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Do all 911 owners drive like this?
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the_mad_electrician  



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 7:32 am    Post subject: Do all 911 owners drive like this? Reply with quote

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVKXDVVJAD4
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 7:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just waiting for a motorcycle to come around the corner and clip it. People that take up the road like that on corners you can't see through make me fume.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 7:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What I wouldn't give to be driving a huge truck the other direction. Dumbasses.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 8:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I see guys do that on our driving tour all the time and think to myself, if I can stay in my lane doing the same speed why can't you.
I think it make them feel a little more race-ee.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 8:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

To me, the porsche looks to be being driven fairly sensibly based on the view from the camera. Using the road only on corners that look to open up enough to be able to see through, sticking to lanes on the truely blind corners. Sensible approach to slower traffic.

The only bad choices I can see are the overtake by the porsche where I would have prefered to leave more room, and the suicidal looking overtake by the scooby(?)
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 8:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

rat wrote:
and the suicidal looking overtake by the scooby(?)


You got it right, that's a WRX in some form as the camera car, and he definitely made the the worst of the moves, but I agree, you can have plenty of fun staying on your own side of the road.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 11:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, they do! ... It's not just the machine, but the operator as well.

I think the Scooby would take 'em, I'd be more afraid of smashing up a 911 versus a Scoob.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 11:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's the only way they can keep 931s behind them.

I found that out through experience.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 12:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Seemed pretty mellow to me, TBH.

Segway. . .

911 pRon!
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 12:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If that wide ass 911 wasn't pig-ing up the road, the WRX would be two states over by now. As a biker too, I fume at racer wanna bees that think dipping below the line is cool. A real driver can go fast and keep it in his own lane without endangering others.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 12:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rasta Monsta wrote:
Seemed pretty mellow to me, TBH.

Segway. . .

911 pRon!


Oh yeah, that's how it's done, super bad !!!
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 1:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thats bad alright.. the wrx sounds good.
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Paul  



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 1:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree with staying in your lane, I always do even on the tail of the dragon.

However: could Steve McQueen be wrong? Check out this classic footage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25Hg7oYMtpQ&feature=player_embedded
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 3:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i don't cut corners like that am i am uncomfortable riding with drivers who do. too many what if's.
my stepdad says its a much better challenge driving quicker on your own side and I like that philosophy.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 6:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Paul wrote:
I agree with staying in your lane, I always do even on the tail of the dragon.


If you drove on the dragon like that you would have killed about 15 people! Good thing for him the curviest road in Georgia is much less popular to motorcyclist.
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