Street Racing: The carnage continues

[Brucelee]

We are a bit off topic here, no?

Again, lets be careful out there. Often, it isn't what you do, its what you don't see coming. Use those rear view and side mirrors often.

[Quickurt]

Originally Posted by Brucelee

We are a bit off topic here, no?

Again, lets be careful out there. Often, it isn't what you do, its what you don't see coming. Use those rear view and side mirrors often.

I was thinking the same about the topic, about the time I finished the last post and went back to General Discussion - Street racing? Thats what we were talking about?
And yes to the mirrors in traffic. I'm blessed with years of racing one of the slower classes in the group. We had FCs and Atlantics on the track at the same time and especially the Atlantics were WAYYYY faster. I always kept my mirrors front and center in my awareness.
Here in J-Ville the brothers have become really big on crotch rockets and they race on the expressways constantly. It is not uncommon to have four to ten of them scream up from behind, doing 40 to 60 mph more than traffic and cut between cars, between and across lanes, as just a flash. It scares the hell our of me and my wife will litterally scream. We have alot of organ donors, here in Jax.
I still keep my mirrors well adjusted and well within heightened awareness levels. I like to think that has maybe saved a few of these idiot lives for a couple more days.

[nefarious986]

agreed .. i have slight a.d.d so its hard to stay on topic sometimes .. lol .. apologies.

[Brucelee]

The crotch rockets are a real issue in SOCAL. I have a bike and I lane split from time to time when traffic stops. Otherwise, I ride like someone is trying to kill me with dumbness, which is a correct assumption.

These guys are simply nuts. I am sure none of them has actually gone down on their rockets. Once you go down, it kinda of cures you in either one of two ways.

1-Dead or diabled.

2-Wiser and very very sore.

I did number 2 once which avoided number 1 later on.

Learning is a very very good thing.

PS-I always give my wife a heads up on the bikes coming through. I can be very scary when you don't know they are coming.

[Quickurt]

Originally Posted by Brucelee

PS-I always give my wife a heads up on the bikes coming through. I can be very scary when you don't know they are coming.

I do when I have the chance. Usually I barely have time to give the morons a few more inches of clearance. I really don't want to have to witness, or especially have my wife witness, one of their disasters.

Hey Rich,
Have you thought about a sticky thread, or perhaps a section, dedicated to the competition drivers on the forum passing along info to those who haven't had the benefit of this experience applied to daily driving?
I thought about it when I made my mirror comments above and also the awareness comments. For those who have only been taught the BS wandering eyes strategy of trying to see everything, they will be amazed at the proper way to drive. Same with simple stuff like proper adjustment of all three rear view mirrors and how to watch the big picture of your periferial (sp?) vision, while prioritizing parts of that view. I actually really enjoyed applying what I learned by reading books by Jackie Stewart and Niki Lauda to daily driving, as off track practice. The un-thought-of side benefiit was a drastic improvement in daily driving safety. I have since passed those lessons on to my wife and two daughters. I'm also sure the guys who have raced and track dayed their Boxsters have some great info I didn't learn driving purpose-built race cars.

[Brucelee]

Originally Posted by Quickurt

I do when I have the chance. Usually I barely have time to give the morons a few more inches of clearance. I really don't want to have to witness, or especially have my wife witness, one of their disasters.

Hey Rich,
Have you thought about a sticky thread, or perhaps a section, dedicated to the competition drivers on the forum passing along info to those who haven't had the benefit of this experience applied to daily driving?
I thought about it when I made my mirror comments above and also the awareness comments. For those who have only been taught the BS wandering eyes strategy of trying to see everything, they will be amazed at the proper way to drive. Same with simple stuff like proper adjustment of all three rear view mirrors and how to watch the big picture of your periferial (sp?) vision, while prioritizing parts of that view. I actually really enjoyed applying what I learned by reading books by Jackie Stewart and Niki Lauda to daily driving, as off track practice. The un-thought-of side benefiit was a drastic improvement in daily driving safety. I have since passed those lessons on to my wife and two daughters. I'm also sure the guys who have raced and track dayed their Boxsters have some great info I didn't learn driving purpose-built race cars.

If you start a thread, I will stick it.

Easier than trying to set up a different forum.