Free to a good home

No need to keep grousing on about it.

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That was my opinion when I owned that car.

 

It's Glorious. And Famous, come to that.

 

Maybe I'm not sensitive enough, but I find the steering over-assisted,
and the suspension too compliant, IYSWIM. Maybe I'm further from the
limits of it than I think, as I've never managed to get it to do
anything to bite back (the front runs wide on damp roads, but it's done
nothing silly so far - can't even provoke the rear to kick out if I lift
off as I turn in, IYSWIM)

It's about an hour each way - Caerphilly to Hereford is about 50 miles.

It's getting warmer, and the rain hasn't been too bad. The only thing
that's stopped me using the bike is the groundfrost early in the
morning, which gets worse as I climb up to the top of the Heads of the
Valleys. Once this has gone, then I will use the bike lots more.

 

It does what it's supposed to do.

The front running wide when damp is because of cheap tyres.

 

This I know. It's just odd that it doesn't affect the rear in the same
way.

What I do know is that if I abused the handling of either my old 33 or
the 75 in the same way I do the Primera it would have been 'exit stage
left, backwards' before I knew it. Ultimately, the 75 would probably be
quicker, but you'd have to be more 'refined' in doing it, IYSWIM.

 

So what you are really saying is that the Nissan is a better handling
car that your Alfa?

 

Yup, that's most likely the case. I'm not saying that the Alfa couldn't
be made to go quicker, but it would bite you for things the Nissan lets
you get away with.

However, the 75 feels alive, and certainly makes me smile when I drive
it, so I'm getting the refurb gearbox sorted and taking it back as my
daily driver by the looks of things.

 

It is engineered to be SAFE. Numpty-resistant, if you will - and
you're proving that it works. If you're really trying to _kick_ the
back _out_ on a FWD medium saloon, you're being pretty brutal; but
evidentially, not brutal enough.

Right. So either you pass through a timezone or your original
assertion was some way off, then. I'm sure most people could live
with dead-heading it for 50 miles before and after work: put some
music on, spark a fag up and off you go - before you know it, you're
home.

FWIW, I used to commute from Aylesbury to CMK on a daily basis - in a
MKI Golf GTi. That wasn't devastatingly quick, but it was a most
entertaining little car - but the trip still got on my tits. So, IME,
your basic preposition is unfounded.

 

See, you are geeing cured

 

It's roughly 2.5 hours total - an hour-ish each way, plus sitting in
traffic for 15 mins to get in and out of Hereford.

 

'being' obviously, and I've not even had a drink.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

It would have to be a Rudolph though, since I've got all this fuel...

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

I emailed you this morning.

 

Molly said:

Sorry Molly - it's not arrived...

Want to try again? I'm not ignoring you - honestly!

 

Molly said:

No sign of anything in logfiles...

I've emailed you at your mollyg domain...

 

Simon Atkinson was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

Yep, that's my real address. It's just allergic to email from forged
domains to keep the amount of spam down.

 

So they've sanitised a devastatingly quick vehicle so it's boring?
You and Dr Gower should get together. You'd have lots to talk about.

 

I'm not saying that it's not possible to rear-wheel slide a FWD car,
but I will say that if rear-wheel slides are what you want, then you
want a rear-wheel drive car.

 

For 9 months+ I used to commute Chesterfield -> Oldham. I actually
enjoyed the hours I spent listening to CD's or Radio 4, but I ended up
buying 2 or 3 CD's every week...