Harry's a Gooooooone

[Outlaw]

Well guys Harry is of to Austria & Germany for 3 weeks starting today.

Hoping he has fun and doesn't get in the way of a ferrari or 2 on the autobarn :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

Catch ya on the flip side :nazilock:

And hope you love the new GCLRO motor jacket... i haven't seen them yet... great to be special :angel:

[x-box]

Yep, wishing Harry a safe and eventful trip - and here's hoping he takes lots and lots of pics :cool: .
Will be some great camp-fire banter when he gets back

[bolts]

Enjoy Harry - all the best - see on return.

[stevo68]

Have fun Harry and Chris and make sure you take pics at the Merc Museum,

Regards

Stevo

[Outlaw]

Muahahahaaaaaa... Harrys left Chrissy at home :o

Not very nice come to think of it :eek:

Must be something to do with making a detour to Amsterdam while there :angel::angel::angel:

[harry]

well thanks guys, i am in austria now and have found a nice 'fender for you josh, took some pics as it is worth copying.
as for the autobahn - a golf does do 200kph!!!!!!!!!!
and i didn't look like catching the two porsches, and the golf still had a bit left in it, but i had to button off.
mind you most of the drive from vienna to weiner nustadt was at speeds over 160 kph - sort of gets your attention sitting on the wrong side of the car with a concrete wall flashing by, mind you the semi's were all travelling well over the 100k mark too

[Grimace]

just drive carefully and have a safe trip mate.

If you do stop off at Amsterdam bring me back some cake :D

[harry]

thanks mate, but not going near amsterdam.

[bolts]

Harry at least you can see what speeds highways should travel at over 6 lanes - None of this bl***y 100km and OOO if your lucky 110km.:nazilock:

[harry]

yes glyn, the way to go is ok and fast, but we need the roads to do this on, aussy roads cannot cope with this sort of travel.
like when at speed i was on a four or five lane highway with a dividing wall between me and the opposite traffic, and i mean four or five lanes going in the same direction, so all the slow gadgets were on the outside so i didn't have a problem with going fast,
the drivers here don't hog the fast lane, if something faster is comingup behind them they move over as soon as they can, got to admit, i hogged the fast lane, but nothing wanted to get close, and although i had just got off an aeroplane trip of over 24 hours, it was easy to do, but i am a student of 'sir jack, and his mate 'stirling, so i am p'raps a bit more careful than some, and age has it's own system of making you careful, and happy birthday from me to bolts.
well tomorrow i am off to stuttgart, munich first,, so i will have more autobahn fun,
mind you, it's been fun driving around here also,
sorta gets your attention, rounding a corner in a 70 or 80 k road and finding a 20 k 30 tonne friggin wide tractor in front, i have tested the brake computer.
any got to go, exams in the morning, not all beer and skittles you know.

[bolts]

Harry - fantastic read - great trip reports - damn almost better than a club trip report, only making us envious with all the places your visiting. Hope your enjoying the german beers. Take care till the next report.

[VladTepes]

just drive carefully and have a safe trip mate.

If you do stop off at Amsterdam bring me back some cake :D

Makes mental note to be working that day...... :twisted:

[harry]

ok, finally found a computer, not much time though,
have proved toe golf cannot go any faster than 205 on the flat and even down hill thats it
man am i impressed with the little jigger.
left wiener neustadt at midday friday and got past salzburg by 4.30pm and found a cute hotel, then in the morning off to stuttgart, arrived about 1pm and spent the arvo in the mercedes benz museum, then blasted out to an unknown town with an impossible name for the night, left there this morning and went to nuremburg and wandered through their war hitler museum it#s got a fancy german name too, but it told the strory of hitlers rise and the crap he did, he was an unbelievable little bastard. a very sobering tour, so sad. and now i am in chemnitz after another few hours at the wheel
yesterday i passed a police car at 205kph, now theres something i can.t do in aus.
and also had a chap on a quad bike jump into the fast lane in front of me, and i had to slow down for him to go back in he was doing 140kph in the fast lane of the autobahrn, got a photo to prove it

[Outlaw]

brilliant work harry... sounds like you're having a good time.

can't wait to have a beer with you and hear all the stories

[x-box]

brilliant work harry... sounds like you're having a good time.

can't wait to have a beer with you and hear all the stories

I'll be there too :twobeers:


Keep well Harry and come back safely

[bolts]

Great trip so far Harry - really enjoy the up the updates.

[VladTepes]

and also had a chap on a quad bike jump into the fast lane in front of me, and i had to slow down for him to go back in he was doing 140kph in the fast lane of the autobahrn, got a photo to prove it

Good coz you know what they say...

It didn;t happen without pics !

[harry]

all good things come to an end,
didn't have internet since my last post, so quite a bit has happened since then.
i am now home.
but to continue the trip report,
left chemnitz and aimed for a little town - lichtenstein,
found it ok, same story, blast along the autobahn in the 180 to 200 kph zone,
had a police car come up behind me with every light flashing, and i was sitting on 180 to 190, so i moved over, he went past as if i was standing still, and had a big merc tailing him, so i just hopped bact into the fast lane and continued.
strangly, tho of the very few cars that passed me were 4wd's.
like it takes a little mental adjustment to realise that a big black car with headlights blazing behind you is a 4wd audi, and also a couple of cayenne's got the better of me.
anyway i was a bit busy with the course for a few days and wouldn't have had time to report.
and just down the street from the hotel was the sachenring, spell check? a race track which you could put your own car on, well we tried to put on a race of our own, three hire cars, but it wouldn't have been fair, golf, a class deisel and a vauxhall thing, they were too busy for us, with porsche hot laps, open wheeler runs behind a pace car and a track full of motorbikes.
anyway i have driven the sachenshring 4wd track in a rentagolf!
the course was done and off i went to berlin, i know understand why they can have such huge crashes on the autobahns - try maintaining the highway pace in pouring rain which comes off the cars in front's tyres as a thick wet fog, and that car is in front of you about four hundred yards and you can only just make out his tail lights, whilst in very clear vision is a set of headlights behind you that seem to be attached to tha rear windscreen, all this at 140 kph, and if you dare to move to the next lane there will appear a car doing about 40 k slower than you.
standard practice is to hit the hazard lights when you have to slow suddenly, as the chap behind may be cruising above the 200 mark, which will ruin your day if you have sudedenly braked to 150.
any way the rain cleared and i pedalled the golf for three hours at 180 plus, damm good fun.
got to berlin, lost again and found a hotel, gave back my golf to its rightful owners and went to bed.
then the horror trip home in the jet's
berlin london singapore sydney brisbane and the air thain [airtrain/bus/train] home
i have some pics, but will have to process them first.
great to be home.

[Grizzly_Adams]

i know understand why they can have such huge crashes on the autobahns - try maintaining the highway pace in pouring rain which comes off the cars in front's tyres as a thick wet fog, and that car is in front of you about four hundred yards and you can only just make out his tail lights, whilst in very clear vision is a set of headlights behind you that seem to be attached to tha rear windscreen, all this at 140 kph, and if you dare to move to the next lane there will appear a car doing about 40 k slower than you.

Try it when it's snow instead of rain, that's even more fun.

Went for a trip with a German friend of mine from Switzerland to Hamburg in the middle of the night in the middle of winter, we made it in less than 8 hours and we were flying - I think his average speed was around 180kph.

I just closed my eyes and prayed we'd get there in 1 piece.... :eek:

[Outlaw]

Well in that case WELCOME BACK to the land of the slow coaches :p

You should have given us warnign you were coming and we could have organised a ride rather than the airtrain leg :)

[x-box]

Welcome home Harry ! :twobeers:

[stevo68]

Good to see you made it back safely mate, no doubt you had a bluddy good time :D

Regards

Stevo

[VladTepes]

Good ta see you safely home mate !

Harry I'm so sorry I wasn't at work to welcome you back !

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[harry]

luckily for you, i cleared customs in sydney!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but i did wonder if you were down there, 'cause one chap did look a bit like you and i decided to keep clear of him.
and i did have a bit of a giggle to myself when the cute little dog took a liking to the chap behind me's luggage, he looked a bit worried for a bit, then the dog left him - thats one dog that i don't want to like me!!!!!!!

[bolts]

Welcome home Harry- thanks for the great trip reports.