Not so subtle hint
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pishta
I know I'm right....
That's not a deterent, that's a scorecard!
Tape a cardboard sign over the top that says “High Score: 98!”
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That sign has got double dog dare ya all over it!
diymirage
HP@idle > hondaHP@redline
i just measured it, from the corner to the trap is 1000 feet
i should be able to hit 98 on that
I believe a nice pair of long black tire marks starting right there would be most appropriate!! Funny how a few roads near me mysteriously have shown a few of those too.....
diymirage
HP@idle > hondaHP@redline
im pretty sure there are a few within 100 yards from there
diymirage
HP@idle > hondaHP@redline
Wonder if the city would notice if the trap moved 320 feet.....
i bet they would, it is chained down pretty solid
i wonder how they would react to a call from me to move it 320 fee though?
LocuMob
Fluid Technician
Remember to document and post your results, for posterity.
Yunick13
2 Time FABO NASCAR champ 2023 FABO NHRA champ
As long as it doesn't take your picture......
Princess Valiant
A.K.A. Rainy Day Auto
I wish the county would do that here, people really need to slow down. The way they make newer cars, most people don't realize they are constantly going too fast. Beginner drivers often have no idea what speed can do because no one told them and they are just so used to flying everywhere...... until something bad happens.
Driving too fast is destroying biking and walking all across this country.
Driving too fast is destroying biking and walking all across this country.
diymirage
HP@idle > hondaHP@redline
all kidding aside, you are correct
that 35MPH sign is the second one within 1000 feet
another 1/4 mile or so it goes up to 55 but judging by the way people drive here, you'd think it is 70 all the way through
this "trap" has been up for a day and i can tell, it gets peoples attention
Princess Valiant
A.K.A. Rainy Day Auto
That is why I have no idea why anyone would want to leave the Netherlands. They are decades ahead on their civil engineering and urban planning. They have really figured it out.
diymirage
HP@idle > hondaHP@redline
it had nothing to do with anything other then the wife
but now that ive lived here for almost 2 decades i dont think i could go back
for one, just the road tax on my plow truck would be over $500.00 per month
I recall doing some reading in like Popular Mechanics or somewhere on a baffled speed bump. Hit it at the posted limit and it releases so it's a smooth ride. Unnoticeable.
But hit it too fast and it goes rigid. Boom
But hit it too fast and it goes rigid. Boom
Scody21
Just send it
Funny you say that. About 10 years ago a few of my coworkers and I were speed testing the “speed bumps” on Speedway Blvd at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. They have the big tabletop style speed bumps and the speed limit is 25 along with a dip. If you go over the bumps at 25, the rental cars would rock like a tea cup in the ocean. So we decided that the challenge was to find the optimal speed to hit the bump / dip and make it feel like you were not hitting a speed bump while we were there for the week. So twice a day, we would increase our speed by a few MPH and hit the dip and bumps. We figured out that if you hit the bumps between 40 and 45 MPH while hitting the dip at 35 to 40 was the least hating on the rental car.
I think it’s awesome when you see those speed signs blinking like there broken, cus the speed is twice or three times what’s posted, in a safe manner of course...
pishta
I know I'm right....
we had about a 1 foot rise in a street over a flood control channel about 45 feet wide. If you hit it at about 70, your suspension would pop you up and set you down on the 'relief ramp" on the other side. Any slower and you would bounce the suspension on the bridge and end up lifting off the back end. Trouble was the speed limit on that street was 35......
dibbons
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Sign on the straightaway to the local international airport (translated: "No Drag Racing"). There is an official paved asphalt 1/8 mile drag strip about a mile from the airport, but is abandoned (used on the weekends by locals using flag starters).
diymirage
HP@idle > hondaHP@redline
Reminds me of my wife
One week last summer I was replacing a tire on her car, and it was the 3 flat tire shed had in a week
So I'm griping about that, and she says maybe it's the railroad crossing
And I say "what does that have to do with it?"
She says, every time I pass the railroad crossing on Lincoln I catch some air, maybe that's hard on it?
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