PLEASE DON'T DRIVE TODAY IF YOU DON'T NEED TO

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I went to go around the shop about a hour ago and as i was braking to stop at a corner there was nothing on the brakes, i thought if there was anything coming either way i was brown bread so (lucky i have techtronic) i had to pull it down though the gears to bring it to a stop. Is it me or doesn't the council really bother with our roads? like i've even said about putting some salt down on the pathways and they are like yes yes we will get that done and nothing. All im frightened about is if the old lady that lives in the other row of houses to us is walking to the shop and don't see the ice, she could full over.

I see a man lock up his brakes today in his car and then started to moan at other people for doing it. duh sir it was you that touched the brakes not us :lol:

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Yeah conditions like this most of biking has to be done via the engine, something they nolonger teach in fact gear assisted biking is actually frowned apon :cuckoo:

not just drivers though i had some silly woman walk out infront of me cause i was driving slow, i had to brake and use the engine to slow got the back sliding nicely to miss her, just. (i was only doing 10mph at the time)
 
There are a few idiots out on the road today aren't there?

I went out earlier this morning and will admit, most of them were two footed, not four wheeled. There are a few stupid drivers - most people, like me don't have a lot if any experience of driving in the snow and think it's easy. Someone nearly ended up in the tree outside my drive this morning. It took 6 people to get them back straight. 50 yards later, they parked up and abandoned it. Probably the best decision they made today.
 
I only ever drive when I need to. Can't recall the last time I got in the car, drove 5 miles and thought "What am I doing? I have no need to drive." and then left the car there and walked home. :p
 
petemc said:
I only ever drive when I need to. Can't recall the last time I got in the car, drove 5 miles and thought "What am I doing? I have no need to drive." and then left the car there and walked home. :p
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^^ I'm the opposite, if I need to go to the shops i'll go to the ones 10miles further down the road just so I can drive :D
 
driving my sierra sapphire in snow was the best fun ever..but i wouldnt go out if i didnt need to
 
petemc said:
I only ever drive when I need to. Can't recall the last time I got in the car, drove 5 miles and thought "What am I doing? I have no need to drive." and then left the car there and walked home. :p
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Is it still there, I'll have if you don't want it ;)
 
I fell off my bike twice this morning and got ambushed by a load of kids with snowballs on the way to work.

Bruised arse now coming off on a corner - quite good fun though, cycling in it :)
 
puddleduck said:
I fell off my bike twice this morning and got ambushed by a load of kids with snowballs on the way to work.

Bruised arse now coming off on a corner - quite good fun though, cycling in it :)
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Something i wouldnt even think about on my bike, 19mm tyres and Carbon fibre forks etc make falling and damaging bike to high a risk.
 
Just watched the worst bit of driving I`ve seen in a looooong time. There`s a 40mph dual carriageway near me, on part of it there`s a reasonable hill. Plenty of cars struggling to go up it, people pushing them etc.

This dimwit, decides to drive THE WRONG WAY up the dual carriageway and then proceed to drive the wrong way around a large roundabout. I`m not talking a short distance either, 3-400 yards.

Crazy...
 
I was driving out of the doctors surgery car park this morning and the car just went off on one, i couldn't have been going any slower, i thought i was going to hit a parked car but fortunately i hit the kerb (no damage except my pride :lol:), as regards the council gritting the roads i actually used to do this years ago, they only tend to do main rd's unless it gets really extreme which obviously is now, a lot of the problem is when your trying to get the a gritter down a narrow rd you have car's parked opposite each other so it's virtually impossible, there was a couple of time's i took wing mirror's off trying to do it, in the end you just have to give up on it :shrug:
 
The main problem is that people do not know how to drive in conditions like this, as it is so rare in this country.

The best tips are to take it slow, keep in low gear and do not make any sudden movements. There were people struggling to drive up a slope outside my flat this morning but they were all too heavy on the power and too quick on the clutch.

Is it people's lack common sense or do drivers not get trained properly??
 
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MG TF 135 said:
Is it people's lack common sense or do drivers not get trained properly??
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A bit of both I guess but mostly the latter :(
I can remember going out in the snow when I was younger, finding a large empty area / car park
( not that difficult in those days) and just "playing"
too much gas too much brakes and generally over cooking everything just to see what would happen.
"You" quickly learn what and what not to do
But then that was the "good old days" when front wheel drive was a rarity
and RWD was a hell of a lot of fun :thumbs:
 
I have seen a few idiots this morning in only a relatively short (10 mile) drive to work.

People driving on an ungritted road as if it had been gritted - accident waiting to happen that.
Nearly had a golf GTI hit me coming off a roundabout as he had decided to overtake on the roundabout but only the left hand lane on the exit was clear of- so he hit the snow while turning hard and accelerating to get past me. Talk about complete lack of awareness... If I hadn't seen him start to slide and hoofed it I would have a dented motor!
Nearly every time we have heavy snow I go and find somewhere to have a practise - just to remind myself how it can all go horribly wrong! In fact now I'm driving something with a fair amount more power I definitly need to go play...
 
russdaz said:
Something i wouldnt even think about on my bike, 19mm tyres and Carbon fibre forks etc make falling and damaging bike to high a risk.
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Mine is firmly attached to the turbo trainer in this weather!
 
i cant even get out of my car park!!!!!

never mind driving down and around the Epsom downs and in surrey
 
it was hard enough getting to work today but i finish in a half hour and im actually scared of going back out there
 
I walked to the supermarket this monring, screw driving in this, have done it before but got hit by three other people who were sliding around.

how hard is it? high gear, low revs, low speed, don't brake and use your gearbox to slow down
 
I must admit i drove around 1/2 mile in the fast lane covered in snow on the way to wrok this morning because the slow lane was bumper to bumper and i had wasted 1 1/2 hours already, only doing 20mph though

i learned alot when i first past my test in the snow as some days were crazy back then.

having a diesel helps alot to, low down torque so you can pull away easier

so looking forward to driving home :(

take care everyone
 
I've been home all day, but I heard on the radio that it's all going to start again, so if peeps can leave before sundown it's probably a very good idea. Once the sun goes down, the temperature will drop quickly and some of that snow will turn to ice.

Take care everyone
 
I think it all depends on what side of the country you live on. Today I driven down the west coast (M55, M6, M60, A34, M6, M6 Toll, M42, M40, A34, M3 and M27) and the only slightly dodgy part was when I stopped at the dentists and drove down an untreated side street. The rest of the journey was fine, in fact better than fine as there was a noticeable decrease in the quantity of traffic :D.

I realise that there there is an unusually high proportion of the country that is affected by the weather and there is more to come but sometimes I think the news gives the perception that if London & the SE grinds to a halt so does the rest of the country.

However, I believe that if you are affected there is worse to come so take care
 
MG TF 135 said:
The main problem is that people do not know how to drive in conditions like this, as it is so rare in this country.

The best tips are to take it slow, keep in low gear and do not make any sudden movements. There were people struggling to drive up a slope outside my flat this morning but they were all too heavy on the power and too quick on the clutch.

Is it people's lack common sense or do drivers not get trained properly??
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It snows every year and usually there's conditions similar to this. I'm unsure why every other country that gets a dump snow like we're experienced is well prepared and capable of handling the situation but yet we're not. And it DOES happen every year.

And it's not as if there's snow several feet up the walls of every house, as I've experienced in Switzerland and France.
 
Hey mates!
I want to invite you to our Russia to learn winter driving.
You give me some English lessons in return my lessons of snowy driving. Okay?
;)
 
We don't even need snow up here for people to have stupid crashes....

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my mrs has just come back form the studio, rang and canceled two appointments for tonite.
too dangerous to go out again. mansfield, notts.
snowing most of last night, and all of today.
getting nasty. even the main roads are covered in 3 inches of mushy snow/muck.
if it snows again all night ,we could be in bother tomorow.
 
incidentaly, i drive a 17tonne lorry at work(when i'm at work) , and have never got stuck in snow.
the sad fact is, an awfull lot of drivers have no idea how to drive in it.
uneducated rick is obvoiusly educated in the subtleties of snwo driving.
cant be bothered to correct the spellings
 
inaneredstripe said:
uneducated rick is obvoiusly educated in the subtleties of snwo driving.
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Not really, only done it a couple of times - I just got lucky in a had a few lessons in snow when I was learning to drive during a cold snap, was hell at the time but helped a lot.

Still, the original advice was the best, don't go out unless you have to
Last time I didn't follow that advice I broke my leg leading to some major problems like 5 operations, 2 weeks in hospital, 6 months in a wheelchair and 2 years before discharged :bonk:
 
Still, the original advice was the best, don't go out unless you have to
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I can say it on the other way:
don't go out without your brain
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I quite enjoy driving in the snow. I couldn't wait to get on the road this morning. I was up at 4:30. :lol: Driving was no problem just take it easy and drive sensibly, give yourself plenty of time to brake and don't brake too hard. Treat every other road user with caution as if they don't know what they are doing and you should be fine.
Of course if you don't feel confident stay indoors.
 
People don`t allow for the conditions and have no idea what to do when the electrickery in thier cars can`t handle the conditions.Basically, it is down to a lack of skills and sense.......:bat:
 
nilagin said:
I quite enjoy driving in the snow. I couldn't wait to get on the road this morning. I was up at 4:30. :lol: Driving was no problem just take it easy and drive sensibly, give yourself plenty of time to brake and don't brake too hard. Treat every other road user with caution as if they don't know what they are doing and you should be fine.
Of course if you don't feel confident stay indoors.
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brilliant advices!
 
Flash In The Pan said:
We don't even need snow up here for people to have stupid crashes....

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Was that in Ollerton/Boughton, Notts Flash? My mum described something like that to me yesterday.

Well yesterday morning there was another almighty bang right outside my house. Some stupid idiot going too fast flipped his car into the field on the other side of the road. If he had flipped this side of the road, he would have landed on the power lines and him and his girlfriend would not have walked away. Chris was first out to them and he says the girl was screaming her head off, and appeared to be trapped initially. That's 14 cars that have come off the road within 100 yards of my house in 4 days :shake: I think the road has been gritted once in those 4 days, even though it's a main road.

If I have to ring 999 one more time I think the switch board will know me on a first name basis :shake:

Take care out there people, and don't forget if you REALLY do have to travel, make sure you have a thick blanket, torch and other emergency supplies in your boot. A high visibility vest or coat is a good idea too. Chris' came in very handy yesterday for the Paramedics to find the accident in poor visibility.
 
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