[Argess]

I live in a rural area about 5 miles from the nearest town. Speed limit is 80 kph (50 mph) and all houses have driveways entering on to the highway. Kids, dogs, and Aunt Marth (backing out), etc. all come out of those driveways. Dangerous to speed and it's got a lot of corners to boot. Corvettes, Camaros, etc, ...if they come up behind me, they all wait courtiously as I drive the speed limit into town. Not so the 18-20 year olds with the ballcaps on backwards, hunched over the steering wheel of Dad's Pontiac as they decide to pass on blind corners at crazy speeds. I just let them go and hope that the ambulance gets there before I pound the crap out of them if they get in a accident that involves others.

As far as rice-rockets go, most of the ones around here are limited to the Soup Can mufllers and a few body mods such as air damns and rear wings. They just usually hang around the mall Sat night and yak. Before them, it was the 4x4 crowd, and before that, the Camaro clan. Times change.

I do have one story, which I had posted in the FE tech section to give those guys a tale. Here it is:

Here's a story....a few years ago some guy on a green crotch rocket (my son says a Kawasaki Ninja 1000 or some such thing) with his matching green biker clothes and green helmet, started following me around town. I was heading up to the highway to take a short cruise and then get back to town via the next exit. The motocycle guy was behind me as I started gently up the on-ramp. I could see him looking over his left shoulder checking for traffic, as he was itching to pass and leave me in the dust. So I let him pass. Just as he got by, I gave the car about 1/2 throttle in 2nd gear. And I caught up, and in fact, had to back off the gas a bit. Meanwhile this guy is going up through the gears winding it to red-line with every shift. So he finally relaxes and looks in his side mirror expecting to see me 1/2 mile back. Instead, I was right on his tail. He did this amazing double-take in the mirror. Too funny to see his helmeted head check the mirror, look forward, then snap back to check again......

Anyway, not too shabby considering the power to weight ratio advantage a motorbike typically has.