Quote from: herm (not herb) on October 21, 2009, 07:44:24 AM
dont forget canadian drivers...
i cringe whenever i see quebec plates near me on the road.

It's not just you...

They usually show up in rear view out of no where too!!

They think the I-89 in VT is their personal autobahn between Montreal and Boston.  

WA drivers are the worst. Here's an example:

http://www.werealotlikeyou.com/

Lick on Northwest Profile #4...then "Watch TV Ad". Completely true! 

Actually, pretty much all of their ads are true. 

Quote from: ducatiz on October 21, 2009, 07:55:53 AM
how do you know they are NYC drivers and not Albany/upstaters passing thru?  There is onthing on the plate to indicate county/city....

because it was you! 


ok, it was a generalization within a generalization.

i guess just because they are in the northern NJ, NYC, southern CT area and have NY plates, they aren't neccesarily from NYC.

Women drivers have lower insurance rates than men because a women has never got a BJ while driving


I was rear-ended at a stoplight while on the bike.
and then heard the engine rev, and got hit again (harder)
she said when she realized she had hit me she panicked and hit the gas pedal instead of the brake. 
lucky i wasnt killed

my wife is a safer rider and driver than i am. she takes fewer risks
but she is terrified to drive in the snow/ice and i always have to drive skiing and whatnot.

Quote from: KnightofNi on October 21, 2009, 06:52:18 AM
i see shitty drivers of all races and genders.

i tend to judge more by what state the plate is from than anything around my area.

NJ drivers suck, CT drivers can't figure out what the hell they want to do, what lane they should be in, or what speed they want to go. NYC drivers are just plain aggressive and rude. PA drivers tend to be indignant about their mistakes.


on the gender based thing, i get cut off by more women, and forced over by more men.

Living in the north east for just over a year now, I have to agree...

Quote from: herm (not herb) on October 21, 2009, 07:44:24 AM
dont forget canadian drivers...
i cringe whenever i see quebec plates near me on the road.

It's even worse when the plates are on a Semi.  Find someplace else to be when you run into them on 93/495 & such...

Quote from: ducatiz on October 21, 2009, 07:55:53 AM
how do you know they are NYC drivers and not Albany/upstaters passing thru?  There is onthing on the plate to indicate county/city....

Easy, just look at the bumpers.

Quote from: He Man on October 21, 2009, 11:28:28 AM
Easy, just look at the bumpers.

now see, if KnightofNi had said that I would have folded...

only a true new yorker knows that

if you have a car in NYC that has clean bumpers, it's either a brand new car or a tourist.

Quote from: He Man on October 21, 2009, 11:28:28 AM
Easy, just look at the bumpers.

Quote from: ducatiz on October 21, 2009, 11:36:19 AM
now see, if KnightofNi had said that I would have folded...

only a true new yorker knows that

if you have a car in NYC that has clean bumpers, it's either a brand new car or a tourist.

Not if you have one of these!

http://www.bumperbully.com/

That being said, I have never and will never drive the F150 there. Where the hell would I park it?

i drove my truck down there last fall, had no trouble parking (which was a bit of a surprise)
and to be fair, it was brooklyn, not NYC

Quote from: Mr. Exact on October 21, 2009, 04:38:26 PM
Not if you have one of these!

http://www.bumperbully.com/

That being said, I have never and will never drive the F150 there. Where the hell would I park it?

i have the bumper badger and still managed to get the corners mangled up from assmake the beast with two backss who can't park. 

Quote from: herm (not herb) on October 21, 2009, 04:59:13 PM
i drove my truck down there last fall, had no trouble parking (which was a bit of a surprise)
and to be fair, it was brooklyn, not NYC

yeah you might as well compare Bangor and Manhattan.  Totally different.  Not many high rises in Brooklyn.

I was flagging traffic for 5 hours day, and did a little study.

Several times during the day a vehicle failed to follow the simple instructions that I was giving them. Either STOP on one side, or SLOW on the other. The failure to stop was the big error, resulting in a few near head on collisions.

For reference, the instruction was givin by a 6'5" white male wearing blue jeans, white shirt, and a very yellow reflective vest on -- in the mist of several large trucks blocking the road w/ strobes on. I had a big sign, on it, about the size of a normal stop sign it was red, and read "STOP".

11 people failed to stop.
3 eldery women.
1 eldery man.
1 male.
6 women.

2 of the women were applying make up.
3 were on their cellphone.
1 was just in her own little world.


so chew the results how you want..

Quote from: wbeck257 on October 21, 2009, 05:16:42 PM
I was flagging traffic for 5 hours day, and did a little study.

Several times during the day a vehicle failed to follow the simple instructions that I was giving them. Either STOP on one side, or SLOW on the other. The failure to stop was the big error, resulting in a few near head on collisions.

For reference, the instruction was givin by a 6'5" white male wearing blue jeans, white shirt, and a very yellow reflective vest on -- in the mist of several large trucks blocking the road w/ strobes on. I had a big sign, on it, about the size of a normal stop sign it was red, and read "STOP".

11 people failed to stop.
3 eldery women.
1 eldery man.
1 male.
6 women.

2 of the women were applying make up.
3 were on their cellphone.
1 was just in her own little world.


so chew the results how you want..

and the 1 male was staring at the honkers on the girl sitting in the passenger seat...

Quote from: ducatiz on October 21, 2009, 05:23:49 PM
and the 1 male was staring at the honkers on the girl sitting in the passenger seat...

not going to lie. If it wasnt for brembos, id have bent rim and fork bender by running my bike into the rear of a van once cause i was doing that. Girls jogging with some BATs.