My lucky day.

[2007 FJR]

Took a ride up to Yosemite today. 73 degrees and everything is green all the way up Hwy 41. Holding 55 mph most of the way until I get to the passing lanes and here is a big white bus just up the road. So I kick it up a notch and cruise by the bus just as a highway patrol is going past in the other direction. I look down and I'm doing 75 mph! I see his brake lights and I know I'm toast! Sure enough he's on me in just 30 seconds. Lights go on and I pull over. He asked me where I'm headed and I tell him Yosemite to meet my wife and sister and have lunch. A series of questions and a series of straight up honest answers. He say's 8 beautiful words "today I'm going to give you a verbal" (can I get an amen) and then says "nice bike...have a nice day." He got Feeger fever.

:yahoo:

 

[smellthat?]

Little lil' sucker you are! Man, I hate that feeling of "uh oh, here comes Dad." Grats on the verbal - watch yourself - karma only allows one per riding season. :russian_roulette:

 

[Trooper]

Depends on if the trooper has an fjr more than karma... I'm just sayin.

 

[Eric L]

I am always incredibly grateful for that reasonable police officer who is out there trying to keep people safe and uses some discretion about who to write up. Frankly, the couple of warnings I have gotten over the past ten years have done more to keep me from speeding than anything.

I was stopped once on I270 in Rockville at 11PM on a Friday night when I was making a left lane merge into what could only be described as a nascar race. He pulled me over and clocked me at 71 in a 55 zone. He asked if I knew why he had pulled me over and I told him yes, but I was too worried about merging with cars doing 90mph to go slower. He glanced up at the road and said.. yeeeeaaaahhhh I can understand that. Have a nice night and be careful out there.

 

[Greb]

Nice :yahoo: , How are you supposed to pass a bus without speeding? Maybe that is why he was so forgiving

 

[dannymax]

Nice :yahoo: , How are you supposed to pass a bus without speeding? Maybe that is why he was so forgiving

I've often wondered about this, how do you pass ANYTHING without speeding? Not being a big fan of dawdling around out in the passing lane I probably exceed the posted limit every time I pass something!

And the thrill of cheek wrinkling acceleration has nothing to do with it, it's purely a safety thing!!

 

[exskibum]

We have a CHP forum member on an '08 who lives not far north or that area -- great guy, and good rider. I don't know whether that's an area he would be patrolling, but maybe you just met a forum member and didn't know it. Probably a good thing you weren't in the Park and stopped by a ranger, though.

 

[W.M.-Millman]

Nice :yahoo: , How are you supposed to pass a bus without speeding? Maybe that is why he was so forgiving

I've often wondered about this, how do you pass ANYTHING without speeding? Not being a big fan of dawdling around out in the passing lane I probably exceed the posted limit every time I pass something!

And the thrill of cheek wrinkling acceleration has nothing to do with it, it's purely a safety thing!!

I was thinking the same thing, don't stay too long in a vehicles’ blind spot. Good thing you went up yesterday sounds like Saturday they will be closed for awhile.

 

[wheatonFJR]

Depends on if the trooper has an fjr more than karma... I'm just sayin.

Ah...says the trooper.

<light dawning>

So it sounds like my tickets have likely been written by HD riders...or

 

[Harald]

Nice :yahoo: , How are you supposed to pass a bus without speeding? Maybe that is why he was so forgiving

I suspect all states are different, but here in WA you can exceed the speed limit when passing on a 2 lane. They don't say by how much and we all know that the FJR can really smoke around a slow car! :yahoo: I'm not sure if I can justify my speed if I ever get caught doing a pass, but my plan is to tell the truth which is that I want to spend as little time in the opposing lane as possible and a high speed pass accomplishes that goal.

 

[garyahouse]

Was traveling west toward US 19 in West Central Florida, heading for work at 6 a.m. and came upon three cars lumbering along just at the speed limit. I saw an opening, so I pulled into the oncoming lane and let out the reins on the Feej. About the time I reached the rear bumper of the first of three cars I intended to pass, I'd picked up perhaps 25 mph. Guess the driver had the same idea, and was pulling into the same "passing" lane I was in. There was no where to go but forward. When I saw him coming into my lane, I shifted left a little and blew by him before he could get his boat fully into the passing lane; which of course caused him to veer back into his own lane. I didn't plan it that way, and didn't mean to scare the fella, but I'm sure glad I had 145 reasons that he didn't have time to run me off the road into the ditch. Once again glad I own a Feej, and needless to say, that's exactly why we need to be extra cautious when we pass. Most people don't expect anything to accelerate like that from behind them.

Gary

darksider #44

 

[TomInPA]

The unanswered question: How long before you caught up with that bus and had to pass it again?

 

[JamesW]

Nice :yahoo: , How are you supposed to pass a bus without speeding? Maybe that is why he was so forgiving

I've often wondered about this, how do you pass ANYTHING without speeding? Not being a big fan of dawdling around out in the passing lane I probably exceed the posted limit every time I pass something!

And the thrill of cheek wrinkling acceleration has nothing to do with it, it's purely a safety thing!!

In theory you can (around here) reasonably exceed the speed limit to achieve a pass UNLESS THE VEHICLE YOU ARE PASSING IS DOING THE SPEED LIMIT

 

[trimmantom]

Well I'm glad that Karma was with you and you got a break.

Today I decided to start riding the FJR to work to save on gas. My truck is a gas hog.

I normally take the highway and it's patrolled by the cops pretty good so when I'm driving the truck I stay pretty close to the speed limit.

I decide I'll take back roads to avoid cagers, on the way home today not 45 minutes ago I come around a corner and low and behold I pass a county cop going in the other direction. I know I was going a little over the speed limit and slowed down hoping he's not coming to get my ***, well he does 61 in a 45 and doesn't cut me any slack.I was speeding and I didn't ask for a break and didn't get one, was just about to get one ticket off my record in may and now this. This is my first ticket on a motorcycle.

I really don't think you can get on an FJR and not speed at some point while you're driving it, it's just begging you to go faster.

Well anyway Karma wasn't with me today and hasn't been for quite some time.

Everybody drive safe out there and try not to speed to much.

 

[bluesdog]

The lousy weather has restricted my riding so far this "spring", (1/2" snow this morning!), but I've discovered a few speed-friendly roads!

There are, for example, sections of highway 3 between Keremeos and Osoyoos where you can see for miles ahead and below you, and few hiding places for the Queen's Cowboys with their radar guns.

Not that I would ever dream of exceeding the posted limit...

 

[2007 FJR]

Almost forgot the pic of Yosemite that day.

 

[JamesW]

The lousy weather has restricted my riding so far this "spring", (1/2" snow this morning!), but I've discovered a few speed-friendly roads!

There are, for example, sections of highway 3 between Keremeos and Osoyoos where you can see for miles ahead and below you, and few hiding places for the Queen's Cowboys with their radar guns.

Not that I would ever dream of exceeding the posted limit...

5A from Merritt to Princeton and then 3 thru Keremeos is way nice, and then I drop accross the border at the nighthawk crossing and south through Okanogan staying to the westside roadway untill you come out at 97 (road goes through Loomis)many forest rats but not much forest.