Does going for a hoon get your adrenaline pumping?
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I've been doing uni work all day.
Decided to pop to my see my mum, but she wasn't in so I went for a quick 10 minute blast.
Only came across one other car going in the same direction, but they were on the one part of my favourite road where it's possible to safely overtake.
It was just one of those hoons where everything feels 'right', everything works out, and the car feels just great.
But when I get back from a hoon, I'm always a bit shakey and 'pumped up'.
Anyone else get this?
Decided to pop to my see my mum, but she wasn't in so I went for a quick 10 minute blast.
Only came across one other car going in the same direction, but they were on the one part of my favourite road where it's possible to safely overtake.
It was just one of those hoons where everything feels 'right', everything works out, and the car feels just great.
But when I get back from a hoon, I'm always a bit shakey and 'pumped up'.
Anyone else get this?
Not often. 
Spending years hoofing around in the silly seat in rally cars has somewhat numbed that effect somewhat!
Batting through forests at speeds approaching 3 figures and looking up to see the trees and spectators whizzing past gets the blood pumping a bit!
Then you remember you've got another pacenote to read and have lost your place on the page... 
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Spending years hoofing around in the silly seat in rally cars has somewhat numbed that effect somewhat!
Batting through forests at speeds approaching 3 figures and looking up to see the trees and spectators whizzing past gets the blood pumping a bit!
Then you remember you've got another pacenote to read and have lost your place on the page... ... 
I've only really got my adrenaline going twice in my car (which is a very similar Fiesta to yours).
1) I span in the rain down some country lanes. That certainly got the adrenaline pumping, knowing that if a car had been 5 seconds earlier, I'd probably have suffered serious injuries.
2) I entered a roundabout too fast, and started understeering towards the kerb, so lifted off and carried skidding towards the kerb, just this time at a 90 degree angle. Floored it, and somehow ended up exiting the roundabout without incident. Never had so much fun in a car on the road before. Never been so close to death, either, though.
1) I span in the rain down some country lanes. That certainly got the adrenaline pumping, knowing that if a car had been 5 seconds earlier, I'd probably have suffered serious injuries.
2) I entered a roundabout too fast, and started understeering towards the kerb, so lifted off and carried skidding towards the kerb, just this time at a 90 degree angle. Floored it, and somehow ended up exiting the roundabout without incident. Never had so much fun in a car on the road before. Never been so close to death, either, though.
al1991 said:
hman said:
try riding a motorbike, on black ice, on knobblies at speed.
Adrenaline, not many benny!
I like a thrill, but I'm too young to die Adrenaline, not many benny!
I very rarely ever get the 'buzz' in a car nowadays, but the bike gives 100% more, not always going too fast but having great road positioning on bends etc when everything 'flows'.Can't get that in a car and unless you have ridden a bike you'll never know.
I do indeed, when I drop off some friends who are in a town with a 6-7 mile stretch of NSL B roads between theirs and mine which I know very well (3 years of driving the road at least 4 times a week). When the time of day is right and the conditions are good I think "Why the hell not?" then just put my foot down! When I get home I'm on like duracel battery energy mode! I'm just buzzing until I can find something to do and calm myself down!
There are also a few backroads in the area which are quite good, but unfortunately 1 of them passess through 3 villages and makes you lose your rythm as you slow down and the other one usually has someone doing the whole road at 50MPH and very little opportunity to overtake.
There are also a few backroads in the area which are quite good, but unfortunately 1 of them passess through 3 villages and makes you lose your rythm as you slow down and the other one usually has someone doing the whole road at 50MPH and very little opportunity to overtake.
Last time I had that (in a car) was either over in Corsica or in the Alps, but then again I'd defy anyone with petrol in their veins not to get all excited driving those roads and those passes with that scenery, no speed cameras and next to no traffic infront of you.
Just utterly amazing. I must go back soon!!!
Over here, it very rarely comes close. Mildly satisfying possibly. As a few have said, it's a different ball game on two wheels.
Bottom line is though, it's never anywhere near as engaging or rewarding as it is on the track, so that's where I keep it - and trackside the bike still wins it in the adrenalin and grin stakes - a car has be monumentally quick and/or capable to get close to the feeling of riding the wheels off a quick, agile bike!!!!
Just utterly amazing. I must go back soon!!!
Over here, it very rarely comes close. Mildly satisfying possibly. As a few have said, it's a different ball game on two wheels.
Bottom line is though, it's never anywhere near as engaging or rewarding as it is on the track, so that's where I keep it - and trackside the bike still wins it in the adrenalin and grin stakes - a car has be monumentally quick and/or capable to get close to the feeling of riding the wheels off a quick, agile bike!!!!
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