914Driver
914Driver Dork
3/10/09 7:16 a.m.

Watching Top Gear last night, they ran a road course using city buses. One was a Brit Double Decker, a normal looking one, two accordian type bend in the middle buses and a smaller 24 passenger handicap van.

Holy Moley, the Double Decker got up on two wheels and stayed there WAY too long! You could see the driver pawing the wheel left to get it back down, very close to a roll.

Playing bumper cars at high speed using buses, kinda like real life NYC.

Tim Baxter
Tim Baxter Online Editor
3/10/09 7:18 a.m.

I imagine EVERYONE thought of Wally. He's the only thing that could have made that segment any cooler.

NYG95GA
NYG95GA Dork
3/10/09 7:22 a.m.

Having personally driven a double-decker bus, I can't imagine anything more frightening than trying to corner on 2 wheels. Those things are absolute bohemoths.

Appleseed
Appleseed Reader
3/10/09 5:23 p.m.

The driver dumped the double by the end of that race.

neon4891
neon4891 SuperDork
3/10/09 11:16 p.m.

That was a great episode

Wally
Wally GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
3/12/09 2:27 a.m.

That was great, I'm amazed how out of shape the double decker had to get before it finally went over.

porksboy
porksboy HalfDork
3/12/09 6:19 p.m.

Its all because theres no driver on the top. If there were the top and bottom would be in sync and thus untouchable. Extra points for knowing the song reference.

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