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muddyweb:
...and most of them seem to be in Dorset tonight !


Had to go into town (around 8 miles each way) this evening, so jumped in the  205 and headed off up the snowy roads.  Nice and slippy under-tyre, not a great deal of traction..

I passed a few cars, all taking it nice and easy and then....   WOAH !!!

Around the corner in front of me comes a Discovery going sideways...  I slow down to a stop and glare at him as he drives past, apparently unaware of how badly he's driving.

About 2 miles later, a Land Cruiser comes barrelling along the middle of the road, and starts slipping and sliding all over the place as he tries to get over sufficiently to pass me.  (I am parked in the bank at this point)

Can someone explain to me what posseses 4x4 owners to believe the laws of physics somehow don't apply to them ?    Yes, you have 4x4...  yes, you have good traction and can get up to a good speed...   Yes... you are driving a couple of tons of steel and when you try to slow that down in a hurry, momentum overcomes friction and you look like an idiot !!

It's days like this I'm glad I took the car....   on this occasion at least, I was in the sensible majority :roll:

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gtomo2:
i know what you mean yes its 4 whel drive but the brakes still work the same as a "normal" car but the p****s dont know that little fact and think it will still stop as normal

j99mud:
Seems like the snow can bring out the worst in people. I know exactly what you mean though last time it snowed i was nearly wit by a 4x4 sliding down the road he got some abuse and hopefully wont do it again. where as i spent the night on the duel carridge way pulling people up the hill got two thank yous the rest of them just drove off like it as my job to do it the driver of the lorry who i helped out was very greatfull though and opened the back of his lorry and gave us two boxes of pork pies which was really nice!

Bulli:
I was out on the MC run in Derbyshire today...i was on the road back to Sheff past burbage moor. It was closed when we got off it( we joined it from a lane half way along). We went past the other end later and this had cones out and a road closed sign.
Conditions were really bad solid ice....yet me in the disco going v slowly in low box was caught by 2 normal cars clearly being driven by idiots!!!!
Complete cretins to have ignored a road closed sign and to do those speeds on solid ice. I was doing about 30 and these guys caught me up like i was stood!

LOFTY:
Well i realised this 25 years ago,when i went with my brother, to collect my father from Holdon Hill, just south of Exeter, about 4-5 inchs of snow all over roards, he pulled up in a layby, as 38 tonne of low loader turns into one hell off a sledge down hills. We collected him, and drove up the exe valley to Bickleigh, where we lived, with this Austin 1300 up our arse all the way, kept trying to pull out and over take, we got to Bickleigh bridge, crossed it, and as we passed the Trout Inn, he pulled out again, off the end of the bend, went straight accross the road, and hit about the only lamp post in Bickleigh back then.
My father pointed out,
"its not how fast you can go, its how fast you can stop, that counts" :wink:

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