Drove a car again, very weird

**Steam** · 23rd July 2006, 21:50

Cars are boring! I just drove a car again, for the first time since I got my bike license a couple of months ago.
Corners, you just drive around them, there's no lean, no fun, no sensation in a car.
And everything seemed so slow too, I found myself going 70 in a 50 zone, because everything seems so static in the car. It's like sitting at the kitchen table and turning a wheel.
And when bikers drove past in the opposite direction, I wanted to wave, hey I'm one of you too!

Mind you, you can't take a metric ton of rubbish to the dump on a motorcycle.

Biking; I am totally hooked.

**The Pastor** · 24th July 2006, 18:06

Trust me, when you get a car that can handle well, it will shit on your bike. Test drive an atom, you'll see what I mean.

**MattRSK** · 24th July 2006, 18:20

Originally Posted by renegade master

Trust me, when you get a car that can handle well, it will shit on your bike. Test drive an atom, you'll see what I mean.

Thats a bold statement to make!

**paturoa** · 24th July 2006, 18:38

Originally Posted by MattRSK

Thats a bold statement to make!

and a true one

My brother years ago imported a 500 cube v8 and stuck it in a falcon, holley, cams etc, I had a gsx750ex at the time and thought, no chance.

Well long story short, I paid him money in a rolling start and he paid me back for a point to point with corners. An atom goes around corners quciker than any prod bike.

**Biohazard** · 24th July 2006, 18:42

True oh very true, the Atom is the dogs danglies similar fun to the
Westfield X2

.

Could never beat my TVR for grin factor though (400bhp at the rear wheels), went like stink handled like a bag of runny shit in the wet.

Bike are cars have an equal place, horses for courses me thinks.

**paturoa** · 24th July 2006, 19:09

Originally Posted by Biohazard

.... my TVR for grin factor though (400bhp at the rear wheels)......

i just went a funny shade of green (envy not puke)

**TerminalAddict** · 24th July 2006, 19:16

me too

and I thought my 180hp alfa was fun enough .. now I've got european car envy

**Biohazard** · 24th July 2006, 19:17

lol the wife went that colour a few times, but it wasn't envy, don't think she appreciated my driving

**MattRSK** · 24th July 2006, 19:18

Originally Posted by TerminalAddict

me too

and I thought my 180hp alfa was fun enough .. now I've got european car envy

You have an Alfa, you bloody legend. All Class.

**Biohazard** · 24th July 2006, 19:21

Originally Posted by TerminalAddict

me too

and I thought my 180hp alfa was fun enough .. now I've got european car envy

Ooooo what one ya got, i love the Alfa's...Mmmmm sexy Italian syling...drool drool...my mums got mine back in the UK

**MattRSK** · 24th July 2006, 19:22

Alfa Romeo GTV 1979.

**TerminalAddict** · 24th July 2006, 19:28

couldn't afford to keep it

t'was Alfa 75 also known as an Alfa Twin spark.
Was the last of the rear wheel drives, with the trans axle gear box in the back, and a near perfect 50/50 balance ...

Weighted in at 900 kgs without me sitting in it, so was a good competitor to anything with 4 wheels on the road, even though the body, in typical italian styling, was held together by the rusty bits.

top speed of 140 ish mph

Variable cam timing, so it would rev until the head blew off, and pulled all the way to 8k.
anything below 7k, you could drop a gear, tap the right foot, bring the revs up to 7 1/2 ish, and step the back out ...

damn I miss that car