What’s the furthest you have driven your dub

With the handbrake on?

I just managed 5 miles, wondering why acceleration wasn’t great....


Do I win five pounds?

 

I've done about 15. It was smoking. Easily done in the fens where you never pull it on properly.

 

When I first took my early oop north I had to pull the handbrake on so far it came right out and got stuck so I couldn't let it off again. That caused a bit of an angry horn parping tailback at the roadworks traffic lights.

 

My parents always struggle driving when they come and visit us. My hometown of March in the fens has no hills, but there are two steep inclines to get to our house in Poole that Mum refuses to drive up.

 

I laughed when I moved to the fens. Someone described a road I'd used for years as a hill where the cops got him with a speed camera and I had to go and look as I hadn't noticed it. In Ely there is part of the high street shopping on a moderate hill. The shops there go bust because enough Ely people don't do hills. Blobs with stick legs!

 

no. I did 18 miles with mine on down the motorway.

 

The first year we had our bus we drove up the M6 to the Lakes junction 36 - car passed us and beeped pointing at rear wheels - smoke was coming off the back - brakes shoes must have stuck on - so that was about 55 miles.

 

thats the excuse I’m using... one click is enough for any of the “hills” round here

 

Phew, i’m not alone!
Managed 2.5miles with the handbrake on at the start of my first long drive after getting it - having just summoned the courage to spend 1.5hrs wrestling the combative gearstick.
On the way back a wiper blade fell off.
I started to realise what i’d bought, but at least the handbrake left on was a lesson learned and completely my fault. Not repeated since.


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I did this road on the way to italy . From Germany.
“The Stelvio Pass is a mountain pass in northern Italy bordering Switzerland at an elevation of 2,757 m above sea level. It is the highest paved mountain pass in the Eastern Alps, and the second highest in the Alps, 7 m below France's Col de l'Iseran.”


Wasn’t bad for me ,,,but everyone behind wasn’t too happy.... and my arms got a work out...
The only thing that broke was the plastic tab on the points that run on the distributor cam . So the bus died . But had it figured out going quick enough.
What do I win ...! ? Darwin Award,,,,

 

Cycled the Col de L'Iseran in 2019 ... Friends of ours proudly told us how arduous it was on their motorbike . Stelvio is on list to do under pedal power once the world is back to normal.

 

Yes

 

Perhaps you should check the 'handbrake on light'

 

I have gone far enough to permanently warp the drums - about 10 miles I think.

 

I got away with that but must have fried what remained of the CV joint grease and 100 miles later clunk, clonk, clonk.

 

Reminds me of the time I parked up outside our house after a trip, applied the handbrake and started unloading the bus. Just coming out of the house I noticed the bus slowly rolling backwards . This could have turned nasty as the 150 yard track up to our house is about 1:5 gradient with the village shop across the road at the bottom. I grabbed the door handle, trying my best to stop it but it kept on moving. Fortunately, it rolled gently into the bumper of my daily which was parked nearby and stopped. Luckily no damage (except to my underpants) but I will never park up again without leaving it in 1st gear.

 

A whole seasons driving - it felt like the handbrake was on, but it wasn’t.

 

15 miles.
Then I stopped at Morrisons to fill up with petrol to see a guy run across to me with a fire extinguisher. I'd smelt a bit of burning but thought it was newly applied waxoyl burning off. What made it worse was my missus kept on saying about the smell and I kept on saying it was the waxoyl and the heater finally working.

 

3 days. Never knew there were so many clicks!