my day...
Hi all
Thought I would tell you about my day…
Got up this morning and thought that the chance of a drive was slipping away fast… so made a dash for the door before Claire had finished her cup of coffee! Thank god she understands!!!
Headed for Kinglake – quiet roads which I know reasonably well (from when I used to ride them on my Ducati about 4 years ago). It was really foggy which made things interesting – between rubbish tyres, collapsed torsion bar bushes and needing new windscreen wipers, I soon had a jeep up my a^&* trying to get past! Ah well, I’m just getting to know my baby, not be a hero! And I was certainly fairing better than all the cyclists!!!!
Anyway, it was a great run. Nice to get away from stop-start traffic for once. Managed to get home on the same tank which amazed me! Can anyone with a 2.7 (Clyde!) or 2.8 give me an idea on how far they would get on a full tank (60L)?? I have no idea what’s normal, but I am heading for about 150 miles I think.
So, I got home at about 11:30am and Claire wants to go grocery shopping… in the 911!!!! And this is the best bit… we got the whole lot under the bonnet! Nothing on the back seats! Ok, it was slightly less than normal (about $110 instead of $140)… but still, who would have thought!?!?
Then the shocks just kept coming! After we had spent some time in the garden planting a new hedge (to cover up a really ugly fence)… Claire wants to take it for a drive!!! Who am I to question why? So, we headed for the industrial estate nearby… and would you believe it, for a girl who loves the comforts of her auto Astra, she did really well! She even says it drives like my old piece of cr^& (which it doesn’t… that piece of cr^& was a 1981 2.6L Mitsubishi Scorpion…). Anyway, aside from not giving it enough revs, Claire managed to get it round the block a few times – enough for me to feel comfortable enough if she had to drive me home from a big night… might think twice about letting her loose on an unofficial club run though!!!
So, all up it was a good day…
Cheers
Rich
P.S. Clyde – I really, really owe you a drive!!!!
Thought I would tell you about my day…
Got up this morning and thought that the chance of a drive was slipping away fast… so made a dash for the door before Claire had finished her cup of coffee! Thank god she understands!!!
Headed for Kinglake – quiet roads which I know reasonably well (from when I used to ride them on my Ducati about 4 years ago). It was really foggy which made things interesting – between rubbish tyres, collapsed torsion bar bushes and needing new windscreen wipers, I soon had a jeep up my a^&* trying to get past! Ah well, I’m just getting to know my baby, not be a hero! And I was certainly fairing better than all the cyclists!!!!
Anyway, it was a great run. Nice to get away from stop-start traffic for once. Managed to get home on the same tank which amazed me! Can anyone with a 2.7 (Clyde!) or 2.8 give me an idea on how far they would get on a full tank (60L)?? I have no idea what’s normal, but I am heading for about 150 miles I think.
So, I got home at about 11:30am and Claire wants to go grocery shopping… in the 911!!!! And this is the best bit… we got the whole lot under the bonnet! Nothing on the back seats! Ok, it was slightly less than normal (about $110 instead of $140)… but still, who would have thought!?!?
Then the shocks just kept coming! After we had spent some time in the garden planting a new hedge (to cover up a really ugly fence)… Claire wants to take it for a drive!!! Who am I to question why? So, we headed for the industrial estate nearby… and would you believe it, for a girl who loves the comforts of her auto Astra, she did really well! She even says it drives like my old piece of cr^& (which it doesn’t… that piece of cr^& was a 1981 2.6L Mitsubishi Scorpion…). Anyway, aside from not giving it enough revs, Claire managed to get it round the block a few times – enough for me to feel comfortable enough if she had to drive me home from a big night… might think twice about letting her loose on an unofficial club run though!!!
So, all up it was a good day…
Cheers
Rich
P.S. Clyde – I really, really owe you a drive!!!!
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