Charity Driving Challenge in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care

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Charity Driving Challenge in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care Thanks to all for your messages: sorry didn't reply earlier - was out of range! The Rotary Club of Tyneside, in buttociation with the Insbreastute of Advanced Motorists is organising an event at the disused... HELP! big trouble with VW Lupo brakes Hi everybody! I'm the owner of a Lupo TDI, and recently I've started feeling strong vibrations on the steering wheel every time I brake. I've brought... HELP! big trouble with VW Lupo brakes!!! 5437 899cc Seicento SX. They don't usually get called 600 over here, probably because most people don't know Italian. OK... the difference between a... HELP! big trouble with VW Lupo brakes!!! 5438 hehe I agree.. it is not good, but there are plenty of other cars out there that can't... Clarkson on the topic of Blair Apologies if you have already seen this. Clarkson: Love him or Hate him - he has a point! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Another day, and another letter arrives from another disgruntled motorist who's fed up with the... Clarkson on the topic of Blair 5440 Actually there is very little difference between the parties on most major issues. I have... Clarkson on the topic of Blair 5441 But I would prefer a say on individual issues, since voting for a party is always a compromise. I don't... Clarkson on the topic of Blair 5442 Following up to Clive George So you would only take part in the democratic process if your vote is the casting one? Consider this, prospective parliamentarians contest hopeless seats... Truckers are having a meeting in Stirling says... My condolences. After being forced to have just 10 months off I can imagine how much it drives you up the wall. Had the same... Overwhelming argument for diesel 5444 Kev - we've debated this ad-nauseum. My V6 75 was smooth and quiet at 6500 rpm, which it was driven at for long periods of time. My current 5 cyl... Overwhelming argument for diesel 5445 Very possibly. I'm not sure that it is. The reason that diesels have low revs at 80 mph... Overwhelming argument for diesel 5446 On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 20:46:06 +0100, "JNugent" Probably. It's denser. Without a lot of effort, each barrel of crude produces a certain... A new one I followed a police a car for several miles along a SC A road until we... A new one!!! 5448 Cant see where you said he was a long way back, but will buttume that he was a long way back... A new one!!! 5449 Root cause of some accidents: something completely out of the blue and pretty well impossible to anticipate. Example: the deer... A new one!!! 5450 Conor was thinking very hard : Then we can agree on something then :-) It was just the way you seem to portray your skills as being absolute and perfect. That... Speed trap nets £750,000 fines 5451 Hello, Statistics can say anything you want them to depending on how the question is presented and who it is presented to, also how the answers are compiled, the words and terminology used. Drivers... Speed trap nets £750,000 fines 5452 I tend to agree that speed limits are essential in an urban environment, where there are lots of pedestrians and cyclists. The equation risk of collision = (speed x surprise)-space disctates... Bad road layout I saw the most stupid lights-road markings I've seen for a while. The lights are less than a year old, but with the money from the new tax year they've just painted... My IAM buttessment 5454 take Yes, definitely. OK, so this can be reduced to absurd levels, but that's missing the point. At a certain level you... My IAM buttessment 5455 MrBitsy submitted this idea : When you walk, do you have to consciously decide for every step - which muscles to employ to first lift one leg, then place it in front of you... My IAM buttessment 5456 On Mon, 02 May 2005 00:45:37 +0100, Harry Bloomfield The answer is: how did you learn the skill... My IAM buttessment 5457 Silk brought next idea : No, I well remember learning to drive by innocently watching the actions of others. I then went... My IAM buttessment 5458 Silk" wrote I did try some IAM training a while ago, but gave it up... Underuse of brakes 5459 Which says 102: Coasting. This term describes a vehicle travelling in neutral or with the clutch pressed down. Do not coast, whatever the driving conditions. It reduces driver control because... Underuse of brakes 5460 You're not because at 10-15mph in 5th you will probably have pushed the clutch out. The point is not about what is happening once you get right down that that... Underuse of brakes 5461 like they were saying : In many cases, that makes perfect sense to me, too. However, it seems to me that Mark's suggesting doing that in ALL cases - so, f'r... Underuse of brakes 5462 I could, but I'm not going to just because you say so. If it's pointless, don't continue it. ...or even the interpretation with... Underuse of brakes 5463 Try and stop over focusing on 'dangerous'. You take this as the car instantly skidding off the road, as soon as the... Underuse of brakes 5464 they were saying : So you happily agree that the risk is minimal? I can't see... Underuse of brakes 5465 So it is your buttertion that grip levels are no less on a slippery surface and that it is no easier to induce instability... If you cant spped, then why is it available 5466 Which is why we should insist on motorway training for all drivers. the reason we see so much inept driving on our motorways is that... If you cant spped, then why is it available 5467 No. I based that statement purely on common sense. Actually, common sense tells me they will be designed for something slightly exceeding that speed, but just because there's a safety margin... Fuel protests starting 5468 Just saw this politics thing on TV. It seems that everything is done by finding out which voters will make a difference... Fuel protests starting 5469 too, The majority of the cost is tax, both fuel duty and VAT, and VAT... Fuel protests starting 5470 Brimstone Translation: Accurate history snipped (and here reinstated, much to the PP's chagrin): Petrol has not been... Gear Changing Following on from the Under Use Of Brakes thread and the arguments about not changing gear while braking I've copied the relevant paragraphs from my (admittedly old - 1979) copy of Roadcraft. I... Gear Changing 5472 That would be because, as I have pointed out many times here, Roadcraft is NOT and never has been a book that you can pick up, read and put into practice... Gear Changing 5473 Sure, you can buttume, but you don't know and if the situation further develops after the change and before going you may have to stop... Gear Changing 5474 Uno Hoo! formulated on Thursday : Why is it common sense? It makes no sense at all to me. All it suggests is that you do it the easy way, the... Gear Changing 5475 On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:42:37 +0100, Mark Foster Mark, I suspect I read the rest of it before you were born. All right, let me... Gear Changing 5476 Then you really should know better. Leaving it context does not detract from it. Right, I have no problem with that. In 99% of circumstances it... Gear Changing 5477 I've driven 3 autos in my time, a 1.4 Corsa, 1.6 Focus, and 2.0 Lancer (in USA). The Lancer was a total dog, the Focus... Gear Changing 5478 Yes indeed - manual cars are cheaper than autos - and 1.3's are cheaper than 2.0 litres - both to buy and to run, and bottom of the range cars are cheaper than higher spec... Gear Changing 5479 I have now been driving autos for around ten years and I has spout driven That may be your experience, but... Gear Changing 5480 May be a slightly different technique (was taught to me as a "constant rev change") when... Lipstick and hairbrush in L3 Hi, 70mph in L3 of the M62 west bound following a small car this morning in mist just prior to the Saddleworth at around 08:15, with a longish impatient queue starting to build up... Lipstick and hairbrush in L3 Adrian says... Yep. How do the learn to "drive", as in reality and not what you're taught for test, if... Laser speed cam detectors still legal Hello, Stuff like that is a waste of time if you have a think about how they work! The unit triggers when a laser is detected, but the beam from a laser is... The wrong speed message On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:49:35 +0100, "Graculus" Haven't checked the letter of the law, but... speed cameras crushed quote: Dumper truck causes destruction A joyrider left a trail of destruction after embarking on a 30-mile wrecking spree in a stolen dumper truck in North Yorkshire, police have... speed cameras crushed On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:44:49 +0100, a particular chimpanzee named keyboard and produced: When... speed cameras crushed!!!!!!! Approved: wibble On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:44:49 +0100, Martin Brown was popularly supposed to have said... Todays M1 pileup I had a very unpleasant experience on the M1 today, well actually it started on... Todays M1 pileup 5489 While I applaud the fact that in miserable conditions you were driving such that you could, and did, stop within... Todays M1 pileup 5490 No it doesn't. Speed limiters encourage driving on the limiter whatever the conditions. Speed limits and no limiter allow the driver... Todays M1 pileup 5491 it He If there were a likely, or probably, in there somewhere, that comment might have some merit, but to suggest... Todays M1 pileup Approved: wibble On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 23:47:17 +0100, SteveH was popularly supposed to have said: Yep, more or less the same conclusion I come to. Do I want to end up... Todays M1 pileup 5493 Well, I doubt that any vehicle you driver can stop from 70mph in 3 seconds. The first rule of driving is always make sure that you can stop in the... Todays M1 pileup 5494 How do you work that out? A 3 second gap is a 3 second gap, not a five second gap. How much time you actually have depends on how long the... BBC Radio 4 Routemasters Radio 4 is currently repeating a short series of 5 programmes about the history behind various aspects of the traffic control devices... Committee ruling on obections about uk.rec.gps 5496 BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The Committee has received correspondence from six people; four were objecting, one was explicitly not objecting, and one did not state either... Committee ruling on obections about uk.rec.gps 5497 BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The Committee has received objections from six people; four were objecting, one was explicitly not objecting, and one did not state either way. Since there were fewer than six objections... Fuel protests change the focus The current round of fuel protests have been a bit of a damp squib (or is that the leaked Attourney General's memo?); people seem to have got used to the price of... London to Manchester Part Two OK Thanks to everyone who replied to my orig post. Did the trip yesterday and considered all the options. Decided on a wait and see appoach how the traffic was moving as I... Fuel protests I really do sympathise with the RHA and farmers etc who are at their wits end over the price of fuel at the... Fuel protests Any protest is not likely to go on for more than a few weeks, and no PAYE employee would... Roadcraft 5502 Uno Hoo! from Yes, but with a lot of practice you probably could learn to plaster from a book. It's a trial... Roadcraft 5503 Police officers undergoing driving courses (both standard and advanced) are issued with a copy of Roadcraft to study for the written part of the exam. I would not accept that the book is useless... Roadcraft 5504 drives consider who LOL !. There are good or really excellent drivers, and really bad drivers. Between those extremes come the... Roadcraft 5505 MrBitsy used his keyboard to write : What personal experience? A few crazy riders? There are equally plenty of crazy drivers on the road, do you not... Roadcraft 5506 Whilst I note the comments you have made lower down in this post - I still maintain that a lot of what is taught on advanced driving courses does not come 'naturally' to... Roadcraft 5507 Uno Hoo! qualifications awarded examination, by to look start they seeing. Is there a written... Roadcraft 5508 look start seeing. What has the ability to give a non stop running commentary whilst driving... Roadcraft 5509 driving, not know often, Or on a blind bend. I was thinking of mentioning that when you spoke of finding some other examples of observation techniques. Can be a bit disconcerting when...

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