I had a boys long weekend with the some mates on their motorbikes recently. Four days meandering through Champagne and the Ardennes, loads of fun.
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Some notes, the Nomad is FUN, maybe the most fun car I’ve ever driven, countless moments of just turning off the road into a random field at 50mph and it just keeps going.
It had a custom roof rack when I bought it that turned out to be perfect for bags and makes me very comfortable we could expedition in it.
An absolute riot of a car, sideways at every single T-junction and yet everyone loves it, even when you are bouncing it off the limiter down their village high st in first
https://youtu.be/1xYUNM9hqcs
It was the first time this group of friends have all been together for fifteen years. I turned up at Folkestone with a friend no-one has seen for ten years and no-one knew was coming. It was really, *really* good to get together, hoon about and drink beers after the last two years of global sh1t.
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We used Calimoto for route planning, it is VERY good at finding twisty fun roads. On one occasion however it took us down a road that ended with a t junction, only the junction had been closed with 100 metres of Armco blocking access to the main road.
We had become separated from the group and so I though I would just drive down the banking behind the Armco then join the road as it ran out.
I should have walked the route, it was 6 inches deep in water at the bottom and we became stuck, the following two videos show how we winched out, we had to go backwards, but the winch is at the front and the only fixed structure we could use was the Armco
Also, without knowing it, we had accidentally run over a dead badger in the ditch, and the smell was horrendous
This is how not to winch
Part one (with badger commentary)
https://youtu.be/VlaDCHqozyo
Part two (success)
https://youtu.be/IauQOfCQpv0
I had a boys long weekend with the some mates on their motorbikes recently. Four days meandering through Champagne and the Ardennes, loads of fun.
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Some notes, the Nomad is FUN, maybe the most fun car I’ve ever driven, countless moments of just turning off the road into a random field at 50mph and it just keeps going.
It had a custom roof rack when I bought it that turned out to be perfect for bags and makes me very comfortable we could expedition in it.
An absolute riot of a car, sideways at every single T-junction and yet everyone loves it, even when you are bouncing it off the limiter down their village high st in first
[url] https://youtu.be/1xYUNM9hqcs[/url]
It was the first time this group of friends have all been together for fifteen years. I turned up at Folkestone with a friend no-one has seen for ten years and no-one knew was coming. It was really, *really* good to get together, hoon about and drink beers after the last two years of global sh1t.
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[attachment=0]2DA8F2CD-5248-49BA-9652-95240FEE0B3D.jpeg[/attachment]
We used Calimoto for route planning, it is VERY good at finding twisty fun roads. On one occasion however it took us down a road that ended with a t junction, only the junction had been closed with 100 metres of Armco blocking access to the main road.
We had become separated from the group and so I though I would just drive down the banking behind the Armco then join the road as it ran out.
I should have walked the route, it was 6 inches deep in water at the bottom and we became stuck, the following two videos show how we winched out, we had to go backwards, but the winch is at the front and the only fixed structure we could use was the Armco
Also, without knowing it, we had accidentally run over a dead badger in the ditch, and the smell was horrendous
This is how not to winch
Part one (with badger commentary)
[url]https://youtu.be/VlaDCHqozyo[/url]
Part two (success)
[url] https://youtu.be/IauQOfCQpv0[/url]