Vroom Vroom

My mum bought me a supercar experience for christmas and I cashed it in this weekend. I really wanted an Aston Martin drive but they don’t have them at Wigan so I went for the Ferrari 360. 400bhp sounds OK and it is a Ferrari.

Straight away I had my eyes opened. I love computer racing games and anticipated the real thing being substantially different but just the 4 laps in the back of a mini cooper S taught me a thing or two about line and braking. (And for a little car with 4 big blokes in it, that thing could move).

So I eventually get in the Ferrari. Few more eye openers. It’s cramped. And not the quality I’d expect. Our Audi is way better put together. First problem is that my foot was too wide. The brake and accelerator are too close together and I pushed them both at the same time so I had to take my shoe off and drive in my sock, a common problem apparently. Sounds lovely though.

Off we go.

Did one lap following the instructors guidelines and then opened it up. WOOT! That things sticks to the road like glue and once it got on the back straight and gets into it’s stride it absolutely flies, proper compressed into the seat acceleration. Loved it. What a great laugh. Only got 6 or 7 laps of a short circuit but so much fun. I thought I was going fast but had to back off to let the single seaters go past on a couple of corners, I want to try them next.

Local Routes – As requested

http://www.samuri.co.uk/gps/

Ride Entry – 11th January 2009

Bike:Humuhumunukunukapua’a
Distance: 20 miles

Just a quick, mostly road blast around on my new purchase, a Kona Humuhumunukunukapua’a. It’s very nice. A bit heavy for a singlespeed but not terribly so. All I did was stick some pedals on it, fix the back brake, raise the seat and oil the chain and out I went. Circa 1996. It rides pretty well, and fast considering the big fat tyres and weight. Slighly under geared for road use mind but probably over geared for proper offroad climbs, we’ll see.
I came back via Borsdane woods which I thought would end in tears. The tyres are not mud tyres by any stretch of the imagination, my light battery was starting to go weak, my glasses were caked in mud and I fully anticipated the borsdane gang to be sheltering under the railway bridge at the end. Happily it all went well with no incidents and just a smiley face from me.

Not sure whether to commute on it (if ever do start commuting again), or stick some proper tyres on it and take it offroad.

Proper pictures to follow but here’s one for the time being.

Ah feck!

Ummm, we got hacked. That didn;t actually cause any damage but then I tried to upgrade while doing 8 other things, messed it up, dropped the database thinking I had a backup and then found out…. everything gone.

Ah well, it needed a refresh. Watch this space, it might be even better than before, but I doubt it…….