Yay :thumbsup: Oh well...

 

Maybe we should make this a different day/time?

 

Hmm, dunno.

Edited January 8, 200521 yr by demuire

That sounds like a good idea, recent work to my 4AGE has made me broke, only got enough bling for fuel to get me to work and back next week till I get paid..

So how now, brown cow?

Hell maybe I'll just go like... now :thumbsup:

 

Hehe.

So... Is anyone turning up tomorrow? ae71neo? Or are we postponing this for another day?

 

If I don't hear back from anyone before tomorrow morning then I'll be there.

I'm leaving in 5-10 minutes..

 

I'll go by myself if i have to :thumbsup:

Leaving now... :thumbsup:

Well that was fun :) And mission accomplished, found out my front swaybar is definately set too stiff, will have to slacken it off a bit. Now if I could figure out which way is "soft" :thumbsup:

 

Going up was rather boring, we got stuck right from point 0 behind a very very good driver, he was following the speed limit and every single advisory sign to the dot. Only, I'm almost certain his speedo was reading 20 under... So we were doing like 50-60 most of the straights, 40 through Nebo village, at times down to 10 on some corners... YAY! He stopped off at the top of Glorious though.

 

Yes there were a fair number of cyclist up Nebo, but that didn't worry us since we weren't travelling much faster than them anyway. A fair number of bikies through Glorious, some of them like to cut the corners (across lanes) even when they're blind, got my heart racing a few times, coming around a corner and find a bike coming towards me at rather high speed in my lane... And then there were the two people walking on the side of the road, around a blind corner...

 

But yes, I must say, coming down Glorious is an amazing piece of road, I love it! I think next time I'm just going to skip Nebo even, and just go up Samford and down Glorious, and back again! Some of those 20-marked corners coming down Glorious are FUN FUN FUN, my tyres are so stuffed :P

That was FUN :thumbsup:

 

Now just for new tyres and brakes...

Edited January 9, 200521 yr by ae71neo

Nick: I wouldn't go all out at any time of the day on that (or most other public) road anyway...

 

I don't know why you'd say that Mt Nebo would be more "technical", from what I can tell (from driving it like twice, so I'm no expert) it's just a quicker piece of road, with more of a fast-fast-fast-fast-oh-shit-slow-corner combination. With power, Glorious is pretty darned fun, because virtually every corner can be taken with balls, even coming back up the mountain those 20-marked corners are a challenge, esp the one that is a right-20-left-20 about halfway up, haha, can someone spell out p-e-n-d-u-l-u-m? :P Glorious is also a hell load harder on the brakes I recon, with 4-3-2-3-4-3-2 gearchanges all the way down and up the mountain :thumbsup:

 

I dunno, Glorious just seems to flow very well, has some very awesome corners with some very good camber, with only the leaves on the top bit a bit worrying.

Edited January 9, 200521 yr by demuire

as much as this is fun, i really, REALLY hope no 1 here make a mistake and it turns tradgic.. / or something mechanical goes wrong sending you into a sticky spot...

almost did the other night i was up there......lucky i have good tires.

 

i'm getting to know the road up there now.

major fun.

It only takes 1 thing to go wrong when you go past your limits, I found mine out one night when I was chasing a certain 300zx, well I was alright when I was following his line, but when he got sick of seeing me in his rear view mirror, he just took off, next thing I know my rear end is wallowing from side to side, came close to taking out the armco after I hit some gravel, luckily my first natural instinct was to put my foot in on the clutch and ease on the brakes, it was damn close.. Nothing wrong with going for a blast to let out some frustrations, just I forgot to remember my car wasn't a 300zx, he he he

Always drive within your limits, more so on public roads where things are a bit less predictable. People who frequently drive outside their comfort zones generally don't survive very long.

Its quite easy to get caught up in the moment though..