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Does light rain make cagers turn stupid?
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June 16, 2009 at 11:25 pm #3019SafetyFirstParticipant
Starts misting a little rain. No biggie, I’ve never rode in the rain, but this stuff looks light. I’ll just ride around the comfort zone of where I live, roads I’m familiar with, and if it’s too much for me, I’m going home.
I got cut-off by Ford Escort pulling out of a business while I was doing 35. I spotted him as a hazard before he did it, so it didn’t take me by surprise. Got an angry ‘meep’ of the horn, and I decided that I wasn’t riding head-cool anymore. I needed to get home.
In second going down a side-street at 25. Easing off the throttle coming up to the intersection of the main drag by the Autozone. All of sudden I see this red Honda dart from the main road onto the side street in front of me. Emergency braking, all while trying to remember not too hard, the road is a little wet. Car darts into the side-entrance of the Autozone parking lot. Boy inside, “Seniors 2009” painted on the back window, after I gave him the look when I got stopped with another toot of the angry ‘meep’. Ugh. That intersection is awful. There’s tall shrubs, and the turn is at an angle, so his visibility and mine of him is impossible. I just wish he would have actually looked before gunning it in to the parking lot in my right-of-way.
I’m fixing myself a drink. I thought the road conditions and handling were what I needed to be worried about during a light rain. Apparently, it’s the cagers that go nuts. Two close calls within 5 minutes of each other.
June 16, 2009 at 11:28 pm #19813MunchParticipantNot just light rain…any precip. Poor souls are scared they might melt.
June 17, 2009 at 11:11 pm #19869RedFireBirdParticipanti don’t know about you, but there’s been times when i’ve had to ride in double lane traffic, in rain so heavy i could barely see the car ahead of me, visor fogged up and glasses fogged up as well. pulling over isn’t exactly the best idea at that point if you can still follow lights in front of you. you’re more at risk of being HIT on the side of the road than you are if you keep following those lights.
that being said, there’s no need to run your flashers while going down the highway. though i find it even more ridiculous to enforce such laws.
June 18, 2009 at 12:05 am #19870MunchParticipantSo what we can see here is that the community all be it wayyy of topic….does atleast agree that YES….cagers get stupid in the rain.
June 18, 2009 at 7:48 pm #19916bigguybbrParticipantWeird….
So the hazzard lights while traveling might be a state to state thing. Case in point. Lets go back to the magical summer of ’98. I was 18, fresh out of high school, and decided my s10 needed a better stereo. So I got one, and wired it up myself. Well I might have mis-wired the head unit leading to it blowing out the fuse for my tail lights. Well I was pulled over 3 nights in a row (CT is serious about cracking down on tail light offenders) and each time the officers had me put on my hazard lights and was told to keep them on while driving.
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