TheGreatIYANU:

Take it easy sir.

Lagos to Benin is 318km. What you are saying right now is, you drove NON-STOP from Lagos to Benin at exactly 160KM/H!!! And did not stop for anything!

You did not stop to pee, did not dodge any pothole, did not stop for gas, did not stop to buy rice and suya at Ore

You drove a high powered vehicle that does 0-60 in 3 seconds and immediately you put the gear in Drive (or 1), you were on 160KM/H, straight from your house to Benin!

Haba bros!

You did not pass through any streets in Lagos... your house is directly on Otedola bridge or after Mowe... there was Zero Police presence... for two hours straight at 160KM/H!

lol! This weekend go long.

Not me driving but a driver's driving.

Mowe, Redeem camp and all the things you know today did not exist. And i said from Mile 2.and mile 2 to Benin is an expressway not a street.

And no buy buy or pee break just vrooo all the way.

Beverlyjean:

Taking risks that could have ended ur life...that was reckless

All Praises to God that He blessed my waka and journeyings

brain54:

You seem to be passionate about cars...

Driving and such adventures.

That's good.

I like driving too and can say it's an hobby more like.

I used to clock 1hr 30mins driving from Abuja to Jos. If you are familiar with that route you will understand how difficult that will be because of the hilly terrain... Especially from Abuja to Jos and also the many bends and corners on the stretch. Used to see a lot of opel vectra on their backs on most of those bend... It's a dangerous route to drive too fast. But that didn't deter me. I loved speed.

I don't drive that fast anymore... Basically because I try to be a more responsible adult. Besides reflexes might not be as sharp as when I was 20/21.

But I still enjoy driving and the many adventures that comes with it.

One thing about driving is that it depends on the car you're driving... You may be doing 160km/h on some cars and it will feel like 100km/h until you check your speed on the meter!

Oh sure. In those days like movies, i was tracking the latest cars through Ebony magazine and CNN when cars and movies used to come out one by one every 4 or 6months.

That's one route i was looking forward to run but nothing has taken me there.

Speed was a thing for me since i.travelled alot growing up. But now my travel reasons dwindled and now everything looks new and fresh and exciting so no more speed.

Unlike those days, i knew every bend, jump road and bridge, pothole, and i could almost drive with my eyes closed from Benin to Lagos and from Lagos to Abuja/kaduna and Lagos to Ikom.

But its 3 years since i travelled by road interstate and i'm missing the expressway.

And ah 160kph does not feel.like 100phh ooh. No way. The stopping will tell you. It feels like it takes 2 minutes,to come to comtrollable speed from 160kph.

You just reminded me that the i ran 180 kph on that same Benin Lagos and i ate 2 hills of continous safe braking to drop to less than 80kph. That was when i decided not to run 180kph again.

Even the 160 i.do is very tentative, but i am more comfortable with 140/150

DaddyCoool:


See it below, your whole asinine point was that he was not talking to me!🙄

See how you are just changing post from place to place since you see you have nothing inteligent to.say.

OgaTheTop2:
Ogbeni, did you ever drive 2hrs Lagos-Benin?

Yes or No?

Abeg dey tell lies small small na

Jealousy!

Go drive benz, run Benin Ore come tell us how much time you chop.

samwash:
You can't make Benin to Lagos in 2hrs by road, from Benin bypass to Ore is 1hr already at most 45-50 mins if you are super fast.
@Op, even the years you mentioned, the roads where not good then, how come you made that journey in 2hrs.
Even now when the road is a bit better between Edo & Ondo axis, but the police & others forces road block you go jam go even frustrate your journey.

When you say bypass, you have missed it. The road only peeled, it did not have craters. And you cannot imagine that that road did not have checkpoints.

And you have obviously not driven a benz to see that, that car is truly a beautiful speeding beast that unless the road s like Badagry Seme, portholes do not affect it.

Skii:
When roads were good, no check points and toll gates were still in existence...Lagos to ibadan, toll gate to toll gate, Datsun Bluebird with an average speed of 120km/h - 140km/h...55mins!

Oh Bluebird is it not Nissan Bluebird? Liked the car and loved the name.

Just checked it, Datsun too had a bluebird.

dgitrader:
It was very fast then, but anything less than 3hrs is a bit an exaggeration. I did the trip countless times with my dad in the late 80s on Passat and later 505. There were several active toll-gates and even Mobile police checkpoints.
More over travelling was great joy then, who did that in a mad haste? With all the several fruits, palmy and bushmeat stops littered along ore? Except you were a 505 ambulance

Yeah 3 toll gates then (Ijebu ode, Ore and Benin) but there was no back up in paying the toll and to me in 10 seconds payment is made.

My uncle's Jetta did it in 3 hours. But My friends Santana did it in 2 also. Driver came from Lagos to pick him from school saw him approaching Benin toll gate while we were leaving. You wouldnt believe the driver caught my Hiace in Ijebu Ode toll gate and we both entered the toll booth at the same time And in seconds as my Hiace was lurching forward, Uncle Santana showed what take off looks like and secomds later it disapeared from sight. .

(Oga Ivory Bank driver, i.hail o. I follow your footstep small.)

Check points then were not many i.think they were 3 tben and they only stopped Benz 200. (flat boot) because that was 419ers cars, which is another reason why it did not make the record. But all others just come to a roll and they do not need to stand still before police wave them on to go. But if it was benz 200, you must be stopped and parked.

And eh, do you remember the Land Cruiser highway patrol? i remember one benz took off, and the policemen jumped into the land cruiser in pursuit and we did not see the 2 of them again till some many minutes later. I wonder if the cruiser would.have caught the benz, (don't think so) but because the police would radio the other checkpoint is why i think the benz guy had to stop.

brain54:

Yeah...

Wow! I would have love to.say i would do my own but for me travel includes stopping and buy buy and i like having at least half tank whenever i enter my destination, so i wont be pursuing this record.

Rexymania:
With all the bad roads in those days, I don't think what you are saying now where possible. Na Jonathan fix the road

They used to patch the road before Uncle Jo relayared it. And that patch gave it a very sweet sound when speeding over it, gbush, grrrrrr, .gbush, gbi, . And that music starts from immediately after Sagamu to Benin. (And it is still there today)

Thats what makes me remember this road amd my many experiences on it. And this is where we say benz na benz.

I bet you, you did not notice that that road is hilly and most cars lose speed going uphill, till today, even our dearly beloved Camry (though it is not like 504 ooh.) But in a Benz you will almost not know the difference between a plain and hill.

brain54:

I think 2hrs and a few minutes on top is highly possible...

The last time I did that route from berger in Lagos to warri,it took the driver 4hrs and 20 minutes. Although it was those hummer busses and we traveled at night with the road being very free. I don't know how fast he was driving because I didn't check the speed gauge. But we arrived in that time when I calculated.

I usually estimate that benin takes half of the journey. Plus or minus.

2 hrs and a few minutes is okay very normal. 2hrs on the dot wouldn't shock me for a very fast driver.

All things being equal with a good car and clear road o!

Wow 4 hours? The driver did non stop then?

ElevationD:


It was never possible to travel from Lagos to Benin in two hours with such regular cars on the bad roads. Even with lesser “highway patrol” officers, no one could drive that super fast.

You’d first get to Shagamu which too twenty minutes on the two lane road. Next to Ijebu ode in 30 minutes. Next to Ore in one hour. Next to Okada in 30 minutes and the last leg into Benin city in 20 minutes. With fast cars and speed living drivers, it was a minimum of 3 hours and half. Do not forget that bad roads, especially at Ogun state end, have been there for over forty years.

It was much more pleasurable travelling on that road, when there were no herdsmen. You could drive happily at night, except for armed robbers too. Those were the military days and early days of the OBJ government. The rest is history, as politicians used that road to amass wealth with endless contracts.

You obviously have not travelled in a benz before else you would know that portholes is part of the road and the car does not feel or notice it.

Do you know that Ore to Bypass (Benin) is shy of 1 hour if you do not mind the fuel?

laivwire:

I am only familiar with the Peugeot 504 and 505 evolution era where Ibadan to Lagos was done in 1 hour. I also remember how the V-boot bounce was popular back then. Volvos were known for the unique loud engine noise and the Datsun was a popular Ibadan taxi (Brown and yellow).

Of course, the luxurious buses were always on top speed and flash you to shift lanes when coming.

To add after reading some comments:
People tend to estimate the travel time not from their houses but from when they see "Goodbye to Lagos" or "Welcome to Ibadan" sign post.

I also forgot to include the freakish J5 accidents back then.

Travel time! Thats True. I remember that when we started count from the house, it is always spoilt when our parents or driver turned into a petrol station to buy fuel whereas we thought the journey had started. So some people started counting from lagos toll gate (goodbye to lagos)

And yes, the consensus was tbat Lagos,Ibadan was 1 hour but many people too say that they did it in 45minutes (my neighbour and his Datsun Laurel)

For luxurious bus i am sure you are thinking Volvo's Maecopolo and Mercedes Scania,. These ones came in around 1999. The available ones were either these ones
https://www.shutterstock.com/search/mercedes-benz-old-bus or Federal Mass Transit (Anamco Mercedes bus 1414)

And yss, J5 munched people especially in the North.

Dronedude:


Hope you now use flight.

In those days only when unavoidable but these years video call and bandits has stopped me from traveling since people are not easily travelling today.

But, i miss the express

Franzinni:
you really need to have the capacity to grasp concepts to realize the world is bigger than you can possibly imagine ... You seem not to understand transcendence and that right there is a clue to your present cerebral capacity and as such it is of little benefit to me to continue in this line of discussion. So have a wonderful evening.

This is the meaning of transcendence according to Google search

"Transcendence comes from the Latin prefix trans-, meaning "beyond," and the word scandare, meaning "to climb."

When you achieve transcendence, you have gone beyond ordinary limitations. The word is often used to describe a spiritual or religious state, or a condition of moving beyond physical needs and realities."

Hence transcend means to something beyond ordinary limitations, like you turning yourself imto a bird to fly from PH to Atlanta,

So, do tell, what and when and how did you.achieve transcension for i know people have never seen anyone transcend?

So, don't run away, come and tell us what we do not know, if you speak the Truth.

Franzinni:
You speak like you have any facts to back up your belief ... I guess we are on different vectors in the universe now , like I said, I dont care whatever you believe in bro, and I dont have interest in saving any souls, so you can believe in flying pigs for all i care ... It's perfectly ok.

Deflecting again!

Did i say anything bout my beliefs? No.
So dont kid yourself. I aint in the save your soul business. No I am in the Truth only budiness and right now, you have not been saying the Truth.

So, all i am doing and going to do, is to argue against your delusions and the lies you hold that is all. And my beliefs are not in issue.

So come and tell us what is True for in this universe, it is already a proven fact that your creations eg cars and phones and robots cannot die without your permission, so there is nothing to argue.

So, why dont you live your life without delluding yourself if you truly thought that hell is not waiting for you at your death?

Franzinni:
well you are presuming ... I am not, because I can't die, I can only transcend this plain of reality ... Remember, energy can never be destroyed it can only change form ... So this life is powered by energy in its present form . Why will i be afraid to die ... When it's perfectly natural ? Einstein!

How many times have you tried transcending ino a bird so that you can fly abroad with no visa?

Could you transcend? No.

So, if you could not be whatever you wanted to be while you were a live and with energy is now when you were weak as steam over a tea cup? You are just deluding yourself.

"The power of denial. It gives needed break from ongoing pain" David Kessler.

Franzinni:
and how do you defend this statement ? Do you mean words written in a book that acknowledges the existence of unicorns? If God wanted to pass a message , will he need a book ? Written by mortals claiming to be inspired ... Keyword " inspired " by God ...

You see humanity is running on programing because it's easier to take instructions rather than think .

How many times have you brought back your car and phone to life?

Can you name anything which died and its creator could not make it live again? No, there is none!

Creations can never die unless their creators allow them and this is where that funny statement they say in movies applis where they say "you cannot die without my permission"

Franzinni:
so are you afraid to die ? And why?

Stop deflecting. Your denial already proves that you are afraid to die.

DaddyCoool:

I'm just surprised you don't realize how RIDICULOUS you sound.
THIS IS A PUBLIC FORUM!!!!
I wasn't speaking to you either but you responded to me just like 99.999% of people on the forum!

With all due respect, run along and stop making an idiot of yourself!

As you already know that it is a public forum, therefore, like you.have a right to ask him, i also have a right to tell you to find your own way on your own and go.on your own. But see what you turned it into.

brain54:
Oga don't mind me...

Was calculating something else(distance from Lagos to warri)

Lagos to benin Is possible in 2hrs... Lagos to warri is about 4/5 hrs...and na wetin my mind being dey calculate.

That's why I was even asking if you passed the township.

You are right... If you cover Lagos to benin in 2 hrs it would not sound strange or surprising to me!

Ah! Lagos to Warri. My first. You never forget your first.

This was my firstest interstate travel after i started driving and it was unplanned oh!

Wife, then fiancee, needed to be in wafi, but Lagos just cancelled environmental and people were not sure, so no bus and we were headed to check Jibowu, when it occurred to me that God and answered my prayers for interstate travel. And instead of going to Jibowu, i headed to toll gate and bye bye Lagos!

That was were i learnt that Tokunbo cars are called belgium in Benin and entered warri at 7pm since i no gree settle police.

And that was with my personal first, Audi80!

And this is where the rise of our favourite Travel bus, the Toyota Hiace started from (Remind me of Peugeot J5 that was the second nigger who ran Benin Lagos in 3hrs )

So, memory lane correct me if i.am wrong but, there were only 3 buses who run Lagos/Benin back then to wit Edegbe No 1, Iyare motors and G.E.M (Goddy Edosa Motors)

And Edegbe mostly had Nissan and Toyota Coaster buses. Iyare, my first choice had coaster, luxurious and that Benz bus Mannheim 100 buses,

And oneday, the powers that be said no more cars taking me to school but i should go by public transport.

And God loving me so, uncle Hiace was standing there in Iyare, looking all green and yellow and me looking at it with anger and hatred, wondering why not Bendel Line (indomie Z would never know this after all those ones have 504 station wagon and station wagons is a car so it must be faster than a bus, me thinks!

That was when i heard, its price was N120 or N150 i am not sure but i think it was N120 then it moves to N150, then N200. So, it was N120 and that was pricey at that time. (Indome, can never believe that it was N120 to Benin.

I think the others were around N80 or so, but, thank God, the powers that be did not think to punish me like that!

Then the journey started and oooh another sweetest day of my life, and i.smiled from the begining to the end as i watched the bus gap everybody on the road! cutting left and right peep peep, fiam, e don gap you loss.

O what a sweet trip. My Iyare guy gap everybody for road save a few cars. In my mind, i think only 4 or 5 cars gapped us.

And that was the begining of my travelling with only Hiace. The Hiace gapped the Nissan Urvan which was GEM's and Edegbe's own, so.i try to avoid them and will always pay to enter the Hiace.

. I think it was only Iyare who had the Hiace then, especially as the bus had too much lip (bumper) and looked ugly/angry while the others were fine and in our snall minds then, fine meant fast, so you can imagine the pleasure that this mean looking thing was gapping everybody on the road!

It was after this, that one by one transporters started buying it

Then Uncle J5 came to add to my pleasure and need for speed.

brain54:

Oga I don't believe you...

You even passed through Benin township wey hold up dey worry that period and still made it in 2 hrs?

This your story sound somehow!

I did not say Benin City (township) i said Benin and Benin starts from that PPRoyal Hotel.

So, you don't need to believe me (but you just reminded me of the shock and nostalgia i gave my school mates when i entered school at some minutes after 11. ) and i don't need you to believe me.

Its just sweet memories and remembrance and a trip to the past when vehicles were slow.

brain54:

It will take 2 hours and 18 minutes...

Driving a STEADY 140 KILOMETERS per hour. No check points nor slowing down due to bad roads and traffic or whatever reason to cover the distance between Lagos and Benin.

How possible is that?

If you said 3 hrs it would be more realistic... Without bad roads, traffic, checks etc.

Note the distance between these 2 cities is 322 kilometers!

See return leg where there is no checkpoint and time it.

Even with my 2000 Chrysler T&C i ran from bypass to Ore in one hour.

Maybe i'll try it oneday (don't think so sha) just to say, i told you.

dangoteinlaw:
Oga the most hours was 4hours oh. I remember my elder bro baby benz leaving lag 6am and reaching bypass 10am.

See bypass no dey then. And the finish line was Precious Palm Royal Hotel.(hope this is correct but this is how i remember that palm tree place on the left when coming from Lagos) And baby benz (190) was my first to make it. Left Lagos 9: that is started moving from mile 2 at 9am and was at Oluku junction (pprh) at 11:.am

I remember it because i love speed and so i loved the record but i hated it because, i entered my much hated school too early.

My normal time to enter school is always around 2:pm but that baby benz beast caused me sweet pain and happy sadness. So ill never forget it.

Second time was with Vboot and i had to stop the driver from making it by pissing long pissing.

brain54:
Hmmm...

2 hrs... Not even 3?

If not for checkpoints, i believe Corrolla and Camry and co would have answered you.

rtdCivilservant:

Oga stop lying, never a time when any car made Lagos-Benin in 2 hours.

Indomie Z will always show themselves. All because checkpoint full your eyes you cannot therefore imagine that you could travel from Lagos to Onitsha and meet only 3 checkpoints.

And if you are a retrd civil servant, then you retired with your 504, which takes 4 hours to get to Benin as it cannot run 160 km/h without sounding like the engineer would tear. So its manageable speed is 140km/h

DaddyCoool:


WAS I SPEAKING TO YOU?? Ridiculous guy keep saying he wasn't speaking to me on a PUBLIC FORUM!! Was I speaking to you??!!

Also see what he advised someone to do circled. He was simply politely asked to do same. Instead of you recognizing that's a reasonable and commendable request, you started making a big FOOL of yourself!

At least you have admitted that he was not speaking to you and neither did he invite you to follow him which is my point. I did not say it was unreasonable for you to ask him, i just said that, you are on your own, go on your own!

Who still remembers when the standard tine for running Lagos -Benin was 4hours plus? Whether, 504 or Volvo or Datsun?

While buses took 6 hours (coaster); 7 hours Mercedes-Benz O 309 Mannheim 100 luxurious bus, 12 hours.

Santana and 505 made it in 3hours.

To me, Vboot and 190 were the first cars to run Lagos-Benin in 2hrs .

Benz 200 (flatboot) was close but it made it in 2 hours and some minutes after. I know the Fuel gulping slowed its reach and most flatboots were heading to the East so, Onitsha people na im go get the record.

So, was this your experience?

Franzinni:
There is no heaven ... Live everyday for today and stop believing in the white mans heaven with white angels and white God and white Jesus ...

Heaven is as real as unicorns.

No matter how you try to live shortsightedly, your soul never lets you forget about your tonorrow's death and more especially when you see people dying around you.

Franzinni:
but I strongly believe consciousness doesn't pass on into the afterlife .. but I know energy can't be destroyed so we transform to something else energetically but say there is a place in the sky where angels are singing kumbaya is a big lie

Whether you strongly believe it or not, the real eyeity is that the life and existence of creations is in the hands of their makers. So, when God, your Creator, Says, there is life after death, it is so, especially as it is proven by the fact that people are afraid of death.

So just hold it in mind that this is what you need to tell yourself esprciially as you know that you would be going to hellfire.

DaddyCoool:


See the exchange below. Note the circled.
See your asinine response to my quite commendable request!
Now run along and stop trolling 4 trolling sake

Seei you are just proving me right. First, His coment shows that he was not speaking directly to you.

Then, secondly, you are to embark on the jourmey of finding God yourself, if you or he want and he did not invite you nor say that he would show you the way or that you should follow him, ptoving what i said, you are on your own, go on your own!