Ive not been arround for a while......
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Hi all
This must be only the second time I’ve looked at PH's in the past 2 months, but Ive got a good excuse......
My house got flooded on the first round of bad weather back in June and after a long wait, we have finally got into rented accommodation until all the refurb work is done. Looks like it may be xmas or after by the time we are back in home, but at least we have our health!!!! Dont even start me on why we havent got an internet connection there yet
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Shame to hear about the guy from Belper with the Cobalt 911 Turbo!! Hope your healing up OK pal?
What has happened to Denby? I heard there was a bad turn out to the one back in July? My lot have all got genuine excuse's though. Mine is above. The car didn’t move for 6 weeks!! But now fresh back from a main dealer service this week, its raring to go!!!!
Pete finally sold the Evo 340 for a criminally low price and is now the proud owner of a DMS 911 Turbo. Silver, kitted out, twin DMS turbos, DMS exhaust, DMS ECU, etc, etc. Spose to be over 550 bhp. Stupidly, neck snappingly fast!!!!
Also... AND HERES THE BIG NEWS.......Splash has finally smashed up the Black X50 911 Turbo!!!!!!!! Made a rite mess of it!!! Rumour has it he was show boating in the way he usually does with the traction off, and sent it into a wall doing both front and back. Only 3 weeks after getting it back from being off the road for 6 weeks following another gearbox re build(the second!!) They may right it off I hear. He's currently in hiding in Puerto Benouse (Spain) and wont speak to any of us cause he's too embarrassed!!! LOL. It was always going to happen!
Wouldn’t mind a run out this Sunday morning. Let me know if anyone fancies a meet at Denby or somewhere. Say 11ish? I bet Pete would come in the 911T.
I must come to one of these Amber hotel meets too as I know a few there. It always seems to have been 2 days before I log on every time!!!
See you all around
This must be only the second time I’ve looked at PH's in the past 2 months, but Ive got a good excuse......
My house got flooded on the first round of bad weather back in June and after a long wait, we have finally got into rented accommodation until all the refurb work is done. Looks like it may be xmas or after by the time we are back in home, but at least we have our health!!!! Dont even start me on why we havent got an internet connection there yet
(Shame to hear about the guy from Belper with the Cobalt 911 Turbo!! Hope your healing up OK pal?
What has happened to Denby? I heard there was a bad turn out to the one back in July? My lot have all got genuine excuse's though. Mine is above. The car didn’t move for 6 weeks!! But now fresh back from a main dealer service this week, its raring to go!!!!
Pete finally sold the Evo 340 for a criminally low price and is now the proud owner of a DMS 911 Turbo. Silver, kitted out, twin DMS turbos, DMS exhaust, DMS ECU, etc, etc. Spose to be over 550 bhp. Stupidly, neck snappingly fast!!!!
Also... AND HERES THE BIG NEWS.......Splash has finally smashed up the Black X50 911 Turbo!!!!!!!! Made a rite mess of it!!! Rumour has it he was show boating in the way he usually does with the traction off, and sent it into a wall doing both front and back. Only 3 weeks after getting it back from being off the road for 6 weeks following another gearbox re build(the second!!) They may right it off I hear. He's currently in hiding in Puerto Benouse (Spain) and wont speak to any of us cause he's too embarrassed!!! LOL. It was always going to happen!
Wouldn’t mind a run out this Sunday morning. Let me know if anyone fancies a meet at Denby or somewhere. Say 11ish? I bet Pete would come in the 911T.
I must come to one of these Amber hotel meets too as I know a few there. It always seems to have been 2 days before I log on every time!!!
See you all around
Sorry to hear about all of this bloke!
As for a sunday morning drive. we have our Breakfats run, more tan welcome.
http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0...
As for a sunday morning drive. we have our Breakfats run, more tan welcome.
http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0...
who will we have to set the pace in future? Joking aside I hope he's OK and he does get a new car.
PUTTING to one side this particular incident and talking GENERALLY, that depends where you do it, John.
Driving in a banzai fashion, (at least on most of our public highways it is the case), can mean taking someone else's life, not just your own.
My nephew was wiped out at the age of 15, because someone thought it clever to drive 'how the car was meant to be driven' on the road...
Innocent bystanders don't deserve to be taken out by people driving at ridiculous speeds on busy roads.
Driving in a banzai fashion, (at least on most of our public highways it is the case), can mean taking someone else's life, not just your own.
My nephew was wiped out at the age of 15, because someone thought it clever to drive 'how the car was meant to be driven' on the road...
Innocent bystanders don't deserve to be taken out by people driving at ridiculous speeds on busy roads.
Fort Jefferson said:
Everyone has to crash, if you don't, your not trying hard enough.
One would have to take up issue with this, quite frankly, ludicrous comment. The main thing I would like to point out is the fact that public roads are just that - PUBLIC ROADS. No one should be driving any where near 100% of the vehicle, or oneself, limits. Far too many variables.I am the first to enjoy putting my foot down a bit and enjoying performance cars, but driving at 90% or above on roads is sheer lunacy and extremely selfish. Track days are there for a reason. Far fewer variables, drive 100% then - it's your loss then - and not the 12 year old lad walking home from school.
I realize your comment may have been delivered in a lightweight and gungho fashion, but it is not one I find acceptable.
Noxide. I have often gone extremely quickly too, on many a clear German/French motorway, on remote sections of the A82 in Scotland, along plenty of desert roads in the USA, or on the Isle of Man on a clear road, but i won't take chances on busy roads where most of us live.
Unless someone else was to blame, crashing simply means you screwed up big-time and need to learn, plain as.
Unless someone else was to blame, crashing simply means you screwed up big-time and need to learn, plain as.
Absolutely pathetic pharisaic dissemination of a throw away one liner.
And WTF has a 12 year old walking home from school got to do with it? Apart from assuming too much. About what? That FJ thinks it's OK to drive beyond the limit in the vicinity of children?
What a load of sanctimonious taken out of context crap!
And WTF has a 12 year old walking home from school got to do with it? Apart from assuming too much. About what? That FJ thinks it's OK to drive beyond the limit in the vicinity of children?
What a load of sanctimonious taken out of context crap!
Edited by Balmoral Green on Friday 31st August 22:15
i don't know if you have kids balmoral green but i have two youngsters and it is exactly the sort of brainless selfishness noxide is talking about that kills them -along with adults of course- by driving on the public road in a fashion that should be reserved for the track.
if you want to use 500 bhp or even 300 bhp come to that to its limit- do it where it belongs. on the track.
the graveyards and intensive care units are full of idiot drivers and more importantly their innocent victims.
sorry balmoral green but youll feel different when your kid or if you havent got any your mother is killed by someone driving like a tw*t.
fort jefferson saying that if you dont crash you arent trying hard enough is basically the shyte you expect from a drugged up 14 year old.
if you want to use 500 bhp or even 300 bhp come to that to its limit- do it where it belongs. on the track.
the graveyards and intensive care units are full of idiot drivers and more importantly their innocent victims.
sorry balmoral green but youll feel different when your kid or if you havent got any your mother is killed by someone driving like a tw*t.
fort jefferson saying that if you dont crash you arent trying hard enough is basically the shyte you expect from a drugged up 14 year old.
Beemer-5 said:
PUTTING to one side this particular incident and talking GENERALLY, that depends where you do it, John.
Driving in a banzai fashion, (at least on most of our public highways it is the case), can mean taking someone else's life, not just your own.
My nephew was wiped out at the age of 15, because someone thought it clever to drive 'how the car was meant to be driven' on the road...
Innocent bystanders don't deserve to be taken out by people driving at ridiculous speeds on busy roads.
i think youre possibly wrong in raising the issue in a thread where an accident has actually happened and i hope the bloke concerned is okay of course but youre right with the point you make. my car has 400 bhp approximately but i wont use it all very often. a track day or a totally empty road yes.Driving in a banzai fashion, (at least on most of our public highways it is the case), can mean taking someone else's life, not just your own.
My nephew was wiped out at the age of 15, because someone thought it clever to drive 'how the car was meant to be driven' on the road...
Innocent bystanders don't deserve to be taken out by people driving at ridiculous speeds on busy roads.
my sympathy for your nephew. i have two kids and one was almost knocked off his bike last year by a numbnuts driving how fort jefferson thinks is smart.
the first post in this thread said that the driver is always showboating. well keep your silly showoff driving for the track where you cant kill innocent people.
Doors Man said:
a track day or a totally empty road yes.
So which one is it then? make your mind up.I was in a beligerant mood last night and had come on here to edit or make a light apology for it. But I don't think I will now.
Repeat...
Doors Man said:
a track day or a totally empty road yes.
By definition, a totally empty road is just that, no 12 year olds, or anyone else on it either. You admit in your own post it may be OK, so why assume FJ is not talking about a totally empty road? How it is possible to put someone elses life at risk when they are not there?Edited by Balmoral Green on Saturday 1st September 10:26
Warren, with the greatest of respect I am the very last one to go politically correct and be a wet blanket. I like to have a good blast on the roads just as any one else, and have come to one of the meetings before.
"By definition, a totally empty road is just that, no 12 year olds, or anyone else on it either. You admit in your own post it may be OK, so why assume FJ is not talking about a totally empty road? How it is possible to put someone else's life at risk when they are not there?"
If it is a totally straight empty road wide and he's going 100% then that's OK and a completely different discussion. The issue here is that Fort Jefferson is talking about driving over 100%, on public roads, and crashing to find the limit! Now, if he spins off and smashes into a lamp post last year (like I did) he has only his own losses to worry about.
What about if he loses control and hits a by stander?
The empty looking country road with some walkers just around tight left hander in the road?
The hidden driveway with Maud appearing straight out on the way to her blue rinse?
The point I'm trying to make here is that it simply irresponsible to talk about, let alone actually drive over the limit. A carefree throw away one-liner it may have been, but in picking up on such comment we keep the realistic balance that we need. I'm sure those who have lost people they love due to people with the "If you don't crash you're not trying hard enough" mentality will understand.
Kind regards,
"By definition, a totally empty road is just that, no 12 year olds, or anyone else on it either. You admit in your own post it may be OK, so why assume FJ is not talking about a totally empty road? How it is possible to put someone else's life at risk when they are not there?"
If it is a totally straight empty road wide and he's going 100% then that's OK and a completely different discussion. The issue here is that Fort Jefferson is talking about driving over 100%, on public roads, and crashing to find the limit! Now, if he spins off and smashes into a lamp post last year (like I did) he has only his own losses to worry about.
What about if he loses control and hits a by stander?
The empty looking country road with some walkers just around tight left hander in the road?
The hidden driveway with Maud appearing straight out on the way to her blue rinse?
The point I'm trying to make here is that it simply irresponsible to talk about, let alone actually drive over the limit. A carefree throw away one-liner it may have been, but in picking up on such comment we keep the realistic balance that we need. I'm sure those who have lost people they love due to people with the "If you don't crash you're not trying hard enough" mentality will understand.
Kind regards,
Warren, you make a sterling defence, but you and i both know very well that we are NOT talking about only empty, wide roads.
We've both had far too many discussions at meetings and far too many run-outs as concrete evidence of that!
Crashing through your own fault, (or coming very close to crashing) means that you should be in something less powerful, until you are more capable/sensible/aware.
Noxide and Doors Man are right. We need less d*cks on the road putiing everyone else in danger.
Do it on the track.
We've both had far too many discussions at meetings and far too many run-outs as concrete evidence of that!
Crashing through your own fault, (or coming very close to crashing) means that you should be in something less powerful, until you are more capable/sensible/aware.
Noxide and Doors Man are right. We need less d*cks on the road putiing everyone else in danger.
Do it on the track.
Well guys.....
Looks like my quick update has started a bit of a heated debate.....?
I’m going to plead the Fifth Amendment here I think......
I’m no better or worse than anyone else on here.
I have a child, a fast car, think Splash drives beyond the limits and could hurt someone else, and have drove ridiculously too many times. I tend to have the philosophy of "drive it like you stole it". But there is a clear line, and we should all be aware of what we do and where we do it responsibly.
Let’s leave the heated debate to a political forum and keep things light hearted if we can?
Good to see all have a bit of a fire in their belly still though!
Looks like my quick update has started a bit of a heated debate.....?
I’m going to plead the Fifth Amendment here I think......
I’m no better or worse than anyone else on here.
I have a child, a fast car, think Splash drives beyond the limits and could hurt someone else, and have drove ridiculously too many times. I tend to have the philosophy of "drive it like you stole it". But there is a clear line, and we should all be aware of what we do and where we do it responsibly.
Let’s leave the heated debate to a political forum and keep things light hearted if we can?
Good to see all have a bit of a fire in their belly still though!
You are of course, all correct, and I do understand the points being made.
Hey Ho, it's a Saturday morning and i'm at work and it's quiet, just amusing myself with a bit of devils advocate adverserial trolling
If a tree falls in the forest (when Splashes 911 hits it) and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
Hey Ho, it's a Saturday morning and i'm at work and it's quiet, just amusing myself with a bit of devils advocate adverserial trolling
If a tree falls in the forest (when Splashes 911 hits it) and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
Edited by Balmoral Green on Saturday 1st September 11:32
Balmoral Green said:
You are of course, all correct, and I do understand the points being made.
Hey Ho, it's a Saturday morning and i'm at work and it's quiet, just amusing myself with a bit of devils advocate adverserial trolling
If a tree falls in the forest (when Splashes 911 hits it) and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
LOL
Warren, now your just being pedantic!!!! Have you seen the wall? He hit the cottage across from the talbot!!
Hey Ho, it's a Saturday morning and i'm at work and it's quiet, just amusing myself with a bit of devils advocate adverserial trolling
If a tree falls in the forest (when Splashes 911 hits it) and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
LOL
Warren, now your just being pedantic!!!! Have you seen the wall? He hit the cottage across from the talbot!!
Edited by Balmoral Green on Saturday 1st September 11:32
Sportbilly said:
Have you seen the wall? He hit the cottage across from the talbot!!
Bloody Hell! that does not sound good at all. I guess in a small town like ours, everyone's going to know about it. There will no doubt be a lot of piss taking and tut tutting. The Talbot isn't exactly Houx annexe roundabout.Balmoral Green said:
Sportbilly said:
Have you seen the wall? He hit the cottage across from the talbot!!
Bloody Hell! that does not sound good at all. I guess in a small town like ours, everyone's going to know about it. There will no doubt be a lot of piss taking and tut tutting. The Talbot isn't exactly Houx annexe roundabout.Gassing Station | Midlands | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff