Return-Path: Date: Tue, 13 Jul 93 16:20:26 GMT From: behanna@syl.nj.nec.com Subject: Re: Great RCR II Sender: east-request@laser.east.sun.com Reply-To: east@laser.east.sun.com Apparently-To: >We made it back. > >We took route 66 west to Rt 219 north all the way to PA sunday morning. >Very nice road. Not as twisty as 250 but NO GRAVEL!. 219 south to I-64 is every bit as twisty as 250. Those of you who turned right on Saturday's ride instead of south to chase Buck Rogers, Jim Bothwell on the amazing 250, and myself and Annette missed out. And you're all a bunch of posers too! We clocked 180 miles in a little over four hours, and that included a leisurely lunch stop and a couple of sore butt stops. And there's a Buck Rogers Memorial Gouge in 219 somewhere when he overcooked a turn and planted a peg into the asphalt pretty hard. No crashes though--at least, not until I was paddling the ZX around on the grass to make a munchies run. A big thank you to the guy who helped me pick it up, and I'm sorry I don't remember your name. >Our only trouble was a speeding ticket in Maryland. We were >clocked by VASCAR doing 74 in a 55. The ticket was only $60 and >he only gave a ticket to me and a warning to my wife, so it >could have been worse. You could very well have been going slower. VASCAR is a big joke. If the ossifer hit the "start" button a fraction of a second late and the "stop" button a fraction of a second early, that could easily be the difference between timing you at 55mph and timing you at 74mph. The margin of error is easily that large. I have some human factors engineering data to back me up too. Email me if you want it, as it will take some prodding for me to dig it up should you want to fight this ticket. >But my wife's speedo and mine never agree, and we always thought >that her's was accurate and mine read high. Well, now it looks like >mine is still a little high, but more accurate than hers. Oh well. No, it just looks like the officer found a convenient patsy for the ticket. If you were quiet and didn't argue, he may not remember you well enough to even show up should you contest it, and you'd be off the hook. If you made a big stink about it, he'll be sure to remember you and take the time to show up in court. At any rate, the cost of the court proceeding exceeds the revenue generated from the ticket and serves as a discouragement against writing tickets in the first place. Maryland is a long way from home for you and I'd understand if you just mailed in a check, but I heartily encourage you to go fight it on principle. Just be glad you didn't get nailed in a construction zone. Maryland doubles fines in such zones, with a maximum fine of, get this, $1000!!! Ouch. Makes me wonder if they set up fake construction zones just to pump some more money out of the populace. Pisses me off too. >More after i get some work done. Stay tuned for the story of the >the RCR II Low-Side. Oof! >PKotHO DoD# 0570 BMWMOA# 58278 AMA# 651191 BMWRA# 16087 >^^^^^^ Thank you Mr. Yates. Was the title passed on? >Start planning now for the 94 NECDoDSF! You betcha. Later, Chris BeHanna DoD# 114 1983 H-D FXWG Wide Glide - Jubilee's Red Lady behanna@syl.nj.nec.com 1975 CB360T - Baby Bike Disclaimer: Now why would NEC 1991 ZX-11 - needs a name agree with any of this anyway? I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs.