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Post by tyrednexited on Dec 17, 2017 17:19:30 GMT
...... but the awful thought has just crossed my mind that if that's your roots too...😬 ...don't worry, I don't think I've got the driving god genes......... |
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Post by Humph on Dec 17, 2017 18:23:52 GMT
They're from the Scottish side. 😉
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Post by tyrednexited on Dec 17, 2017 18:29:28 GMT
.....my lineage might surprise you.....  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2017 18:32:27 GMT
I don't think the scotch use ice axes.
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Post by Humph on Dec 17, 2017 19:27:04 GMT
Picks
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Post by Humph on Dec 17, 2017 19:30:38 GMT
.....my lineage might surprise you..... It might horrify me... 😰 |
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Post by tyrednexited on Dec 17, 2017 19:43:18 GMT
It might horrify me... 😰 ....aye, it might...............it does me.  |
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Post by tyrednexited on Dec 17, 2017 19:54:44 GMT
I don't think the scotch use ice axes. ...invented by Picky McPick noseface according to that undeniable fount of all knowledge, Pickipedia................... |
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Post by Humph on Dec 18, 2017 17:42:56 GMT
Anyway, back to the top of the thread, my lad got his head around the winter driving thing quite well I'm pleased to report. We had several days of variably slippery conditions and I did indeed take the time to sit with him that first weekend to try to give him a couple of tips. From then, he was on his own.
We were chatting about it last night and he said that it felt a bit like being on his mountain bike, in that he fairly quickly learned how to catch a slide and control it. I do know what he means, but it's difficult to explain! Hopefully he'll be ok now if faced with the same conditions again this winter.
Only tangential thought though is that he still has a black box for insurance purposes, and if he's been slithering the car about it may have recorded some "unusual" activity...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2019 10:24:08 GMT
Anyone out in the snow then? There's about 4 flakes in my front garden and of course the schools have closed.  Just watching the usual RAV4s and Hyundai Tucsons slithering slowly past my front window on their wide summer tyres with suitably shocked and amazed drivers at the wheel. Same old schmame old. |
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Post by Humph on Feb 1, 2019 12:19:25 GMT
Drove home from Somerset last night, bit white here and there but no probs really. Tell you what though, the lane up to my house was very icy but these here winter tyres didn’t slip once. Might be something in it after all. Hope so ‘cos they are a bit noisy.
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Post by WDB on Feb 1, 2019 12:47:19 GMT
More like four inches of the stuff here. Was supposed to be in London today but wimped out of the slithery walk to the station as much as through any fear of being stranded without a train home.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2019 13:04:26 GMT
Drove home from Somerset last night, bit white here and there but no probs really. Tell you what though, the lane up to my house was very icy but these here winter tyres didn’t slip once. Might be something in it after all. Hope so ‘cos they are a bit noisy. I have driven with winter tyres on sheet ice and through deep snow and they're great. Even non-Premium brands, believe it or not. 
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Post by Humph on Feb 1, 2019 13:14:28 GMT
Yes, quite impressed so far. Alps at the end of next week though (that’ll test ‘em properly
I suppose)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2019 13:22:52 GMT
But yes, noisy they are on clear surfaces. Especially in addition to the racket of a rough, clattery 4 cylinder diesel motor, if that's what one has to bear.
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