NSW: TIME FOR ANOTHER EVENING DRIVE?

Craig · Postby **Craig** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:59 pm

redshoes wrote:Nyuk, nyuk! *imagine a Three Stooges style eye-poke right about now!!*

* Imagine a dog styled Something about Mary dog paw to block it *

woo woo woo

Craig · Postby **Craig** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 10:00 pm

StanTheMan wrote:no.......I was refering to Craigy Baby. He has a habbit of not turning up.

I also have a habit of not showing up too!

AJ · Postby AJ » Fri Feb 01, 2008 10:03 pm

well, you drive like a nun, might as well dress like one

StanTheMan · Postby **StanTheMan** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 10:03 pm

I guess you are not exactly a Hobbit :lol:

StanTheMan · Postby **StanTheMan** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 10:07 pm

but apart from all the spamming.....did you have any particular road in mind?

Craig · Postby **Craig** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 10:14 pm

AJ wrote:well, you drive like a nun, might as well dress like one

* Wake up AJ, your dreams are sneaking into Aus-Cartalk!

StanTheMan wrote:I guess you are not exactly a Hobbit

* Checks fingers for funny glowing gold rings....nope! * :lol:

StanTheMan wrote:but apart from all the spamming.....did you have any particular road in mind?

Ummm no not really, just happy to get out and about really!

Sasso · Postby **Sasso** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 10:26 pm

I took a drive up to wisemans ferry a few weeks ago to try and find a good road to organise a run. I took River Rd, which looks brilliant on google maps. Unfortunately its a complete DEATH trap, I mean you're lucky I'm still here talking to you. The views along the river are epic, but the road itself is one car width wide alot of the time AND the corners are completely blind. The road is very bumpy at some places, crashed onto the bump stops quite a bit. To make things worse the road was wet when I went.
So basically if anyone is coming the other way at any of the tens of corners along the 20 minute long road you will most definitely be killed. I was lucky to pass only two cars, and both at points that the road was visible and wide.
Mind you the road is brilliant! If you have the confidence that nobody else was on the other side of the corner it would be absolutely fantastic.

So not the best road for a multi car run, unless late at night so you can wake up all the caravanners. Then there's nothing stopping them calling the cops and since the road only has two entrances for miles you'd be trapped. Other thing I found that when I got back after driving for ages, I was really buggered, the G's are as vertical as they are lateral.

If you only go to the ferry its too short. So you need to find some other roads around there to complete the run.

Lets try to go this month before uni starts

Gerard

marcusus · Postby **marcusus** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:27 pm

Sasso wrote:Lets try to go this month before uni starts

Pfft... If I had a 5 when I was at uni, I wouldn't have gone to any classes and just gone cruising through USYD with the roof down. Just do that instead of the run. It'll probably be much more fun

Sasso · Postby **Sasso** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:35 pm

marcusus wrote:
Sasso wrote:Lets try to go this month before uni starts

Pfft... If I had a 5 when I was at uni, I wouldn't have gone to any classes and just gone cruising through USYD with the roof down. Just do that instead of the run. It'll probably be much more fun

That would be great until I get attacked for making air and noise pollution and being from UTS. I'd much rather drag up and down harris street all day, well just up actually. It would be more fun than classes, but I wouldn't learn anything and never be able to buy a ferrari so I can actually win the drags.

marcusus · Postby **marcusus** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:15 am

Sasso wrote:That would be great until I get attacked for making air and noise pollution and being from UTS. I'd much rather drag up and down harris street all day, well just up actually. It would be more fun than classes, but I wouldn't learn anything and never be able to buy a ferrari so I can actually win the drags.

UTS doesn't really lend itself to wasting time. I worked there whilst I was at uni, and man was it a boring campus

You could always transfer to the kuringgai campus. At least they have something resembling an actual campus, rather than a few tall buildings.

As for not learning anything, don't worry about it. That's what stuvac is for. I found cramming for that and whatever other assessments worked a treat rather than paying solid attention in classes. My theory is that because you cram it all, the info is fresher in your brain. If you study during semester, then only kinda study in stuvac, you won't remember as much.

Of course, if you're gonna be fully committed, then you would study all throughout semester as well as cram during stuvac, but where's the fun in that?

Sasso · Postby **Sasso** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:49 am

marcusus wrote:
Sasso wrote:That would be great until I get attacked for making air and noise pollution and being from UTS. I'd much rather drag up and down harris street all day, well just up actually. It would be more fun than classes, but I wouldn't learn anything and never be able to buy a ferrari so I can actually win the drags.

UTS doesn't really lend itself to wasting time. I worked there whilst I was at uni, and man was it a boring campus
You could always transfer to the kuringgai campus. At least they have something resembling an actual campus, rather than a few tall buildings.

As for not learning anything, don't worry about it. That's what stuvac is for. I found cramming for that and whatever other assessments worked a treat rather than paying solid attention in classes. My theory is that because you cram it all, the info is fresher in your brain. If you study during semester, then only kinda study in stuvac, you won't remember as much.

Of course, if you're gonna be fully committed, then you would study all throughout semester as well as cram during stuvac, but where's the fun in that?

Study everything in stuvac???? You obviously didn't study electrical engineering then. There's no such thing as a crash course on circuit analysis, the whole semester is the cramming period.
If you do what I do then go part to 3/4 time and then work on your days off so you can afford to race and buy car parts. Unfortunately it makes the course longer, 5 years is already too long, you have to find a balance of wasting your life and having fun, its not fun when you fail subjects.

Geoffro · Postby **Geoffro** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:06 am

We could drive down Canterbury rd., to Lakemba. Rule 1 must have roof on for protection, rule 2 must have stereo turned up real loud, rule 3 must have seat reclined right back. :mrgreen:

marcusus · Postby **marcusus** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 4:50 pm

Sasso wrote:Study everything in stuvac???? You obviously didn't study electrical engineering then. There's no such thing as a crash course on circuit analysis, the whole semester is the cramming period.
If you do what I do then go part to 3/4 time and then work on your days off so you can afford to race and buy car parts. Unfortunately it makes the course longer, 5 years is already too long, you have to find a balance of wasting your life and having fun, its not fun when you fail subjects.

Isn't that amusing. I studied Computer Engineering. Same diff as Electrical for the most part except for 3rd and 4th year courses. Believe me, I bludged pretty hard during semester and I crammed like nothing else when it came to stuvac. Especially first and second year circuit analysis. I scraped through by the skin of my nose for anything circuit analysis related. Wait til you get on to signals and systems... you'll cram like you've never crammed before.

Anyway, back on topic, someone suggest a run

Agro · Postby **Agro** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 5:45 pm

Geoffro wrote::lol: We could drive down Canterbury rd., to Lakemba. Rule 1 must have roof on for protection, rule 2 must have stereo turned up real loud, rule 3 must have seat reclined right back.

you forgot rule 4.......cap on backwards! :shock: