Sentences with phrase «flat road»

You'd probably get a lot better if you drive on flat roads but I have a lot of hills and mountains.

Choose a four mile stretch of fairly flat road, or loop course, with the least amount of cars and no stop lights or signs.

When you're sitting on a nice flat road or parking lot, nothing happens.

The straight, flat roads through nowhere continue, and the ambient temperature keeps climbing.

It handles uphill as well as it does flat roads, and keeps a good speed on the highway.

Due to the very flat roads and easy riding of the road bikes, there is no need to be an experienced biker for these tours.

A wheelchair uses up more power on steep hills than on flat roads.

The handling isn't bad; the cars generally stick to flat road at high speeds, responsive to flicks and twitches of the analog stick.

The base 2.5 isn't buzzy and delivers adequate thrust for typical driving on relatively flat roads.

Adulation for the efforts of men who propel themselves over 3,000 km of mountains, cobbles and windy flat roads in the world's most demanding sporting event.

On flat roads with gentle, sweeping curves, the SLS is very pleasing to drive.

Situated at Saunders Gorge Sanctuary, nestled in the rugged foothills of the eastern slopes of the Mount Lofty Ranges, 18 kilometres east of Mount Pleasant on the Walker Flat road between the Barossa Valley and the mighty River Murray.

Most hotels in Candidasa offer their guests bicycles for rent or on complimentary basis, with fairly flat roads along the main coastal area.

Taking place at the fantastic Eton Dorney Lake, one of the iconic venues of the 2012 Olympic Games, the SuperSprint Saturday event starts with a 400m open water swim in the clear, clean waters of the rowing lake before taking to the closed, flat road circuit for a 4 - lap bike course covering 21.2 k.

Endless flat roads dominate the next day, giving us plenty of time to take stock of the Mustang's cabin.

To clarify, from memory a plug - in Prius has 4kWh spare power, with an actual range of about 15 km flat roads (here in the Netherlands is a very good place to get those numbers), which is about 10miles, give or take.

The weight of the thing steamrolls flat road imperfections with utter disdain.

If you want to self drive, it's an easy, flat road from Cancun past Playa del Carmen to Xcaret.

Imagine that same sub-first-gear feel applied on flat roads as soon as you lift your foot, bringing the car from 40 m.p.h. to a stop in about four seconds.

From a transportation policy point of view, this sort of tax shifting is also more equitable in that it taxes every driver according to the amount of miles they drive by sharing the price signal (by spreading the tax / fees burden) across all drivers instead of assessing flat road maintenance fees or concentrating them amongst a specific group of drivers, some of whom just happen to use toll roads more frequently than average but not necessarily drive more.

Before the start of each of the 21 stages racers will select a bike matched to the specific road conditions and type of racing they will face that day, whether it is a time trial (which pit riders against the clock rather than their fellow racers), a mountain climb or stretch of relatively flat road.

Unique style lodges located within the privately owned Saunders Gorge Sanctuary, 18 kilometres east of Mount Pleasant on Walker Flat Road.

The car struggled while going uphill, however driving on flat roads was very comfortable.

I would have been very happy doing multiple laps along a straight and flat road but Rob thought that would be too boring.

The government is considering plans to charge motorists according to how far as well as where and when they drive, rather than a flat road tax fee as is currently the case.

And not once did I mutter anything about getting through the first mile as I gathered with the more than 2,300 other runners behind the starting line or when we all took off down the flat road.

As a driving enthusiast, I love the sound of a V8 at full song but it seems unreasonable that to maintain 65mph on a flat road towing 8000 lbs, the vehicle must remain in 3rd gear screaming at 4800rpm... All in all, the vehicle will be great for my wife to cruise the mall parking lot in all weather and me to use off road in the woods for hunting and light towing.

Doing so allows the engine to open the throttle wider but lower its overall running speed, a tactic that Porsche says will reduce consumption in low - load situations like steady driving on a flat road.

There's also a bit of surging and slowing as the batteries kick in and then lay off, but you're unlikely to notice it unless you drive at a steady speed on flat roads.

With the Azera pointed dead ahead on flat roads, I often had to apply resistance in one direction or the other to keep the car on the straight and narrow.

This reduces the muscle effort required to maintain the desired direction on the sloped road to the same level as is required on a flat road.

For $ 18,783 you get bounced, bumped and generally beaten on dry, flat roads.

It excels in every driving situation - on smooth, flat roads; through fast, sweeping curves; during hard braking; and into quick turns.

The rear - wheel - drive M30 performs best in long, sweeping curves and on smooth, flat roads.

New front air blades force air to the brakes, and the fixed rear wing is about an inch higher, which puts it right on the horizon line when on a flat road, unfortunately.

Since 1999, the Mazda MPV minivan has labored with a 2.5 - liter, 160 - horsepower V - 6 that lacked the muscle to cart seven passengers on flat roads, much less up a steep incline unless three got out and pushed.

Long, flat roads and wide, sweeping curves taken at safe speeds are where the LSC is most fun to drive.

Complementing the air bags is GM's rollover sensing system, which uses sensors to proactively predict vehicle tip - up on a flat road surface and apply brake force to the outside front and rear wheels to reduce lateral force in the vehicle.

I've found that to be very optimistic, though, and actual range will depend on such factors as your driving style, the ambient temperature, hills versus flat roads, and how much your passengers and cargo weigh.

The Accord, though meant for the flat roads of suburbia, handled these mountain turns better than I would expect.

On a flat road, the Sonic's shift suggestions were perfectly reasonable, but on any ascent the small engine just did not have the oomph to idle uphill.

When the Straight Driving Assist system detects that continuous steering effort is being applied to keep the car driving along a slope, the Electric Power Steering system applies motor assist to reduce driver steering effort to the same level as is required on a flat road.

The car impressed us in its readiness to switch over to electric drive, especially on a flat road cruising at above 40 mph.

More frequently I would see that icon light up when I held a steady pace on a flat road.

That matches the real - world results we got around Dallas, Texas on flat roads.

I drove a 17 mile stretch of flat road and it aveaged 55mpg.

I got excellent gas mileage on the highway, sometimes exceeding 28 mpg on the flat road conditions in Texas and Arizona.