How to park like a boss

Owen · 20-10-2011 10:28pm #1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5COAx5CKwA

Alanstrainor · 20-10-2011 10:31pm

Love the music!

Mycroft H · 20-10-2011 10:37pm

Awesome...

Just as an aside... Pantograph powered buses?

CiniO · 20-10-2011 10:38pm

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Love the music!

Music makes this video twice more interesting

And suits it perfectly.
All those gentle movements.

shedweller · 20-10-2011 10:44pm

BX 19 wrote: »

Awesome...

Just as an aside... Pantograph powered buses?

Seen them used in NZ. Good yokes actually and very quiet for city centres.

Nice parking too!

peasant · 20-10-2011 11:27pm

BX 19 wrote: »

Awesome...

Just as an aside... Pantograph powered buses?

Very common in ex eastern block countries. Often used in conjunction with trams ...the buses extend the the inner city tram network to the outskirts without the need for laying track, only power lines.
Some models even were hybrids with diesel and electric engines to be used on and off grid.

The commies weren't all bad, you know

Saab Ed · 20-10-2011 11:48pm

Are all Russian roads made of the same ****e that seems to be used in the manufacturing of all things in that country. Every Russian youtube clip involving a car/bus/truck seems to involve a random lack of traction and carnage.

CiniO · 21-10-2011 12:05am

Saab Ed wrote: »

Are all Russian roads made of the same ****e that seems to be used in the manufacturing of all things in that country. Every Russian youtube clip involving a car/bus/truck seems to involve a random lack of traction and carnage.

I would bet it's not the roads. It's the tyres ;P

CiniO · 21-10-2011 12:09am

peasant wrote: »

Very common in ex eastern block countries. Often used in conjunction with trams ...the buses extend the the inner city tram network to the outskirts without the need for laying track, only power lines.
Some models even were hybrids with diesel and electric engines to be used on and off grid.

The commies weren't all bad, you know

I've seen that thing once in one of eastern Polish cities.
Could be an interesting idea, but to build it, the cost of lying the power lines, would probably extend what could be gained.

During communism times, they were probably not looking at costs, but ideas only - that's why it was built.

101sean · 21-10-2011 12:24am

They are trolleybuses, used to be common in the UK from the 30s the mid 60s, often replaced trams when the track wore out. Remember riding on them in Maidstone when I was a kid. Still common not just in E Europe.

Neat bit of parking!

Keith in cork · 21-10-2011 1:10am

WIN!

mikemac · 21-10-2011 1:13am

Love it

And yes, the music makes it even better

Victor · 21-10-2011 1:36am

Is he no doing a u-turn at the top of a slip road?

corktina · 21-10-2011 9:40am

101sean wrote: »

They are trolleybuses, used to be common in the UK from the 30s the mid 60s, often replaced trams when the track wore out. Remember riding on them in Maidstone when I was a kid. Still common not just in E Europe.

Neat bit of parking!

Never can resisit an oppotunity to posty a Reading trolleybus!

si_guru · 21-10-2011 9:51am

This is my home town - my parents were of the trolley bus era!

http://www.youtube.com/embed/8gze_WIopPw

Tallon · 21-10-2011 10:21am

Look like he's rolling on some brand new Accelera P

21-10-2011 10:42am

Tallon wrote: »

Look like he's rolling on some brand new Accelera P

I doubt it.

Tallon · 21-10-2011 10:44am

RoverJames wrote: »

I doubt it.

I know they're mostly used for drift cars, but some people do use them on their day to day cars

21-10-2011 10:56am

Tallon wrote: »

I know they're mostly used for drift cars, but some people do use them on their day to day cars

I had them on the 520i I had last year, had never heard of them but they were on it when I bought it, found them very good. Bought a set for the ZT, again find them very good

Both sets were Accelera Phi.

Quazzie · 21-10-2011 10:59am

RoverJames wrote: »

I doubt it.

Driving in the rain and then suddenly sliding. Sounds exactly like Accelera tires to me.

Whoever it was, it looks they done really well to keep some manner of control on the car. They also got lucky with the break in the oncoming traffic.

21-10-2011 11:02am

Quazzie wrote: »

Driving in the rain and then suddenly sliding. Sounds exactly like Accelera tires to me. ..............

And you've driven how many cars in rain with Accelera tyres?

Quazzie · 21-10-2011 11:04am

Only the one, but its been well documented on the internet if you care to do a search.

Did you have them on the rear wheels of the 520i?

21-10-2011 11:12am

Quazzie wrote: »

Only the one, but its been well documented on the internet if you care to do a search.

It's also well documented on Alfa forums that many Alfa 159 folk find the Accelar Phi great in 19" guise, also Alfa garages are recommending them.

Quazzie wrote: »

Did you have them on the rear wheels of the 520i?

Yep, full set of four, and a boardsie bought that 520i from the lad who I sold it to and also found the Accelera a fine tyre on it. I averaged 23mpg from the 520i over 6 months so it wasn't driven gently either.

No need for me to do a search to read about them when I have a 180bhp car outside shod with 4 of them

Also the OP of this very thread recently commented that he found Accelera not bad at all.

Was it Accelera Phi you drove on?

Quazzie · 21-10-2011 11:51am

RoverJames wrote: »

Was it Accelera Phi you drove on?

I don't know to be honest. It was on my Dad's car and he asked me to have a look at it because the steering felt light on it when accelerating from stationary. It turned out it was wheel spin so i looked online for the tires, found some horrid reviews and changed them. The problem went after that. I can't remember if they were phi or not.

Absurdum · 21-10-2011 11:56am

In Soviet Russia, boss parks you!

JJJJNR · 21-10-2011 12:50pm

In Soviet Russia car parks you..

21-10-2011 3:32pm

Quazzie wrote: »

I don't know to be honest. It was on my Dad's car and he asked me to have a look at it because the steering felt light on it when accelerating from stationary. It turned out it was wheel spin so i looked online for the tires, found some horrid reviews and changed them. The problem went after that. I can't remember if they were phi or not.

Weird, I didn't encounter that sort of lack of grip on ice in the cold spell last winter in the ZT, and the 520i really had to be encouraged to unsettle the back in the wet, in dry weather 'twas welded to the road.

Owen · 21-10-2011 4:53pm

Got to say I've driven Acceleras recently, and they were grand.

unkel · 21-10-2011 10:43pm

Anyone know what music this is?

Kudos and thanks waiting :cool:

21-10-2011 10:43pm

not sure unkel, but it sounds like a haydn quartet to me

unkel · 21-10-2011 10:48pm

bluewolf wrote: »

not sure unkel, but it sounds like a haydn quartet to me

I'd say you're very warm!

unkel · 21-10-2011 11:20pm

Haydn String Quartet No.5 in D major, Op.64 'Lark'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTH74JxaKCQ

Wouldn't have found it without your help, bluewolf. Muchas gracias amigo

21-10-2011 11:21pm

damn!
i had just narrowed it down to D maj and I was working through all the D maj quartets

shoulda done that from the start :pac:

thanks! was driving me nuts

unkel · 21-10-2011 11:44pm

bluewolf wrote: »

thanks! was driving me nuts

Same here

Just had to find out what it was.

This vid has gone viral and was shown up all over the world in the last few days and we are the first to credit the music I think

unkel · 23-10-2011 12:21am

I must have watched this about 100 times now and it still is beautiful

corktina · 23-10-2011 10:03am

what a great thread. Rarely does a thread wander so far off topic as to include Classical Music and Trolley Bus videos.:D

Bumpstop · 24-10-2011 1:26am

I think thats Torqauy, and thats an alternative intro to Fawlty Towers, for the east.
" BaSIL mind the trolley bus, Right Cybil fine, you drive"

Gary ITR · 24-10-2011 2:28am

corktina wrote: »

what a great thread. Rarely does a thread wander so far off topic as to include Classical Music and Trolley Bus videos.:D

And Roverjames getting in something about his ZT and his BMW, it's got everything!

Sorry RJ it's like I'm picking on you lately :pac:

corktina · 24-10-2011 9:58am

not quite everything, no mention of Nazi Germany yet.

How to park like a boss

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