Observing Squids

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Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Observing 'squid' in action
Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 20:36:59 -0500


In article <D8MoqE.CMM@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu>, martin.handy@apljhu.edu wrote:
> > And some days, the squidly temptation to drop a gear and blow by
> > at umpty-million miles per hour becomes NIGH unto IRRESISTABLE.  
> > God-complex indeed.
> > 
> Theres nothing wrong with dropping a gear and passing some slower 
> vehical (cage or bike).  The problem is only if you do this and there is 
> something bigger (read as anything) in the lane in the near future. 
> Forcing a bad situation(s) will soner or later catch up with you, and
> when it does it won't be pretty.

Ah, but when it's safe, what fun rubberbanding into warp and leaving those
Ferengi touristas in a cloud of vaporized Dunlop.  :-)


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From: svoboda@spock.cig.mot.com (David Svoboda)
Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
Subject: Re: Observing 'squid' in action
Date: 10 May 1995 19:23:13 GMT
Organization: Cellular Infrastructure Group, Motorola


In article <3oml6d$r2@data.interserv.net>,
Kneedown  <tspeck@netaxis.com> wrote:
| 
|collar bone), a CBR600 and an VFR 750.  I was in the left lane, signaled   
|to move to the center lane.  Squid on VFR blows by me on the right, CBR   
|pilot waited for me to move over. 
| 
|I should have bounced the VFR into the weeds and said, "oops, I didn't   
|see you."  No jury would ever convict me. 

Tempting, isn't it?  I was on my way home from Indy last weekend, in some 
unnamed Indiana suburb of Chicago.  Stop light, merge ahead, I'm stopped 
in the left lane.  Two sportbikes come up in the right lane, one rider 
with obligatory sneakers, shorts, t-shirt, and backwards cap, other 
similarly dressed with his girlfriend perched on the back, also in shorts.
(It was 75F or so that day.)  I of course was sweating in my fullface and 
`Stich.

Light changed, and I accelerated out, pulling away from the car behind me,
as is my habit.  The light apparently caught them sleeping, since they 
didn't move for a few seconds.  When they did, they not only passed the 
cars behind me, with screaming engines, but after I was past the merge 
the squid with the girlfriend came roaring past me in the oncoming lane 
at around 80mph (I was going about 50 at the time), and swerved back in 
front of me just in time to miss an oncoming car.

I did see him starting that maneuver in my rearview mirrors.  The 
momentary temptation to accelerate and occupy the extreme left part of my 
lane was nearly overwhelming.

- Dave Svoboda