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Post by Humph on Dec 5, 2016 10:31:13 GMT
Yesterday, we went to a dedicated mountain biking venue in the Welsh hills. It was busy due to the bright but cold weather, so we had to go a fair way up the hill to get a parking space. Anyway, the access road to the car park is very steep and winding and is basically compacted mud and stones. About half a mile long with steep hairpin bends winding up into the forest.
It was frozen over, very slippery and in truth, a heavy, rear wheel drive, automatic car on wide low profile summer tyres should by rights have struggled with those conditions. But it absolutely didn't. I did see the TC light flicker a couple of times but it just plodded on up the hill. Some older vehicles were having a bit of trouble, even FWD ones, but I assume they were the ones not fitted with TC, or perhaps their drivers were just being a bit agricultural in the way they were operating them.
Coming back down, I just locked it in 2nd gear and let it roll at its own pace with no drama ensuing.
Really quite impressed with the way it just shrugged the conditions off. Damn dirty now though with rooster tails of dried gunk down both its flanks.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2016 13:19:39 GMT
Surely a driving God would have any such nannying switched off or being Sunday was it his day off?
With all the electrickery in modern cars you really do have to try pretty hard to get them out of shape.
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Post by tyrednexited on Dec 5, 2016 15:52:21 GMT
Surely a driving God would have any such nannying switched off or being Sunday was it his day off? With all the electrickery in modern cars you really do have to try pretty hard to get them out of shape. ...funnily enough, with my '58 Mondeo in snow, the only way I could keep it in shape was by switching much of the eletrickery off..... |
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Post by Hofmeister on Dec 5, 2016 16:51:38 GMT
It was frozen over, very slippery and in truth, a heavy, rear wheel drive, automatic car on wide low profile summer tyres should by rights have struggled with those conditions. But it absolutely didn't. I did see the TC light flicker a couple of times but it just plodded on up the hill. Coming back down, I just locked it in 2nd gear and let it roll at its own pace with no drama ensuing. you mean you don't have 4 wheel drive or hill descent control? |
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Post by Humph on Dec 5, 2016 16:56:31 GMT
Don't need either, I think in truth it may well be a driving God thing, but as you'll appreciate my natural modesty prevents me from claiming that. I'll say for now it was the car...😎
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Post by tyrednexited on Dec 5, 2016 17:10:18 GMT
... I'll say for now it was the car...😎 .....what, the same one that drives itself into ke..  ? |
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Post by Humph on Dec 5, 2016 17:25:32 GMT
We no longer discuss the K word. Many thanks. 🤐
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2016 18:43:47 GMT
We no longer discuss the K word. Many thanks. 🤐 Wot.... "Kinetic" energy - the thing that makes cars drive into ke -Oh! I see.... |
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Post by Hofmeister on Dec 5, 2016 21:00:29 GMT
We no longer discuss the K word. Many thanks. 🤐 You may no longer discuss it, we on the other hand, have a different agenda. Such is the way when dealing with driving gods. |
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Post by tyrednexited on Dec 5, 2016 21:36:12 GMT
We no longer discuss the K word. Many thanks. 🤐 You may no longer discuss it, we on the other hand, have a different agenda. Such is the way when dealing with driving gods. ...I think it's all a symptom of the Twilight of the Gods..... (or Götterdämmerung as Mercedes drivers might have it). |
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Post by Humph on Dec 5, 2016 21:48:08 GMT
Be at peace my children. Some of you have much to learn, and with my help you can aspire to driving greatness. Allowing yourselves to be distracted by trivia is detrimental to your studies. Go now and reflect on the errors of your ways, look in a mirror, and ask yourself if you really want to be that man, or is there still time to take yourself to a higher level, maybe even one of the highest levels? I am here to guide you...😇
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2016 23:49:35 GMT
Pass the mind bleach, I've now got visions of a 59 year old peely-wally Jimmy Misty Guru character in Gucci loafers.
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Post by tyrednexited on Dec 6, 2016 7:35:55 GMT
Pass the mind bleach, I've now got visions of a 59 year old peely-wally Jimmy Misty Guru character in Gucci loafers. Patience young grasshopper.......... ...normal service will soon be resumed, and it will shortly be replaced by a vision of a portly 59-year-old, breathless peely-wally cyclo-terrorist, spilling out of a (ripped) lycra bib set, wearing Goretex Gucci MTB shoes. On second thoughts, try to keep your original vision  |
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Post by Humph on Dec 6, 2016 11:12:09 GMT
58 if you don't mind !
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