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Title: Why you don't cut the center line @ the gap
Post by: Slide Panda on June 14, 2013, 12:41:02 PM
Unwise early entry
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/966596_10151745373813140_1766364421_o.jpg)

Puts one over the double yellows - booo
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Then you get all untidy and into a line you can't recover from
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/981492_10151745373938140_163454295_o.jpg)

And karma wrecks revenge upon you
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/966597_10151745373973140_818745211_o.jpg)

And then your car's all busted
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Title: Re: Why you don't cut the center line @ the gap
Post by: ZLTFUL on June 14, 2013, 12:53:10 PM
See that one over on ADV?  [laugh]
Title: Re: Why you don't cut the center line @ the gap
Post by: Slide Panda on June 14, 2013, 06:40:13 PM
I'm sure it's in their gap fails thread too, but I was just looking over Killboys stuff. Didnt see the ADV version yet
Title: Re: Why you don't cut the center line @ the gap
Post by: ungeheuer on June 14, 2013, 11:58:21 PM
The VW Transporter was doing alright until veering onto the wrong side of the road.

But that bloody idiot in the BMW is looking for a head on [bang].




;D


Title: Re: Why you don't cut the center line @ the gap
Post by: Slide Panda on June 15, 2013, 03:19:50 AM
Whacky backwards driving Aussies.

Title: Re: Why you don't cut the center line @ the gap
Post by: Monsterlover on June 15, 2013, 07:15:40 PM
Deals Gap is like the death road now.
Title: Re: Why you don't cut the center line @ the gap
Post by: the_Journeyman on June 15, 2013, 07:22:01 PM
Saw that on Killboy's highlights.  I just spent a week in the gap area riding the gap almost every morning.  Lots of stupid driving, even during the week.  Usually the circus is on the weekends.  I have pics of a group of R1s that can't stay in their lane.  We met with a first-timer on an R6 that rode with our group.  He tossed is R6 about 40ft down the mountain because he didn't ride his ride and paid the consequences.  If you go there to prove something besides you can ride your own pace, you WILL get hurt.

JM
Title: Re: Why you don't cut the center line @ the gap
Post by: Oldfisti on June 16, 2013, 03:12:41 PM
Quote from: the_Journeyman on June 15, 2013, 07:22:01 PM
Saw that on Killboy's highlights.  I just spent a week in the gap area riding the gap almost every morning.  Lots of stupid driving, even during the week.  Usually the circus is on the weekends.  I have pics of a group of R1s that can't stay in their lane.  We met with a first-timer on an R6 that rode with our group.  He tossed is R6 about 40ft down the mountain because he didn't ride his ride and paid the consequences.  If you go there ride to prove something besides you can ride your own pace, you WILL get hurt.
JM


Fixed.   This applies to all rides in all places.

;)
Title: Re: Why you don't cut the center line @ the gap
Post by: coduc on June 18, 2013, 09:33:39 PM
Quote from: alfisti on June 16, 2013, 03:12:41 PM

Fixed.   This applies to all rides in all places.

;)

+1 to that   [drink]
Title: Re: Why you don't cut the center line @ the gap
Post by: MendoDave on June 19, 2013, 01:02:49 PM
The guy in the Porch was doing OK at first, but his exit point should have been aimed at the back of the BMW instead of the upper bank on the side of the road.  :P
Title: Re: Why you don't cut the center line @ the gap
Post by: Slide Panda on June 19, 2013, 01:09:11 PM
Ok at first? He's on the wrong side of the road - not ok
Title: Re: Why you don't cut the center line @ the gap
Post by: MendoDave on June 19, 2013, 01:11:20 PM
Wrong side of the road? Yea he knows that. You never crossed the double yellow before?
Title: Re: Why you don't cut the center line @ the gap
Post by: Speeddog on June 19, 2013, 01:18:53 PM
Looks to me like he went in *way* too fast, and at least recognized that early enough to use all of the available road.

Or possibly just a bit too fast with a botched line from the previous corner.

Either way, screwed from the get-go.

:P
Title: Re: Why you don't cut the center line @ the gap
Post by: MendoDave on June 19, 2013, 01:22:38 PM
Quote from: Speeddog on June 19, 2013, 01:18:53 PM
Looks to me like he went in *way* too fast, and at least recognized that early enough to use all of the available road.

Or possibly just a bit too fast with a botched line from the previous corner.

Either way, screwed from the get-go.

:P

Well whatever he did, he botched that one up
looks kind of like he was steering into the other lane way too early.
Title: Re: Why you don't cut the center line @ the gap
Post by: Slide Panda on June 19, 2013, 01:40:39 PM
Quote from: Mendo Dave on June 19, 2013, 01:11:20 PM
You never crossed the double yellow before?

In a car? Like that? Actually no, I have not.
Title: Re: Why you don't cut the center line @ the gap
Post by: MendoDave on June 19, 2013, 01:44:26 PM
Quote from: Slide Panda on June 19, 2013, 01:40:39 PM
In a car? Like that? Actually no, I have not.

Don't ride with me on Hwy 1 then.  [evil]
Title: Re: Why you don't cut the center line @ the gap
Post by: lethe on June 19, 2013, 02:16:41 PM
Quote from: Mendo Dave on June 19, 2013, 01:11:20 PM
Wrong side of the road? Yea he knows that. You never crossed the double yellow before?
Nope, bad form and the wrong way to drive/ride on the street in my opinion.
Title: Re: Why you don't cut the center line @ the gap
Post by: ungeheuer on June 19, 2013, 10:41:37 PM
Quote from: lethe on June 19, 2013, 02:16:41 PM
Nope, bad form and the wrong way to drive/ride on the street in my opinion.
+1  Glad you're seeing it my way  ;D