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acidfluxxbass
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Posted - 2010/11/30 : 09:26:29

I drove to college today. Scarey really cos I had to get thru hilly back roads and found its really hard to control the car and not wheelspin.

Its snowing quite badly now, but i have to do college work here. Anyone else having issues?

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Posted - 2010/11/30 : 09:44:12

We've had no snow at all. I think we're the only place in the UK that's not had or is getting any snow.

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Posted - 2010/11/30 : 10:00:26

Yeah we had a fair bit. Seems are roads where fairly well gritted for once though.

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Posted - 2010/11/30 : 10:29:37

quote:
Originally posted by acidfluxxbass:
I drove to college today. Scarey really cos I had to get thru hilly back roads and found its really hard to control the car and not wheelspin.

Its snowing quite badly now, but i have to do college work here. Anyone else having issues?

Wheelspin? I guess thats what we call "spin out" or what ever. It was sleeting the other day like really bad, with like 20-30mph winds, kinda sucks when you are driving a van without snow tires. It should be snowing where I'm at soon, but I love the snow.

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simdog
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Posted - 2010/11/30 : 10:49:15

thanks to the lovely non functional swedish sun it's a barmy -11 celcius outside and everything is covered in snow....
the snow was entertaining for a little while but i wanna go out for a bike ride without freezing to death. i was gonna go to a rave a few weeks ago but i couldn't bloody get there due to massive amounts of snow...
i should pop back to australia for the summer......

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Posted - 2010/11/30 : 11:04:30

non in blackpool/fleetwood either.... we are coastal tho so not expecting any really

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Posted - 2010/11/30 : 11:07:39

quote:
Originally posted by acidfluxxbass:
I drove to college today. Scarey really cos I had to get thru hilly back roads and found its really hard to control the car and not wheelspin.

Its snowing quite badly now, but i have to do college work here. Anyone else having issues?

what kinda car you got fluxx? do you know if it's front wheel drive?
if your driving in the snow I would invest in some winter tires, all seasons just dont cut it, and if your on summer tires thats real dangerous

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Wilky
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Posted - 2010/11/30 : 11:39:26

quote:
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quote:
Originally posted by acidfluxxbass:
I drove to college today. Scarey really cos I had to get thru hilly back roads and found its really hard to control the car and not wheelspin.

Its snowing quite badly now, but i have to do college work here. Anyone else having issues?

what kinda car you got fluxx? do you know if it's front wheel drive?
if your driving in the snow I would invest in some winter tires, all seasons just dont cut it, and if your on summer tires thats real dangerous

or if its real bad get some spikes

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Posted - 2010/11/30 : 12:07:18

quote:
Originally posted by simdog:
thanks to the lovely non functional swedish sun it's a barmy -11 celcius outside and everything is covered in snow....
the snow was entertaining for a little while but i wanna go out for a bike ride without freezing to death. i was gonna go to a rave a few weeks ago but i couldn't bloody get there due to massive amounts of snow...
i should pop back to australia for the summer......

Was -17 this morning when i went to work. At lunch break bought a new face mask (so far seems to be much better then a scarf when you're riding a bike), new hat and mittens that can fit under another pair of mittens. Not so cold anymore :)

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Edited by - whispering on 2010/11/30 12:09:36

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Posted - 2010/11/30 : 12:20:03

The English don't have snow/winter tyres. Instead when it does snow everyone complains about it and everything comes to a stand still. True story. It always makes me laugh how Canadians etc can deal with severe snow every year without fail yet when we even get a mm of it people are completely lost and everything grinds to a halt.

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Edited by - Hard2Get on 2010/11/30 12:21:03

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Posted - 2010/11/30 : 12:42:15

hehe^

we've had a strong 6inches here in the lakes, the fells look pretty awesome
we havent been out enough to take pictures (it seems to turn night here at 3:30pm at the moment) by the time i get home afterwork its pitch black..not so good for photos

but here are some we took the other evening
http://www.facebook.com/#!/album.php?aid=577877&id=522635076

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JustIncredible
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Posted - 2010/11/30 : 13:22:49

It's not the best here in Wales, had about an inch this morning, meant to be pretty bad tomorrow though.

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TheOneNOnly
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Posted - 2010/11/30 : 15:20:01

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Best.

And it's not much better really here, where I live at least, in the States. If it rains, people do 10 under (and this goes for the people who ALREADY go 5-10 under for who knows why!), and turn slower then I do on my lawn mower. Secondly, if it snows, oh god forbid, they go 10-15 under and don't know what to do at all! Luckily we get usually good major street service if it snows a lot, and it's usually plowed and salted by time it's done at it's heaviest point.

Though, I can tell you being a truck with front wheel drive (and I didn't have sandbags in the back to add weight) SUCKS. I spun out three times, but luckily I had previous practice, all where because I wanted to not an accidental practice, and I can get out it pretty good. Now, if there's black ice covered in snow and I spin out, it's pretty tough to get it back together, but it's manageable as long as everyone doesn't freak out around me and slam on their brakes.. like most people do. Moral of this stupidly long story: If you have front wheel drive in a truck, put sandbags in the bed, because you'll lose control a lot if you don't.

Also, it's funny when I see people driving 4x4 thinking they can go 10+ over the speed limit, only to hit ice and spin out and hit something. It doesn't matter that you have control of all four wheels individually spinning, ice doesn't discriminate.

I don't know if any of that even exists across the ocean.

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Hard2Get
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Posted - 2010/11/30 : 15:38:32

The 4x4 road warriors exist everywhere i think. Usually picking their children up from school 5 meters away from where they live.

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acidfluxxbass
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Posted - 2010/11/30 : 15:55:14