A mate from the RRS forum came to visit us with his Defender on his trip to the UK and he had this on his trailer (not my younger son)

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LOL, now there's a giggle. I had a girlfriend many years ago, crikey, would be around 1986 ish, anyway she was into these things in a big way. I went to a few of the club meets and even the odd event, mostly thinking "How hard can it be?"

......and then I had a go.

Hahahahahahahahaha. Well, not actually technically difficult except...........they have very little in the way of brakes.
Steering - move your body weight around a lot and hope the handlebars direct the draught the way you want to go.
Go faster. Easy. Open the taps.

It was the bit about stopping before hitting obstacles...........you just have to steer round most of them, assuming you aren't a fat old git like me and you can move quickly enough.

Honestly, one of the most fun things I've ever done, and also one of the most dangerous.

i've always wanted to have a go on one of them..  ... - .- -.




Y. O. L. O.
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Me too.

I've only been on one; the old cross-channel SRN-4 when I was 5 in 1975, and have been absorbed by them ever since. I helped restore a triple-engined model as part of a university final year project. Si. <This is my name.

I eat rat poison.

A man ain't truly been insulted until he stands buck naked in front of a woman and she didn't even notice. Or care.

btw my friends comments on this pic was: Luke Skywalker on a visit ....

Spent quite a few years in an SRN6, used by NZ civil Aviation at Auckland International Airport, it was used for search/rescue/ customs . Still some pics on the web, rego 014. Less reliable than L322
Bob