License Question

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Originally Posted by Milky Bar Kid

I will doublecheck my books and get back to you

Cheers

Im glad its not just me who find cars plain annoying. Im also the type who likes to teach themselves. I taught myself to ride with a book, youtube and a 125 i bought. For a car i have to have someone yapping on at me, its not how i learn, it just gets me stressed, hence the trip along the pavement on the last expedition called a lesson.

Another thing is this low revs gear changing crap, passenger telling me to take it easy, I AM!!! Im only at 3.5k of 8k, use the engine god damn it.

Originally Posted by Dave20046

No , I've got one of those 'previously owned by a woman' gear boxes.

ah, the sort of owner who forgets to use the clutch

wimmin, i dunno eh

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

On a modern car you dont really need to.

However either learn to double de clutch or heel & toe then you'll be able to change down, blip the throttle and brake all at the same time.

Some cars its tricky especialy if you have small feet and the pedals are spaced widely apart, I've not found a car yet that I can't blip on the downchange in though...

Yea i figured this, that on modern cars there isnt much use. I reason that it is either because the clutches are brilliantly forgiving and have huge clutch plates, therefore can dissipate their heat from the slipping induced by the driver letting the clutch engage slowly, or they have some sort of back-torque limiter built in.

My dad can heel-and-toe, and does it in his mk II gti sometimes. He also occasionally double-de-clutches (or whatever its called) as force of habit which he picked up driving land rovers when he worked for caffyns many many moons ago. I'll certainly be learning how to heel and toe, not sure about some of the other techniques assiciated normaly with use in older vehicles

Originally Posted by deejay77

A*H the catagorie k is for mowing machines and p is for mopeds

awesome, I can mow the lawn!!!!

Originally Posted by beabert

Another thing is this low revs gear changing crap, passenger telling me to take it easy, I AM!!! Im only at 3.5k of 8k, use the engine god damn it.

haha i keep moaning at my mum about this her car goes to 11000rpm i think, its a 231bhp rx8 and she tries to over take in like 5th at 3000rpm im like wtf you would get round a lot quicker if you were in 4th even 3rd and give the bloody thing some and let the engine rev out a bit once in a while, then all i get from her is it uses more fuel doing that ..... drives me mad

[Richie]

Originally Posted by TheOnlyNemesis

the only catagory is bike as i dislike cars just don't want my mum to die early, haha, and don't really wanna give them another fifty.

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[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by beabert

Another thing is this low revs gear changing crap, passenger telling me to take it easy, I AM!!! Im only at 3.5k of 8k, use the engine god damn it.

Because it makes an uncomfortable, uncontrolled (feeling anyway) drive.
There's nothing big or clever about going fast in a car, especially if you've covered your car in glue and driven at halford's chav section at full pelt first.