Anyone remember being buzzed by two motorbikes?

[phatgixer]

A friend of mine reckons he went very fast out there and terrorised many brit performance cars...

Apparently a GSXR1000 and a Blue Blackbird stormed between Cherbourg and Mulsanne and various bits in between, and nothing even tried to keep up. Pansies.

Only one 911 tried and he gave up quickly.

Just thought that the speed they passed people on the Autoroutes etc would have been remarked on.

A yellow RS6 estate got a 186mph pass between Alencon and Le Mans that must have looked awesome....

It was not me BTW

[shnozz]

a lot of people (including our group) were rather concerned by the harsh approach taken by the french fuzz this year on the Le Mans trip so eased off slightly. not so easy to shake the gendarme in a car compared to on a bike eh?

[DustyC]

Same here although we still had a couple of good blasts on the clear stretches we took it easy everywhere else and slowed down at even the slightest possibility of trouble.

Only one person out of our 25 car convoy got a minor speeding ticket and he was in a Triumph TR6.
(It went very well though and sounded great).

We actually had the best convoy down there and back this year and (almost) managed to keep all the cars together.

[N17 TVR]

In order not to fall foul of the Frog Fuzz, our 18 TVR convoy never exceeded 30mph at any stage of the journey, and as a failsafe we all had our handbrakes on for the entire journey.........



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[robwalker]

Well, if the yellow RS6 estate was actually my yellow S4 estate then maybe...

I was passed by two bikes along one bit of dual carriageway. I was doing 90 and we reconed they were doing twice that! It was along a straight flat bit of road that went up a bit of a hill not long after they had passed.

Now you see them, now they're gone!!!

Bit too quick for me to keep up!!!

Rob

[shnozz]

N17 TVR said:

In order not to fall foul of the Frog Fuzz, our 18 TVR convoy never exceeded 30mph at any stage of the journey, and as a failsafe we all had our handbrakes on for the entire journey.........

oh yeah, cos the handbrakes will make all the difference. Like mine did when the car started rolling down the ramp into a caravan as the ferry started lowering the upper decks....

another proud moment of scrabbling around as the rest of teh deck pissed themselves.

[N17 TVR]

Slightly off topic Shnoz old love, but if I want to avoid that sort of social faux pas scenario I always depress the brake pedal when applying the handbrake, never fails.......

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[DustyC]

bloody limp wristed non outdoor type hairdressers!

[shnozz]

N17 TVR said:

Slightly off topic Shnoz old love, but if I want to avoid that sort of social faux pas scenario I always depress the brake pedal when applying the handbrake, never fails....... >> Edited by N17 TVR on Tuesday 22 June 15:13

had tried that mate and to no avail. I end up doing that as a matter of course to get the handbrake to have any effect whatsoever.

I had only taken it out of gear as I was sat in the car ready to disembark when I had a change of mind vis a vis the roof and nipped out the back to put it on...

[phatgixer]

robwalker said:

Well, if the yellow RS6 estate was actually my yellow S4 estate then maybe... I was passed by two bikes along one bit of dual carriageway. I was doing 90 and we reconed they were doing twice that! It was along a straight flat bit of road that went up a bit of a hill not long after they had passed. Now you see them, now they're gone!!! Bit too quick for me to keep up!!! Rob

It was you.

I (ahem, they) thought it was an RS4 but had never seen a yellow one so assumed it was a 6. S4 estate, on the monday going north from Le Mans, right!

GSXR was miles faster than the blue one BTW!

[robwalker]

Yep, that was me then!!

I saw you approaching from behind and said to the navigator "Bl00dy 'ell, look at the speed that guy's doing!" I didn't see the second bike on the first glance.

I was a bit worried as I was keeping down to 90, particularly as the road was so designed for top whack and with the brow of the hill in front, was wondering if there was the old gendarms over the hill.

Fortunately not then!!

Must take a bit of hanging on at that speed!!

Funnily enough, when we discussed the trip down when at the campsite, you were mentioned more than once!!

Cheers

Rob

[phatgixer]

robwalker said:

Funnily enough, when we discussed the trip down when at the campsite, you were mentioned more than once!! Cheers Rob

Not me, my friend. Ahem.

[shorty5]

Rob, you're doing yourself a little dis-service here. Yes, we were doing 90 most of the way between Alencon and Le Mans but if you remember you did up the speed a little after the bikes passed us. As navigator, I had the GPS and I know what the speed readout said. Perhaps I'd better be discrete and not say...

Steve