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Feb 26, 2006 16:23:03 GMT
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youll have to forgive any bad spelling, iv just been out in the buggy and my hands are still slightly numb...
i went out with the buggy for about 45 mins and its great how many people try to either race/make their car heard.
there was a guy in a mg/rover who revved the nuts off of it going past. also a guy in a golf seemed determined to lose me off the lights.
anyone else get people like this?
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Feb 26, 2006 16:45:00 GMT
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I get this a lot when riding to work, my daily commuter is a scruffy 20 yo Yamaha XJ650. I think it is the bike appearence which makes muppets think that simply because I have pulled up alongside that they think they postively have to try and blow me away. Apart from the expected boy racers, the other common types for this are BMW/Merc/Lexus driving besuited company types. Old and scruffy it may be but theres not many cars that can stay with a bike for acceleration to say 50/60 and I take a perverse pleasure putting exec types in there place with a £400 20 yo bike against there mega money pose machine
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v8ade
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Feb 26, 2006 16:45:41 GMT
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Same here all the while i get boy racers trying to get passed the firenza must make then feel good or something.had one kid in a chaved up 1.1 nova overtake about 50 yds from traffic lights as i was slowing down, only to do a u turn at the lights and drive of with a little grin on his face,i wished he had carried on as there was a dual carriage way on the other side of the lights i'd have left him in a cloud of smoke and made him feel a right prat, perhaps thats why he turned around.
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Feb 26, 2006 16:51:29 GMT
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i could probably beat most boy racer mobiles off the lights but i really don't see the point. i know my buggy could probaby put them in their place but the speed limit kicks in way before things get interesting and with the attention a buggy brings it wouldnt be long before the bill spot me speeding.
plus i don't need to hand their ass to them to prove i have the better car. the way people are facing usually proves it for me
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Feb 26, 2006 16:59:34 GMT
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i got it a lot when i had my lupo gti,i just couldn't believe the lengths people would go to ,just to overtake me or stop me getting past.like the dick in the corsa who jumped red lights to get past,and who i caught up with 5mins later,or the complete tw*t in the lexus who,at 5 in the morning swerved onto the wrong side of the road to stop me getting past,shame really as i just undertook him instead,wrong i know but i couldn't sit behind him waiting for him to pull another stunt,after he started brake testing me.
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Feb 26, 2006 17:21:10 GMT
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Some guys tried to take me and my brother in one go when we were driving in convoy. I saw what was going on and cogged mine and nearly ran them in to a concrete island. The looks on their faces was a moment I will never forget when I stamped the brake and gave them enough space to get in, they would never have stopped in time.
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Feb 26, 2006 17:51:03 GMT
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Oh yes - absolutely no reaction until the turbo spools up, the instant they hear the turbo howl they decide they're on a mission.
Some time ago I was on a two lane road just on the edges of the city centre waiting for the lights to change and this Saxo/Punto/thing stormed up to lights in the lane next to me, started revving his engine right up and looking in my direction. I looked back at him, smirked, then as the lights changed, he did a poxy little wheelspin and hammered down the road into a busy city centre, onlookers staring at him in disgust. Whereas I found my bite, set off and went up the gears changing at 3000rpm. Congratulations on winning the Race Against Nobody Cup!
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Shortcut
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Feb 26, 2006 18:23:59 GMT
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The ZS always seems to inflame the Paxo brigade. Luckily it takes a pretty special Paxo etc to get the better of it, especially if corners become involved. Did give up cross country against a modded Xsara VTS as the driver was obviously a phsyco and was prepared to kill himself or someone else to get away from me. Common sense has to prevail at times.
Unlike the muppet in a Cavalier SRi round Cirencester ring road. He floored it onto one of the roundabouts and away up the dual carriageway. Unfortunately I was driving a TVR Chimera at the time. It turned out that it was faster than the SRi
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Feb 26, 2006 19:11:20 GMT
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A chap I know is into Skylines and he is always amazed at the number of Saxos etc that want to take him on. At almost every set of lights. People are usually just too busy going "what the f...." at my cars to want to race me. Funny story, today dring along behind a Clio in my mates Vectra. Said Clio has a big exhaust on it, and we are dicussing how sad this is. I say "well it might be a 182 Sport y'know" and my mate says "lets find out" and carpets the loud pedal round the Clio. Well, of course it can't let that happen and the next thing the Clio steaks past us. "Yeah" says my mate "You were right, thats the 182".... LOL. So predictable! I have to admit doing something similar in Nottm once. At a set of lights in (I think it was my old Saab) andyway next to me is a Mk4 Escort with all the RS gear on it. I think "I wonder if thats a kitted up 1.4 or a real Tubby?" So I start revving the Saab up and inching forward. Lights go green, I pull away normally and the Escort screaches away into the distance at like Mach 2. "Yup, that was a real one" I think to myself...
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Feb 26, 2006 19:26:14 GMT
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other day i was cruising along on the way to college, and there is a 40 limit through a pretty busy town but most people ignore it, so there i was cruising along at 40 and a executive fool in a phat BMW flys up behind, with that he pulls out to overtake realy slowly... as the National speed limit sign was about 200yards awayt... so i just waited until the national sign came up... and by this time he was right next to me (he was over taking realy slowly, i guess he wanted to overtake... but without speeding by too much lol) and as soon as the speed limit changed i floored it...... and left him on the wrong side of the road, bet he felt like a wolly.
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Feb 26, 2006 20:56:45 GMT
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i love doing that ratlook, gets right on their fat buisness titties There re always those kind of people who do 45 everywhere, past the school on the motorway in a 60 limit in a 30 limit, that really gets my back up. J
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Mr K
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Feb 26, 2006 21:05:43 GMT
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i love doing that ratlook, gets right on their fat buisness titties There re always those kind of people who do 45 everywhere, past the school on the motorway in a 60 limit in a 30 limit, that really gets my back up. J I didnt quite understand it.. he was happy to be speeding by alot in this 40 until he found me... when he decided it was best to over take and not speed too much. What got to me was that i was doing exactly 40 anyway, so why bother overtaking.
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Feb 26, 2006 21:07:12 GMT
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i just luuurvvvvve scaring paxo drivers in my daily driver volvo,its an s40 turbo and can when pushed,go like stink,200bhp and bye bye paxo driver.
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Feb 26, 2006 21:11:15 GMT
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My mate had one of then, must say it felt quite fast! ttttshc.
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Feb 26, 2006 21:11:55 GMT
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Those S40's have a terrible tyre habit man, SMOOOOOOOOOOKE
J
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Feb 26, 2006 21:16:29 GMT
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tell me about it,its sometimes difficult to drive off boost to save the tyres,i just wanna smoke em but i'm skint and daren't risk it.
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Feb 26, 2006 21:21:03 GMT
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i get it all the time, k**bs in BMWs have to race me. but I'm in a 30 year old ford with a 1300 i don't stand a chance. i used to have a 1.4 rover metro ( i know is not retro but hey it was fast) that would put many a bmw to shame plus one audi tt ( he must have been a wimp!)
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Mk1 Escort slowly rusting into nothing! But safely stored in a dry garage. Mk2 Golf, Low n' Loud
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Feb 26, 2006 21:26:17 GMT
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just remember that audi tt's were voted the most popular gay car in some gay mag(so said an audi press release i once read-honest)
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Feb 26, 2006 21:30:59 GMT
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I can't be arsed with this compeTITive thing.
99.95 % of the time I drive like Miss Daisey. Let them get on with it, I say so they can go off to their Krooze sitez and boast about how their 1.0 Clio can 'do' anycar on the road....
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Feb 26, 2006 21:38:12 GMT
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ditto as the nickb.
the only time ive ever "raced" anything was on the a43 or whatever near silverstone. i over took a dodge viper,then dropped a gear to try egg it on. but i realised after about 3 seconds i must look like a tw@t cos my car was straining at the bit making all sorts of revvy curse word noises and the viper was still burbling past me at about 50rpm.
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idea stolen from rattely eddie.
this weeks car count "5"
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