dog with 2 dicks

[wantalotus]

just collected my new 111r from those helpful guys at Hethel. its a dream come true. hope to get 1st service done by Fri, and then the real fun will start. keep your eyes peeled for a lazer blue 111r, there aren't many about so it will be yours truley.Will keep you guys informed of the joys of 111r ownership.

[chouca]

top colour! I´m glad you can still order it.

[Davey S1]

Good lad. Have fun but be careful on these slippery roads.

There is a unhappy thread on SELOC by some guy who wrote off his 111r by loosing control on a greasy road.

[jed111r]

Enjoy - I've had my 111R for 9 months now and it just gets better and better.............

[doug ward]

"There is a unhappy thread on SELOC by some guy who wrote off his 111r by loosing control on a greasy road."

That would be me

[_topcat]

Doug, thats terrible news. Bad picture too. These roads are way too slippy for these cars arent they. You think you have all the grip in the world then bam!! you find something hard imbedded in the clam.
Tough luck.
Is the insurance paying out?

[Bonce]

Nasty picture Doug, I hope you get back on the road soon.

[doug ward]

So far so good with regard to insurance, no nasty suprises yet but i'm still waiting for them to give the official green light for the repair. Should hear this week.

Your right about the overconfidence you can develop with this car. The handling is like nothing you've driven before, your able to corner at incomprehensible speeds but all it takes is a bit of a slippery surface (wet surfaces not so bad but anything causing the roads to be a little greasy) and its so easily lost.

My message to all new recipiants of 111R's this winter is to take it easy until conditions pick up.

[mark-111r]

I will take that on board, got over confident in mine yesterday and nearly had a smash with a Jag so now taking it very easy, how did it happen?

[doug ward]

Details on the earlier thread

111R Findings so far...

Also on Seloc in the technical forum in a thread about greasy roads.

[Davey S1]

Didnt realise it was you Doug. Glad you are alright though and the insurance is going through ok.

I had a shunt in mine a few months ago. Some woman skidded across the road straight into me. No where as bad as yours but I needed a new front clam and front wheel and was without the car for the best part of 6 weeks.

It will feel amazing when you get it back and although I drove a bit gingerly at first you soon fall in love with it again

At least when you get it back the weather should be better and you can give it the stick it deserves.

[zebedee]

or when he gets one back as opposed to 'it' as it seems 'it' is no more...

Will you spend the readies on another elise Doug?