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driving for as long as possible without touching the brakes at all, good test of fordward observation and planning!
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can you imagine if we all met on the same bit of road....
there'd be Pologirl eking out the last bit of diesel, whilst deperately avoiding the same bit of road she's just driven down......Pugugly would storm through at warp factor 5........Adam, would be oblivious to the lot singing his head off...... I'd be coasting trying to get another 0.3 mpg and..... Psi would be swerving around everyone desperate not to touch the brakes
So a pretty normal road journey then.
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The "not touching the brakes" thing can turn into a dangerous obsession, leading to almost rear ending someone because you are desperately trying avoid the pedal. Or maybe that is just me.
My personal best is 20 miles on a rural A road between Cardigan and Fishguard, and I wasn't hanging about either. Made easier because I was on the bike where the light weight increases the engine braking effect.
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Robin Reliant, formerly known as Tom Shaw
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I used to travel hundreds of miles in the comapny of a like-minded chappie.
Reset the computer on setting off. Every half an hour, we'd stop yapping and go through the computer. We'd each make a guess on overall fuel consumption, then average speed, outside temperature and range. As usual, the rules became more and more detailed, but basically, we got points for nearest to the actual with more points for exact guesses. We gave up because the strain of competition was spoiling our enjoyment!
A recurrent one for me: On empty motorways (so pretty rare) change lanes without hitting any cat's eyes.
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Westpig - Lol!
The people aside, that happens every day around here!
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I once turned off my lights, on a twisty stretch of country road that had those illuminated cats eyes, scary good fun.
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I carried on a long and admittedly one-sided conversation with the TomTom this afternoon, mostly concerning idiots who slow down to stare at accidents on the other carriageway and as a result cause a FOUR MILE TAILBACK on mine. Yes, you. Admittedly, riding in a 24 mountain bike race shortly before does help addle your mind, and I just wanted to get home after going head over heels over a cliff in the mud.
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When I was a child, every time the new number paltes came out, i had an obsession of collecting and writing down all of them, why I've no idea, it last upto a couple of weeks when nearly every other car was new, now I just try and make out the longest possible word from the registration plate, all numbers have an equivalent alphabet letter- 4= h, 5=s,7=t, 8=b, etc,sad but it passses the time of day.
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as a way of keeping kids entertained (honest guv!)
will look at all number plates to find all letters of the alphabet from a to z. Only problems happens when 0 or o is looked for !
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Back in the days of CB radios, myself and a few mates used to daft things like overtake people on blind bends, hump back bridges and the like. What the person who was being overtaken didn't realise was that one of our friends further up the road was giving us notification over the CB that the coast was clear.
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"What the person who was being overtaken didn't realise was that one of our friends further up the road was giving us notification over the CB that the coast was clear. "
What a novel defence that would be to Driving without due care and attention ! :-)
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Still, with help of that sort, barring mistakes, someone like PU might be able to outrun plod and disappear...
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once for a bet got 15 people in a Morris 1000 Traveller and drove it round an airfield perimeter. No 15 was standing on the towbar and holding on to the roof rack!
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swap left foot for right foot when i get bored.......
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It involves my girlfriend and am saying no more!
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It involves my girlfriend and am saying no more!
Oh dear, not another evangelical discussion group, surely?
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A friend of my father would not turn on his headlights until ten cars in succession came the other way with theirs on. If the tenth car had the lights off it was back to zero.
Nutter.
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Gratuitous lift off oversteer on "good" roundabouts and slip-road loops when I had my 306.
Trying to change lanes without running over a cats eye
Hoping I'm within 2 miles of a petrol station when the Mondeo's fuel gauge suddenly plummets from a quarter to below empty within about 5 seconds with no in between state. Just to spice things up and keep me guessing, this is an intermittent problem.
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theMondeo's fuel gauge suddenly plummets from a quarter to below empty within about 5 seconds with no in between state. Just to spice things up and keep me guessing, this is an intermittent problem.
My impression is that it's an inbuilt characteristic of fuel gauges. One of the car industry's little jokes.
Every now and again you come across one that's dead accurate when you're used to a sort of satirical pessimism. That's when you run out of petrol.
Who said Ford and General Motors and the rest didn't have a sense of playful mischief?
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I've driven 18 miles on a back road without touching the brakes. This included negotiating a crossroads in a village!
I've also driven the same 18 miles in 14 minutes.
Both of these were done in an 1988 VW Polo van (950cc).
I also try and avoid cats eyes.
One thing I used to do when I was much younger was drive at night with no lights on (on deserted back roads I must add) guided only by the full moon. Can get a bit hairy when you get to a stretch with trees lining the road!
Another is to try and work out your ETA in your head. Trip computers are for cheats! Once you have the time you expect to be there (try for an average of 50 or 60mph), the next task is to drive like a bat out of hell to try and achieve that time! Its amazing how fast you have to drive to average 60mph!
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I used to do Ottery St. Mary to Basingstoke regularily.
I used to try and see how different a mileage reading I could get by either cutting every corner, roundabout etc. as opposed to following all the curves.
Sad really. But what else do you do when driving at 5:00am, and this was before all the nice dual carriageway.
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You didn't have a Lancia by any chance, No FM2R? I came across a guy with one once (I had a Beta HPE at the time) who used to do that commute.
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I sing along to my Kylie Minogue CD.
No one will travel with me.
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>.Body Language.<<
Good man.
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Could have been a blue Lancia Beta 2litre Saloon or an orangey Talbot Alpine. I think I might have had a Viceroy at that time as well.
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"I used to try and see how different a mileage reading I could get by either cutting every corner, roundabout etc. as opposed to following all the curves"
That's a gem of an obsession Mark, thanks for putting that in my mind.
Thanks a lot.
Damn.
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Don't let it drag you over to the dark side Dave, escape while you can.I still can't help doing it even now and even on a shortish journey.
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But what we really need to know is, what was the answer? How much mileage could you save?
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So kind of a variation do you get?
Do you count return journeys? Because going three quarters around aroundabout one way would only be a quarter around coming back.
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