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I spent Labor Day plying the roads of Western Montgomery County, crossing the Potomac on White's Ferry and poking around northeast Loudoun County, Virginia. I was trying to recreate a bike ride I did some years ago...but couldn't remember the exact route. Nor did I remember that some of the roads I rode were gravel. This was the first time I had Baby Blue on gravel. My thoughts:
1. It's LOUD! Hearing the rocks hitting the wheel wells and underside of the car without any kind of sound deadening was a bit a surprise to me. I cringed almost the whole time. Every once in a while, I'd hear a "ping" of a piece of gravel hitting the exhaust pipe.
2. Fun, but tricky. On gravel, I could slide the rear end out almost at will by downshifting. A little scary when the car would start to "float", like hydroplaning on small rocks, but really fun around some hairpin turns. I can't imagine what it would be like to take one of these cars out on a dirt track. With a bit more power, they'd probably make great drifting cars. Probably just as well that they don't, though. They'd get snapped up and expended if they were.
3. It's dirty. The poor car is covered with dust. Even more so when I passed a car going the other direction and had to go through his dust cloud. The nice thing about these cars being so small is that it takes no time to wash them!
1. It's LOUD! Hearing the rocks hitting the wheel wells and underside of the car without any kind of sound deadening was a bit a surprise to me. I cringed almost the whole time. Every once in a while, I'd hear a "ping" of a piece of gravel hitting the exhaust pipe.
2. Fun, but tricky. On gravel, I could slide the rear end out almost at will by downshifting. A little scary when the car would start to "float", like hydroplaning on small rocks, but really fun around some hairpin turns. I can't imagine what it would be like to take one of these cars out on a dirt track. With a bit more power, they'd probably make great drifting cars. Probably just as well that they don't, though. They'd get snapped up and expended if they were.
3. It's dirty. The poor car is covered with dust. Even more so when I passed a car going the other direction and had to go through his dust cloud. The nice thing about these cars being so small is that it takes no time to wash them!
