cracking down on left-lane campers,

[02Tac]

makes me wish i still had my ole Power Wagon. one thing i noticed, people didn't come flying up on me when i was driving it. i think they were worried something might fall off and mess em up. fine by me. but i also miss my Lil Red Express. if someone was tailgating too close for my taste, i'd just hammer it for a bit to get the Secondaries to open and dump a buttload of fuel. next thing ya know, big black cloud behind me and soon ...  no vehicle either. had lady in her nice white caddy do that hauling butt/tailgating crap while i was towing. irked me a bit, so i stomped on it. she backed way off after getting her vehicle dirty. LOL.

 Side note - Noticed a Lil Red Express set back off a driveway yesterday when I was out for a ride.  If I can remember where it was I might go back and see if it is available.  

[2RR2NV]

love the truck for what it was, but not much else. i think i put maybe 2000 miles on it in the 5 years i owned it. getting 10mpg doing 55 was just not a happy thing. then god help me hammering it.... 4-6mpg!  i would have loved to put a newer Hemi in it and then have some fun. oh well, gotta love the Big "D".  

[Snowbird]

Are you sure?  I mean, you are from Floriduh... correct?

 

 

No, but I have a place there... will be going down in about a week for a few weeks. Later, my neighbors here in NY will rent it from me.

[Snowbird]

It does drive me nuts when you are clearly passing someone, then someone else comes rocketing up behind you and tailgates the hell out of you for really no reason.  Many even do this when there is no way in hell you can even get over!  They just drive aggressively because they know no other way.

I could see them getting ticked off if you where not making the pass, but not if you really are in the process of getting out of the passing lane.

I get people tailgating me here on two-lane roads when I'm following-- at a respectful distance back-- another car going slower than even I'd like to go. There's no safe to pass when in a four-wheeled vehicle driving on winter-snow-and-ice roads. In the morning, in the dark, cars doing that straddling the center line so their headlights are in my mirror    what in hell do they think I'm going to do!!??

Point being, asshat drivers are everywhere.

Oh, and for the record, I call bullshit on claims of nerfing other drivers.    (Not referring to you.)

[ianbh]

You, Ian, won't be perfect until you learn to use the quote feature.

Hey thanks!  Oops I'm still not perfect.  Maybe I will be if I learn to insert the smileys.  Ian, Iowa

[FJR1300]

oh well, gotta love the Big "D".  

I hate Dallas... terrible drivers.

 

[FJR1300]

Later, my neighbors here in NY will rent it from me.

You rent out your place in Florida?  Cool... I say let's have a mid-winter ST.N get together at your place!

[Snowbird]

You rent out your place in Florida?  Cool... I say let's have a mid-winter ST.N get together at your place!

 

[FJR1300]

 

So when do you want us to start showing up?  I've got three weeks vacation starting at the first of the year!

Oops... almost got off-topic...

Why doesn't Florida crack down on the great northern blue hairs that drive in the left lane?

 

[Mrs. DantesDame]

You rent out your place in Florida?  Cool... I say let's have a mid-winter ST.N get together at your place!

Yeah, but that means having to go to Floriduh  

[FJR1300]

Yeah, but that means having to go to Floriduh  

I would rather go to Floriduh than Kalifornia.

 

[Mrs. DantesDame]

I would rather go to Floriduh than Kalifornia.

 

yeah, but at least we can lane split and filter. <---- topical subject, as they're all easy to pass if you're on a bike) And there are mountains here, too  


(seriously, my parents have a condo on Marco Island. I spent my youthful summers in Florida, probably the reason I hate it so much today)

[Elseanno]

I would rather go to Floriduh than Kalifornia.

 

Good!

The riding is much better there than here anyway. Stay away.

The Bottom line for me is this:

If you're a cop, you can go ahead and enforce the speed limit by camping in the left lane or doing whatever the hell you do to enforce the it so long as it's within the law...

If you aren't a cop, which is most of the people camping in the left lane remember; two wrongs don't make a right but three lefts do! Ok!  Seriously, if you're not a cop don't camp in the left lane. If some asshole is speeding like a looney, let 'em. It's not your fight. If you camp out and some one get's pissed and road rages on you I look forward to reading about the ass kicking you got.   Don't be an asshole, move over.


Elseanno

[Paul Barnard]

 
Should the guy going 75 in a 50 get a ticket?  Well sure, i'd like to see him get a ticket too.  But the reality of it is that a cop isn't going to touch him since he was already speeding.  

I can see that in court....

Cop: you where impeding traffic
Left lang hanger:  I was going 20+ over the speed limit!

Case closed.

Not case closed at all.

 In that case the officer should write two tickets one for speeding and one for improper lane usage.  If the judge questions this, the officer simply needs to respond that the other drivers were only speeding while the accused was speeding and improperly using the left lane.  The officer can explain that it makes more sense to cite someone with multiple infractions rather than a singular infraction.  Hard to fault that logic.

[FJR1300]

Hard to fault that logic.

Paul Barnard is BANNED because you cannot use logic when posting in this thread or any other thread related to the enforcement of laws!

[vguy]

Paul Barnard is BANNED because you cannot use logic when posting in this thread or any other thread related to the enforcement of laws!

He's disrupting all of us know-it-all speculators.

[LicketySplat]

You know what's wrong with this thread?

It's a car thread.  

What are sport-tourers doing on the freakin' freeway anyway? In such heavy traffic that they can't just goose the throttle, half-lane-split and get around the left lane campers?

Car thread. Bah. Move it to off topic.

[02Tac]

You know what's wrong with this thread?

It's a car thread.  

What are sport-tourers doing on the freakin' freeway anyway? In such heavy traffic that they can't just goose the throttle, half-lane-split and get around the left lane campers?

Car thread. Bah. Move it to off topic.

 Sadly, the highway is a necessary evil to get where we want to be.  Hav eyou ever tried to get somewhere via the side roads in DE?

[Snowbird]

 Sadly, the highway is a necessary evil to get where we want to be.  Hav eyou ever tried to get somewhere via the side roads in DE?

that's a local issue. I agree with LicketySplat.

[TuffguyF4i]

Not case closed at all.

 In that case the officer should write two tickets one for speeding and one for improper lane usage.  If the judge questions this, the officer simply needs to respond that the other drivers were only speeding while the accused was speeding and improperly using the left lane.  The officer can explain that it makes more sense to cite someone with multiple infractions rather than a singular infraction.  Hard to fault that logic.

Since when do they use logic in court?  Ever been to traffic court?