im 21 and drive a impreza with about 300 bhp, i used to drive a rx7 among other things and havent had any problems yet, i just think its hypocritical to slag people off for doing something that u prob do also

[Edited by siwrx - 11/25/2002 2:19:22 PM]

 

siwrx, The thought of your insurance premium makes me wince!

I'm 27 and my **** hole twitches when the renewal letter lands on my door matt!!

[Edited by austen_wrx - 11/25/2002 2:22:06 PM]

 

lmao insurance companies are all thieving *******s, still mine aint as bad as my m8 whos 23 with a tuscan s, thats painful

 

Saxo Boy/Kenny...

Thats a 50mph limit if I recall correctly. That makes Dave TS's description about right. And he should know..LOL..takes one and all that

You MUST have been pushing over a ton, if you did what you describe. Thats 100% over the limit which is, if nothing else, fecking stupid in such a well policed and usually busy stretch of road

Yes, I speed. I was caught in a 50 myself last year. I have no problem with that, aside from the fact that a fecking motorway with no roadworks should not be 50mph as its default limit...LOL....

I have done some crazy things in cars I would not repeat outwith the very select group of people who have been there.

I would not, however, go bragging about it on here, especially with your history.

You may be 24.

You post like you are 17..

No one, to be honest, is that hard on you here - before you go off on one of your self rightous arguments...

You dig your own holes so deep no one else has to bother..LOL...

But keep it coming, cause its funny as.....

D

 

have to admit ive grown out of racing. Used to be terrible when i was younger specially with my peugeot which id race anything that looked fast in lol. Can actually see y insurance companies dont like young drivers now disturbingly enuf (must be getting old) nowadays i just tend to have an occasional blat down a winding road

 

That has to hurt!!!

Your right it is a 50mph limit. It used to be a 70 but when they installed the link from the new section of M8 they dropped it to a 50 so that people didn't hit slow merging traffic at high speed. We used that pedal in the middle to ensure 50 by the time we reached that slip road and in all my time in Edinburgh I've never seen a police trap set up at that location and I would stress that it wasn't busy at all, there was nothing there - it verging on strangely quiet!

Personally I'd frown more upon someone doing 40 in a busy 30 than 150 (not that that was our speed before you start) down an empty, dualled non-suburban road.

outwith

For the record I don't brag, I've got more than enough self confidence than to go hunting for more on the internet Besides, I post up when I lose too remember!

 

dunno its not 2 bad its 1300 which on a group 20 50k sports car aint bad i thought

 

..but what about pedestrians, slower vehicles and such like?

..not being holier than thou, cos I've been a bad lad in my few years on the planet (24 too) but, surely theres a time and a place for such antics/speed..

..why dont you come to the 'ring with us at Easter? There will be a few guys who can give you pointers to make you a better, more skilled and, in the right places, a faster driver...

..plus its a reet larf..

 

that sounds good m8, im just starting to learn bout this whole 4x4 lark. Specially as im buying a 2nd 4x4 turbo car soon in the guise of a fix or repair daily scort cud do with learning some more

 

I was keeping out of this cos I wouldn't want to be accused of sticking up for my boyfriend but ..............

Dave T-S he does have a very nice ****

I've said all I will say on the matter

AJ

 

Pedestrians On the Edinburgh City Bypass....now that would be funny There isn't a house or pedestrian within 1/2 a mile of that part of the road and visibility is exceptional.

There weren't any slower vehicles just two empty lanes with barriers each side in a striaght line for as far as the eye could see. We could see the traffic in the distance and easily plan our safe back off point.

I'm confused: You can't go fast in town. Period! (I don't debate this). My fuel surge thread seemed to establish that a lot of SN don't believe you should drive quickly on the public twisties - despite the fact most people often nip off for a blast on a quiet sunday afternoon!. Now it seems that going fast on a long straight and empty dualled road is out as well, which unless I'm mistaken, covers pretty much all types of british road. So can someone remind me why we all bought a car that can go from sitting doing nothing to exceeding the national speed limit in about 5 seconds if we never open it up from time to time?????

 

SB
You're defending yourself too much. If you put a post up like this you know you'll get stick. Either post and put up with the flak or don't post about subjects like this. Your car, your license and your insurance so its up to you what you want to do.
And your comment about why buy a car like this if your not going to open it up. The best thrill in the scoob for me is comming out the 30mph with someone tailgating you and accelerating to 60 leaving them in your wake. Satisfying and legal
Alas

 

Saxo Boy wrote...
Oh please, grow up! Racing (there's no other word for it) another car on a public highway is bad form, period. You said yourself that you went past the other guy at a 'silly' speed. Did you genuinely overtake him, BTW, or did he decide it was getting a bit too silly and lift off?

You might have got away without annoying or injuring anyone this time, but the very fact that you're concentrating on another vehicle at the same time as drive quick reduces the amount of attention you can devote to other tasks.

Carry on like this and sooner or later you're likely to get sucked into a challenge that'll get someone killed. No big deal if it's you or the guy you're racing, as you should know the risks, but a big problem if it's an innocent motorist/cyclist/pedestrian/etc.

Making good progress on a deserted backroad on your own is a world apart from racing someone. Without another car to think about, you can devote all your attention to driving the car and looking at what's on (and about to enter) the road. If you think you're good at racing people, best thing to do would be to enter a race or rally and prove it.


[Edited by Spooky - 11/25/2002 7:26:03 PM]

 

In SB's defence (though i'm sure he could manage on his own), when that particular bit of road is quiet there is quite literally nothing to hit. I'd probably do the same myself cuz that is a "suitable" stretch of road for a quick and more importantly, safe, 0-100-50.

 

Sexo-Boy (and periferals)

Askew invited you to the Ring. Stop being an attention ***** and answer the man.

Nuff said

Theo

PS: on both cvnty threads about your "fuel surge", exactly 0 persons claimed they never broke the speed limits. Go read the threads again before getting all huffy.

 

might as well all sell our scoobs and buy seriously tuned minis with the money instead, since none of us ever accelerate above sixty...

(yes this is a very flippant comment, and i have my flame suit washed, ironed and ready for action!)

[Edited by mista weava - 11/25/2002 7:41:11 PM]

 

SB you need your head in for an MOT m8 I think a loose connection maybe?! Some of us do these kind of things occasionally, but the last thing you do is post it on a BB! I agree that cars are there to be driven, and a high speed carrageway is a lot safer than a country road with its hidden dangers. But you won't find many stupid enough to post it on here. Do you feel the need to let your emotions out? A shrink maybe? I mean your story maybe interesing to you but its plain boring to the rest of us and just gives people ammo to hit you with! If you feel like posting pointless stuff head for the muppets

 

[/i] mista weava wrote...[/i]
Yeah, seriously flippant, and not what I was on about at all. There's a time and a place for everything, and the time and place for racing is when there's a finish line at the end of it - not when the 'finish line' is the queue of traffic in front.

 

This guy is such an excellent driver, he attends many scottish drag race and circuit race meetings however he never competes as he would obviously just outclass everyone there.
When the flag drops the bullsh1t stops - get out on track or button up boy.

 

The drag strip costs only £15 and a track day from £40 Don't give us the too expensive excuse pleeeeeease

 

..... and get drunk under the table by us english shandy drinking types!

Saxo boy - see, not even a sarcastic reply from me, even though you've given me ample opportunity

 

Carnt fault ya SB, too many do gooders on this BBS, havent read a page of this thread from the first page onwards, read it all before!

Why does anyone buy a 200bhp+ AWD car with hard suspension and fast steering......only to go to the shops init and slag off anyone else who has one and actually uses it??!! ... beats the hell out of me!

Rich.

P.S. If i`m ever up your way, i`ll show you what a pair of Evo6 taillights look like as they accelerate away from you ... on your local dual carriageway

 

This is fun this thread. Chin up SB.
And less of the Suvern slag off you Northern Monkey...

 

If we didn't have it every now and again , hows it possible to ever have a new thread regarding Scooby v evo , cossie , M3 , VR6 , TVR , starship enterprise etc etc......P.S I stayed with the enterprise up to 70 the other day , then he must of engaged warp 9 or something.

 

You lying ba5tard !!!

It was warp 10! Don't you know your warps from your torques? Jeez, some people !

 

It was definately only warp 9 coz at the next set of lights I beckoned Jordi to wind down the window & explain how he pulled away so quick(I knew it was Jordi coz he was wearing a Toon army footy top ) & he said warp 9 not 10 coz of the impending traffic lights!!!!!!!

 

You raced the enterprise too? Cool....He left me for dead man!
I eventually caught up at the pub, and Data explained that they had put "Nitrox HotShot" in with the Dilithium Crystals, reducing the det, and letting them advance the ignition by 10 degrees, giving an extra 4000bhp. I said I would buy some at the next petrol station and race him, but Piccard said only on track days, and that they were just trying to get it sideways on the roundabout. I think they were just scared of the awesome power of my Vauxhall Tigra.

SaxoBoy...I liked the story, dude. Sounds safe enough to me...the only person you stand to kill is yourself or him. And he raced you back...so kind of fairs fair. If I saw another scoob in mine I would sure as hell compete a bit (and have done) and when I had my butt handed to me by a Ferrari 355 I whooped and cheered at the joy of the experience.

All you guys who are sooooooo sensible: why haven't you got your scoobies converted to LPG yet?

 

Good reply !!!! Reading on you say you got done by a 355 , me too , sadly it was a yellow convertible one , but like you say , the enjoyment of just seeing it fly was pukka , reading previous threads there seems to be scoobs that can stay with these beasts , sadly mine can't. So Saxoboy your not alone in being tempted by the site of another performance chariot , it's wrong in the eyes of the law but so's using your mobile whilst driving & how many law abiding drivers use these??????

 

Get it onto KH or Kames chump chops and we'll see what you can do!!

 

LMAO again at another lovely thread!

WTF? you actualy went round and left a photographof your saxo on his screen! well theres being friendly and being a stalker!

question is did you wear a black balaclava and a black outfit when you left the pic? also accompanied with a box of "milk tray!"

i thought it was the lady that loves milk tray not the scooby driver! i bet the poor ****** has changed his phone number just incase!

So do you climb up AJ drainpipe to deliver chocolates and photos or do you just enter by the front door like other peeps?

As for the "you cant be reading the road ahead with he speeding milarky, i got caught in wales doing 82mph on the motorway in my scoob by a white transit parked on the road side, so when you get banned for doubling the speed limit you must post about it on here!

there are some really cheap venues in your neck of the woods for dragging and tracking your scoob so why not?