[ST] RE: [ST] Re: Laugh or Cry / lane splitting

[Dieck, Mark <mdieck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think you might be taking your streotyping a bit far there bp.

I went to the NASCAR race here NorCal, at Sears Point (yeah, yeah, I know,
its infineon raceway now, whatever).

Anyways, from Vallego, out to Sears Point is primarily 2-lane/each direction
state highway, for about 15 miles or so.

I didn't have any probs sharing lanes with the rest of the fans headed out
to race, must just held their position in
their lane, but a good number, would move over a give up a bit more of their
lane for the bikes to move on thru.

Also, for those that might go to an event at Sears Point, they let
motorcycles park inside the facility on the access
roads. There were "hundreds" of bikes there for WC race.

Guess what the point of all this is, NASCAR fans are no different than all
the other folks out there. Some good, some
bad, and some just plain a$$holes.

Just my take.

Mark D

- -----Original Message-----
From: BParker647@xxxxxxx [mailto:BParker647@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 9:35 AM
To: st@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ST] Re: Laugh or Cry / lane splitting


I think I know the guy who wrote the piece on that site. But he didnâ??t mean
for it to show up in the â??satireâ?? category.

Last year a friend gave me a ticket to a NASCAR race at Fort Worth, Tx. The
track is about a three hour run down the interstate for me, so I hopped on
the Sprint ST early that morning. It was a beautiful morning to ride, until
the I-35 split [I-35E to Dallas, I-35W to Ft Worth]. Almost as soon as I hit
I-35W, traffic was stopped. 15 miles of NASCAR fans, walking-pace /
stop-and-go traffic on an interstate. It took me about a millisecond to
decide to split the lanes and go down the middle.

The boneheads who actually think like the satire writer did an exemplary job
of demonstrating their minimal wisdom. At least a half dozen times, a car
would see me coming and, in true Dale fashion, move to block the seam. I
would wait patiently for 30 seconds, another path would open, and I would
slip past. These guys obviously [verbally] wanted me to get in line, take my
turn, and suffer with the rest of them. The fact that I wasnâ??t going to take
their parking spot when I got there, and would be long gone through the line
before they even shut down the jacked-up black Suburban Diesel with the
Harley pipes and the big â??#3 Foreverâ?? sticker, was lost on them. It wasnâ??t
my fault that they chose to drive a road hog, along with 200,000 other
people going to the same event â?? and it wasnâ??t my fault that traffic control
at the track was so idiotic [and exponentially worse on the way out â?? enough
that I will politely decline any more free tickets].

There were just as many people who made room, or gave a wistful smile
watching me get through the mess. Bless them. But generally, NASCAR fans
arenâ??t sport-bike people.
 
If you really want a fun time at the Ft Worth track, go there on a non-race
weekend and rent time in a race car on the track â?? see
http://www.teamtexas.com/index2.htm . Now THATâ??s a blast.

bp

<<Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 00:53:56 +0100
From: "Mike Bostock" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ST] Laugh or cry

http://www.satirewire.com/briefs/motorcycles.shtml>>

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