Just been throwing myself down a local hill on my snow board (wrist, calves, & neck ache ). At least 6” of snow on the hill.
On the way saw some idiot in a Sierra get it very wrong on a mini roundabout he almost took two other drivers out and added another donor to the scrappy.

Have we got any other snow sports nutters on here?

yup, i got carried away with the handbrake trying to do a simple 90 corner, did the full 270 and nearly took out a lamppost!!! such fun, but its frozen now so too slippy (if there is such a thing...)

I like snow, but ABS sucks sometimes

also not enough snow here to build an igloo using ice cream tub bricks, that's what I really like to do..

5:45 this morning, work car park, virgin snow, best fun i've had in my 1.3 fiesta in ages

I built my sledge the other day. The 1" chassis tubing works a treat . I'm made up with cold now.

yours, Pete.

What no heater?

Just come in from playing in the snow with a sore wrist from a sledging incident but its all good fun. Be out there again tommorow if it hasnt all gone. Ps women drivers and mx5's: bad combination! Nearly had one parked in my side at about 10 mph

It's the ones in london in the TVRs you wanna be afraid of!
The well off ladies seem to see the Chimera as a posher MX5

Im stuck at Uni without my new snowboard, i have a conveniently 60m sloped garden at home waiting. Hope the snow lasts till this weekend! Fat Chance!!!

Unlucky
Car + rope + snow board = dangerous fun

i used to love the snow - then i took the XR4x4 off the road for parts, now i hate it had a couple of very close ones in bus earlier, to much snow on hills to be driving buses about - power drifting them on corners is interesting tho thats snow sports, hehe

My handbrake cable is snapped so that is out for fun in my fwd car, so I tried the rally drivers left foot braking technique - it doesn't work with the abs, it seems to confuse things slightly!!

Better get a car built for next winter

Snow? What's snow????????

Ian

Oh well, you have to pay for the hot summer some how

This is what happens when the roads get a bit icy round here, a couple of saturdays ago when we had a real cold night and a big frost in the morning on Sunday.

Well Sunday was spent removing the gate (s) and fence from under this ladies car then backing it out when her husband came to get her.

this is taken from my bedroom window, stopped anout 3 feeet from the lounge window!

MGF Hedge

She lost it on the bend about 40 yards down the road and did a nice "S" snake and took out 2 gates, one 8 inch square gate post and a few mwters of dividing fence, and a few feet of hedge.

And that's what happens when rubbish drivers are given a rwd car! Doesn't bode well for me then

Took me 6 hours to get home last night from herts. Should of been 2 hours. I'm supposed to be on my way again now. But i dont like iceskating in a large transit van... Nearly got blown over last night too


Hanging the back out on the van is fun tho

colmaccoll, I bet you thought the car was stolen when the driver tried to fence it!

I was out there in about 30 seconds ready to pull some gay hairdresser out of the side window and give him a good pasting but it was a mid 40s lady who was in a whole world of shock.

I got her out and her husband came to fetch her, they are our nearest neighbour on up the lane (a mile away), never met them before. Turns out he has a pristine MGBGT V8 tucked away in the garage and his neighbour has a nice GD cobra replica.

Thouroughly nice people too, shame she cant drive for sh*t!

[Edited on 29/1/04 by colmaccoll]

i love the ice, took my girlfriends bmw out for a 'spin' last night, rwd is fun!!

she did nearly get stuck on a hill earlier last night as she just planted her foot and we nearly slid backwards with wheelspin, eeek!

Ned.

Well, i guess thats one way to meet your neightbours

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Originally posted by ned
she did nearly get stuck on a hill earlier last night as she just planted her foot and we nearly slid backwards with wheelspin, eeek!

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my journey home from milton keynes to kettering started at 4pm yesterday - I got home at 11pm!!!!! 7 friggin hrs to do a 32 mile 50 min journey!!!!

RWD isnt a good thing. ABS wasnt a problem - you couldnt brake anyway, so it didnt matter.

traction control is another thing. Worse than fu%^ng useless. going up a hill, it detects a loss of traction, and throttles back to tickover, until you stop.

I had to drive on literally 10mm thick sheet ice for miles, and turning off the traction was the only way to do it.

why beemer fit it to a 118hp car is beyond me - tits on a nun.

atb

steve

its always the rwds that get abandoned...

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Originally posted by Carl.H
Just been throwing myself down a local hill on my snow board (wrist, calves, & neck ache ). At least 6” of snow on the hill.
On the way saw some idiot in a Sierra get it very wrong on a mini roundabout he almost took two other drivers out and added another donor to the scrappy.

Have we got any other snow sports nutters on here?

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same place it's always been