posted by zilspeed
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Originally posted by tomgregory2000
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Originally posted by zilspeed
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Originally posted by tomgregory2000
ill take the golf please
Nah, you wouldn't want it.
It's a MK3 8V, therefore the worst car in the world apparently.
Your right there
i was hoping it was a mk1 or mk2
See, I told you.
I guess there are advantages to living in the middle of nowhere where no one else wants to live.... but traffic is on the increase round these ere
parts too!
JC
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Originally posted by Steve Hignett
i quite enjoy driving in moderate traffic so long as there is a chance to make progress past them. Cant stand jams, and some idiot seems to crash every day.
I have a lot of b & c roads round here that are either 60 or 30 in the villages. I hate it when some duffer does 40 in the 60's then
doesn't change for the villages, so I go blasting past slow down at the 30 sign cause I'm terrified there'll be a plod with gun round
the corner and the bastard behind comes up and sits 2" off my backend!
The way they do 40mph in the 30's round here I'm surprised they not all banned! But there again cop cars are very hard to spot round here, a
bit like fit young things in short skirts.
Do you think being fat and wearing shell suits causes bad driving habits?
My Great Uncle was like that in his Austin 1100. 40 mph everywhere; motorways, dual carriageways, roundabouts, car parks, dirt tracks!!
I think the most dangerous "constant speed" drivers is people who drive at 70mph sitting in the middle lane of the motorway in torrential downpours when it's only safe to go 50mph.
i agree, since the fun police and green 'people' (or in other words scum) have started having their way, driving for pleasure is harder to
do, i always find myself having to watch for them so much i cant enjoy the drive. even if im not speeding, i think they target sportscars. however, we
shouldnt give up, causee then theyll win, we should keep driving well, and more importantly keep enjoying it!
fingers crossed theyll find something else to penalise our freedom over...besides smoking, drinking, eating, speeding, swearing in public, making
noise, driving...
I'm feeling the same way at the moment, went out for an evening drive with a couple of mates last nite, most of the time sat at 40mph along
packed country roads.
It was only on the drive home as it was getting dark that I found a superb fast twist empty road over the downs - 15 mins of fab driving for
everything 5 hours sat in traffic - it's got so bad here in the SE I'm seriously considering not bothering with another sportscar when I
sell this.
Gonna take up kite-surfing, at least there no problem with the sea getting overcrowded!!!
Just up the road from me there's a spot where the womble van sits at least once a week with it's camera pointing at you ready to give you 3
points. It's in a 30 limit, so I now make a point of going past in 1st or 2nd gear just to wake them up! Stupid, daft, pointless, but fun.
The other method I've used is to sit at exactly 30mph in the 30 limit which normally ends up with some tw@t in a rep-mobile sitting behind me
(normally about 2" behind) until I get near the speed camera and then I pull over in a side road that is conveniently place just before the speed
van. The rep then floors his right foot and shoots off past me to get snapped by the van. LMAO! Serves them right I think.
There's a lot of prats out there on the roads. The best solution is to ensure that you are legal at all times, and jsut enjoy the bits you can
IMHO.
Ed.
Agreed, it's just too busy. Switzerland seems to manage being a small country and still have fine driving roads, but we are probably more densely populated. Motorcycle is the only way to get reliable road fun these days and 60 on nice twisty A roads is still quite fun at times. To be honest I feel a bit stupid sitting in a sports car but stuck in a queue.
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Originally posted by oldtimer
Agreed, it's just too busy. Switzerland seems to manage being a small country and still have fine driving roads, but we are probably more densely populated. Motorcycle is the only way to get reliable road fun these days and 60 on nice twisty A roads is still quite fun at times. To be honest I feel a bit stupid sitting in a sports car but stuck in a queue.
You can't give up, thats what they want you to do!
This would put the fun back into driving.
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Originally posted by scottc
This would put the fun back into driving.
You know, I was driving around for a little over a week in Kent and Hampshire last April. I suppose I was one of those grannies, because I couldn't stop thinking how much better people drive in England than here in Canada, where it's stop go, stop go, all over the place. Or maybe we just weren't in Scotland... yeah, and thanks for the offer of the cars, but I've got too many right now. And that bike is just mental. I'll take the kidneys if you don't mind...
I've noticed the same - roads definitely a lot busier over the last couple of years....I used to do 30000 a year for work and think nothing of it
but since y job role changed a year ago I do very little mileage now. If I have to do any longish trips these days I hate it. Out of the groove....
Plus there's no decent roads around Preston/Blackpool that I know of - unless anybody can enlighten me?
Missing the open twisties of South Wales....