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Speeding on freeways

I have a 27-year-old Jaguar XK8 with about 85,000 miles on it. I'm not overstressing the drivetrain and drive the speed limit. When I drove the Oregon State highways to Salem for my VA appointment, I took it easy and avoided a potential accident. (A bedroom dresser had fallen from a vehicle and nearly caused a calamity.) At my age, I enjoy long-distance touring and let those who would speed on to collect the jail time and citations. To heck with that!

I'm a true Grand Touring-style cruiser and my Jaguar says it all: Grace, space and pace.
 
The construction of a data center near here has made life very hazardous. Debate the usefulness of the data centers but the actual construction turns rural areas into high-speed disaster areas. Speeding and flipped semi's, traffic jams, torn up roads, high cost housing and imported people who don't even speak Spanish; more like the bar scene in Star Wars. I take the back roads to work now where the only thing I'm worried about is running into a hog.
 
Jfal said:
I shouldn't post here. I just bought a sport bike this past spring (rode sport-tourers most of my life), and on a nice day with low traffic, I've been known to push the envelope a tad...
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No worries - everyone occasionally exceeds the limits. It is what it is. Now then, exceeding it by 3x the posted, well that is something else entirely.
 


It seemed to me like they actually extradited this guy from Texas to stand trial. I don't remember if he got any jail time if he did it wasn't more than 30 days and they suspended his license for 7 years (?).

When I first heard about this on the news it occurred to me that the fact that he made it from Colorado Springs I don't remember if he actually made it into Denver or he made it to Aurora he made it all that way and never ran into a single cop.

If anybody here is from Colorado Springs or familiar with Colorado Springs he got on the interstate at Garden of the Gods
 
Captain O said:
I have a 27-year-old Jaguar XK8 with about 85,000 miles on it. I'm not overstressing the drivetrain and drive the speed limit. When I drove the Oregon State highways to Salem for my VA appointment, I took it easy and avoided a potential accident. (A bedroom dresser had fallen from a vehicle and nearly caused a calamity.) At my age, I enjoy long-distance touring and let those who would speed on to collect the jail time and citations. To heck with that!

I'm a true Grand Touring-style cruiser and my Jaguar says it all: Grace, space and pace.
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I had a guy passing me in the middle of boring Kansas -looked like the Jed Clampett truck from Beverly Hillbilly's... a full length couch came sliding off the back of the truck into my lane just as he got far enough ahead to move over. I dodged down onto the shoulder which was hella soft and was shouting "SLOW!SLOW!" to myself as the critical point is trying to steer when your tires are pushing up a berm. Got it slowed down and back up onto the roadway.
 
With the blue wave that the voters ushered in to America, I suspect that the enforcement of speed will take a back seat to most all other calls for service. I just pray they figure out the cost of defunding the police department before the costs of lives gets too high.
 
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