Larry Cable

dont be so F**king stupid ... I was being sarcastic take a chill pill or get a brain

socalsteve

Without emoticons, smiley faces, whatever...it's impossible to know if you are serious, being sarcastic or joking.

So, I wasn't being ****ing stupid, nor need a chill pill or a brain.

But, I have spent the last 15 years as a road cyclist, training for 100 mile bike rides, coaching cycling for non profits and traveling the world on cycling trips...

Yes, there are douchebags on bikes as well as great people on bikes. When you throw out remarks like that, people will take offense.

Have a great rest of your weekend!

Steve

Homeles

Perhaps highways were designed for car and bike paths for cyclists? And what the Hell does this have to do with your plates?

promocop

True

socalsteve

By law, cyclist have the same rights on the road as cars. And, as such, need to follow the same rules of the road. Many don't and that's why drivers have such hostility towards cyclist.

Too bad that a few bad apples spoil the barrel for the rest of us.

VIC_50th

You're getting a little defensive there Steve.
Go back and read Larry's original comment about cyclists again - he IS referring specifically to those douchebags, not to the great people on bicycles...
Have a great rest of the weekend,

chuck911

Old Guy, you got me thinking about California drivers. Always hard to know from words so I went looking for videos, and found this one. But I just don't know, is this guy better or worse, or just about average?

I think he's using his mirrors way too much, and therefore is probably well above average. What do you think?

clangpap

In my experience, the high beam flash is seen as very aggressive in NA. I probably stopped doing it 20 years ago and the incidence of left lane anger has decreased. I freely pass left or right since there seem to be increasing numbers of people who think they have an obligation to sit in the left lane at the speed limit or just below to "police" the rest of us, or perhaps are illiterate and don't understand the signs that say stay right except to pass.

I rarely get "blocked out" by someone just leading me or hanging on my bumper on the left. If it looks like I'll have to slow for a vehicle I'm approaching from behind on the right (you do look well ahead of your vehicle don't you?), I just give it a little squirt to time my pass, move in front of the vehicle on the left, pass and move back to the right. I ensure the vehicle on the left is never inconvenienced relative to their speed and the whole manoeuvre only takes a few seconds. I've actually seen the odd one awakened from their stupor and pull into the right lane behind me, but rarely. You do run into the odd aggressive a-hole, but I find they usually just floor it to try to catch up to you as you pass and then pull way ahead - I don't care, they aren't my problem anymore.

Oh yeah, the vanity plate thing. When a policeman told me he loves them because they are so much easier to remember than random numbers and letters, I decided then and there I would do nothing to make it easier for them to give me tickets.

promocop

If you are rolling Mach10 in your car.it matters not whether or not a cop can read your plate. You can't out run his radio anyway. When he catches up to you, he'll run the plate then, so what is the difference?

mtbscott

I will repeat the late great George Carlin's quote I have posted before, "If you drive slower than me you're a moron, if you drive faster than me you're an idiot."
If I drive aggressively, I get the evil eye from folks, no matter what I'm driving.

clangpap

Mach 10, its going to take a bit for him to catch up? Well, some people might hit the next exit and try to anonymously join some heavier traffic for a few miles. If he's picked up your 2FAST4U plate others on the radio will be looking for a specific car. I'd rather be the driver of the now legally proceeding car with a jumble of numbers and letters on the rear plate. Who me officer?

promocop

Right..BUT when a cop 'puts out the call', the very FIRST thing he calls in is the DESCRIPTION (kind), color, direction of travel, speed and lastly PLATE. I know of such things

Bacura

.......red 911 turbo going very fast. Coming up to an exit but I can't make out his plate so I guess we will loose him. Lol. Maybe I'm wrong but if a cop is close enough to see your plate isn't it game over? Or maybe it's another driver.......there is a porsche speeding by me. I can't see the plate but it says 911/50 on the back. I'm saved!

promocop

hahaahhah Very good!!!!

OldGuy

as far as Cops go I have never been pulled over in a 911 thanks to the V1.
By the way on the way BACK wifey drove and we left later to avoid the Socal type personalities
and we still got messed with by a guy in a volvo station wagon.
We werent going Mach 10. we had the cruise set at 76 HARDLY fast on 395. Try doing that on I 5 you will get run over if you even THINK about getting in the left hand lane.
IF we do 76 on 395 in the BMW no body gives a rats *** about us nobody. We would get passed 20 times and no body cares. Drive a Porsche tho and look out.
Chuck Great scene. I think that was the guy in the ford pickup!!