To The Nissan/Hyundai Car Club In Boulder Canyon...

[Tim K]

I got to witness one of the greatest things a couple years back. brought warm and fuzzy feelings! Let me start off by saying I absolutely HATE the boulder bicyclists, or any of them for that matter that believe they own the road.

Was driving on Foothills hwy (7 or 36) between boulder and lyons heading up to estes.

4 bicyclists spread across the entire lane, plus their little bicycle lane. I think the speed limit is 55 or 60...they were doing 20-25. they created a line that was about 8 cars when I got to the back end, right behind a monster motor-home. the cars in front of the motor-home were able to get past, most flipping off or honking at them. they paid no attention of flipped the drivers off and continued to take up the whole lane.

Then the motor-home was next, couldn't get past because the oncoming traffic wasn't spaced good enough to get by. this went on for probably a good mile or two. the motor-home would lay on his horn for a while and the guy on the outside (middle of the road), would just flip him off and keep biking.

Finally the motor-home found the space, got next to the bicyclists and just started moving over...all the way into the bike lane and drove all 4 of the bicyclists off the side of the road where all but one wrecked!

I laughed soo hard it hurt! It was something I would have love to do but would never have the guts to do it for fear of killing someone of them denting my truck or something.

I pulled up next to the guy at the left turn toward lyons with my window rolled down and gave him a huge thumbs up!

The cyclists were clearly in the wrong and that kind of behavior pisses me off as much as the next guy, however, endangering lives is only funny until one is lost. The driver of the RV would have gone to prison. If you don't think being run off the road on a bicycle is life threatening, try it sometime. I've been run off before (riding out of the way of traffic on the shoulder by a vehicle in the oncoming lane) and barely missed a concrete culvert that could easily have put me down for good.

[Mtn.man]

DO NOT turn this into another bicycle Thread. The all suck we know it let it be.

[sniper7]

The cyclists were clearly in the wrong and that kind of behavior pisses me off as much as the next guy, however, endangering lives is only funny until one is lost. The driver of the RV would have gone to prison. If you don't think being run off the road on a bicycle is life threatening, try it sometime. I've been run off before (riding out of the way of traffic on the shoulder by a vehicle in the oncoming lane) and barely missed a concrete culvert that could easily have put me down for good.

your situation is one that drivers run into on a daily basis. the road is dangerous and that is a fact. riding a motorcycle is dangerous enough, even when you have larger size, loud exhaust and headlights and brake lights. bicycles usually have none of those, other than a tightly squeeze brightly dressed spandex pedeler. with that in mind I think bicycles should only be allowed on designated bicycle lanes unless they can keep up with the speed limit. they don't like to ride of sidewalks, and that is where I believe they belong. I would rather see a bike on pedestrian collision than I would a bike on truck or bike on semi, or even a bike on prius, although the later would make me laugh.

the guys in my story more than deserved what they got. I personally hoped their bikes were destroyed, and I would love to watch it happen again.

[Byte Stryke]

....... or even a bike on prius, although the later would make me laugh.

I did LOL

[Marlin]

a bike on prius, although the later would make me laugh

I'm sure my old Schwinn stingray 5 speed would flatten the prius, and keep on going.

[BigBear]

Question for you car guys: I'm not sure if I already asked this or not but...

What is the point in buying a $20K car and then sinking $30k into it? Why not buy the $50K car to start with?

Is it the available modding or you can get more out of those particular engines, or what's the deal?

[Irving]

The same reason you put $3,000 worth of accessories on a $1,500 gun, instead of just buying a $5,000 gun from the get go.

[kidicarus13]

For most people it's easier to drop small amounts of $ over time rather than dropping a lot of $ all at once.

[al_g]

Question for you car guys: I'm not sure if I already asked this or not but...

What is the point in buying a $20K car and then sinking $30k into it? Why not buy the $50K car to start with?

Is it the available modding or you can get more out of those particular engines, or what's the deal?

Lots of reasons. When I bought my 2000 Z28 in the fall of 99 I paid mid 20's for it. Over the next 2 years I put 15k in aftermarket work into it. So I was able to spread the cost over time. Then I modified the car exactly how I wanted it. You can't find a car off the lot setup like my 2000. I went for drag racing at Bandimere and made choices that hurt the on road driving but paid off awesome at the track. You won't see GM putting 4.56 gears into a car, or a cam that barely idles at 1,100 rpms. The ride ended up very poor on the street due to making the rear suspension very stiff and the front very loose, yet I ended up pulling 1.7x 60' times and running mid 12's.

Dyno'ing 405HP/390TQ at the rear wheels was very nice. Maybe next year I'll fix the car and start racing it again.

[bjl913]

Question for you car guys: I'm not sure if I already asked this or not but...

What is the point in buying a $20K car and then sinking $30k into it? Why not buy the $50K car to start with?

Is it the available modding or you can get more out of those particular engines, or what's the deal?

I totally agree with you. I remember kids at school with their Honda's and such that they had dumped 10's of thousands into just to make it run in the 12's or 13's at thefastest, then I buy my 750 dollar mustang, dump just over a 1500 into it, and am running circles around them! Those cars are economy cars, not sports cars! haha