That's funny - someone offered to buy me a satnav just before we went away and I declined the offer, saying I'd always found a road atlas or street maps were just fine. Up until Liverpool!!!
cheers, SS
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Funny you should say mention the Isle of Man.
Mum and Dad have just gone there for the weekend.
Told you it would be funny.
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A long while ago I had a video from Duke Marketing of Tony Pond going round the IOM circuit in a Rover 827 and being the first to average over 100 MPH while doing so (in a car). The Vitesse was supposed to be unmodified although the exhaust sounded a bit 'interesting'
Anyone remember that?
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Ah Tony Pond! I rememeber once someone asked him what he thought of the metro 6R4.
"It scares the life out of me"
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Tony Pond eh. AS i recall he never got to the 100mph average cos the fuel kept slopping around in the tank. Brave man, though, given some of the crap he was expected to drive for BL and its various incarnations...
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Indeed, If I recall correctly the Metro frequently burst into flames and try to cook him,
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>>i recall he never got to the 100mph average<<
On the video they show you footage of him failing to do it the year before, but apparently he succeeded on the next attempt.
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I still have a copy of the video somewhere.
He definitely made the 100 MPH average but I remembered it being in an SD1.
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>>>He definitely made the 100 MPH average but I remembered it being in an SD1.<<<
Definitely not an SD1. It was a 827 Vitesse.
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Mind you, my SatNav would be useless once you get to the IOM, on my maps its a featureless green blob with no roads or towns.
the channel islands do not even exist on my europe maps!
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During my holiday I drove or passengered the entire TT course, not all in one go but piecemeal, travelling at normal traffic speeds by car. I find it difficult to imagine anyone being able to average over 100 mph around it in any sort of car UNLESS the entire course was closed off, as during the TT.
If you want that daredevil feeling but without the speed, I recommend riding on one of the 110 year-old electric tramcars on the section north of Laxey, where the track goes along a steeply sloping cliff edge 600 ft up. For maximum effect, travel in one of the open-sided 'toastrack' type! Even if there isn't a sheer drop it looks like one from the tram and it sways about quite a lot.
Cheers, SS
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>>> During my holiday I drove or passengered the entire TT course, not all in one go but piecemeal, travelling at normal traffic speeds by car. I find it difficult to imagine anyone being able to average over 100 mph around it in any sort of car UNLESS the entire course was closed off, as during the TT.<<<
Of course it was closed off! Tony did his run not long after the TT finished. He didn't try it during rush hour (although it would have made for a very interesting video!)
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Superb place to go, excellent roads with proper bends (so it doubles asa race track). Spent some time there a few years ago hosted by IoM Police - and had a "drive" under supervision of a Traffic Officer..
Adski,
Did your parents go in a Frying Pan. (SWMBO asked me to ask - something obscure no doubt)
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PU,
I have to be honest, I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. I'm afraid it's a little too obscure!
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SWMBOs explained - something a Welsh Nursery Rhyme about going to the IoM in a frying pan.
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Used to go to the IOM on business. Always raining but, without fail, whoever met us at the airport would always say "You should have been here yesterday ... weather was super"
Would get the first flight in and, if we rushed the meeting, we could be on the 2pm flight back out!
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I'm not to au fait with Welsh nursery rhymes it must be said PU ;-)
I must say though - I didn't know the phones would play up so much. Can't get connected most of the time, get cut off mid call and they get charged every time we ring them.
Oh - and text messages don't get through.
Oh well.
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I seem to recall that the IOM dumped GSM and went for a 100% 3G network.......
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And what the hell does that mean? That we can send videos but not calls? ;-)
(Not too hot on telecommunications as you may have guessed!)
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It means that 3G is carp, not just in the IOM.
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Ahhh.
To swerve this back onto motoring and even fit in an IOM reference, they're back early.
Car trouble.
Oh well - wild party cancelled.
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