how the heck you people keep your license ?

[proenca]

honestly, how ? tell me. there must be a secret. Im not a racer boy or a teenager anymore but sometimes I like flicking the gears and ups-daisy, here we go.

happened today, there I was coming from ASDA, which I was a good guy and went to buy some stuff at the pharmacy for my sister which is sick. I was toddling along near Beckton at 50 or low 50 on a 40 mile zone which doesn't has a radar everyone was going at those speeds. Huge straights with couple of roundabouts.

Instruction car steps in, everyone gets on the right lane, INCLUDING the instruction car. Merc S63 AMG (the new one) gets behind me , flashes the lights, and starts revving on the left lane. I had to go behind him.

There we were, 10minutes and few miles of good fun ( ok, it was a family saloon, it is 82498237498237 meters long and weights 32842390 tons but it does goes fast on a straight - not as my 911 but that wasnt the point, I was just having fun following him ) since we didnt had no traffic.

Merc was rolling like mad on the turns where I was completely flat but this isnt a merc vs porsche thing, everyone knows the 911 is infinite times better - thing is..

HOW DO I GET HOLD OF MY LICENSE ?

Honestly, you guys that have Porsches for long ( its my first one ) how do you do it ? Take the wife always with you ? Take some I-HAVE-TO-OBBEY-SPEED-LIMITS pills ? Get drunk to a stage that you can drive but you can't go fast ? How how how ?

 

[proenca]

humm ok : so driving lets say, "spirited" on a two lane road that has no incoming traffic because has two lanes the other side with a separator, no traffic in the same direction, which I know very well since I drive there at least once per week its driving like a tit ? why I bought a Porsche in the first place if it wasn't for some more enthusiastic driving in the first place ? I may well have bought a merc if it was to cruise along, at least I would be more comfortable ... I~m not saying that every Porsche owner just because they have a Porsche they must break speed limit but what's the point if its to cruise along at 40mph ?

 

[Daveydoo]

Find a twisty road with a national speed limit and start having fun. Being drawn into a "bit of fun" on a straight road will inevitably lead to points on your license.I always found riding my Motorbike is that you always had the "Real Men" leaving the lights full throttle and passing you on the Motorway at break neck speed only to find them in your way on the bends.

 

[SambaMav]

I agree go fast round the bends and keep a damn good eye out on stright roads, especially where there is a brow for the camera to sit behind. I have been known to go up a nice fun road at a sedate pace, check it out and then hammer down it the other way and back up again Otherwise a Road Angel with laser detector is always helpful, especially if wired directly into your car, so no unsighly black boxes on teh windscreen

Stu

 

[zeb]

ORIGINAL: Daveydoo

Find a twisty road with a national speed limit and start having fun. Being drawn into a "bit of fun" on a straight road will inevitably lead to points on your license.I always found riding my Motorbike is that you always had the "Real Men" leaving the lights full throttle and passing you on the Motorway at break neck speed only to find them in your way on the bends.

too true...we used to call them 'the all the gear no idea brigade' and it used to drive me daft (excuse the pun). I remember years back being purseud enthusiastically by a chap on a brand new R1 near devils bridge on the road to kirkby steven and he would roar past only to corner like me mum. On about 4 consecutive corners i went past him which obviously fuelled the old red mist and on the next corner he was determined i was not going to come past him again. His entry speed was too fast and he was unable to brake in time and went wide hit the grass banking and landed on his butt in the adjoining field. Lots of boken shiny yamaha bits and a bruised ego but nothing more serious.

As regards keeping your licence then its the same with the porker as it was with the bike....theres a time and a place for everything..and you'll always need a little bit of lady luck []

 

[Guest]

Two bikes and a porker... I've still got my license, but when I get pulled.... it's not going to be for 3 points. It's just too easy to blast it for a mile or so, maybe two. Three. just one more. Oh heck, we've got this far, why slow down