So what have you done with your Aston today?
Discussion
ashway said:
baconsarney said:
Took her to the local yesterday for Sunday lunch 
who the ex wife, very magnanamous of you
Not on this occasion, but Christmas before last I did treat her to Christmas in a lovely hotel in the Peak District who the ex wife, very magnanamous of you
Three days of near bliss, great hotel, great service, superb food, wonderful surroundings.... I'd forgotten how much she snores though..... Piccie....
TR-Spider said:
I did a few days driving in Scotland - including Old Military Road and Applecross Pass - what a breathtaking combination of beautiful countryside and divine roads!
Beach na Ba is, I suspect, a better cycling road than driving road. The Old Military Road on the other hand ............. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkAT82-R0S8
TR-Spider said:
I did a few days driving in Scotland - including Old Military Road and Applecross Pass - what a breathtaking combination of beautiful countryside and divine roads!
How did you find the Applecross Pass? I'm looking at doing the route soonish, having looked at some videos the road surface looks quite poor in places and its difficult to tell if it will be constant hill starts giving way to oncoming traffic? Keen to know your thoughts.
Sirius said:
How did you find the Applecross Pass? I'm looking at doing the route soonish, having looked at some videos the road surface looks quite poor in places and its difficult to tell if it will be constant hill starts giving way to oncoming traffic? Keen to know your thoughts.
It was not bad to drive at all - there are lot's of passing places and little traffic (probably best to avoid Sat/Sundays).I had no difficulty with the road surface either - probably thanks to stock ride height and normal (non-sports) Bilstein dampers.
Grip was also good, even when it got drizzly/wet on the way back.
Also its rather easy to see oncoming traffic, so you can arrange smooth passing.
I found the other drivers were quite polite and careful - everywhere in the deserted areas.
There's even a good chance they let you pass in an Aston...on the other hand, I found it quite amusing to let a spirited driving local pass and use him as a guide.
Thomas
I popped over to the Ardèche to bed my new disks and pads in (took an age - about 800 miles and a few precipitous downhill hairpins...).
I also twiddled some knobs on my camera, got my friend to lie on his belly on a hairpin and fixed it in Photoshop
Surreal how this big car handles these tight twisty roads - absolutely love it
I also twiddled some knobs on my camera, got my friend to lie on his belly on a hairpin and fixed it in Photoshop
Surreal how this big car handles these tight twisty roads - absolutely love it
TR-Spider said:
It was not bad to drive at all - there are lot's of passing places and little traffic (probably best to avoid Sat/Sundays).
I had no difficulty with the road surface either - probably thanks to stock ride height and normal (non-sports) Bilstein dampers.
Grip was also good, even when it got drizzly/wet on the way back.
Also its rather easy to see oncoming traffic, so you can arrange smooth passing.
I found the other drivers were quite polite and careful - everywhere in the deserted areas.
There's even a good chance they let you pass in an Aston...on the other hand, I found it quite amusing to let a spirited driving local pass and use him as a guide.
Thomas
I think that Applecross Bealach na Ba road is about the views, photo ops and destination (fab fish and chips at the inn!) rather then the driving per se - although it is quite fun to the point where you hit the steep bit. I had no difficulty with the road surface either - probably thanks to stock ride height and normal (non-sports) Bilstein dampers.
Grip was also good, even when it got drizzly/wet on the way back.
Also its rather easy to see oncoming traffic, so you can arrange smooth passing.
I found the other drivers were quite polite and careful - everywhere in the deserted areas.
There's even a good chance they let you pass in an Aston...on the other hand, I found it quite amusing to let a spirited driving local pass and use him as a guide.
Thomas
Highly recommended
Edited by Ken Figenus on Saturday 13th October 17:31
Hit some standing water yesterday morning coming up the A11 resulting in an instantaneous but not too quick clockwise rotation of the car. Fairly easily dealt with and amazingly didn't require a change of clothing when I got home. I naturally exaggerated all aspects of the moment in the pub later in the day.
Graze01 said:
Wow that's a good result
I've seen that happen and the car just waltzed right off the motorway into the drainage culvert between his side of the road and mine
Graze
Hi Graeme, yes definitely came out on the right side I've seen that happen and the car just waltzed right off the motorway into the drainage culvert between his side of the road and mine
Graze
70mph on a dual carriageway in the outside lane, road I'm very familiar with too... hadn't got my 'expect the unexpected' hat on either... praise the Lord for wet track days
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