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Jharkov posted:Showing off to my buddies entering a service station with a loose gravel entrance, being a newbie on a DR650 dual sport, i slammed the rear brake and went into a rear wheel drift with bars at full lock, and somehow, didn't lowside. Luckily i was going slow enough to just keep it up. on the other hand this probably looked totally bad-rear end
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# ? Jun 1, 2010 02:30 |
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# ? May 16, 2024 17:28 |
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Video evidence. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAsunHgIYps&hd=1
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# ? Jun 1, 2010 03:11 |
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schreibs posted:Video evidence. That's why you fuel up with the bike upright! I almost had a headon with a car today, remember to stay wide on narrow roads with no DY. A quick swerve got me out of their way, but I should have stayed wide all the way through the corner rather than cutting in at the end.
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# ? Jun 1, 2010 07:14 |
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I had a good one on my scooter last week: Theres a bridge on the way out of town that they are widening to 4 lanes near where I live. Anyways right before you go over there is a pothole right in the middle of the road. Rather, it used to be a pothole. I've been living in this town for going on 6 months now, and everytime I go over it gets a little bigger. Anymore its more of a shallow ditch. Last weekend I was doing a trip into the city, and as I was coming up on the bridge the light there changed to yellow. I had my scooter at the rev limiter (about ~80km), and given where I was at had plenty of time to get through the light. It was only as I entered the intersection that I remembered the pothole/ditch. I hit the brakes, but I still hit it at about 60km. I slammed into the other side right on the frame before bouncing up onto the bridge. I recovered ok, but I was loosing power on the bridge, and barely nursed it over (there are no shoulders on the bridge to stop on). Turns out I'd gashed the fuel line in the impact pretty bad, and was spilling gas all over the side of road. I nursed it back over the bridge to a near-by mechanic who got it fixed up for me. Thankfully scooter repairs out here are cheap, and it only cost me ~$3 US to get it fixed. Moral of the story: I hate potholes.
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# ? Jun 3, 2010 06:48 |
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A nice little incident this morning. Leaving a friends place after not enough sleep, in a bit of a daze, stopped at a light, half checked out. Light turns green and I notice a car in cross traffic not slowing for the red like he should be, so I watch and wait and sure enough he blows the light about 4 seconds after it turns green at full speed and almost takes out the car in the lane next to me. I could have just as easily been watching only the light and gone, which would have, well probably been lights out, cross traffic speed limit is like 45 there. The lesson is always practice safety so you can count on it without even thinking about it. I didn't actively THINK anything about what I was doing until the car went by and I realized I'd completely avoided my own death on instinct alone.
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# ? Jun 13, 2010 23:47 |
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I was coming into a 90 degree right turn, and somehow instead of going down one gear I went down two and let the clutch out too fast. I also did that while making said right turn. The back wheel chirped and broke loose but got rolling again before it lowsided. Scared the poo poo out of me.
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# ? Jun 14, 2010 20:36 |
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Radio-Controlled posted:I was coming into a 90 degree right turn, and somehow instead of going down one gear I went down two and let the clutch out too fast. I also did that while making said right turn. The back wheel chirped and broke loose but got rolling again before it lowsided. Scared the poo poo out of me. Next step: Getting a Supermoto and doing this purposefully on every turn.
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# ? Jun 14, 2010 20:40 |
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Radio-Controlled posted:I was coming into a 90 degree right turn, and The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Automotive Insanity > Cycle Asylum > The SuperMotard Thread: Because Real Men Back It In efb. I need to stop leaving threads open
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# ? Jun 14, 2010 20:44 |
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^^^ I did that the other day with my 82 virago 750 while riding on campus. It was my first time sliding my bike on tarmac; my smile must have been a mile wide! Plus there were some of my fellow students walking by who applauded me
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# ? Jun 16, 2010 14:39 |
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Took the KLR to Petco to pick up some cat food after work. Refreshing. After I got back home, I spent some time doing MSF low speed drills (U turns and the like) out in front of the house, as I'm not 100% comfortable on the bike yet. I was also hitting the curb, crossing the end of the driveway, going across some rocks in our side yard and off the curb on that side (corner house) as a little "off road" practice. The GF and her daughter get home, and I ride up the driveway to the garage opening. I'm not 100% sure what my plan was, other than this loose, general thing to get the bike in the garage, turned around, and back into its parking place so she could pull in - and to do so with a reasonable quickness, I was going to pull in, get off, and turn the bike around by hand. Yeah, that didn't work out *quite* like I planned. I pulled up the driveway, stopped, and started to hop off the bike. It was when my left foot was planted on the ground, hands on the bars, and my right leg was extended 90* away from my body, with my right foot still on the middle of the seat when I realized that yes, the bike was starting to lean toward me (this is a good thing), that I forgot to put the kickstand down (this? not so much a good thing.), and that I had absolutely no leverage from that position. I managed to keep a handle on the bike all the way to the ground, then I did the only sensible thing when one has just dumped the bike in front of the famdamily. I turned around and spread my arms wide with a flourish... "TADAAAAAA!" Then I killed it, picked it up, and parked it the right way. Really! It's only been down in the driveway at 0 miles an hour! REALLY! (and it wasn't even the PO!) Click here for the full 800x600 image. Hark! I spayed my clutch lever! Kenny Rogers fucked around with this message at 03:37 on Jun 17, 2010 |
# ? Jun 17, 2010 03:34 |
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A friend and I were riding the Great Ocean Road back in Summer. He was on his R1 and me on my SFV650. I was doing about 171km/h along this particular straight near the 12 Apostles. He was probably about a good 400m behind me (we weren't racing, obviously) and out of nowhere this little bird which I'm assuming was a magpie or some similar looking bird just flies in front of me, all I hear is this "FOOF" and that was it, my bike sort of took a sharp dip to the left towards the gravel, luckily I pulled out of it and managed to pull over. My mate pulls up alongside me in tears of laughter. He took his helmet off and between laughing fits he manages to say "all I saw was this little black blur and then an explosion of feathers. Funniest loving thing I've ever seen" I checked the bike to see where it had hit and couldn't find anything, no feathers lodged in the radguard, no bits of bird anywhere, I'm thinking maybe it connected with the forks or something??? still to this day it is a mystery to me, but I wish I could have seen the explosion of feathers I left behind
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# ? Jun 17, 2010 09:32 |
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Coming into work this morning. I turn into the parking lot and a decent pace. Its a fun corner and the last one of the ride so I have to give it one last hurrah. Back of the bike steps out. I enter a low slide. Had my knee down and I just went with it. Bike corrects itself and stands back up. But not before I drag my knee across the ground. I was in jeans with nothing protecting my knees. Now I have a nice dime sized hole in my jeans and on my knee. It seemd pretty hilarious afterwards. Im pretty sure this was a near crash instead of a spirited drift. DRZ Supremacy though
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# ? Jun 18, 2010 15:33 |
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Jabs posted:I turned around and spread my arms wide with a flourish... "TADAAAAAA!" I need to keep this in mind for when I eventually dump my bike, as it will probably happen in public and with people around.
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# ? Jun 20, 2010 19:55 |
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So, my Shoei Hornet used to have this really nice chin skirt. Kept the wind from blowing up and getting my neck and making everything cold. It also keeps the wasp that blew in my open visor from getting out. It did piss him off something fierce and after 9 stings and one near highside the chin skirt is now in my bag. Haven't quite figured out how to practice emergency stops while getting my face chewed off by a wasp.
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# ? Jun 21, 2010 04:59 |
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PICS or it didn't happen. This needs to be documented.
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# ? Jun 21, 2010 05:11 |
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Taelrin posted:...Shoei Hornet... Guess I'll leave the chin skirt for my Hornet in the box. Although how well does it work keeping dust off the inside of the visor?
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# ? Jun 21, 2010 11:41 |
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Taelrin posted:So, my Shoei Hornet ... ...or a Hornet, coming home?
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# ? Jun 21, 2010 20:32 |
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God that sounds like it sucked. You definitely deserve credit for not running headfirst into a bridge abutment to make the pain stop.
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# ? Jun 22, 2010 01:32 |
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I suppose I can't really say that it was or was not a wasp. I also couldn't say that I could identify a wasp from a yellowjacket from a hornet while not moving much less while approaching it. I know it was yellow, and it bit. That's enough for me! I suppose that this experience was good in that I now know that I'm very lucky, and I can take my helmet off with my gloves on very, very quickly. Sorry Tsaven, I didn't take any pictures. I really didn't rock Jay Leno chin very well.
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# ? Jun 22, 2010 04:40 |
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Taelrin posted:I suppose I can't really say that it was or was not a wasp. I also couldn't say that I could identify a wasp from a yellowjacket from a hornet while not moving much less while approaching it. I know it was yellow, and it bit. That's enough for me! Yellowjackets and hornets are both kinds of wasps, and there's a quite entertaining scientific scale for 'sting pain' - sort of like scoville units for hot peppers. Not part of my reading yesterday - just something I remember from a book of limericks from years ago. Written by a newspaperman who was born in Limerick, Ireland, and despised limericks - because that form was not actually invented in Limerick, but in a nearby township. There once was a man named McBee, Who found he'd been stung by a wasp. When asked if it hurt, He said, 'Yes, it does.' 'I'm so glad it wasn't a hornet.'
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# ? Jun 22, 2010 18:24 |
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I'm not sure if I agree with that scale. I've been stung by a hornet and it was like someone impaled me with a red hot poker. Bees are more like cigarette burns.
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# ? Jun 22, 2010 19:12 |
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When I was a kid, a wasp landed on my hand. Being a genius, I decided to kill it by slapping it. That was a stupid thing to do. Wasps are evil.
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# ? Jun 22, 2010 19:37 |
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Jabs, Don't feel too bad. I did almost the exact same thing on my KLR. I was about to leave on a 300 mile trip, realized I forgot something, and went home. I pulled up in front of the driveway, put the kickstand down, had my leg halfway off before I realized that I had parked on a slight declined spot near the curb. The bike tipped away from me as I desperately tried to lower it slowly to the ground. I got it down pretty gently only to look up and realize that my neighbor's family was watching the whole sad drama about 15 feet away.
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# ? Jun 22, 2010 22:15 |
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Darth Llama posted:Jabs, First time out on a bike I drove it down the block, did a terrible Y-turn at the end of the block and came back to my house. Tried to drive it up the driveway, panicked with the clutch and brake and managed to topple myself over on bushes in my front yard. Look over and my new neighbor is just watching me from his car 10 feet away.
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# ? Jun 22, 2010 23:06 |
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dietcokefiend posted:First time out on a bike I drove it down the block, did a terrible Y-turn at the end of the block and came back to my house. Tried to drive it up the driveway, panicked with the clutch and brake and managed to topple myself over on bushes in my front yard. Look over and my new neighbor is just watching me from his car 10 feet away. Y turns are pretty hard to navigate I hear... Content: Had a front wheel washout in a patch of sand that a construction crew had kindly laid down in the path of the right turn lane. Scary stuff, even at 5-10MPH..
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# ? Jun 22, 2010 23:59 |
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Taelrin posted:I suppose I can't really say that it was or was not a wasp. I also couldn't say that I could identify a wasp from a yellowjacket from a hornet while not moving much less while approaching it. I know it was yellow, and it bit. That's enough for me! I got bee in the helmet once too, fortunately mine ended up there because it bounced off my chest and got sucked up into the helmet afterwards and I was riding with visor closed. I gotta say though, riding along at 50 with a twitching bee laying on the chinbar a few inches from my eye was not really the most fun experience I've ever had.
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# ? Jun 23, 2010 03:32 |
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Picked up the front wheel about 6 inches while turning right onto a highway from an intersection. Holy poo poo that was wild. I'll have to practice hard launches *in a straight line* without picking it up, I never want to do that while turning ever again. I'm really not used to the torque of this Monster 750.
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# ? Jun 23, 2010 04:14 |
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UserNotFound posted:Picked up the front wheel about 6 inches while turning right onto a highway from an intersection. Holy poo poo that was wild. I'll have to practice hard launches *in a straight line* without picking it up, I never want to do that while turning ever again. I'm really not used to the torque of this Monster 750. Scared the bejebus out of me for a second, followed by a giant poo poo eating grin. =) I firmly believe that those drat "I just got my bike" Y turns are the leading cause of premature scrape-u-lation. I did the same thing on the BMW. Duck-paddled it 100 yards down the apartment parking lot, dropped it on the left side when I overbalanced turning it around. Thankfully, I'd had the sense to buy a 'pre-crashed' example, and the only damage was a little more rash on the engine cylinder guard.
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# ? Jun 23, 2010 17:38 |
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UserNotFound posted:Picked up the front wheel about 6 inches while turning right onto a highway from an intersection. Holy poo poo that was wild. I'll have to practice hard launches *in a straight line* without picking it up, I never want to do that while turning ever again. I'm really not used to the torque of this Monster 750. This is literally the only way to complete a turn. 1. Turn in 2. Crack throttle 3. Wheelie/Powerslide out
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# ? Jun 23, 2010 18:36 |
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Spiffness posted:This is literally the only way to complete a turn. Note that number three does not have an or, it has a slash. Because done properly it's both.
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# ? Jun 24, 2010 03:48 |
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I still haven't gotten comfortable with sliding the rear tire on a literbike. It frightens me that I am gonna high side every time.
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# ? Jun 27, 2010 23:27 |
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Had a huge pucker moment yesterday coming west on WA-20 over north Cascades pass. The roads cut out of the mountainside get hit by some mean sidewind, and I managed to get walloped by a gust from the right while committed to a left-turn lean. Weirdest feeling ever, I fully braced for lowside impact before I corrected my lean. And before you tell me to correct the lean BEFORE bracing for impact, know that this all took place within the space of about half a second. Talk about dicey. Pay attention to those sidewind alerts, everybody! clutchpuck fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Jun 28, 2010 |
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Had myself a moment on Saturday. Was traveling back home on I-77 south (just outside of Canton, Ohio) in the left hand lane passing a couple of cars. Was following some 1980s truck, don't remember the make, but was behind him by about 3 or 4 car lengths, going around 75. In the right hand lane was a woman in a Mitsubishi Montero following behind a line of about 4 cars. I was just coming up beside her when she put on her turn signal, looked right at my face as I was beside her, then proceeded to swerve into the lane I am in with literally about 4 inches of space between her front bumper and my back tire. I panicked for a quick moment, but instinct took back over and I had enough time to realize I was headed for the shoulder on the left, so I regained composure quickly, veered back into my lane more, and cracked the throttle, leaving her behind a bit. She ended up getting in front of the cars she was following, putting her signal back on to go back in the right lane (there was an exit coming up I guess she had wanted to take?) and cut off the driver in the right hand lane, merged in front of them pretty much the same way she did right behind me, with little to no room for error. The lane she got in was an exit only lane, and she went off on the exit but put her left turn signal back on (maybe she didn't want to take that exit after all? who the hell knows) and nearly rear ended an escort on that exit ramp. Are there really people out there that are THIS bad at driving and are still alive? How do you not have any regard for the other people on the road's lives? Still, scared the bejeezus out of me.
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# ? Jun 28, 2010 21:43 |
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Dschingis Khan posted:Are there really people out there that are THIS bad at driving and are still alive? How do you not have any regard for the other people on the road's lives? Don't move to Florida. Nobody has any idea how to drive, but they're all terrible differently, so you can't even anticipate the stupidity. About the only good thing is that where I'm at there's a ton of pedal bike & scooter traffic, so people are marginally more aware of the smaller vehicles. Also, don't move to China.
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# ? Jun 30, 2010 04:48 |
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Once in a while theres the typical person who merges onto the freeway then IMMEDIATELY tries to dive into the left most lane because it's A) Moving faster or B) Less cars in it. These type of people are also the type of people who will drive whatever speed they want in said lane and never yield to faster traffic. Had a case of this yesterday, late model Honda Civic is just getting onto the freeway, immediately changing lanes left and left again with barely a signal, at this point i'm about side by side with him on the freeway and i'm like "Oh poo poo I bet he is going to go for this lane without checking his blindspot." Of course he did try to change lanes into me but I was on the horn before he even moved over, although he was already 1/2 way into my lane before he realized a big white Suzuki sticker on blue plastic and swerved back over and waited till I passed, then moved over, and continued to become a smaller and smaller spec in my side mirrors.
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# ? Jun 30, 2010 05:00 |
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Did the biggest stoppie of my life on the CBR this morning in traffic at about 50mph when some old guy cut into my lane 20 feet in front of me going 30 mph slower. Scariest experience I've had on a motorcycle so far. Guess my brakes are ok though.
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# ? Jun 30, 2010 05:09 |
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Boat posted:Also, don't move to China. Christ, this makes driving in Florida look like heaven. That's a phrase you'll never see again.
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# ? Jun 30, 2010 05:19 |
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I was a dummy today. I dared to touch the rear brake in the middle of a HUGE Texas rainstorm. I proceeded to lock up the rear wheel completely, slide the back side of the bike all over the lane back and forth a few times, stall it somehow and end up remembering my MSF training to get the bike straight before letting off that rear brake. I kept that fucker upright. I then took a minute at the side of the road to catch my breath, check bike, and check myself before continuing on my way. I've been riding for 2 months now, and this is the scariest thing I've ever had happen. Next time I think I'll stay in with Hurricane-thrown rainstorms out there. I even dared to get on the freeway a bit, people were doing 20mph through half-inch deep water across the whole thing. I was glad I was in full gear, but it still would have hurt a hell of a lot if I fell over. I'm proud to have kept it upright.
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# ? Jun 30, 2010 05:27 |
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Did the same the other day, streets were wet and I was going downhill towards an intersection. Lights change and I decide I can't make it, accidentally lock up the rear wheel but manage to save it when I remember to let off the rear brake again. Even managed to stop in time, but drat, was pretty pumped and shocked afterward, just sat waiting for the green light without even downshifting so I almost stalled it when I launched again
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# ? Jun 30, 2010 06:01 |
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infraboy posted:Once in a while theres the typical person who merges onto the freeway then IMMEDIATELY tries to dive into the left most lane because it's A) Moving faster or B) Less cars in it. These type of people are also the type of people who will drive whatever speed they want in said lane and never yield to faster traffic. quote:...and i'm like "Oh poo poo I bet he is going to go for this lane without checking his blindspot."
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