Standard semi slick tyres

Well I'm impressed, more than I thought I would be.

Just been out in this 'ere hired Jim, red, soft top with semi slick standard tyres on.
We went for a little trundle around the Akamas and then headed 'off piste' down towards Lara beach.
Not a difficult route normally but the last two days, we've had quite a bit of rain and the tracks had become a gloopy, soggy, boggy load of glue in places.
We dropped down from Iniea towards Lara and were blocked by a rather large mud slide. Someone had made a slight detour round it via a 'grassy' field which also was mud but it had a 45 degree sideways bit that I couldn't get by for fear of rolling the Jim. If I had had my Recips on I might have carried on but I couldn't get the grip.
So I about faced, carefully, and found another track that headed towards Lara but after 30 minutes of slithering about, we ended up in an enclosure for goats.
10 minutes again of slithering about in watered down goat poo we were back on the track and headed back, this time towards and ending up in Drousia.
The 'stuff' we were up to the rims in at times is now all over the Jim, the tyres are a reddy mud colour and the whole thing stinks of goat!!
The amazing thing is the tyres, they are on they're last legs as far as tread is concerned but we never got stuck, apart from the side ways incident. This was a mixture of 4 low and high box as well as just 2x2.
Just goes to show what you can get away with, you don't always need rufty tufty tyres! :laugh:

And after 2 hours of our little adventure, the missus showed me the pictures we had of our escapade:-



Good Grief!!

Hey keefe, the local girl looks like she could do with a shave.
not disimilar to some of the girls i saw going up the westgate run in wakefield on sunday. :evil:

thats one way of doubling the horsepower of the jimny :laugh:

ONE photo. Come on Keefe "You know the rules"

do you mind, that happens to be my mother in law

Keefe wrote:

Dont tell me, "Something in this picture is hung like a Donkey?" :ohmy:

Sorry, the joke had to be made.

Dont tell me, "Something in this picture is hung like a Donkey?"

but which one's the ass
:silly:

Halford wrote:

Dont tell me, "Something in this picture is hung like a Donkey?"

but which one's the ass
:silly:

Eee Aww, Eee Always says that!

I take it back about the tyres, last night it had just been raining whilst out for a drive, started climbing uphill after Pachyamos, full right hand hairpin, as I said uphill, 3rd gear, 2900 rpm and the rear end decides to let go. Full right lock managed to catch it, slid towards the inside bank then gripped as I was taking the lock off. Dipped the clutch to catch the revs, got it straight and carried on a little way. Luckily we slid to start with towards the inside bank, If I hadn't taken some of the lock off and it had gone the other way, 200ft drop down the cliffs. That would have buggered my No Claims up!
Just goes to show that you don't need boot loads of revs and speed to get the rear out.
My Carry van was just the same on roundabouts, brilliant fun when no one was watching! LOL!
Not entirely the Jims tyres fault, that stretch of road is a mixture of tarmac, cement and bloody shiny pebbles. When wet, that road is like being a paraletic snake on greased ice.
Seeing as it was still raining further on towards Kato Pyrgos, we turned back and came home and had chicken kebab with chunky chips!

If we go over the Akamas tomorrow, I have a cheap Alba HD video camera and a big sucker doobrie that the camera screws to. I will stick it on the front of the windscreen and hope it doesn't fall off. I've never used it before so don't know how good it is?
It'll probably drop off and I'll run over the thing.

It's the equivalent to Good Friday here tomorrow and obviously the Easter weekend so I have about 250 balloons to blow up. Midnight service Friday and Saturday to attend. (That'll be fun! I know roughly 20 words in Greek and none to do with religion. Mainly, Yes officer, no officer, no they're not my cartridges, yes they should be in the glovebox. BUT that's another story)

Ok, Kalinikta folks, they are about to turn the Wifi off next door. How they know I'm using it I don't know?

Went from here, Neo Chrio to the start of Coral Bay via the Akamas with the vid camera stuck to the windscreen.
The Missus had an appointment at the Gen. Hosp. in Paphos so thought it was a good excuse to go the long way round.
Anyway, I have a 45 minute (yawn) video to upload somewhere and can I? Can I buggery!!
Could it be because it's come out the camera onto my netbook as a Quick Time video???

Oh What to do, what to do??

Here's just a sample.

15 minutes if you can stand it.

Taken me ages to just get this clip uploaded.

Oh well.

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: should have put the camera on the donkey :S

Ha haa!

Now I've sussed it, you can all get ready for when I go back in August!!! :laugh:

Or even for when I get Jim back together and back on the road.



Might get a Go Pro for then though......