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Busted for going a buck thirty.

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WFO said:
It turned out to be a young park ranger. He asked me why I sped away and I told him I thought he was a tweaker or some other maniac. I then asked him how fast he was going on the long straight. He let me go with a warning.
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Oh boy Park Rangers. My dad passed one at an intersection, all cars were stopped. He was on the right side, but within the white line.

Off he goes, and by the time he got to the next little town, the police were blocking the road. He got waved over and of course pulled over immediately. He takes off his helmet they see his gray hair and they recognized him. Just as they were explaining why they were running a road block, park Ranger comes ripping up in an F250 and jumps out to make the arrest for the egregious behavior.

The municipal police supervisor said yo kid, calm down, I don’t think you know the California vehicle code well enough. The guy drives through here every day on the way to work and he’s not a menace to society. Go do your job and we will do ours. The 25-year-old Park Ranger looked like he wanted to fight the cops and argued vehemently that an arrest was warranted in this situation.

Fish and game officers and Park Rangers are high on the list of people never to fuck around with.
 
I got pulled over by a ranger on Hwy 9 while driving my 4Runner and pulling a camping trailer. He claimed I was holding people up. I was doing the speed limit. Some guys are just assholes, swinging their ducks around.
 
Doing the speed limit and holding people up are not mutually exclusive.
 
ST Guy said:
I got pulled over by a ranger on Hwy 9 while driving my 4Runner and pulling a camping trailer. He claimed I was holding people up. I was doing the speed limit. Some guys are just assholes, swinging their ducks around.
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Given that situation I think he was using his duck quite correctly. :teeth

If you were using the pull outs and he still yanked ya then yeah. He was swinging it. :LOL:
 
I was doing the speed limit and I wasn’t holding up traffic.
 
If you were not holding up traffic all good.
 
In most cars, you need to be going downhill to hit redline in the top gear.
 
I got a dumb ticket because I was just taking the bike out to "charge the battery". It had been sitting in my garage unridden for quite a while, so I decided to hop on hwy 101. It was early on a Sunday morning and I literally only drove 3 miles and got off after 2 exits and made a U-Turn to go back home. On my way back I wicked it up to 80 for a very short period, next thing I see is the flashing lights.
 
ST Guy said:
I was doing the speed limit and I wasn’t holding up traffic.
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The speed limit is merely a minimum speed guideline.
Prius, Volvo and now apparently Mini Cooper drivers have never figured this simple principle out. :laughing
 
If I was driving my Mini, he’d never have caught me.
 
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ctwo said:
What is impressive about a buck twenty in a vette on a track?
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You missed the point. It’s not the speed, it’s the timing. Take a look at the odometer in both pics.
 
Enchanter said:
You missed the point. It’s not the speed, it’s the timing. Take a look at the odometer in both pics.
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Oh, we're swinging the results of a MPH/RPM calculation? So your vette scores (roughly 120/2.600) 46

and an s1000rr scores something like 13?

Why is breaking a ton at, say, 1800 RPM impressive? There has to be something more to it? I mean, I don't get it. Engineers can play with all sorts of parameters to achieve this result (bore, stroke, gearing, valving, timing, electronics...), of course at extreme cost elsewhere. So there has to be something that makes this impressive.

Is it the only production car that can achieve 120 MPH at this low of an RPM, and this is a notable and well known benchmark that indicates some difficult achievement?

I did, however, read that a road test of a 1968 Barracuda 340-S noted it was capable of sustained 100 mph speeds at an estimated 4,350 RPM. That's a score of 23, which is closer to the S1kRR than this vette, but does that mean it's better than the S1KRR?
 
Dude...I said odometer. I didn't say tachometer.
 
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