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How fast have you gone; in your metro?
Topic Started: Oct 14 2012, 03:13 AM (7,662 Views)
metroschultz
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I just had to make a trip to Charleston for my FiL's funeral.
On the way south, last Tuesday, I fell in with a Saab/Nissan/BMW and at one point my Garmin said we were doing 104mph.
I called GeoJoJo after we settled down a bit and left the message;
"Hey, I was just going 1.7 miles per minute - you do the math."
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Woodie
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metroschultz
Aug 11 2014, 12:32 PM
I called GeoJoJo after we settled down a bit and left the message;
"Hey, I was just going 1.7 miles per minute - you do the math."
I happened to be standing very near that conversation. A little steam came out of our ears until we settled on 100 mph.
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metroschultz
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Please just call me; "Schultz"

That's about the time I decided to get out of that line of cars.
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That's about the time I decided to get out of that line of cars.
Good decision. :cheers
If you think about how that speed (104 mph) is so very close to being the absolute hp limited speed for a Metro, then imagine what can happen if any car in the front of the line did anything to break or upset the draft in any way.... Before you can even recognize what is happening you have already been hit from behind. At those speeds it usually end badly.

For a solid year I watched conga lines of cars daily in Florida doing 90-100+ on I-95 with no more than 1 car length between each of of them. The second they started to pass me I would slow as much as absolutely practical (traffic permitting) to allow them to get as far away from me as possible as fast as possible. I also saw the aftermath of multiple car pile-ups in the median on a weekly basis, and they usually included at least one fatality. One of was a group that had just passed me 10 minutes prior.

Perfect yet horrifying examples of inertia gone bad. :'(
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perfesser
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When I worked in Boca Raton, I saw a bumper sticker that said "Pray for me! I drive I-95!!" I've had bluehairs in Caddies come up so close behind my bike I had a headlight in each mirror! I've driven in a lot of "interesting" places around the world, but that summer in south Florida was the only time I've regularly feared for my life!
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One morning while working in Kazakhstan I missed the shuttle van the airline provided for us and had to catch a ride from one of the hotel vans. On a daily basis we witnessed some of the most interesting and "creative" city driving I could ever imagine people actually doing, but this particular ride to the airport took on a surrealistic Ronin-esque quality that was so freakin' scary that about half way through I think I stopped being scared and finally just sat back and watched in complete numbness.

Up until that point I think I had believed that driving on sidewalks or weaving in and out of head-on traffic, pedestrians, and donkeys in the opposite lanes at high speeds was something that only happened in movies. I had been wrong. Very wrong. And I honestly didn't believe a Toyota Van could hit 160+ kph until that morning.

That night, when I recounted my "ride" to the hotel manager (who we had become pretty good friends with), he explained very matter of factly that several of the vendor services at the hotel were kindly filled by a very family oriented local Russian company. Apparently they liked this hotel so much and had such an exceptional desire to procure those contracts that they had pretty much insisted their services be used. Turns out that this particular company also provided the security, laundry, and cleaning services for the hotel, and were even so interested in making the hotel an unforgettable experience for the guests that they even personally chauffeured a very attractive group of models/actresses/singers to the hotel bar every evening to disperse through the bar, lobby, and restaurant where they could socialize with all the guests and engage them in friendly conversation.

He also explained that some of the tattoos my driver was sporting on his hands and fingers may help explain arguably the most impressive display of fearlessness, calm, and absolute focus on "getting the job done" (in this case getting me to work on time) I had ever witnessed.

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I've driven in a lot of "interesting" places around the world, but that summer in south Florida was the only time I've regularly feared for my life!
:+1 (except my "summer" was actually 13 months of 100+ miles on I-95 each way, 5-6 days a week).

When it comes to hours of extended drafting punctuated by inevitable horrific crashes when soemone decides it's time to make their move, The only thing Talladega has over I-95 in south Florida is drivers with infinitely more developed skills, cars with fairly well matched performance, world class driver safety devices, and SAFER barriers. Other than that, they got nothin'.
Edited by myredvert, Aug 13 2014, 04:26 AM.
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ZXTjato
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Arizona is not a bad or scary place to drive its super super wide open and no one is around this open desert, but we do drive real fast around here because of this reason. and i mean fast, you say people do 90 100 on i5 or what ever thats fine but the one car between them is not ok. we drive that fast but like i said there is no one around. just this morning i was going around 100 just cruisin hangin out on my way to work 1 finger on the wheel as i sat back and drove. i still got passed up by a few cars when i dropped down to around 90 ish
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vr4


Just a quick 4th gear pull last night. Was catching up to traffic so I had to get out of it.

I still haven't changed the clutch. Might be slipping.

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