Why is it that, when pulling a caravan, the road before you has so many hills and you think to yourself that when I traveled back it will have so many downhills, yet you find out on the way back there so many hills still ahead of you
Dougwe said
05:24 PM Jun 17, 2021
What goes up must come down then what comes down must go up in reverse. However, if you come down and keep going on flat ground you risk falling over the edge.
KJB said
05:24 PM Jun 17, 2021
aastek wrote:
Why is it that, when pulling a caravan, the road before you has so many hills and you think to yourself that when I traveled back it will have so many downhills, yet you find out on the way back there so many hills still ahead of you
It is complicated but all I can say is that it is tied in with "head winds.." It is a conspiracy........ and is magnified when low on fuel....
aastek said
05:36 PM Jun 17, 2021
Yes you are right about the head winds. I just made it into Camooweal from the Barkly Homestead. The headwinds were ferocious and I ended up using 50% more fuel then normal. Just made it with nothing but the smell of the proverbial oily rag.
Whenarewethere said
06:05 PM Jun 17, 2021
& you get another flat tyre when you have no more spares, repair kit & compressor.
Cupie said
11:03 PM Jun 17, 2021
aastek wrote:
Yes you are right about the head winds. I just made it into Camooweal from the Barkly Homestead. The headwinds were ferocious and I ended up using 50% more fuel then normal. Just made it with nothing but the smell of the proverbial oily rag.
That's why I always carry an 'emergency' 20L can of fuel when traveling away from the coast.
Jaahn said
08:18 AM Jun 18, 2021
Hmm When I was studying physics at school 60 years ago, doing friction and forces, a clever student asked 'how do we know which way friction is acting'. The clever teacher said 'well simple really, always acting against the direction of travel'. I never forgot that and I think all these other forces are just the same too !!
Some little things just stick in the memory
Jaahn
-- Edited by Jaahn on Friday 18th of June 2021 08:20:02 AM
Derek Barnes said
08:40 AM Jun 18, 2021
What hills???? We never seem to notice them.
peter67 said
09:51 AM Jun 18, 2021
Uncle alzheimers will clean up those worries in short order.
tea spoon said
12:16 PM Jun 18, 2021
we always find it longer to go someplace and when coming home its quick .........i find putting up the van for camping where ever a task that takes a while but packing to go home seems quick and easy .........i think its and age thing ........oh and lastly i get annoyed when going into a room or the shed and forget what i came for ........
bgt said
12:45 PM Jun 18, 2021
So if going is an issue then if we drove in reverse would the same apply?
aastek said
01:22 PM Jun 18, 2021
I agree. I went to the doctors once, due to my advancing years and he said that I should start thinking of the hereafter. I said to him that I do that all the time, I walk around my house and into a room and think, what am I here after?
-- Edited by aastek on Friday 18th of June 2021 01:23:14 PM
tea spoon said
02:06 PM Jun 18, 2021
ill have to try that next time i go away ...going in reverse sounds like fun
-- Edited by tea spoon on Friday 18th of June 2021 02:07:31 PM
Bjr1 said
03:59 PM Jun 18, 2021
Why is a corrugated road smoother on the return journey?
KJB said
04:01 PM Jun 18, 2021
Bjr1 wrote:
Why is a corrugated road smoother on the return journey?
Nothing falls off on the way back ....because it has already fallen off on the way there.....
dieseltojo said
05:29 PM Jun 18, 2021
I can only say that as a bicycle rider the wind is always coming at you .....
Dick0 said
10:50 AM Jun 19, 2021
aastek wrote:
I agree. I went to the doctors once, due to my advancing years and he said that I should start thinking of the hereafter. I said to him that I do that all the time, I walk around my house and into a room and think, what am I here after?
So that's why there are no hills on the return journey!
Why is it that, when pulling a caravan, the road before you has so many hills and you think to yourself that when I traveled back it will have so many downhills, yet you find out on the way back there so many hills still ahead of you
It is complicated but all I can say is that it is tied in with "head winds.." It is a conspiracy........ and is magnified when low on fuel....
Yes you are right about the head winds. I just made it into Camooweal from the Barkly Homestead. The headwinds were ferocious and I ended up using 50% more fuel then normal. Just made it with nothing but the smell of the proverbial oily rag.
& you get another flat tyre when you have no more spares, repair kit & compressor.
That's why I always carry an 'emergency' 20L can of fuel when traveling away from the coast.
Hmm
When I was studying physics at school 60 years ago, doing friction and forces, a clever student asked 'how do we know which way friction is acting'. The clever teacher said 'well simple really, always acting against the direction of travel'. I never forgot that and I think all these other forces are just the same too !!
Some little things just stick in the memory
Jaahn
-- Edited by Jaahn on Friday 18th of June 2021 08:20:02 AM
What hills???? We never seem to notice them.
I agree. I went to the doctors once, due to my advancing years and he said that I should start thinking of the hereafter. I said to him that I do that all the time, I walk around my house and into a room and think, what am I here after?
-- Edited by aastek on Friday 18th of June 2021 01:23:14 PM
ill have to try that next time i go away ...going in reverse sounds like fun
-- Edited by tea spoon on Friday 18th of June 2021 02:07:31 PM
Nothing falls off on the way back ....because it has already fallen off on the way there.....
I can only say that as a bicycle rider the wind is always coming at you .....
So that's why there are no hills on the return journey!