Jumping

Site Subscriber Joined: 13 Oct 2004 Posts: 4722

Just wondering, any one ever jumped a car before? ya know the old "lets go to fast over this hump back bridge" thing.

was driving home tonight with a freind about 11:30, and decided to give it a try. (fooking stupid i know)

how ever, what a buzz!

wont be doing it again mind, just one of them things to do before your 30 acts.

cars fine as well Smile

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

Youre taking the Dukes of Hazzard thing a bit too seriously Smile

A Renault 19 aint no General Lee either, so watch it! Smile

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

chris will like this thread

Forum Moderator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 1356

I've been in the car with Chris doing some silly shit. We have been a good 7-8ft airborne before, that was in a valver hatch. Remember one time we went airborne, and as we landed this golf was coming over the crest of the next hill airborne (by this point me butt cheeks be clenched) and when it landed a bit squiff I swear it was a matter of centimeters from the front drivers wing.... no wonder I have a drug problem these days lol j/k

Gay Rights Activist Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 1268

Up home there is a mile long straight from one end of my village to the other, with a hump-back bridge in the middle. its a thirty limit, but when i was 17 and stupid(er) i hit it at 70mph (really quiet place...no traffic) in my mk1 XR2i! we fookin took right off, my mates in the back help prevent nose dive, and it was one sweet landing....proper bo!!

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

My best achievement in jumping was clearing a sheep. The averages sheep is what about 2/3 foot in height, not to bad.

George it was about 6foot high airborne but a good 20 foot in distance, volvo driver crapped himself eh! Also it was in the energy.

Ahh I remember the 16V hatch, up by mugdock, went to the centre of the road around 90 took off we were about 8 foot high, it landed superbly though. Was about midnight as well on the way back from Oban I believe?

I scraped my energys subframe and exhaust quite a bit on a humpback bridge, it was very high up near fintry, it landed very heavily as well due to the height, put it this way we saw into the cottages up stairs bedroom.

The golf incident was coming back round the single track on lock long and I wasn't airborne, I was earlier on the road when it was clear, the muppet in the mk2 gti tried jumping at a corner nearly lost it, he was all over the shop heading right for me. Muppet.

Jumpings easy, the skill is lining it up right, judging the drop off, camber, road surface (this is important, can throw you sideways) then gettign the perfect landing.

Some landings are bad and cracked windscreens are not unknown, a good jump is when you only notice the landing by a change in engine revs and a mild compresion of the suspension, obviously this is more common when landing on a downward hill after hitting the peak.

Forum Moderator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 1356

Aye I remember chasing you in the Clio, you in energy going airborne at every opertunety but due to my rusty bulkhead, sills and, well a whole lotta rusty Clio I was trying my best to keep up without leaving planet earth - by the time we got to the carpark where you need to turn round (and you arc welded yourself with my battery) there wasn't much of the windscreen left that didn't have a crack... lol

Yeah I knew it was something like that, you know what my memory is like

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

dem was the days

Level 3 User Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 70

Had an old scort van airborne with some mates in the back, like to say that it was on purpose but I forgot the humpback was there, dunno how heigh or far we went but time stood still, and we all needed a breather afterwards.

Had my green scort propperly airborne once, another mistake, crapped myself, landed wrong and put a phat dent in the downpipe, not to mention bent the anti roll bar to fuck and cracked a frozen suspension bush!!

My mate used to get his civic type r airboune every day on a humpy in a town near us, that was good, the CTR actually took off and landed really well for a car thats supposed to have rock hard suspension.

Never tried it with the meg, never will, not a chance, I'm not tired of life lol Very Happy

Site Subscriber Joined: 13 Oct 2004 Posts: 4722

my cd player face flew off though

landed in back seats wich was amusing.

at first i though OMG, engines dead, cos the music went off, then relised there was no face to it.

panic over

Smile

Site Subscriber Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 1575

had a yellow ital van jump, was when I worked for a well know telecom company. lol

Site Subscriber Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 1141

Hit a humback bridge in my energy at about 60 odd, totally wasn't paying attention was chattin to my mate, just gripped the steering wheel hard and weeeeeeeeeeeee, hit the ground with a squeel of tyres and my mate who was in the back witout his seatbelt hit is head on the rood so hard it made an impresion u could see from the outside! serves him right for not wearing a seatbelt!

Site Subscriber Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 1575

did you make him repair it though?

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

lol, must have had a big dome!

Site Subscriber Joined: 13 Oct 2004 Posts: 4722

hmm, im tempted to do it in a cabby now, with no seat belts on, then land feet first, as car rolls to a stop. be a cool stunt

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 1:23 pm

When I get my cabby back in action I might just try it, then get some photo evidence for the forum