****..............been over this hump back bridge a million time over the years in various cars i've owned or borrowed and realistically about 60mph is the limit due to down hill braking after the brow and a mini roundabout, 3 yards and you hit the lights joining the A4....(if anyone knows lional road)......at 60 your diaphram feels the pressure on the decent, been over it in the scoob a few time in sensible mode....but...if anyone see what i did earlier tonite they would be expecting the men in white coats to be wheeling me away on a trolly freshly dressed in one of thier funny jackets that fit back to front.
doin about 65 in third with sum road left and at that point i would usually back off a tad....but my foot went t'other way!
not sure if the wheel left the ground but im sure the dampers fully extended at least....well whatever im still grinnin from it

 

There s a small ridge in the road near me .Large cross road near N/circ. Hit that and you fly!! Its in the middle of the crossing so bit of fun for the cars that are waiting.....

 

Did you hear the ‘whining’ sound from the gear box afterwards?

 

On a Birmingham meet last year a scottish friend took a fast yump but landed on the front Towing Eye dug into the Tarmac setting off both expensive Air Bags and bending the chassis leg so be carfull out there

Tony

 

Yep, there is a long straight road near where my girlfriend lives that has a pretty big dip (well it has police warning slow signs both ways). First time I went southbound it was just that lose your stomach feeling as I was doing around 50mph. Next day we went back northbound and I booted it to 80mph and then slowed a little to about 70 and all 4 wheels were off the floor. Was scary how quickly the front of the car dropped once airbourne - if I had a low front splitter Im sure it would have scraped the tarmac

Wouldnt do it again. Would have been better if I had a Dukes of Hazzard Style horn to blast as I was airbourne but hey you cant have everything!

Simon.

 

Didn't STI go fast do this??

 

did anyone ever see the Ali G sketch where he was talking to three MP/council leaders about some issue or other. Anyway, at some point Ali argued a point and the MP said to him "ahhh, well i can see how you feel about that because you are black"

A smile crept over Ali's face as the whole point of his comedy show was summed up right there, despite all the gags, the oneliners and the funny guests this was what is was all about.

Having read this post i am grinning like Ali !

T

 

Just remember that flying cars don't steer well...

 

Just remember that flying cars airbags have a tendancy to go off if you go too fast over a hump!

Tony

 

Jools, why are you asking about the gearbox?

Mike

 

Neno,

You will notice when you get the cars air borne or just "light" in general as you fly over humps and yumps, that for at least the next couple of miles you will hear a mild kind of whining sound which seems like it comes from the gear box.
Have not heard it in the Sti7 yet...But used to get it all the time in my MY99 wagon.

Jools

 

I wonder if that nice and organised Mr Tigwell could find the link to it?

 

Jools/Neno - never got such a sound from my car when I did the jump. I dip the clutch and completely let off the throttle at the time.

 

Just ask Simon R

http://www.scoobynet.co.uk/bbs/threa...hreadID=132404

F

 

Hmmn <hands up> mine whines too. LOL

It only did it for a few hundred meters but it stopped me ever trying again. Arggh broke my gearbox!! Sick feeling as I thought about the cost. I didn't mean too, just got carried away.

 

http://www.scoobynet.co.uk/bbs/threa...ThreadID=75158

for brendan

 

hmm!got no whines.......well only from me mate in the passenger seat......nicely browned the bluey grey cloth trim for me with a loud ripping noise.....cheers mate you just voided my warranty!!!

 

You can have fun in other cars apart from Subarus as well.





This is a picture of me taken on a closed road as part of a tarmac selective, run by my Motor Club, about twenty three years ago.

Cheers MTR


[Edited by MTR - 9/21/2002 9:00:00 PM]

 

superb.............oi no one's knockin the ol' mexico mate..... used to nick em when i was 12, great first time cars! nice lift off there.

 

Up to 3 seconds airborne is jumping...After 3 seconds its called flying.

So I guess yes, I've flown my scoob

DaveW

 

Now if your talking Flying you need to attack the bridge on the road from the A46 to Long Bennington near Newark it's about a 5 mile straight road with a hump back bridge in the middle of it we have had a few F16 moments from that bridge you can fly quite a distance and the landing is not to bad as the road the otherside comes up to meet you, most of the Rally boys that go to Prepfab motorsport in long Bennington love that road from what Richard Lepley tells us.

Huxley

 

keep the jacket on at the weekend hux

 

 

I agree Jools i got the whine in a 95 wrx after crossing Binfield bridge 2 years ago but havent flown the R yet

 

anybody ever see that scooby up in scotland that went off of a cliff...

...that was mine hence the supra now.

now thats flying!! lucky i can swim!!

 

There is a certain bridge in chelt (well out in the sticks and closer to glos actually) that now has traffic lights on (weak bridge, single track)(near the airport if you want to try it out )
used to drive the Pug over there at around 75-80. 85 being the bottle point(read fastest so far) I'd have serious air and landed squarley if you came off the ground at constant speed, bottling it before take off usually caused her to come down somewhat nose heavy but stable, on throttle and she would come down *** end first and it would be a fight to keep her out the ditch.
what is the general consensus with the scoob,
On throttle, off throttle, or steady cruise ???

Andy

 

There are a couple of yumps around here (North Devon - Bideford) that force a smile on my face. One is a wide back road with a big slidy corner that you have to drift around afterwards, another is on the Bradworthy road wich I regularly get airborne over - good landing, easy air.

Problem is my front bumper has now broken its mountings so they have to be rebuilt... Mechanic spotted it straight away - too many airmiles...

...c

 

now what about the one as you go to pe in uxbridge....surely sum1 has had a wop at that nasty little brow..........??

 

big love mtr, i love the escort.

as for flying over bridges, in my experience, on a privately owned road of course,

...if you bottle it, then your nose is more likely to dive. if you commit, then the momentum helps you carry thru. depending on the terrain and condition/type of vehicle though.

 

ed_the_duck, I dunno m8 if you wop that one you stand a very high risk of landing on the roofs of the cars waiting for the traffic lights on the other side. Do you know the bridge down the road going towards Iver? I bombed it in my MK1 Golf a few years back and took off, sent one of my suspension struts completely through the wing, Doh!