Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Winter tyres are a requirement in Germany, but a lot of people leave changing until it's much too late. Douglas Frank Dernie wrote: > PMFJI. Experience and tyres. Some people have hardly ever driven in very > slippery conditions and do not know how gentle they need to be to not > break traction, and once they have turned the wheel, hit the brakes or > throttle too hard they are sliding. And they have no experience of how to > correct and catch a slide either. > I also find that winter tyres have m-u-c-h more grip than standard ones. > Without is a mistake IMO. > At Toyota Motorsport in Cologne, where I was senior adviser until they > stopped F1, they changed tyres to winter tyres on all their cars, I > understood it was a requirement in Germany, but maybe it was a requirement > of their insurance policy. > Frank > > On 20 Dec, 2009, at 00:06, Douglas Sharp wrote: > > >> Seth, >> >> drivers here panic at only a light dusting of snow too - as if they've >> never seen the stuff before. >> >> 50 km tailbacks on most of the Autobahns, trucks slewed diagonally across >> 3 lanes, multiple pile-ups, cars in roadside ditches. >> >> Funny thing is, in Denmark and Sweden, which are really not all that far >> away, drivers just carry on driving as usual with hardly any accidents. >> >> It's a mystery to me. >> >> More snow forecast and the lowest daytime temperatures were around -24?C >> today in southern Germany. We only had -14?. >> >> The Channel Tunnel had problems with the cold snap too, 4 trains fullied >> with passengers were stuck for quite while under the English Channel, not >> a pleasant thought at all. >> >> Cheers >> Douglas >> >> Seth Rosner wrote: >> >>> We?ve already had a cumulative 6-8 inches of snow hereabouts and >>> yesterday >>> early morning the air temperature (not wind chill) was -4F, I think >>> that?s >>> -19 or -20 C. Fortunately no wind or it would have been tuant. As I write >>> there is a true blizzard making its way up the Atlantic coast. Washington >>> D.C. already has more snow than it can handle, and it can?t handle any. I >>> recall many years ago coming back to my room at the Mayflower Hotel after >>> dinner, there was really nothing more than a dusting of snow and I looked >>> out my window and saw automobiles simply out of control on ? inch of >>> snow on >>> Connecticut Avenue, languidly pirouetting, making graceful arcs in the >>> pale >>> whiteness, quite incredible. I can?t imagine how the capital is going to >>> handle this storm. >>> >>> >>> Seth >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >