Camping in the slow lane

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Originally Posted by crays

In his defense, the FAST LANE campers were probably doing 1.5 mph over the posted limit.

And not budging.

I believe it was GK that recently said something along the lines of:
The right lane is the new fast lane...

Sent from somewhere

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No worries - and no need to defend the OP. As I said, I have no issue with what he said he did; it's just that going that speed on a public road would require me to be wearing Depends as I'd surely sh!t myself.

Of course, I did pass a guy yesterday from the right lane @ 100mph. He'd been up and down on his speed, went below the speed limit for a bit before a passing lane came, then @ the passing lane immediately moved to that lane to block the guy in front of me from using it to pass him. It was a single lane each direction state hwy with a 1/2-3/4 mile passing zone. So I zoomed past (he sped up 20mph when he noticed me moving up). As soon as the passing zone ended I was well past and he slowed way down again. I looked back and saw he had 6 cars behind him. It was a power and control game for him. I took that away from him for me. He wasn't pleased.

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Originally Posted by theGinsue

No worries - and no need to defend the OP. As I said, I have no issue with what he said he did; it's just that going that speed on a public road would require me to be wearing Depends as I'd surely sh!t myself.

Of course, I did pass a guy yesterday from the right lane @ 100mph. He'd been up and down on his speed, went below the speed limit for a bit before a passing lane came, then @ the passing lane immediately moved to that lane to block the guy in front of me from using it to pass him. It was a single lane each direction state hwy with a 1/2-3/4 mile passing zone. So I zoomed past (he sped up 20mph when he noticed me moving up). As soon as the passing zone ended I was well past and he slowed way down again. I looked back and saw he had 6 cars behind him. It was a power and control game for him. I took that away from him for me. He wasn't pleased.

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Passing a similar type of person on 287 in Wyoming cost me serious money.

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Originally Posted by theGinsue

No worries - and no need to defend the OP. As I said, I have no issue with what he said he did; it's just that going that speed on a public road would require me to be wearing Depends as I'd surely sh!t myself.

Of course, I did pass a guy yesterday from the right lane @ 100mph. He'd been up and down on his speed, went below the speed limit for a bit before a passing lane came, then @ the passing lane immediately moved to that lane to block the guy in front of me from using it to pass him. It was a single lane each direction state hwy with a 1/2-3/4 mile passing zone. So I zoomed past (he sped up 20mph when he noticed me moving up). As soon as the passing zone ended I was well past and he slowed way down again. I looked back and saw he had 6 cars behind him. It was a power and control game for him. I took that away from him for me. He wasn't pleased.

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People that do this make me crazy. I spend a lot of time on the two lane highways, and it is so frustrating when people can't maintain their speed...then when the passing lane comes up, people speed up to only slow down again when it ends so the choice is either stay in the pack and be frustrated or drive at high speeds to get past them.

I don’t care what the speed limit is, if you have a line of cars behind you, you’re wrong.

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Originally Posted by theGinsue

No worries - and no need to defend the OP. As I said, I have no issue with what he said he did; it's just that going that speed on a public road would require me to be wearing Depends as I'd surely sh!t myself.

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I don’t feel unsafe going that fast. But I also know when to slow it down. With no speed limit, you drive speed to condition (traffic, weather, etc)

I would say in general normal traffic in those areas area 90-100 moh.

Going 125 you will get passed (occasionally) but someone doing 150 or 190mph.

But again it’s much different. Roads are perfect. No potholes, cracks, whoop-de-dos, uneven lanes, etc). Traffic stays right except to pass… and then gets back over, big trucks have to stay in right lane).

When roads and traffic are correct, driving fast doesn’t feel that dangerous.