Happy Motoring! How is it going with the new gear? I'll bet you're liking the harder pull in all of the gears!
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Originally posted by silver_bullet View PostHappy Motoring! How is it going with the new gear? I'll bet you're liking the harder pull in all of the gears!
And check out Red's latest aero accessory. This fellow was on the trailing edge of the hood when were were leaving the motel this morning. He's one of those leaf bugs. This is the view from his back end. He just faced himself forward and hung on with his two back feet clinging to the edge of the hood in front of the windshield wiper.
He rode for over 200 miles before we stopped to eat, and 77 mph one time didn't blow him off. I'll bet he had two thoughts when he DID get off - wow that was a really windy day, and.....where in the heck AM I ?!?!!?
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Originally posted by silver_bullet View PostReally bugging you was it????Charter member of the Turd Nuggets
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Originally posted by 68scott385 View PostPoor bug. You separated it from its family.Charter member of the Turd Nuggets
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Originally posted by cstmwgn View Post
Not for long!
So we did stop, and a number of things happened outside while we were stopped eating. The intrepid bug got loose. We expected that. Before we stopped, the GPS was hollering, "Stay left in 2/10ths of a mile." I could SEE the intersection. so we got through eating and I got back out in the street and stayed left at the intersection and the GPS said, "Turn around, make a U-turn." What the....
Now we are being led on a wayward way, go back 20 miles in the same direction we had come to get here. Turn around. Stop. Argue with the GPS, reset the route. Twice. What the....
The GPS finally agreed, stay left at that intersection. So the GPS changed its mind about the route while we were eating. Also, Red's computer changed its mind about about how much gas we had. NOW, we're gonna run out of gas before we get home. Maybe somebody siphoned some of Red's gas out while we were eating, but I seriously doubt it.
So the "new" and "improved GPS route said go up here and turn left. Into a neighborhood. Coming off of the ridge on a road the likes of which I'd never seen. Tail of the Dragon? No, the overall speed limit on the "street" was 25 mph, and that's about 15 mph too fast in some of THOSE corners. GOSH what an incline. And there was somebody in a white Lexus crossover behind us, painting our ass. They wanted MORE, more speed. You've gotta be kidding.
And toward the bottom, pulling some moderate lateral G's just steering around those super deluxe hairpin switchback curves, I sloshed all of Red's remaining gas over to the other side of the tank. Remember the race track problem? Dash alarm.....LOW FUEL. I know that's not true, but now I don't even know how much fuel we really DO have.
A makeshift road trip is a blast. We'll do it again. Soon.
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Originally posted by pdub View PostYesterday we settled in Campbellsville, Ky
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