That got the juices going!

[vifferman]

I have been wondering what sort of traction one might get, between Bridgstone and carpet...

Apparently, office flooring has terrific traction - perhaps too much...

[madbikeboy]

It's not racing. It's a life lesson in humility and (lack of) velocity to those boy racers. You're doing a public service.

[vifferman]

It's not racing. It's a life lesson in humility and (lack of) velocity to those boy racers. You're doing a public service.

In fact, apart from me giving it a bit more throttle than normal, it wasn't racing; I always give it stick there, and didn't go any faster than normal, just accelerated a bit harder'n normal.
Unnecessary display of acceleration? Get fucked!
It was entirely necessary to save me going nuts following the slow vehicles up the on-ramp.

But more to the point - did you click the link in the previous post? It has bikes, unnecessary acceleration, and cops misbehaving!

[madbikeboy]

I filtered at reasonable speed past a couple of cops this morning, making sure I gave them a polite wave...

Was waiting for the christmas lights to light up given that the reasonable speed was done in first gear for comedy...

[pritch]

It's not racing. It's a life lesson in humility and (lack of) velocity to those boy racers. You're doing a public service.

However worthy, I don't think the revenue gatherers would necessarily accept that as an excuse ...

Of late I have developed a little ploy for similar occasions. As the boy accelerates away from the lights I just stay beside him in first gear. When he puts his foot on the clutch to shift up, I hit the gas.

The effect is usually quite pleasing

[vifferman]

As the boy accelerates away from the lights I just stay beside him in first gear. When he puts his foot on the clutch to shift up, I hit the gas.

The effect is usually quite pleasing

That's kinda what happened yesterday. I was accelerating at usual speed, when I noticed the car was still beside me, so I gave it some more throttle and pulled ahead. However, being spring time, he was forcing his forced-aspiration car to suck in more pollen-laden air than was kind, and it sneezed loudly, paused to take a breath, while the VFR spooled up towards 12k rpm. This made the gap even biggerer. Presumably his manhood bits shriveled, and he had to stop in the side of the road for a cry.

But didja click the link? Cops behaving inappropriately.

[The Pastor]

Welcome to the world of sport commuting, ive been doing it for years!

[vifferman]

No kidding?
Well, I've been riding since 1973-ish, and have had a total of hmmm...about 15 years of commuting, including 9 in D'Auckland. Nearly got taken out the very first day here, but (obviously) survived...
T'other day wasn't the first day like that - just the first for a while that I've felt moved to comment on.