I swear I'm not swapping my snow tires yet for at least one more month...

[MrLeisure757]

(oh jees, got to goooo 15 MPH on this sharp turn on 42nd Ave S in my Olds Cutlass Supreme, donchya know! Oh jees, that honda behind me is honking his horn, I think he's gonna shoot me! oh fer scary!). I know who on this board will agree with me here and who will not

Oh don't get me started. I've had numerous occasions like this in my short two months here! A new one I didn't tell you yet Jace was the other day getting on to Columbia from Demers I took that "on-ramp" and the guy in the Alero infront of me stopped at the Yield sign. No traffic was coming. He sat there for another couple seconds. I honked. He turns around and shouts something and then continues on.

 

[JaceTheAce]

Oh don't get me started. I've had numerous occasions like this in my short two months here! A new one I didn't tell you yet Jace was the other day getting on to Columbia from Demers I took that "on-ramp" and the guy in the Alero infront of me stopped at the Yield sign. No traffic was coming. He sat there for another couple seconds. I honked. He turns around and shouts something and then continues on.

Typical that's the turn I like to take fast - one of the very few curves in North Dakota. Did I mention those Aleros are amazing handling cars for this reason? Incredible performance, incredible.

 

[ZUKO]

UGH. I just got weathered for the third day in a row. I want to get my solo done :| . I wonder if I would be doing my check ride today if it wasnt or the weather.

I guess I will have just more time to study my ground school today.

 

[MrLeisure757]

Typical that's the turn I like to take fast - one of the very few curves in North Dakota. Did I mention those Aleros are amazing handling cars for this reason? Incredible performance, incredible.

Hahaha, yes I heard about them Aleros.

But yeah, as I type this my car is getting the auto-start installed...should be nice when it's all done! When I dropped it off this morning I couldn't help but do a little drifting around a few corners

 

[JaceTheAce]

Hahaha, yes I heard about them Aleros.

But yeah, as I type this my car is getting the auto-start installed...should be nice when it's all done! When I dropped it off this morning I couldn't help but do a little drifting around a few corners

I've been thinking about installing an auto-start myself... but I have to disable the clutch pedal switch so it'll start without depressing the clutch pedal. And I'd have to remember to leave it in neutral, or I might see the car slammed into the car in front of it.

But then again... this is my last North Dakota winter ever, so... maybe I should brave the third one without the auto-start again.

 

[Screaming_Emu]

Oh don't get me started. I've had numerous occasions like this in my short two months here! A new one I didn't tell you yet Jace was the other day getting on to Columbia from Demers I took that "on-ramp" and the guy in the Alero infront of me stopped at the Yield sign. No traffic was coming. He sat there for another couple seconds. I honked. He turns around and shouts something and then continues on.

So the man stopped to open his beer...what's the big freakin deal?

/sarcasm...as if it even needs to be said

Typical that's the turn I like to take fast - one of the very few curves in North Dakota. Did I mention those Aleros are amazing handling cars for this reason? Incredible performance, incredible.

I think its all in the wing. You know, gotta keep those rear tires on the road in a front wheel drive car

 

[JaceTheAce]

So the man stopped to open his beer...what's the big freakin deal?

/sarcasm...as if it even needs to be said



I think its all in the wing. You know, gotta keep those rear tires on the road in a front wheel drive car

hahaha that's right... I never quite understood the logic of placing a rear wing on FWD car.

 

[TXaviator]

I've been thinking about installing an auto-start myself... but I have to disable the clutch pedal switch so it'll start without depressing the clutch pedal. And I'd have to remember to leave it in neutral, or I might see the car slammed into the car in front of it.

But then again... this is my last North Dakota winter ever, so... maybe I should brave the third one without the auto-start again.

silly jace, they make autostarts for manual trans vehicles.

 

[JaceTheAce]

silly jace, they make autostarts for manual trans vehicles.

Oh I know - but you still have to disable the clutch switch... if you don't depress the clutch, my car (and most new cars) won't start. They do have auto starts made for manual tranny cars but they are always a lot more expensive and on some of them all they do is disable if the parking break isn't engaged (via a simple switch you install).

 

[airplanerik]

I've been thinking about installing an auto-start myself... but I have to disable the clutch pedal switch so it'll start without depressing the clutch pedal. And I'd have to remember to leave it in neutral, or I might see the car slammed into the car in front of it.

But then again... this is my last North Dakota winter ever, so... maybe I should brave the third one without the auto-start again.

Lemme know how that goes if you end up doing it -- i've got a manual as well. I wish I had an auto-start, but not for the price I have heard it costs! It's prolly not worth it on a car as old as mine. I'd prolly spend more money on the auto-start than the value of the car itself! haha

 

[Tommay85]

Typical that's the turn I like to take fast - one of the very few curves in North Dakota. Did I mention those Aleros are amazing handling cars for this reason? Incredible performance, incredible.

Hey, if I'm driving said alero, you bet I'm gona be hauling ass right with you. Granted, I'm gona be in white knuckle swamp ass mode, and you'll probably be eating a hamburger.

I think the fastest I've gone through the S onto columbia from demers is 50. The 42nd street S, I've gona 60ish though. I thought I was gona die. lol If you get your technique just a tiny bit off in my car(or most pre 1998 domestics) when taking corners fast, you're gona be all over the curb or worse.

 

[TXaviator]

you're gona be all over the curb or worse.

theres a memorial cross at that corner for good reason :insane:

 

[Screaming_Emu]

I think the fastest I've gone through the S onto columbia from demers is 50. The 42nd street S, I've gona 60ish though. I thought I was gona die. lol If you get your technique just a tiny bit off in my car(or most pre 1998 domestics) when taking corners fast, you're gona be all over the curb or worse.

so your'e one of THOOOSE idiots I live right near there and walk across that road every time I walk to/from campus

 

[Tommay85]

Both of those S's have excellent visibility around them. I am one of those "idiots" that drive fast occasionally, but I look WAY ahead to see what my cause a conflict. When a lot of people drive fast, they still keep their sight distance in too close like they were driving slower, especially around corners. There is a safe way to drive fast. Maybe not safe for you, but you're not gona hurt anyone else. err yeah

I should also say that I only go fast around the first part of the S on 42nd. You'd be nuts to continue that up around the gas station and then have to stop quickly for 32nd ave. Going the other way is fair game.

 

[Screaming_Emu]

Both of those S's have excellent visibility around them. I am one of those "idiots" that drive fast occasionally, but I look WAY ahead to see what my cause a conflict. When a lot of people drive fast, they still keep their sight distance in too close like they were driving slower, especially around corners. There is a safe way to drive fast. Maybe not safe for you, but you're not gona hurt anyone else. err yeah

I should also say that I only go fast around the first part of the S on 42nd. You'd be nuts to continue that up around the gas station and then have to stop quickly for 32nd ave. Going the other way is fair game.

hehe, I know, I'm just messing. Actually, the dumbest thing I've seen someone do is stop to let me cross and then almost get rear ended by someone coming off of columbia not expecting someone to be stopped. People here are too nice to drive well. I make it insanely obvious that I'm not going to jump out in front of them.

 

[ZUKO]

I got a speeding ticket the first week of school this year. Going 53 in that 40 right by the alerus center. First speeding ticket ever. Now I dont drive that fast.

 

[JaceTheAce]

theres a memorial cross at that corner for good reason :insane:

That cross is for a motorcyclist that tried to outrun the police... about 2 years ago.

But honestly, can you almost be sure that the guy didn't wear a helmet?

---> You are NOT a man if you wear a helmet.

 

[Tommay85]

hehe, I know, I'm just messing. Actually, the dumbest thing I've seen someone do is stop to let me cross and then almost get rear ended by someone coming off of columbia not expecting someone to be stopped. People here are too nice to drive well. I make it insanely obvious that I'm not going to jump out in front of them.

Ha, people do the same crap on columbia. I always try to time myself crossing the street so that I dont stop traffic. I like when people stop like half a block in advance. I guess I can't blame them considering most people just run out in the street without looking. I love how lots of people think pedestrians have the right away on ALL of university when in fact they only have the right away at those hashed crosswalks with 15mph speed limits.

Even though they have the right away there, I sure as heck look anyway, because regarless of the law, a two ton metal object has the right away in physics. You'd think a bunch of college students would know something so elemetary. Don't they remember their moms telling them to look both ways first when they were like 4 years old? :insane:

 

[JaceTheAce]

I got a speeding ticket the first week of school this year. Going 53 in that 40 right by the alerus center. First speeding ticket ever. Now I dont drive that fast.

My radar detector always catches cops near the Alerus stadium. They sit at the South East entrance of the parking lot and radar you. I usually get plenty of warning when I turn southbound past Ryan hall. I RARELY drive over the speed limit in town... mainly because it's not worth it to speed when everything is within 10 minutes anyway...and if you speed you are on a suicide mission with the drivers here who seem to not have any distance/speed judgement when pulling out right in front of you. Also, the cops here seem to be pretty strict in handing out tickets for only a few MPH over, so I avoid it. I've caught up to people going 65 on that 40MPH section driving naked (ie, without radar detector).

The only time I speed is when I go around the only 2 curves in GF

I've never earned a speeding ticket... KNOCK ON WOOD.

 

[Tommay85]

That cross is for a motorcyclist that tried to outrun the police... about 2 years ago.

But honestly, can you almost be sure that the guy didn't wear a helmet?

---> You are NOT a man if you wear a helmet.

I love seeing a couple of students and instructors ride their motorcycles out to the airport with no helmet on. Wow! :whatever: