Well after 12 days of driving around the continent I'm back in the UK. All I can say is wow, there is some really beautiful scenery out there. We didn't have as much time (and money) as we'd have liked and so didn't spend that much time in each place as we'd have liked but it was still good. We spent a few days in Chamonix, rented mountain bikes and took the ski lift to the top and rode down the mountain, what an experience that was
My mate over did it twice and came off his bike and off the side of the mountain, luckily there was a lot of trees where he came off and so stopped him from falling all the way
We visited the the Stelvio pass in Italy (now thats a road) basically just a hill with harepins every 100m. On the way back down the Stelvio Pass we got the brakes that hot that the discs were glowing red. As a consequence my centre caps melted (the tabs on the back which hold them in and so lost their tension)
I had a few high speed blasts on the Autobahn nearly touching 170mph on the speedo which showed as about 155mph on the sat nav. I think I might of overdone it slightly though as my engine management light came on, so I limped to the next hotel wich was right near the ring. The next morning I found a track car rental place who scanned my car and the light was due to the cat. I have a 200cel sports cat, so could I have damaged it by going so fast for too long? Anyway got it cleared and had a lap of the ring. It was absolutely pi55ing it down so it was pretty quiet, but traction was really poor, its really slippy in the wet so defo not broken any records.
The only thing that went wrong was my anti roll bar clamp snapped again (autotech arb) this is the second time in 6 months one has snapped. Has anyone else had any issues with these?
