Xtreme Kermit
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| posted on 30/3/10 at 06:10 PM |
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Driving a se7en - what a buzz!
After four and a half months off the road doing my winter upgrades, I got the mot today and had a very short blastette or two...
What a rush! Even on wet roads taking it a bit easy... WOW
How quickly you forget the buzz, and how quickly a smile ca appear on your face 
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deanwelch
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| posted on 30/3/10 at 06:12 PM |
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oh yes...............
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James
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| posted on 30/3/10 at 07:11 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Xtreme Kermit
After four and a half months off the road doing my winter upgrades,
How much am I going to enjoy when I drive mine soon*.... over 3 years since taking it off the road! 
Cheers,
James
*This is the soon that comes if I get a job in the near future!!!
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"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
- Muhammad Ali
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RichardK
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| posted on 30/3/10 at 07:58 PM |
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Truth about driving a 7
A 7 is not just a four-wheeled car. The difference between driving a car and climbing into a 7 is the difference between watching TV and actually
living your life. We spend all our time sealed in boxes, and cars are just the rolling boxes that shuffle us from home-box to work-box to store-box
and back, the whole time, entombed in stale air, temperature regulated, sound insulated, and smelling of carpets. In a 7, I know I am alive. When I
drive the 7, even the familiar seems strange and glorious. The air has weight and substance as I push through it, and its touch is as intimate as
water to a swimmer. I feel the cool wells of air that pool under trees and the warm spokes of sun that fall through them.
I can see everything in a sweeping 360 degrees, up, down and around, wider than Pan-A-Vision and IMAX and unrestricted by ceiling or dashboard.
Sometimes I even hear music. It's like hearing phantom telephones in the shower or false doorbells when hoovering; the pattern-loving brain,
seeking signals in the noise, raises acoustic ghosts out of the wind's roar. But in a 7, I hear whole songs: rock 'n roll, dark
orchestras, women's voices, all hidden in the air and released by speed.
At 30 miles per hour and up, smells become uncannily vivid. All the individual tree-smells and flower-smells and grass-smells flit by like chemical
notes in a great plant symphony. Sometimes the smells evoke memories so strongly that it's as though the past hangs invisible in the air around
me, wanting only the most casual of rumbling time machines to unlock it. A drive on a summer afternoon can border on the rapturous. The sheer volume
and variety of stimuli is like a bath for my nervous system, an electrical massage for my brain, a systems check for my soul. It tears smiles out of
me: a minute ago I was dour, depressed, apathetic, numb, but now, on four wheels, big, ragged, windy smiles flap against the side of my face,
billowing out of me like air from a decompressing plane.
Transportation is only a secondary function. A 7 is a joy machine. It's a machine of wonders, a metal bird, a motorized prosthetic.
It's light and dark and shiny and dirty and warm and cold lapping over each other; it's a conduit of grace, it's a catalyst for
bonding the gritty and the holy. I still think of myself as a car amateur. I wouldn't trade one second of either the good times or the misery.
Learning to drive is one of the best things I've done.
Tin tops lie to us and tell us we're safe, powerful, and in control. The air-conditioning fans murmur empty assurances and whisper,
"Sleep, sleep." 7's tell us a more useful truth: we are small and exposed, and probably moving too fast for our own good, but
that's no reason not to enjoy every minute of the drive.
Gallery updated 11/01/2011
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prawnabie
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| posted on 30/3/10 at 08:00 PM |
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well put
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trialsman
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| posted on 30/3/10 at 08:09 PM |
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RichardK, that statement needs to be put in a frame and hung in everyone's garage!!!! It should be our new mantra. Russ
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LBMEFM
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| posted on 30/3/10 at 08:29 PM |
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Blimey Richard that brought a tear to my eye, well done very poetic. Barry
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LBMEFM
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| posted on 30/3/10 at 08:33 PM |
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PS What drugs do you take?
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 30/3/10 at 08:37 PM |
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Season of the Bike by Dave Karlotski
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MikeCapon
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| posted on 30/3/10 at 08:46 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by MikeRJ
Season of the Bike by Dave Karlotski
How very strange.... Reading Richard K's post just made me think instantly of the unique experience of riding a motorcycle... Sorry to have to
say it but no car has ever done the same for me.
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RichardK
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| posted on 30/3/10 at 08:48 PM |
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Copying bugger! He He, remember lifting it from somewhere years ago as it just seemed so right, so thought I'd share.
Gallery updated 11/01/2011
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Daddylonglegs
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| posted on 30/3/10 at 09:01 PM |
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And I was just about to add "All Hail RichardK" lol!
Fraudster
It looks like the Midget is winning at the moment......
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owelly
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| posted on 30/3/10 at 09:07 PM |
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So you guys think that driving your home made cars is fun? I get to drive a cronky pile of cack that was first built by a retard in 1985. Since then,
every hamfisted donkey within shouting distance has had a go at drilling holes, welding-up holes, bolting to and undoing bits, attaching with cable
ties/black tape etc. etc. That stopped when I bought the car and discovered the scuttle was made of hardboard. The pedal box was held in with
woodscrews.
I mocked-up an Alfa V6 engine and it fitted. So I fitted a gearbox. And some steering and a few other bits. Then I forgot to take it to bits to do the
job properly.
This has resulted in a truly bad 'car' that tries it's hardest to find me new friends in casualty. I never know what bits are
heading for the gutter and I'm never too sure if the car wants to get home or go back to the cereal packet it came from.
I will get around to taking it to bits to do the job properly but as it keeps moving under it's own steam, literally, then I'll keep
driving* it. So please, keep out of my way, don't touch the sharp bits and if you see me at the side of the road, do me the courtesy of pointing
and laughing.
*Driving, as in getting thrown up the road at rediculous speeds without any idea when I'm going to stop.....or where.
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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Dangle_kt
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| posted on 30/3/10 at 09:13 PM |
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I have to agree, RichardK is right, the experience of a bike and 7 is very similar in some very important ways.
Obviously its different too - less sence of danger for one, less vunerable - not sure if that is a good thing or not...
I can certainly go a lot faster in my 7 per % of skill in the car than on the bike.
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Benzine
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| posted on 30/3/10 at 09:16 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Dangle_kt
I have to agree, RichardK is right, the experience of a bike and 7 is very similar in some very important ways.
Obviously its different too
You don't have to dress up like a power ranger to go for a drive in a 7, for one
The mental gymnastics a landlord will employ to justify immoral actions is clinically fascinating. Just because something is legal doesn't make
it moral.
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owelly
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| posted on 30/3/10 at 09:18 PM |
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You don't?? Thats' why everyone stares at me....
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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Vindi_andy
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| posted on 31/3/10 at 12:49 PM |
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Well you might have to owelly so that you only make new friends in casualty not at the mortuary
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dean100yz
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| posted on 31/3/10 at 07:03 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by owelly
You don't?? Thats' why everyone stares at me....
ha ha ha ha
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dean100yz
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| posted on 31/3/10 at 07:07 PM |
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I love my kitcar but thrashing a big road bike around a track or open roads is hard to beat...
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-6356889878794792370&ei=yZyzS9qgItST-AbiutXUBg&q=benelli+tornado#
I did the same on a R1. You think the new R1's are quick in kitcars...
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deanwelch
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| posted on 31/3/10 at 07:27 PM |
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yes it is hard to beat but at least you don't get so much gravel rash when you bin a 7...................
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dean100yz
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| posted on 31/3/10 at 07:32 PM |
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True!! Just that noise of it skidding about in the car evertime you brake or take a corner hard
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deanwelch
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| posted on 31/3/10 at 08:03 PM |
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bones mend and chicks dig scars but after you wake up in hospital again you have to think 4 wheels might be your future
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eddie99
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| posted on 31/3/10 at 08:08 PM |
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Very well put Richard 
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