same here. to a T.

 

If im going 80 with the cruise control set, passing people and you still feel the need to ride my a**, you can wait back there.

if you're going 80 and you see a car approaching behind you going faster, would it hurt to switch to the middle lane until he passes you then go back to the left lane and continue cruising?

I wasnt cruising in the left lane. Passing, i dont cruise there, once passed, i move over. But if i am going 80, someone riding my a** isnt going to get me to go faster. 80 is enough ticket risk for me, i dont need to speed up for anyone. Now if i go to pass someone and they speed up as well (this happens, we all know it) then ill either go faster to get out of the left lane or slow down and move over.

 

What is with people speeding up when you try to pass? Hate that crap!

If you're accelerating as you are trying to pass someone and your car can only go so fast when stepping on the gas, then that's acceptable. not everyone has a fast car. However, If you maintain a speed just fast enough to be slightly ahead of the car you are passing but slow enough so the guy behind you cannot pass then there's a problem too.

 

Most of the time I'm not accelerating when I pass. If I'm going down the middle lane at 75 and I need to pass, I move over and maintain 75. If the car I'm passing speeds up I will either speed up myself or slow down and move back over. As soon as I can see both headlights of the car I just passed, I move back over.

 

I WILL NOT speed up if someone is tailgating me.

What is with people speeding up when you try to pass? Hate that crap!

haha one of my pet peeves! Hello, I'm not trying to race you with my minivan...just trying to pass so the guy behind me can also pass!

Yeah also people that fail to maintain speed. I hate when i have to pass the same person like 5 times. I pass them then they fly by me only to get in front of me and end up slowing down and force me to pass them again. Then it all happens again 5 mins later...

 

Use your damn cruise control or just learn how to maintain speed!

 

(yes im a car guy and i spend a lot of time on the road- well used to, i only work half an hour from home now..)

Nothing is worse than left lane losers that just sit in the the fast lane doing the same speed as the middle lane. Ughhhh.

On rt 78 yesterday the express lane necks down to one lane. I was behind some jerkoff going 40mph, with a totally clear road ahead. It was a truck but still, I've driven trucks...no excuse. At LEAST go the limit! I was facepalming the whole way

OK Im not condoning but if thats 120 Ill eat the tires off my car!!!!!!!

 

I agree, I've been just as close if not closer to cars going 120+ and that definitely wasn't. Speeding, too fast for a construction zone yes... but no where near 100.

 

If you're doing 65-75 and a car comes up on you at 120mph you may not have much time to react. You can't just haphazardly switch lanes if there are other people on the road with you. That is part of what makes the situation dangerous.

 

 

 

What's outside the law? Most jobs would fire someone for improper use of company equipment. I've seen high level execs making millions a year get canned for having some porn on company laptops. These Troopers were possibly putting lives in jeopardy. They should know better. If by outside the law you mean outside the demands of the union, you may be onto something there. However, that would just be a prime example of how unions may have out lived their usefulness in certain areas.

 

No I mean the people demanding someone's head on a platter, or felony charges for things that aren't felonies. While there are cops that have done things worthy of hard time who got no more than some unpaid time off from work, I'd like to see the law enforced like it would be for joe average. You or I get busted for 110 in a 65, we aren't doing hard time either. With a clean record, lots of fines, yanked license, pay a lawyer, etc. and they should be subject to similar. Get busted racing the company car on the street, you probably get canned.

This has been going on for years.. Now it's a big deal? Sounds like someone got left out to me..

 

And yes, it has. There is an extremely private forum for these guys and they set these up all over NJ/PA/NY..

 

Truely surprised it has taken this long.

 

agreed!

See, this stuff on the news is all about taking your mind off of how screwed we are everywhere else..

 

You know, if you pay $10k a year in property taxes and for people's welfare checks... you really ought to have the right to go blasting down an empty parkway at 120 mph.

 

Nj Turnpike in the morning, average speed is 85 to 90 mph... whats another 10.

 

Police escort? sure its an issue, but come on, there are bigger problems here to worry about.

See, this stuff on the news is all about taking your mind off of how screwed we are everywhere else..

 

You know, if you pay $10k a year in property taxes and for people's welfare checks... you really ought to have the right to go blasting down an empty parkway at 120 mph.

 

Nj Turnpike in the morning, average speed is 85 to 90 mph... whats another 10.

 

Police escort? sure its an issue, but come on, there are bigger problems here to worry about.

 

I agree 100%. Come on, we are all guys here (well, not really) but haven't we all gone blasting down the turnpike or parkway once or twice at 120 mph? Or at least wanted to? When I was young and dumb, the first thing we used to do when we got a new (to us) car was take it out and bury the speedometer. Like I said, young and dumb.

This is my GPS unit (Garmin Zumo)

 

 

Check out the max speed.

 

Well, actually I did not go that fast. It was some sort of glitch.

This is my GPS unit (Garmin Zumo)

 

 

Check out the max speed.

 

Well, actually I did not go that fast. It was some sort of glitch.

 

Yea, my old gps had a similar glitch, but it read a little higher for some reason.

This is my GPS unit (Garmin Zumo)

 

 

Check out the max speed.

 

Well, actually I did not go that fast. It was some sort of glitch.

 

Mine says a little over 525MPH, but it's not an error, obviously not done on the ground.. lol

That's funny! Next time I fly, i am bringing my Garmin 500 with me!

See, this stuff on the news is all about taking your mind off of how screwed we are everywhere else..

 

You know, if you pay $10k a year in property taxes and for people's welfare checks... you really ought to have the right to go blasting down an empty parkway at 120 mph.

 

Nj Turnpike in the morning, average speed is 85 to 90 mph... whats another 10.

 

Police escort? sure its an issue, but come on, there are bigger problems here to worry about.

 

This is more or less how I view it. And if you want a view into how average joe can possibly be treated, not admitting anything here, but I got pulled over for ALLEGEDLY doing 127 on the parkway by NJSP. I got a warning.

 

The duck went retard? Or was it the busa?

Ha! Neither. Ive been on sport bikes since 1988. Guessing at the time frame it was either a GSXR or FZR

Ha! Neither. Ive been on sport bikes since 1988. Guessing at the time frame it was either a GSXR or FZR

 

I did a steady 120-125 on my Dyna a few years back on my way through Kansas for about an hour, I would have let a trooper chase me till I was out of where I felt unsafe. Had 3 twister to the north of me about 4 to 5 miles away, they weren't the problem, but the 3 different ones to my south that were building had a ground suck like nothing I have ever experienced. The pulling of air from where I was at to build them was probably 60 to 70 MPH and just about a 90 degree cross wind, I have never before ridden a straight line leaning over just shy of scraping my saddle bags, let alone going around a left hand bend in the road leaning way over to the right. Other than that, I just cruse, days in the past, well different story.

Much more fun then just driving down the parkway fast.. skip to :35 the first 30 or so are staging. Few inappropriate (Fbomb) lyrics in the song I'm listening too..

 

Wow, Giants Despair. I believe that this is the oldest continuously run hill climb in the country. This is just outside Wilkes-Barre, PA (in Wilkes-Barre Township). When I lived up that way, I used to go every year. They were apparently a bit more lax about where spectators could be, back then, as we used to take a P/U truck and set up on a turn with a couple lawn chairs and a cooler of beer in the back of the truck and spend an enjoyable day. Oscar Kovaleski and his Polish Racing Drivers Association used to hold the hill record in a Can Am McLaren IIRC, maybe he still does. And for those of you that were much enamored with Centrailia PA and the mine fires there (when that post was current) - this whole mountain (Giant's Despair) has been on fire (underground) since the 1940's. In the winter you can see plumes of steam and smoke coming out of the ground.

 

Thanks for the trip down (up?) memory lane.

 

Adios,

 

Pizza Bob

 

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I didn't know it was on fire under there.. I'll have to look into it. Duryea/Pagoda is also old as hell lol

 

I've since gotten rid of that car in the video. Going to build a dedicated hill car when the wife goes back to work.

 

If your on facebook the PHA has a page, lots of old pics https://www.facebook...145090635511799

 

 

Carroll Shelby, Roger Penske, and Oscar Koveleski are just a few of the famous drivers that set out to tackle the mile. The hill has been paved many times and the records have been shattered. The current record holder is Darryl Danko, who ran the course in 38.360 seconds in 2007. Today, the Hillclimb is run on the second weekend of July and is organized by the Pennsylvania Hillclimb Association (PHA).

Watching your video, looking out the windshield, it appears that there is a ribbed hood scoop on your car. Was that a late 60's Mustang? Just curious.

 

Adios,

 

Pizza Bob

Watching your video, looking out the windshield, it appears that there is a ribbed hood scoop on your car. Was that a late 60's Mustang? Just curious.

 

Adios,

 

Pizza Bob

 

03 Mustang Mach 1

 

 

Photo credits; http://www.musclemustangfastfords.com/features/mmfp_0903_2003_mach_1_mustang/viewall.html

03 Mustang Mach 1

 

Right car, wrong year. I was showing my age or my "gearheadedness" because I was thinking 1968 Mach I

Right car, wrong year. I was showing my age or my "gearheadedness" because I was thinking 1968 Mach I

 

If it makes ya feel better, all the Shakers on the 03/04 Mach 1's were made from the original Mach 1 mold.

If it makes ya feel better, all the Shakers on the 03/04 Mach 1's were made from the original Mach 1 mold.

 

Damn, I'm good!

Just heard on 1010wins the two troopers involved lost their jobs.

Just heard on 1010wins the two troopers involved lost their jobs.

 

Sure, pick the lowest two guys on the pole as the fall guys.