arrghh...not having a good day cop advice needed

[EliseR]

I am off to work on some Pelican and Puffin crossing road safety stuff for the kids at school.

I have recorded an Elise to add to all the other traffic noises I get them to recognise and will make sure they know it can appear very quickly, depending on who is driving it

Hope this thread finishes soon as I am so easily distracted from my studies

Remember, Amber means run for the hills, RUN!!! (amber car). Night everyone, been an entertaining thread.

G.

[Rich H]

Anyways I'm off to bed

Look at you getting all serious!

It must be serious, its coherent!

I think this thread demonstrates that attitudes of this board, the majority like their skills tested on the roads, driving to their limits and trying not to attract attention from anyone really.

Clearly some of our other members are keen to demonstrate their prowess on the high street and showing off in public.

The difficulty comes when these 2 worlds collide like here. The majority here do not like the loud brash high street racers.

I have to agree with John though, neither are always safe or legal, but that is the decision of the driver and ultimately the driver will pay the legal penalty for that. Personally if I had been pulled that many times I would be thanking my lucky stars I could legally still drive.

I know you guys are young and stupid, we all were at one time or another, but when I was driving like a twat I was in a 1988 205 xs with nearly 200k on the clock, not exactly a high performance sports car. While both ave the potential to cause alot of mayhem, a Lotus would beat the 205 there every time...

Please realise that, the occasional bit of hypocrisy aside, we just do not want a thread saying either:

1. "Binned it into a bus stop, now I'm going to jail"
2. "Lotus' drivers targeted by local Police"

Finally (Bit of a rant, but I'm on lates) a thought, this is a community, the attitudes of which are formed over time and are not swayed easily. If someone or something arrives that clashes with the accepted it will provoke a strong reaction. To join a community you must integrate with it, if you do not wish to then maybe this isn't the place for you.

My 2p
Rich

[EliseR]

Anyways I'm off to bed

Look at you getting all serious!

It must be serious, its coherent!

I think this thread demonstrates that attitudes of this board, the majority like their skills tested on the roads, driving to their limits and trying not to attract attention from anyone really.

Clearly some of our other members are keen to demonstrate their prowess on the high street and showing off in public.

The difficulty comes when these 2 worlds collide like here. The majority here do not like the loud brash high street racers.

I have to agree with John though, neither are always safe or legal, but that is the decision of the driver and ultimately the driver will pay the legal penalty for that. Personally if I had been pulled that many times I would be thanking my lucky stars I could legally still drive.

I know you guys are young and stupid, we all were at one time or another, but when I was driving like a twat I was in a 1988 205 xs with nearly 200k on the clock, not exactly a high performance sports car. While both ave the potential to cause alot of mayhem, a Lotus would beat the 205 there every time...

Please realise that, the occasional bit of hypocrisy aside, we just do not want a thread saying either:

1. "Binned it into a bus stop, now I'm going to jail"
2. "Lotus' drivers targeted by local Police"

Finally (Bit of a rant, but I'm on lates) a thought, this is a community, the attitudes of which are formed over time and are not swayed easily. If someone or something arrives that clashes with the accepted it will provoke a strong reaction. To join a community you must integrate with it, if you do not wish to then maybe this isn't the place for you.

My 2p
Rich

I understand the posts raised concern and rightly so, but I keep coming back to the point I was trying to make. It's easy to be a dick in a car like a lotus when your a young twat. And its easy to realise it and change!! Surely this is good advice? I only took offense the useless and unhelpful replies.

Think of it this way, I have had the car 6 months, and I have been pulled 9 times in the first 3 months, and none in the previous 3 months. I have clocked 15,000 miles in the car, and a lot of it in the city on a friday and saturday night. Out of the 9 times I was pulled, 4 were for the EXACT SAME INCIDENT (someone reported me for a loud exhaust in the murrays, I posted about this at the time). Each time I was pulled, I had to tell the officir I had already been spoken too.

All I did in the Grassmarket was drive loudly in first gear (no danger of hurting anyone). The other time I was pulled was for an illigal front plate (too small). The other time for NO front plate, and I was told to get on my way. And finally, I was pulled by a traffic cop in meadowbank who was merely interested in the car (I thought he was having a laugh). He then asked my name, age etc, and asked if I track the car blah blah blah. He did mention he had seen the car around and liked to get to know the drivers in the area.

Hope that puts some of it in context.

Gary.

[Rich H]

[PhilA]

i was going to say something, but ive forgotten.

old age kicking in!

[kenny]

na seriously have not been to any yet , to be honest wouldnt feel very welcome now ....not really been somthing I have considered either . Dont know if anyone remembers my gearbox nightmare , but it has totally put me off booting the car for any length of time .

No idea about your gearbox problem, but on a track you get everything up to temp so it is actually probably way less stress on your car then booting it from cold

But come along to a trackday you would be welcome and this would more then likely never be mentioned. The best would be taking your car on track then you might quickly see why booting it round town is a bit pointless

Nail on head Paul

Track driving wont put a huge strain on your car and you dont have to rag the bollocks off it to be reasonably quick. Smooth and gentle with the car can often be far quicker.

I dare say you wouldn't have had any stick on this thread had you been to a few trackdays. I get the feeling that some people view the car as wasted on you, used to look good in but never used as intended. You will no doubt point out thats its your car and you will do what the f*ck you like with it, you may well be right be but I suspect thats part of the underlying reason why you have got so much stick on this thread.

Whether that sounds completely hypocritical I dont dont care. If you were to say 'ok I'll prove you lot are wrong about me' and go to one of the trackdays I garauntee you would be made very welcome and that you would enjoy it immensely.

As Jim said earlier this is a small local forum, so when many of us have met up regularly we know peoples mannerisms etc so things are less likely to be taken out of context and disagreements are rare.

[Rich H]

Its a local forum for local people...

Get to KH and see if Shug will demonstrate what a 10 year old shed can do. His cars about 9 years old too...

('Twas my first experience of what an Elise can really do in the right hands, but he does tend to forget while he as 4 point harness his passenger does not )

[MacK]

I started reading this thread on Tuesday afternoon, what day is it now?

[Shug]

Its a local forum for local people...

Get to KH and see if Shug will demonstrate what a 10 year old shed can do. His cars about 9 years old too...

('Twas my first experience of what an Elise can really do in the right hands, but he does tend to forget while he as 4 point harness his passenger does not )

Nah, let's not go there - I'm not claiming anything special about myself as I'm average behind the wheel, I've just been in an elise for 6 years. Only thing I will say is that I save it for trackdays and the right occasion on the road. That doesn't mean I give it 100% on the road, it also doesn't necessarily mean I'm always within the letter of the law. The one rule I stick to religiously is keeping my head down in town.

J33 and Gary, when I said about not being invited to a run I organise, it wasn't as a slapdown or anything as juvinile as that. Simply, if you get a kick out of blatting through town and having folk stare at you, you'll be likely to trigger a friendly road block 10 miles up the road. Thats something I want to avoid. If you take offence, sorry, but I'm trying to ensure somebody wouldn't f**k up a road run for the other attendees.

Also (with my Admin hat on) I'm concerned by a few folk's (not Gary and J33, by the way) tendency to resort to personal insults in this thread. It's not on, please don't do it - you know who you are.

[pete]

Anyways I'm off to bed

Look at you getting all serious!

It must be serious, its coherent!

I think this thread demonstrates that attitudes of this board, the majority like their skills tested on the roads, driving to their limits and trying not to attract attention from anyone really.

Clearly some of our other members are keen to demonstrate their prowess on the high street and showing off in public.

The difficulty comes when these 2 worlds collide like here. The majority here do not like the loud brash high street racers.

I have to agree with John though, neither are always safe or legal, but that is the decision of the driver and ultimately the driver will pay the legal penalty for that. Personally if I had been pulled that many times I would be thanking my lucky stars I could legally still drive.

I know you guys are young and stupid, we all were at one time or another, but when I was driving like a twat I was in a 1988 205 xs with nearly 200k on the clock, not exactly a high performance sports car. While both ave the potential to cause alot of mayhem, a Lotus would beat the 205 there every time...

Please realise that, the occasional bit of hypocrisy aside, we just do not want a thread saying either:

1. "Binned it into a bus stop, now I'm going to jail"
2. "Lotus' drivers targeted by local Police"

Finally (Bit of a rant, but I'm on lates) a thought, this is a community, the attitudes of which are formed over time and are not swayed easily. If someone or something arrives that clashes with the accepted it will provoke a strong reaction. To join a community you must integrate with it, if you do not wish to then maybe this isn't the place for you.

My 2p
Rich

Well said....

[PhilA]

i remembered what i wanted to say

no!
wait
damn
its gone again

[Blaque]

You have all lost the plot, every single one of you.
Read the original post.
This isn’t about speed or driving, be it in a safe and secure environment or redlining it through a zebra crossing outside an old people’s home. It’s about attention. If you drive a car that is loud on looks, colour and exhaust note. You want people to notice you. And they will.
Makes us feel good

If you then drive in a manner that is (not sure how to put this) “Showyâ€

[Dominic]

i remembered what i wanted to say

no!
wait
damn
its gone again

What you were going to say is; "I'm a forgetful post whore"

[Andy G]

I'm off out to finish a set of rear tyres

in this weather - you'll be lucky - still you should get v.sideways a lot longer before they are done - what a sh*t day

[BiggestNizzy]

what a sh*t day

I have a roof

and windscreen/sides/heater.

shame I only have 2 wheels