Maths challege for Object

what about head winds?

. . . tail winds.

Hippy's wind.

You've not seen just how mental the traffic can be on the Autobahn.

Every other car is a top end Merc / Beemer / Audi estate, traveling at close to 250kmh.

Perish the thought you travel on on the inside lane either - you'll end up grounding the car because of the farm track sized ruts in the road.

I once went on tour around Germany, playing a section of dreadful self-penned nonce music, and was driven from city to city in (what I suspect was) a very expensive mercedes - I spent pretty much the whole time shitting myself as the driver never really dropped much below 250kph.

250kph for hours and hours at a stretch, and like you say most cars were very posh looking Merc/Audi/BMW sorts - I found the relentless speed all a bit terrifying, seriously.

Hmmm, 155mph, with a slightly leaky head gasket? I thought we'd had a little talk about this...!

Does the capacity of your (and hippy's) bladder match the capacity of the fuel tank?

Yeah, you tell 'im Fenella... There aren't that many bits of de-restricted autobahn left are there? I was out there 6-7 years ago and we only found one short stretch... By the time our trusty, knackered Nissan Sunny hit 115mph the road became restricted again... I did think the bodywork was gonna start flying off for a moment... ;]

How are you carrying the bikes - if on a rack their is a speed limit to which they are rated

Would anyone know of a way of checking the prices through Europe?

There's an app for that.

Hmmm, 155mph, with a slightly leaky head gasket? I thought we'd had a little talk about this...!

Now I know why he got Euro-wide roadside assistance..

Does the capacity of your (and hippy's) bladder match the capacity of the fuel tank?

Depends on how many tinnies I force into it, really.

Bit ambitious, Neil.

Yeah, be careful.

I suspect that you might also like to factor in tyre prerssure and wear as well as weight of passengers and luggage [you are taking DJ's ego and hippy's frame]. Will you allow windows open? These will add to the fuel consumption. Air conditioning eats fuel. Best to stay hot, airless and sweaty.

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An important factor is also a day of the week and a time of the day.

In the morning there are always traffic jams outside big cities (like on M25) and it's only weekend when the motorways are free from Polish lorry drivers taking on their Bulgarian counterparts.

Three important things about the Autobahn contrary to the myth of free speeding:

(1) There are plenty of speed restrictions on certain vehicles:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobahn#Speed_limits

(2) Note speed restrictions at junctions.

(3) There is also the concept of Richtgeschwindigkeit.

(2) and (3) are worth observing if you're travelling in a passenger car. With hippy on board, it looks as if your top speed would be severely restricted, anyway. :)

Yeah, you tell 'im Fenella... There aren't that many bits of de-restricted autobahn left are there? I was out there 6-7 years ago and we only found one short stretch...

I think about a quarter of the network is still unrestricted.

EDIT: Wikipedia (same link as above) suggests as much:

About one quarter of the total length of the German autobahn network has no speed limit, about one quarter has a permanent limit, and the remaining parts have a temporary limit for a number of reasons.

The thing I found most annoying about the unrestricted autobahn is there's always someone faster than you. So you're having to move out of the way a lot, but the middle lane seems to be full of people doing the advised speed. So you get in the outside lane, you hit about 140mph when a Porsche doing 150 mph comes up behind you, so you have to drop to about 75mph in the middle lane, then accelerate again, then decelerate, repeat over and over and it ruins your MPG.

Like I said, on certain routes there's no point going in the middle, because there will be always a truck overtaking another three trucks at 60 mph. This always slowed me down a lot.

Yeah but when it's a 2 tonne Cayenne Turbo flashing you about 2mm off your rear bumper you tend to move over.

You're supposed to stay in the right-hand lane unless you're overtaking, as far as I know. Obviously, people doing 200k will not care for this rule much.

I always stay in the middle, but then you are stuck behind a track driver who thinks he's Schumacher. There's no WIN option really.

My pet hate are cars with trailers hauling written off Audis which stick to the fast lane.

my pet hate is people who hog the middle lane.

My pet hate are cars with trailers hauling written off Audis which stick to the fast lane.

Audist.

If the road is empty, yes. If there are hundreds of trucks in the slow lane you are doomed forever if you decide to get in the same lane.

Audist.

Yep, I don't advocate Frankencars made up out of ironed out bodies of three different cars which you can buy later on in Eastern Europe.