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ronin1
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Posted: Wednesday November 29th, 2006 02:59 am |
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Chauffeuring RW…
RW mostly ride buses, trains and taxies often in inclement weather and on poor roads. Some RW may have a family member or friend that owns a car. However, few will have Bimmers, Mercs or Audis that have handling capabilities like in the West. Fewer still are the Russian roads to which one can test their cars’ mettle. Consequently, few RW are necessarily familiar with how our Western cars and road are like a hand in glove.
When they arrive in one’s homeland, they may not be prepared for the moderate to greater G forces that will be snapping their heads every which way. Western people, have over their lifetimes, developed the body responses and the neck muscles to riding in such vehicles. Again, as with the long list of new things for RW, this is a learned response that isn’t acquired overnight. It can take years for a RW to develop the required responses to truly feel comfortable riding on our Western vehicles.
This is especially true if your car can pull better than 1.2 Gs on flat pavement. Perhaps I’m an extreme case… perhaps not. In any event, it might be safer to drive a bit on the gentle side, otherwise you may take some flack about stopping, accelerating or turning too fast. You certainly don’t want to give your RW a neck-ache or she will give you one or more in return… many-fold over.
Ronin
Last edited on Wednesday November 29th, 2006 03:01 am by ronin1
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DrStrangelove
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Posted: Friday December 1st, 2006 03:48 am |
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| Haha.. this is funny.. I guess no rides in the lotus huh?
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ronin1
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Posted: Friday December 1st, 2006 04:25 am |
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I made some concessions to accomodate my RWife. Just a minor modification. Removing my rally wheels and tires had softened the ride to near tolarable limits (for short hops). So I can't stop on a dime doing 90.
Now my wife has her own car and I've gotten accustom to the softer ride. Still, if I want to see how well my teeth can chatter... my wheels are still in the garage.
Ronin
Last edited on Friday December 15th, 2006 07:52 am by ronin1
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Russophile
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Posted: Saturday March 24th, 2007 08:45 am |
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There is not a good place in most Russian cities to learn how to drive. When my wife was waiting on her visa and I had already moved back to the US, I suggested that she take the time to learn how to drive. She emailed me back about a month later saying that she had received her driver license.
When she arrived to the US several months later, I let her sit behind the wheel of my car and she could not drive at all. We argued for a while and finally she admitted that she purchased her drivers license. Even after she received her first license, she wrecked my mother's car who had asked us to pick it up from the airport. Now she drives fine, but it was an adventure on more than one occasion.
One last piece of advice, be sure that she knows the difference between health insurance and auto insurance before you let her drive alone.  I'll save that story for another time...
- Russophile
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