
Originally Posted by
onearmedbandit
Depends on the vehicle maybe in Italy. Been told first hand of a ride in Italy on exotic bikes a few years back, where due to a breakdown of one of the bikes, they were given clearance to 'leg it' to make it to their destination without delay. I'm sure this isn't the norm but from everything I've heard 'performance vehicles' are appreciated a lot more by a lot more over there.
Italy is neat. I was riding something Red with a Termi exhaust near the factory - the local cops are very proud and go wild when you waft past them, front wheel three feet in the air... Wild in a good way. I was riding with locals... And it would have been rude not to.
One fine afternoon on the Autostrada, I was drafting my Alfa diesel (not the slowest car in the world, but it's in the running) behind a mate in a BMW M5 doing a buck ten (miles per) - local cops pull alongside in a mufti and give me thumbs up for the effort. I was thinking about jail time, they were taking video...
But the best buggers in the world are definitely the Americans. I got stopped in my Explorer for playing drift king on a snowy and hilly road between Sacramento and Nevada; the cop realised I wasn't a local when I answered his questions - turns out he was a big fan of a Kiwi called Rhys Millen who really is the drift king. Anyhow, I had him convinced that the Kiwi drivers test required us to be able to drift in snow because we had so much of it at home, especially in Auckland, during January... Ahem. Anyhow, he told me to behave and also gave me some advice about where to find women of very loose moral standards that might take pity on a lonely traveller (which turned out to be totally correct).
Its diametrically opposed to the sanitised existence of the Lemmings around me in the Dilbert Cartoon hell I live in; its life at full volume, perfect colour with high resolution and 10,000 watts of amplification.
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