all ye racers bow to the speed of the bicycle

clearly my rocket propelled shoes rock

blike said in post #24 :

rofl. fast and furious, literally.

sayo, is street racing/car mods big in europe?

Well, I can't speak for all the other countries in Europe as I don't live there or have never been, but insofar as the UK goes the only evidence of either I have seen is minor modifications (alloys, UV strips, fake right-hand exhausts) to crappy cars that apparently get better as they get noisier.

Dudde said in post #26 :

all ye racers bow to the speed of the bicycle

 

 

dave said in post #27 :

clearly my rocket propelled shoes rock

 

 

LOL

you guys rock!

 

blike, you have a Camaro?

hey faf how'd that race go eh?

 

 

oh..thanks nsx;)

Originally posted by Dudde

hey faf how'd that race go eh?

 

 

 

he crashed obviousely.

Race got cancelled due to the rain... rescheduled for tomorrow night.

 

Story 3: Weee!

I was stuck in slow traffic for 10 miles, and I finally broke free. No sooner than I got out in the lead and took off, a get stuck at a red light. Extremely pissed off at this light, I drop the clutch at 3000rpm and take off; it's pouring rain so my rear end is sliding all over the place. I easily maintain control and slam it into second, same thing happens again. And again in 3rd. By the time I shift into 4th, I'm going 75mph, and have stopped sliding, so I look over into the oncoming traffic. Great, a cop! Good thing he didn't have his radar on... or see me sliding all over the place...

You're gonna have to change that clutch soon

why's that? i wasn't even close to the redline or anything, and i haven't smelled clutch since the first time i was learning to drive a stick.

heheheh

sounds like an adventure;)

 

wish I lived in the country again:(

Today I fish-tailed in a U-turn; but managed to keep it from completely turning around and just kept going... used all 3 lanes tho.

and you call yourself a driver!

oh well...I guess there's always room for improvement...at least you kept it in control;)

Extremely pissed off at this light, I drop the clutch at 3000rpm and take off

 

thats why

That's half my red line, the clutch was fine.

Well it didn't exactly do it any good

Story 4: Follow the leader.

 

I'm driving out to Circuit City, doing about 80 in a 55 zone, and I'm flying past slower cars in the right lane. This silver Civic saw my radar detector, and pulled out behind me and matched my speed. So, I went faster. Knowing there were no cops around, he stayed right behind me. Not wanting anyone to think I'm associated with someone who drives a Civic, I take it up to 100 (still in a 55 zone). He's still there. I sped up some more, and at 115 he finally couldn't keep up. Needless to say I set a record going from Englewood to Port Charlotte in about 8 minutes (takes normal people ~20).

O_O

dang, where do you live again?

It's probably best we don't know

He reminds me of Winston Wolf from Pulp Fiction.

Yeah, in his uberleet sports car. He must do some serious speed in that thing.

no no I wanna know, I have to move there after college and go really fast, the rest of the country has enforced speed laws:-p

Dudde said in post #46 :

no no I wanna know, I have to move there after college and go really fast, the rest of the country has enforced speed laws:-p

 

faf's place has speed regulations too...

 

 

I live in South Florida. It's not that we don't have laws against speeding or that they're not enforced, I just choose to completely ignore the posted speed limit. To avoid getting caught, I simply use good judgement about where cops might be hiding, and also my radar detector.

fafalone said in post #48 :

and also my radar detector.

 

Where'd you get it?

How's it work?

It's illegal in some states (5 of them), but if its legal in your state you can get them at circuit city/best buy/radioshack/etc

 

It works simply by having receptors that are sensitive to radar waves in the frequency bands used by the police to determine how fast you're going.