Top Gear - Bullet Train

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> I liked last week when Clarkson trashed a tyre on the Bentley with his
> antics - I can't see there being much change out of a £1000 for a Bentley
> tyre (if any at all).
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> I can never understand the reason for all the tyre smoke, it's just
> pandering to the petrolheads.
>

I suspect that sort of driving appalls most of us with an engineering
background, just can't stand watching a well designed piece of
engineering being abused that way.

You don’t see it even in formula 1 the idea being to maintain traction
not lose it so it’s probably not even good driving.

Isn’t that why they fit traction control nowadays so I can’t really
understand why Clarkson always reaches for the off button.

"MB" <mb@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> I can never understand the reason for all the tyre smoke, it's just
> pandering to the petrolheads.


In the last series they had a team of Japanese drivers on, who do nothing
else but synchronised tyre smoking. They even have a name for it.


michael adams




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On Jul 14, 2:08 pm, allan tracy <thunderbird57...@************> wrote:
> Call me biased but I think the trains were the stars of the show last
> night.
<snip>
>
> May was impressed by the trains (he’s a bit of crank on the quiet
> apparently)
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I don't know. I hadn't heard but that's as surprising
as a wildcat story in silly season up here. What I
can and will say though is that I had a moment of
what I understand to be referred to as "epiphany"
when I saw the range of Haynes manuals written
in conjunction with the RAF for various classic old
crates, and some rather newer ones actually.

It bring a slightly wryer element to the whole "pointless
hours spent flicking switches, checking bulbs and
failing to actually configure the array in order to
effect sustained combustion" persona May has bumbled
his way through for the cameras, running cross-season
tag gag like a blooperstring than was, perhaps, immediately
obvious.

That's not cranky--that's just namechecking within
the remit. After all, not all vacuum carbs are equal.

> Nice car as well but really, car and gearbox have to be a matching
> pair???
>
> More of this please.

G DAEB
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"Roland Perry" <roland@perry.co.uk> wrote in message
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> In message
> <564fa8e7-442f-4464-896c-7c168ab667c7@z66g2000hsc.************.com>, at
> 06:08:32 on Mon, 14 Jul 2008, allan tracy <thunderbird57303@************>
> remarked:
>>Call me biased but I think the trains were the stars of the show last
>>night.
>
> It was great fun. I especially liked the splitting metro train. And at one
> point the car was filmed going over a bridge across Tokyo Bay with a hotel
> I'd stayed at a few years ago in distant view. Here's the bridge viewed
> from the hotel (and no, I wasn't in New York by mistake):

Are you sure you weren't in Paris by mistake?

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11:30:34 on Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Depresion <127.0.0.1@?.?.invalid>
remarked:
>>Here's the bridge viewed
>> from the hotel (and no, I wasn't in New York by mistake):
>
>Are you sure you weren't in Paris by mistake?

Absolutely :) The jetlag was too bad for Paris.

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Roland Perry

On Jul 15, 12:30 pm, "Depresion" <127.0.0.1> wrote:
> "Roland Perry" <rol...@perry.co.uk> wrote in message
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> news:s$VKKOskW1eIFAMR@perry.co.uk...
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> > In message
> > <564fa8e7-442f-4464-896c-7c168ab66...@z66g2000hsc.************.com>, at
> > 06:08:32 on Mon, 14 Jul 2008, allan tracy <thunderbird57...@************>
> > remarked:
> >>Call me biased but I think the trains were the stars of the show last
> >>night.
>
> > It was great fun. I especially liked the splitting metro train. And at one
> > point the car was filmed going over a bridge across Tokyo Bay with a hotel
> > I'd stayed at a few years ago in distant view. Here's the bridge viewed
> > from the hotel (and no, I wasn't in New York by mistake):
>
> Are you sure you weren't in Paris by mistake?

Or las Vegas?

"Peter Masson" <peter.masson1@************> gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying:

> So you can think of a railway accident for which an intoxicated driver
> was responsible. It happemned about 25 years ago.
>
> In that time well over 10,000 people have been killed in road accidents
> for which intoxicated drivers were responsible.
>
> Get a sense of proportion.

Gosh, you're right.

They damn well ought to make it illegal.

Why did it do that? Because the train was
> running late and the driver wanted to get back on schedule. If their
> answer to trains being late is to the blatantly break the speed limit
> (I'm worried that it's even possible to do so without systems
> preventing it) then I'm not sure I'm so keen on it.


AFAIA there is no automatic system on any UK railway to ensure drivers keep
to speed limits, i have seen NR bods on the end of platforms before with
radar guns checking drivers speeds as they come past.

james

"Conor" <conor_turton@************> wrote in message
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> You should come to East Yorks..the majority of drivers seem to be
> unaware that they can go faster than 45.

In North Yorkshire the majority of cars are unable to go faster than 45.
Cheers
Jeff

"jamesd1974" <easyhome@ntlworld.com> wrote
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> AFAIA there is no automatic system on any UK railway to ensure drivers
keep
> to speed limits, i have seen NR bods on the end of platforms before with
> radar guns checking drivers speeds as they come past.
>
There is, at least on High Speed 1 (the Channel Tunnel Rail Link), the
Channel Tunnel itself, the Great Western Main Line, and some lines on London
Underground. Train Protection and Warning System can be used to enforce
fixed speed limits, though I am not sure how far it has been installed for
this purpose, though it is used at many signals, and at the approach to
buffer stops.

Peter