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Guy I work with has been a guide/nerd here for ~20 years, let me know if you need tips.
But please keep the fast-driving to the highways. Don't be doing 60 down city/suburban surface streets. That shit happens around here all the time.
Don't get me started. And it's not just traffic circles. Stop signs seem to confuse people. As do other cars turning. WTF, people? It's a goddam shitshow out there...
my friend who i'm planning the trip with has a good friend from high school who lives there and is a full time guide, so we've got a hookup for sure. we might also include a side trip to yellowstone while we're there.
our neighborhood is 25mph. we have a LOT of young kids that are always outside playing. people routinely do 40+. part of me has considered a rogue speedbump or 6.
I kinda feel punishments for traffic violations should be stepped up.... Like first offense can be a fine, maybe raise the amounts, second one becomes a driving restriction, third is loss of license all together, fourth in mandatory jail time....... Sorry if anyone does not like this, but the most frequently broken laws in the us are traffic laws. People just don't give two shits about other people's safety and that pisses me off (probably more so now for the same reason as Jon, the toddler with me).
A speed limit is just that, it is the maximum speed for that area..... Not a minimum. If you want a limit raised, get signatures and put it on your local ballot.
If you don't know how to use a traffic circle, then stay out of them.
If you are too impatient to wait for a passing lane.... Get the fuck off the road.
Remember people, driving is a privaledge, not a right.
Oh and for whoever it was that got a ticket for 65 in the 45.... You should man up and pay your fine instead of attempting to skirt it down to something else. In your words, it used to be a 55 zone, so even then, you were already speeding....... Zones change, speed limits change, it is the drivers responsibility to keep up with those changes...
A speed limit is just that, it is the maximum speed for that area..... Not a minimum. If you want a limit raised, get signatures and put it on your local ballot.
If you don't know how to use a traffic circle, then stay out of them.
If you are too impatient to wait for a passing lane.... Get the fuck off the road.
Remember people, driving is a privaledge, not a right.
Oh and for whoever it was that got a ticket for 65 in the 45.... You should man up and pay your fine instead of attempting to skirt it down to something else. In your words, it used to be a 55 zone, so even then, you were already speeding....... Zones change, speed limits change, it is the drivers responsibility to keep up with those changes...
Make sure that are the super tall angle iron type so they wreck their tires....
WTH "might" - there is no "might"...
Just make sure to not go between 9am and 3pm. Shoulder-times are your friend at Yellowstone in the summer.
If you make it to Yellowstone let me know, I am just up the road, and Madison brewery is a block away from me..... Their oatmeal stout is amazing
We've got two pretty long stretches of road near me that recently (last couple years) were changed from 45 to 55. Guess what? Lotsa people STILL don't know it went up, so we have gobs of people puttering along at 45. Which is fine... IF YOU STAY IN THE GODDAM RIGHT LANE. Which, as you can imagine, they don't.
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IF (big IF) i would do it i'd cut a 12" sonotube into 1/3's, premake the pieces with quikrete, then use an impact drill to set them in the road with rybar or something.
right now its looking like we're gonna target late september, so should be past peak tourist season.WTH "might" - there is no "might"...
Just make sure to not go between 9am and 3pm. Shoulder-times are your friend at Yellowstone in the summer.
good to know. you're just over the border in montana right?
You mean the right lane? Most places in good ol merica the slow stays right. Ten under should not be a problem, again, speed limit, not requirementWe've got two pretty long stretches of road near me that recently (last couple years) were changed from 45 to 55. Guess what? Lotsa people STILL don't know it went up, so we have gobs of people puttering along at 45. Which is fine... IF YOU STAY IN THE GODDAM LEFT LANE. Which, as you can imagine, they don't.
We've got two pretty long stretches of road near me that recently (last couple years) were changed from 45 to 55. Guess what? Lotsa people STILL don't know it went up, so we have gobs of people puttering along at 45. Which is fine... IF YOU STAY IN THE GODDAM LEFT LANE. Which, as you can imagine, they don't.
Uh, don' t think I was driving like a wanker. Like I said the speed limit was recently changed with only one new sign put up. It was a four lane with a center divided flat country highway. Now that I do actually go 45 in this area I routinely almost get run over by other people.
^This. Or people too busy talking on their cell phones or fussing with shit in their vehicle (kids included). I think one ticket in all my years driving justifies a Wanker Free driving style.
my general rule for these kinds of roads is "don't be the fastest person in view". there's a 6 lane divided highway i take to work. limit is 55, people are rarely under 65. i routinely see people doing 80+ on it.
coofffeeeee and doughnuts galore today..
might turn out to be a good one..
might turn out to be a good one..
Very basic back story is a guy, named Leroy, somehow got involved with a group of nerd who had been trying to win that raid in "World of Warcraft" for quite some time... Raid starts once the threshold of the door is crossed..
Think of it as an early money shot in a well organized gang bang....
You get nailed on 280? I think the driving around Asheville is the most batshit of anywhere I've been. 1/3 demented Floridians who are lost and going 20 under while weaving, 1/3 transplants/tourists going 20 over and weaving, 1/3 drunk and/or meth'd out rednecks doing who in the hell knows what. All that on roads that appear to have been designed by my 3 year old after a pixie stix bender.... @Dirtrider should be the very least of anyone's concern.
Yep. 280 in Mills River by the Uber Ingles.
2/10 - a real artist would have done the entire dickbutt
Some Navy pilot is in trouble now.
ready to get the heck outta here, get dinner with relatives passing through town over, have a beer or three, and go to sleep! feel like i can't wake up, despite much coffee. maybe it's partly because i forgot to put my contacts in, so the world seems a little blurry!
Duct tape laid out upside down is fun as well.
Most likely that's what will happen. The whole thing is a scam. The fine was probably only $30, but the rest goes to the court and an attorney. Get caught speeding in NC and it'll cost about $400 for it not to affect your insurance. Just try not to get pulled in that county again.
Also, don't buy an orange car. Cops love it like magnets, do some shit or something...
Today did not go as planned.
I was one of those nerd bystanders as the interwebs LEEERRRRROYYYY JENKINNSSSSSSSS'd me.
Cracking the first of several beers tonight. Perhaps I'll even get around to taking this Pike apart.
Tomorrow looks like dog piss rain all day. I think I will go buy a new rake and clear some of the local low-key DH trails. And then give the Turner DHR one last go this year.
I was one of those nerd bystanders as the interwebs LEEERRRRROYYYY JENKINNSSSSSSSS'd me.
Cracking the first of several beers tonight. Perhaps I'll even get around to taking this Pike apart.
Tomorrow looks like dog piss rain all day. I think I will go buy a new rake and clear some of the local low-key DH trails. And then give the Turner DHR one last go this year.
With 17.5 miles spent on the trails today, I don't have much to complain about. Possibly with the exception that I likely blew the air spring seals in the fork again. 
That wouldn't happen on a coil fork.With 17.5 miles spent on the trails today, I don't have much to complain about. Possibly with the exception that I likely blew the air spring seals in the fork again.
You know any that isn't effing boosted?That wouldn't happen on a coil fork.
2014 fox van36?
