Tomnova16
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Registered: 21st Jan 06
Location: Gerrards Cross Drives: Porsche 911
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Originally posted by pow
Tbh, the road from Amersham to Beaconsfield (1/3rd of my journey home) is an epic road
it certainly is mate, just not not in rush hour as everyone uses it
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Neo
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Registered: 20th Feb 07
Location: Essex
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Used to be 3 or 4 times a week, Decent few backroads between windsor and bray I used to do to vent.
Nowadays i don't see the appeal, there is the good one or two roads where I live now, where in the slight chance that a coffin dodger isn't wedged in front of me i'll give the car a good push, but otherwise i tend to find myself doing 30 or 40 in a 60 wishing the cars would fuck off
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Kyle T
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Registered: 11th Sep 04
Location: Selby, North Yorkshire
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When petrol was 85p a litre 
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Impreza WRX STi
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alan-g-w
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Registered: 9th Nov 07
Location: Glasgow
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Originally posted by DannyB
I often do, it would be rude not to on the roads around here.
Same here mate, I feel sorry for all these people saying the roads are shite. About 3 or 4 miles up the road from where I live (about 5 miles outside Glasgow City Centre) you hit Ayrshire and the roads are either huuuugely long and quiet or nice and tight and twisty with no one on them. I waste too much petrol putting my foot down.
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RichR
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Registered: 17th Oct 01
Location: Waterhouses, Staffordshire
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Rather than random drives, I'll take detours off routes I'm travelling anyway or come home a diffeent way; like horseshoe pass in North Wales rather than the straight forward route.
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Tom G
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Registered: 4th Aug 08
Location: Cheshire
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Never do really 
Last time would be the nwnw meet like Jenko said.
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
Location: Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire
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quote:
Originally posted by Tomnova16
quote:
Originally posted by pow
Tbh, the road from Amersham to Beaconsfield (1/3rd of my journey home) is an epic road
it certainly is mate, just not not in rush hour as everyone uses it
You should have seen it this morning, theyre fixing a water main halfway down it, queues down to junc 2 and Tesco
I thrown the Mito round there before now though
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mattk
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Registered: 27th Feb 06
Location: St. Helens
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I always just go out to drive, mostly at night
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: Essex
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last night. got lost and done 45 miles.
had some scary moments but it just reminded me how good the car is.
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alan-g-w
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Registered: 9th Nov 07
Location: Glasgow
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Last time I had a scary moment, purely from pushing the car too hard was about a month after I got the Corsa. Came round a 45 degree corner that leans in to the right a bit too fiestily and spun the car 90 degrees and travelled like that for a couple of seconds pumping the brake like fuck. Got away with scraping the front bumper on a fence and almost going down a wee 3 foot drop into a field. Bit of a brown pants moment, but I definetely learnt from it!
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: Essex
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i was coming up to a roundabout and couldn't see anything coming from the right so just pulled out and suddenly saw a volvo estate coming towards me.
took evasive action and quickly turned and went down a slip road completely the opposite to the way i should've gone.
was so scary at the time, bracing for the impact.
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antnee
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Registered: 30th Dec 07
Location: Cov Drives: Clio 197
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Not so much recently as I used to when I first got the car, was spending £40 a week on fuel and doing less than 200miles! I try to have one good drive a week to clear the system out though
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X16joeXE
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Registered: 26th Jul 09
Location: Tarvin, Cheshire
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quote:
Originally posted by Kyle T
When petrol was 85p a litre
Yea i did then too.
But going out last night just cheered me up, and suprisingly re-boosted my enthusiasm on sorting my corsa out properly, as so much has been goin wrong with it recently that i was starting to give up.
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richc
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Registered: 24th Mar 07
Location: Ilkeston
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Cant remeber the last time
On the bike, every jounrey is a random one, but in the car, its always for a purpose.
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