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[RIM-010]

roll has 2 'l's, Liam, you should know that.

My point exactly. I did 160km/h on a relatively private road, Liam did 103km/h on Jetski, Chevy did 80km/h in a 40km/h public road and Heath did 143km/h in a hired car on a public road! So why am i the one that cops the flak for it!

RIM

[Heath]

Heath did 143km/h in a hired car on a public road!

That is not a valid argument; I was in another country!

[RIM-010]

Good Point, Heath.

Why is it that because I'm only 15 I get in shit for it; if it was anyone above ~25 nobody wouldve cared...

Yeah, I gotta better idea, shut up Tim, and get the hell off these forums

^^ Ive been on here for longer than you have, young one.

RIM

[RIM-010]

I suppose you were hoping for someone to say how tough you are and how skilled you must be to be able to do that and be still be here?

Well yes, i spose i was. But so was everyone else that has replied to this thread.

My parents look after me, (when im not away at Boarding School and therefore away from driving), and they knew i was going for a drive, and they knew i wasnt gunna stick to the speed limit.

I admittedly went too fast, i shouldnt have done it but i did. I know that a quick drive couldve turned horriby wrong in a literal blink of an eye, but the same goes for anything.

Now, can we please stop this? All i wanted to do was go for a drive and i found myself on about 5km's worth of straight road, and i though "why not?".

I dont feel lucky to be alive or anything, i have never been in a car and felt like it was out of control.

RIM

[surfmaster]

Younger drivers are over represented in serious crashes because they take more risks. The older you get the more you realise how easy it is to get hurt/hurt someone else. I don't think anyone here is being holier than thou, its just that some of us don't want to see younger ones make the same mistakes we did at that age.

There wouldn't be anyone here who hasn't bent or broken a few of the road rules, some have got away with it, some have got tickets and some have been hurt (or hurt by others). The bitumen battlefield is just that, take care!!

[RIM-010]

I'm not planning on doing it again... I now know that the car isnt designed to reach those speeds...

But I guess your still young enough to know everything right?

A bit stereotypical, isnt it. I dont think that i know everything, i dont think that i am invincible and i do realise that things go wrong.

i have the opportunity to go out and go as fast as i can on the race track, and i have taken that opportunity, but all i wanted to do was see if the old torrie was capable of. i now know that it is NOT capable of 160km/h, at least not safely, so id be stupid to try it again.

And if you think i was stupid to try it in the first place, you were probably right....

RIM

[TORLX8]

LXdamo Posted: Mar 18 2006, 09:18 AM



Had my old hatch's speedo back around onto the 0 quite a few times up pt wakefield road.still had some revs to go but wouldn't go much quicker
Damo 

Your hatch is still on the "0" hey Damo?

TORLX8

[RIM-010]

Damos hatch is no longer im assuming...

RIM

[Peter UC]

It's unfortunate but, being 21 myself, I think I know where both sides are coming from. Growing up Dad always said when, not if, you crash it. I always used to get angry at him for saying it, I'm know I'm not invincible etc. But although I always thought I was in control and being sensible(ish). The inevitable happened, it was low speed with noone around and noone was in the car, but I damaged the car and my ego took a severe battering.
Don't get me wrong racing around is fun, but the streets is not designed for it. If you are going to hoon around, do it on the racetrack (preferable) but at least when noone is around and when noone is in the car, therefore all you can hurt is yourself (mine was in the uni carpark at fairly low speed).
The 'oldies' only say what they say because they have been there done that and they want you to learn from their mistakes. But they are right, shit does happen and it happens very quickly, one second you're in control the next you're not and it really is that quick. So take care out there and don't think your being victimised you're just getting looked after.

Peter

PS I hope that came across like I meant it's hard to get the tone in your voice across on the internet.

Edited by Peter UC, 21 June 2006 - 03:13 PM.

[Heath]

I don't want to get seriously involved in the argument in this thread.

But what the bguck? you're blaming Tim for doing something that isn't actually extreme at all in my opinion, for what? You have ALL done 150km/h and I don't really think it matters exactly how old he is or how much practise he has had.

When I did the speeding that I had already mentioned, I did about 25 minutes of full of slightly laid back rally driving through a road that I knew there were no cars on (followed someone 10 min after them and had a phone conversation) a few minutes earlier. THAT was possibly stupid, that was possibly dangerous, but I and my dad have confidence in my driving ability (if you wanna give me any underage bullshit shove it up your arse immediately).

Going along a strait road at 90mph? Who gives a shit. What is gonna happen there? Wow there's an element of danger; how many of you guys have been in a road bike race? Sprinting in a bunch of 35 adults? That's bgucking dangerous. I can show you photos if you'd like

If a driver can put up with two or three hundred sharp corners and a thousand odd gearshifts as quickly as possible on a road that if you make a mistake you will write the car off, then who cares gives a toss if they go and drive a bit faster on a road with all of the dangers simplified and reduced?

You and i have absolutely no idea WHAT his driving ability is like, and you don't know mine either (i'll tell you now i'm shit in Toranas though!). But it doesn't matter. In the 60s, 70s and 80s, you all got to experience these things, why should we - or more to the point, HE - get all this shit from you guys now?

Besides? how many people have been killed "testing out what their car can do" ONCE on a perfectly strait road with no other traffic in broad daylight?

Edited by Heath, 21 June 2006 - 05:20 PM.

[LXdamo]

Damos hatch was sold.


Damos current hatch will not be exceeding the speed limit unless entered in a driving event or under controlled conditions.

[RIM-010]

Thankyou Heath. My driving ability is well above-average for my age. Ive had alot more driving experience than most people my age, most of that has been on dirt, and some of that hs been in races.

More pragmatically, nobody here has a time machine, so it can't be undone. He did it, and he has stated what he's done in the past.

^^ Exactly. A time machine would be good though; I'd go back to the 70's and by myself a Bathurst LJ XU-1, an L34, an A9X Hatch, a Phase 3 GTHO, and an SS. And a heap of NOS Torana Stuff.

RIM

[RIM-010]

I had a good mate die in a car crash a few years back, too fast around a sweeping corner on a dirt road, misjudged, overcorrected and flipped. His cousin was driving, and he got out alright.

whether you are the best opposite lock, donut hanging kid in your age group, there's little youll be able to do a about it while the car is flying through the air.

Its a straight, flat road that i had driven many-a-time before, usually above 100km/h, so how i was gunna go flying through the air i dont know.

RIM