Night Driving

Firestar_3x said:
Driving with the roof down in summer as the suns setting down a very narrow country road with no-one else around is the most amazing thing.
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I'll never forget doing just that when driving home from a meet in Oxford last summer. It was absolutely brilliant.

Driving > *
 
Do it a few times, it is great :p

I usually don't fill up with petrol during the day so that I can drive a bit further to a station in the dead of night and have a nice drive back.
 
I prefer my summer evening drives, wind the window down (fnar fnar) and feel the cool summer breeze.

/Gay

I don't enjoy driving at night, mainly because of minicab drivers who either do 10mph or 100mph.
 
I love driving late at night also.. But I really do struggle to keep to the speed limit at times in the city centre when roads are empty. Which aint a good thing as I'm either on edge looking out for the police or driving at the speed limit abit bored.

Country side or coast road at night is where it is at for me :D
 
Often get called into work in the middle of the night and once awake, love the drive in. During the day its a chore due to the road works. Its so much more relaxing when you are not fighting all the lorries for a bit of open road.
 
Used to do it all the time.
I actually clocked up 15,000 miles in my first 8 months of owning the new car and I never left Gloucestershire!!
(Bear in mind it was the toy car and never used to commute!)

Now I don't own anything worth going for a "blat" in and I'm knackered by midnight :(
 
I love night driving because theres no one else on the road except for a few cops, taxis and chavs.
Lovely feeling, can either relax and cruise along or just mess about with some of the other night drivers.

Tonight I was bored so I decided to roll past bookers where a load of chavs hang about and talk about their halfords merchandise. Not only that but I had 80's music blasting out.
Sad? Maybe, but it's a good laugh.

Also good for strip racing on the private MOD land because theres almost nil chance a tank will appear when you're at the end of a strip.

Love night driving.
 
Coco said:
Thats the problem with midnight running on motorways, you struggle to tell da' Police from the public when your charging through the night. An empty city is where its at for the thrill of night driving.
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Don't you guys have a website with a database of all the unmarked cop cars so you can remember the ones for your area ?

Or other things such as rules and regulations you can recognize the buggers off? For example all unmarked cars here have to travel in pairs, I mean, if you just notice the drivers you're overtaking and there's just 1 person inside the car it's not a copper, they also often have a kind of boxy camera thing on their mirror.

At 3am there's barely any public on the motorway here either, so if there are no cars there's no police, you can go for 5-15 minutes without seeing another car in your direction depending on the time and the place, in such situations when I know where the camera's are I see no reason why you can't just floor it.
 
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I was driving into Liverpool from the north at 2:30 on Monday morning. I love coming into Liverpool late like that. No traffic makes it a refreshing change from driving in the day.
 
I love night driving. There's something about it that's so relaxing, you can really enjoy your car. It doesn't matter whether its a motorway cruise, some fast A-roads, or some country lanes. All are good. Summer night cruising with the windows open is good too!

Last night drive was heading out to the sticks to watch the Geminid meteor shower. The amount of light pollution around Southampton is terrible. Just gotta watch out for horses and deer round the New Forest though!
 
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Well I just got in from a night drive, very pleasent indeed, although the state of the roads at the moment isn't helping. My car isn't exactly designed for changing direction at the drop of a hat to avoid them either.

I did get held up by someone in a ....wait for it ...Rover Streetwise though for a bit on a lane I couldn't really overtake on, I don't offten use the J-Gate manual shift, but it works quite well, it's a lot of fun actually, can keep the engine in the 'really good noise' zone.
 
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ZG002 said:
Not really. They can travel alone, Hard to see anything in your mirrors if one is tooling up behind you.
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That's a shame, here there are people who spend a lot of time photographing and making a database of these cars. Basically I have every unmarked police car memorized from my whole region and I pretty much always check who's inside a car I'm overtaking at night when traveling fast. And they ALWAYS travel in pairs or more.
 
A30 through Bodmin is also another favourite.

Fantastic sweeping dual carriageway all the way and only one camera to remember in the dip at Launceton :D
 
snowdog said:
That's a shame, here there are people who spend a lot of time photographing and making a database of these cars. Basically I have every unmarked police car memorized from my whole region and I pretty much always check who's inside a car I'm overtaking at night when traveling fast. And they ALWAYS travel in pairs or more.
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I wish they had this in Belgium, i just got 2 tickets in a week.
Both unmarked cars parked on a bridge or something. First time in 7 years too :(
 
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[TW]Fox;15820851 said:
Are you for real tonight? I mean... seriously?
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Errr that's what sites like these:

www.flitsservice.nl
www.flitspaal.nl

are for. There are thousands of people checking those sites. Radio stations transmit the daily speed traps over the RDS constantly and broadcast every speed check after the traffic info every 30 minutes. We don't like speed checks here. There are guides how to successfully contest fines there, and basically any loophole in the law to make them lose as much time and money on trying to make you pay the fine without you suffering a larger fine.

I refuse to be caught by a copper thinking he can rob someone of his money on an empty motorway at 3 am thinking he does something for public safety ( what public, we're the only 2 cars there).
 
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