RE: PH Blog: Clio Elbow
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Whiters said:
Eighteeteewhy said:
Chris Harris said:
Ferosferio said:
I may be one of the only people to come out with such blasphemy but... the E36 M3 'Vaders' gave me chronic lower-back ache. No likey.
Wasn't just me then.
Much prefer the seats in E36 M3 cab, they don't look as cool but are much more comfortable..
Oh, but they do look goooood.
I was sitting in my dads ex army s2 land rover with arctic heater. which consisted of a Bolier in the middle of the cab. It was made of sheet steel and had no insulation whatsoever. Needless to say burnt elbows were a constant joy. Im 26 next month and still bare the wounds! Scars mean memories, memories I always want to remember! i also got a massive cut on my arse from a flying ammunition case in the back of another friends Landy as we drove it flat out down a green lane! Landies mean scars! Good times!
TVR T350C, aircon unit regularly fell-over leaving cabin intolerably hot... but driving with the windows open drew hot air in round the gearbox heating the gearstick up to near skin-burning temperatures. Driving, sweating and wearing a glove on left hand was always a conversation point!
Said TVR, followed by Tubi-style equipped Porsche and various sports bikes with aftermarket systems have left permanent tinnitus! Even though they're long gone I'm left with constant whistling in my ears... which is nice!
Saying that, I loved them all and would love to track down the old T350C... I did 48k in 2.5 years in it so I suspect it's probably 'retired'.
Said TVR, followed by Tubi-style equipped Porsche and various sports bikes with aftermarket systems have left permanent tinnitus! Even though they're long gone I'm left with constant whistling in my ears... which is nice!
Saying that, I loved them all and would love to track down the old T350C... I did 48k in 2.5 years in it so I suspect it's probably 'retired'.
Got into my car after the wife had been driving it and done the female equivalent of 'leaving the toilet seat up', which is to say not putting the seat back to where I left it.
I didn't notice, sat down, smashed my left knee against the side of the dash, right leg, which still had momentum, follows it in fully crushing my b
ks between my legs. Several minutes of 'g-nnrrrrrr, brrrrrrr, gah, gnrrrrrrr, urgh, eeeurgh' followed before I could get underway.
Also, I have been told that the most common cause of dislocated shoulders is reaching backwards over your shoulder (i.e. using your right hand in an RHD car) to get your seatbelt.
I didn't notice, sat down, smashed my left knee against the side of the dash, right leg, which still had momentum, follows it in fully crushing my b
ks between my legs. Several minutes of 'g-nnrrrrrr, brrrrrrr, gah, gnrrrrrrr, urgh, eeeurgh' followed before I could get underway.Also, I have been told that the most common cause of dislocated shoulders is reaching backwards over your shoulder (i.e. using your right hand in an RHD car) to get your seatbelt.
Stuart said:
KTM X-Bow back. Whilst it actually feels pretty supple to drive, I think that a combination of firm ride and the fact that your entire upper body is in fast moving cold air meant that after 5 or 6 hours in one, my already bad back literally seized up.
I had to be pretty much shoe horned into another car (a ZR1 IIRC) and spent the next two days in bed with a spasm so bad I couldn't sleep until a chiropractor got me moving again. It was so bad I even used my wife's TENS machine...
TENS machine??!! Did you have a shandy afterwards?I had to be pretty much shoe horned into another car (a ZR1 IIRC) and spent the next two days in bed with a spasm so bad I couldn't sleep until a chiropractor got me moving again. It was so bad I even used my wife's TENS machine...
I tend to suffer from nordschleife forearm after any extended track driving session.
It first developed after my first visit to the Nürburgring (hence the name) and now seems to happen to me after 5 or so laps at speed at any given circuit.
It's like a shooting muscle pain in the right forearm and it's bloody agony.
It first developed after my first visit to the Nürburgring (hence the name) and now seems to happen to me after 5 or so laps at speed at any given circuit.
It's like a shooting muscle pain in the right forearm and it's bloody agony.
Stuart said:
Mate, really. I couldn't walk for two days. Cost me £50 to have some rock ape of a chiro jump up and down on my spine.
I trust that when a woman tells you of the protracted agony she endured during child birth, you respond with the tale of when you too were forced to resort to the TENS machine?I still hate the sports seats in 993s. they just push your shoulders forwards.
Driving LHD Defender from London to Barca. Am 6'5" with long legs, and found that I got some sort of burn/rubbing mark on my right calf from the handbrake, which in this Landy (as with all Defenders?) was down in the footwell...
Solution? A pillow between leg and offending handle for the duration...
Solution? A pillow between leg and offending handle for the duration...
This obviously leads us onto wider discussion on the topic of dignified exits from ostentatious machinery.
I once attempted to look cool climbing from a Diablo 6.0L on Battersea rise, got my foot caught on something Italian, and forced a bus driver to perform an emergency stop as I lay in the road. Cool.
I once attempted to look cool climbing from a Diablo 6.0L on Battersea rise, got my foot caught on something Italian, and forced a bus driver to perform an emergency stop as I lay in the road. Cool.
New car.... Unfamiliar car park.
Electric windows for the front are further forward on the armrest than the old car resulting in opening rear window by mistake.
Plus super clean windows.
Reversing..........someone leans on their horn.... i stop and instantly crane round smashing my head/glasses into the window and nearly knock myself out.
Funny now.
But had a headache for ages .
Electric windows for the front are further forward on the armrest than the old car resulting in opening rear window by mistake.
Plus super clean windows.
Reversing..........someone leans on their horn.... i stop and instantly crane round smashing my head/glasses into the window and nearly knock myself out.
Funny now.
But had a headache for ages .
Chris Harris said:
This obviously leads us onto wider discussion on the topic of dignified exits from ostentatious machinery.
I once attempted to look cool climbing from a Diablo 6.0L on Battersea rise, got my foot caught on something Italian, and forced a bus driver to perform an emergency stop as I lay in the road. Cool.
I once got horrendously pissed whilst at the Essen motor show. Was driven back from wherever we'd ended up 3 up in the back of a Berliner cab. When we got there the driver came round and opened the door, prompting me to fall, in the seated position, into a puddle, still in the seated position. There is a picture of me lying there, still in the seated position. Not cool.I once attempted to look cool climbing from a Diablo 6.0L on Battersea rise, got my foot caught on something Italian, and forced a bus driver to perform an emergency stop as I lay in the road. Cool.
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