RE: Mucking about in the snow
Discussion
Here'a our effort from yesterday - R32 sliding around filmed from from the air with a quadcopter. Great fun and much warmer than sledging 
http://youtu.be/89d94yLndMc
http://youtu.be/89d94yLndMc
Edited by ol on Monday 21st January 11:05
dxg said:
bicycleshorts said:
Hooooooon.
That brings back memories of doing exactly the same in the very same car park, but in a Fiat Uno twenty years ago...
I those days, though, you ran the gauntlet of a security guard who sat in a little hut on the road just the other side of that hedge.
ol said:
Here'a our effort from yesterday - R32 sliding around filmed from from the air with a quadcopter. Great fun and much warmer than sledging
http://youtu.be/89d94yLndMc
Top work! The office is loving the bobsleigh team Landie too!http://youtu.be/89d94yLndMc
Dan
Great thread! Only think I'm noticing nobody has really mentioned is the advantage of fwd/front engined cars in the snow, but I digress.....
When I was a kid my dad had a Mk2 Golf diesel - quite possibly the slowest car of the modern age, and this one was pretty shagged too. The one advantage it did have in winter was a set of studded snow tyres (god alone knows where they came from). My happiest memory of that car was sitting on the inside at a set of traffic lights in the snow. In the outside lane there was a brand spanking A8. My dad 'blipped' the Golf (if you can call it that!), and the guy in the A8 took the bait.
I could feel the tension building; what would win? The 60 grand uberbarge with 4wd, or the 200,000 mile Golf with a missing door mirror? The lights changed, the big Audi started moving, and was left for dead by the motoring equivalent of an incontinent labrador.
It's stayed with me to this day, not just because it was bloody funny, but because it goes to show that the right tyres are sometimes more important than the car they're on.
When I was a kid my dad had a Mk2 Golf diesel - quite possibly the slowest car of the modern age, and this one was pretty shagged too. The one advantage it did have in winter was a set of studded snow tyres (god alone knows where they came from). My happiest memory of that car was sitting on the inside at a set of traffic lights in the snow. In the outside lane there was a brand spanking A8. My dad 'blipped' the Golf (if you can call it that!), and the guy in the A8 took the bait.
I could feel the tension building; what would win? The 60 grand uberbarge with 4wd, or the 200,000 mile Golf with a missing door mirror? The lights changed, the big Audi started moving, and was left for dead by the motoring equivalent of an incontinent labrador.
It's stayed with me to this day, not just because it was bloody funny, but because it goes to show that the right tyres are sometimes more important than the car they're on.
spitsfire said:
Great thread! Only think I'm noticing nobody has really mentioned is the advantage of fwd/front engined cars in the snow, but I digress.....
When I was a kid my dad had a Mk2 Golf diesel - quite possibly the slowest car of the modern age, and this one was pretty shagged too. The one advantage it did have in winter was a set of studded snow tyres (god alone knows where they came from). My happiest memory of that car was sitting on the inside at a set of traffic lights in the snow. In the outside lane there was a brand spanking A8. My dad 'blipped' the Golf (if you can call it that!), and the guy in the A8 took the bait.
I could feel the tension building; what would win? The 60 grand uberbarge with 4wd, or the 200,000 mile Golf with a missing door mirror? The lights changed, the big Audi started moving, and was left for dead by the motoring equivalent of an incontinent labrador.
It's stayed with me to this day, not just because it was bloody funny, but because it goes to show that the right tyres are sometimes more important than the car they're on.
haha...very true though.When I was a kid my dad had a Mk2 Golf diesel - quite possibly the slowest car of the modern age, and this one was pretty shagged too. The one advantage it did have in winter was a set of studded snow tyres (god alone knows where they came from). My happiest memory of that car was sitting on the inside at a set of traffic lights in the snow. In the outside lane there was a brand spanking A8. My dad 'blipped' the Golf (if you can call it that!), and the guy in the A8 took the bait.
I could feel the tension building; what would win? The 60 grand uberbarge with 4wd, or the 200,000 mile Golf with a missing door mirror? The lights changed, the big Audi started moving, and was left for dead by the motoring equivalent of an incontinent labrador.
It's stayed with me to this day, not just because it was bloody funny, but because it goes to show that the right tyres are sometimes more important than the car they're on.
BS75 said:
X3 was fine, even on P-Zeros. I say 'fine'; going and cornering was cool, stopping required some planning... 
520 was a handful, but made it home all the same.
I have P Zeros for the RRS, yep you have to book stopping well in advance. Up until this snow fall the temps here have been in the 10c - 13c range, so not been worth digging out the winter tyres until the snow hit us. 520 was a handful, but made it home all the same.
Dan Trent said:
ol said:
Here'a our effort from yesterday - R32 sliding around filmed from from the air with a quadcopter. Great fun and much warmer than sledging
http://youtu.be/89d94yLndMc
Top work! The office is loving the bobsleigh team Landie too!http://youtu.be/89d94yLndMc
Dan
Unfortunately have been carting around the girlfriend and her little sisters since the snow really hit so have been "warned" prior to my intentions in the empty tesco car park and wide roads between that and the house...so no hooning.
However i've got 16 miles of country lanes to get through while going home from work toninght....
However i've got 16 miles of country lanes to get through while going home from work toninght....
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