Gotta Run on your Terms
I've been baited before by the "come and lets do an 80 MPH punch" but I won't bite on that hook. For me, there's got to be a redlight involved or nothing at all. Here's an exerpt from a recent encounter of mine:
I noticed there was this trick looking Nissan 300-ZX leading the pack and he comes blowing past me with his twin “Fart” cans, I thought, no, I’m not going to play catch me if you can with this guy. I just continue with my normal acceleration until I’m up to about 50 MPH. Typically with me, the import tuners want you to try and catch up with them as they weave through traffic doing 80 MPH in a 45 MPH zone. Anyway, then, it happened, the light up ahead turned red and stayed red until I got up there right next to him. Incredible, 2 line ups in one morning, no way, maybe this one will get froggy. Ha, you won’t be playing catch me if ya can now. Police check – Clear, traffic up ahead – Clear, pedestrians - clear. I can see I’ve got open road for at least a half a mile or more. Now, lets wait and see. The light turns green and I just ease into the throttle again in 1st gear. I’m at about 2500 RPM holding in 1st when I see out of the corner of my eye he jumps forward, I can hear the fart cans screaming to life. He got about a half a car jump on me before I punched it. In about 4 seconds I was 3 car lengths out in front of him. By the top top of second I think he just gave up cause he dropped back and flashed his headlights at me. I think that's the "race over" signal. I get more action on Sunday morning than on Friday night! I’ll have to change my theories on cruising. - BB