Tell us something really 23 about your life (vol trivial)

[Mr Roper]

No...we have guests. Maybe later though.

[pad58]

[hidetheelephants]

Fishtigua said:

Watching a bit of the Commonwealth Squash games. I've only ever played just to keep my mates in practice, not competitivley at all. Now I know why they used to get all flustered and smash their racquet on the floor. Don't park the ball in the corner.

Once, after a game in Mougin and coming back via Cannes to take the girls out to dinner, Roger and I spotted some fresh moules at a cafe. I was riding my Gixer 1100 and slammed the brakes on, leaving a blackened skidmark right in front of the cafe.

Rog and I ordered a quick Plat Royale and a bottle of crisp Sancerre. Feck, out came all the moule, oysters, crabs, shrimp, whelks and sea urchins. 2 and a half hours later we staggered back to the boat. Both girls were sitting there in their party frocks and just looked at us with those 'where the fk have you been?' eyes.

Had a very quiet kip that night.

Well played; bros before hos.

[109er]

leafspring said:

DickyC said:

"You're going in what to fetch the spare wheels?"

Took the Audi, two wheels in the boot and three standing up on the back seat... couldn't see out the back window but they went in alright

I could have taken my Land Rover but 13mpg vs 38mpg over 162miles? no contest. All that weight in the back actually improved the handling too

Edited by leafspring on Sunday 27th July 19:34

These wheels and tyres = 5 x 235/85/16's. Rather large and rather heavy but, in they went

[DickyC]

Took the car. Right. I thought from what iva was saying you took the glider. Wise move on refelection.

[pad58]

Once upon a time I took 11 x bags of cement (the old size) in a Viva HC for 30 miles
It didn't like it.

[DickyC]

GOG440 said:

DickyC I saw this on ebay and thought of you
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AUDI-RS2-/151307460675?p...
Looks lovely

It's a beast. Cheap too. Does the lack of pics of the inside, underneath and under the bonnet tell a tale? Thanks, Gog.

Thinking of vehicular beasts, I drove an M3 for the first time today. More power than an RS2 and all through two wheels instead of four and it wasn't as wacky as I was expecting. It felt like a little Aston, solid and well screwed to the road with oodles of power smoothly and progressively delivered but singularly lacking in fireworks. The RS2, with its explosive power delivery was, in comparison, like a scary funfair ride.

Edited by DickyC on Sunday 27th July 22:12

[iva cosworth]

Which flavour M3 DC ?....for the BMW beards....E30,E36,E46,E90/92.....blah blah blah.

[DickyC]

Sorry, I was doing all that on my phone. Back home now. We were summoned to my MiL's by the emergency button people. Poor old thing had a scare with her stair lift. All I could think of, as I rode up and down a few times to test it, was the seduction scene from Phoenix Nights.

I'm a bad person.

[DickyC]

iva cosworth said:

Which flavour M3 DC ?....for the BMW beards....E30,E36,E46,E90/92.....blah blah blah.

E46 convertible. The power delivery is so even from very low down I didn't feel like revving the nuts off it. Maybe if I had made it sing a bit more I'd have been more impressed. It wasn't in the least bit scary as I had always told myself an M3 would be.

Seeing Kenny Brack on YouTube fighting that GT40 round Goodwood was how I imagined wrestling an M3 at speed. It ain't like that at all.

[GOG440]

DickyC said:

GOG440 said:

DickyC I saw this on ebay and thought of you
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AUDI-RS2-/151307460675?p...
Looks lovely

It's a beast. Cheap too. Does the lack of pics of the inside, underneath and under the bonnet tell a tale? Thanks, Gog.

Thinking of vehicular beasts, I drove an M3 for the first time today. More power than an RS2 and all through two wheels instead of four and it wasn't as wacky as I was expecting. It felt like a little Aston, solid and well screwed to the road with oodles of power smoothly and progressively delivered but singularly lacking in fireworks. The RS2, with its explosive power delivery was, in comparison, like a scary funfair ride.

Edited by DickyC on Sunday 27th July 22:12

Scroll down to the bottom of the listing, there are interior shots and a picture of the engine bay

[Impasse]

pad58 said:

Once upon a time I took 11 x bags of cement (the old size) in a Viva HC for 30 miles
It didn't like it.

A number of years ago I loaded up my old P38 Range Rover with many bags of sand and grit and cement as we were putting in posts for an irregular shaped decking area. The poor old car struggled to self level on its air suspension, so I had to redistribute the weight around moving more towards the mid-point of the wheelbase, including putting some bags in the passenger footwell. Eventually it sorted itself out and I headed the five miles home. It didn't half wander at anything above 50mph on the motorway.

It was only when I worked out how many bags I'd bought that I realised I'd just transported close to a tonne and a quarter. But for some reason I'm more impressed with your little Viva.

[pad58]

No not my Viva ,the guy building the house ,although I was banging his daughter.





Naughty girl.

[Impasse]

Ah, mammaries memories. They're not what they used to be.

[pad58]

That's all I have.

[McAndy]

Finished the ironing.

[Gretchen]

We've got a box of Bud And some Calsberg Zest sitting In th garden listening to the harvesting. Although the Combines are struggling apparently because it's got damp quickly :snigger:

[Johnny]

I seem to have reserved enough bikes from Halfords to have my own peleton...

[ChemicalChaos]

DickyC said:

Good to hear, Gretchen. Apparently, glider pilots wear parachutes these days. When ar were a lad, in the Air Cadets, we went gliding in rackety old things called Kirby Cadets with straps to hold us in and that was about it. There weren't many fatalities, if I remember correctly.



The Kirby Cadet, built by Fred Slingsby, first flew in 1935!!

Is that at the Mynd by any chance? If so, they still have the same glider and the same Land Rovers!



In other news, Top Fuel dragsters are loud. No, really... so loud that it's uncomfortable with ear defenders on. So loud your ribcage rattles as all 8,000 horsepower thunders past.
Speed matters

Also, standing behind a TF car being run up in the pits is a seriously bad idea. Nitro fumes sting like a bh!

Edited by ChemicalChaos on Monday 28th July 02:32

[DickyC]

You don't think going to America and using the time difference to get in first is a bit extreme, Matt?

The glider pic was off the little telly boxy thing, btw. Not one pic of Cadet Dick, I'm afraid.

GOG - apologies, I was trying to read it on my phone without my glasses. I'll have a look at work in a bit.