Thread: playing chicken
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Old 10-05-2010, 12:42 AM   #4
Water Warrior 2
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Re: playing chicken

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Originally Posted by alanmcorcoran
If you like to pass things, get a bigger bike. On the Strat, I just imagine myself in front of, well, ANYTHING, and I'm pretty much already there. It goes from 60-100 in about 2 seconds.

I only pass pedestrians and bicyclists when I'm on the Geezer (assuming I've got a tailwind and we're not going uphill.)
I can believe that. Was once passed by a kid on a skate board going downhill on the highway. I kept waiting for a bearing failure at 60 MPH and watching him get spit off with no safety gear.
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