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Gen2Boost

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I get people driving around me angry all the time. Swearing at me, middle fingers and not moving to the right. And that is with my lights flashing, siren on.
Brother I hear you. In a fully marked police unit running lights and sirens people will do everything except get out of the way. And if they aren’t on, forget about it. I get tailgated. Passed. Honked. You name it. And if I’m going to work or home I get complained on for speeding by people who actually take the time to call the station and tell them that car #whatever is speeding. Oh ok. Thanks for the call. We will address the issue.

And it drastically varies by location. I drove my Raptor to Moab from South Florida twice. The second I leave the state it’s a whole other world. People signal and leave the left lane when they see you coming before you are anywhere near them. They thank you for letting them pass/merge, let you pass when the need arises. Blew my mind.

I used to think it was common knowledge that the inside lane (left lane) was for vehicles driven by people who had somewhere to go. But down here, no one gets out of your way. You have to ride people in their slipstream and then pass or you aren’t going anywhere. And people wonder why I have an onboard train horn system that’s always switched on. A regular horn in Florida is as meaningless as the sound of wind around your car.
 

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I had a Tacoma driver pull over next to me on the highway, roll down his window and just go off on me and my Raptor. He was just acting insane, the driver behind him was honking her horn and when she came up beside me at a stoplight she asked me what that was all about, I said that he's just embarassed that after all the expensive mods he has added to his Taco, it's still just a Toyota. She laughed and yup!
 

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Welcome! Now that you are better than everyone on the road, be prepared to be tailgated by envious Tacoma, Tundra, and Ram owners who will do everything they can to drive like idiots and pass you just to make themselves feel a little better about the garbage they financed.
That varies from place to place. Around here that happens to anyone driving less than ten or fifteen over, no matter what kind of car. And our traffic lights have a huge red overlap, where all four directions are red at the same time. People adjust by routinely running red lights at the end of the cycle. So they lengthen the dead time, rinse, repeat. When I go out to Oregon and Washington, I have to completely recalibrate, stop driving like an A-hole, and hit the brakes instead of the gas when a light turns yellow. It's very weird.
 

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Really? That’s a thing? Is it a thing with every vehicle?

I find that if it’s a persistent thing, one of two things is true. Either I’m not traveling fast enough for prevailing traffic, or it’s a cultural thing. The former is very unlikely, and the latter depends on where I’m traveling.

I grew up around DC and am used to some to the rudest, inconsiderate, inattentive, unskilled drivers on the planet. Imagine my surprise on visiting Texas when drivers actually pulled over to the right to allow you to overtake or even pull their rigs over to allow you to pass on a 2 lane road. One guy did it twice, couldn’t get all the over due to load width and I couldn’t make a safe pass on the first one, so he pulled over again to let me by - no light flashing, no horn beeping, no hand waving - he just did it to be courteous.
Come to New Mexico to witness REALLY bad driving... Also spent decades in DC. NM wins...
 

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I had a Tacoma driver pull over next to me on the highway, roll down his window and just go off on me and my Raptor. He was just acting insane, the driver behind him was honking her horn and when she came up beside me at a stoplight she asked me what that was all about, I said that he's just embarassed that after all the expensive mods he has added to his Taco, it's still just a Toyota. She laughed and yup!
***** I sht you not last week I was in the express lanes and out of absolutely nowhere comes this Discout Auto Parts aftermarket buy one get one free Tundra and this guy has his windows down with his middle finger up looking at me. I waved, hit my train horn, and bid him farewell. Batsht crazy
 

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Ima get me a train horn
Do it. You’ll have plenty of laughs, no regrets, and the faces of your not so satisfied customers are priceless when you pass them after.
 

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Come to New Mexico to witness REALLY bad driving... Also spent decades in DC. NM wins...
when was this? Because I spent far too much time in the DMV, sampled NY traffic many times too - and Philthydelphia... yeah, pretty intense there too but DC Metro has some legit bad traffic. It’s rush 3.5 hours, not rush hour. Both ways. so 6-9:30 AM and 4-7:30 PM depending on where you’re going and how you get there. I pulled the handles in 2020.

About 3-4 times / year, there’s a major tie up - 5-6 hours and if you’re in the soup, sometimes there’s no getting out. I was leaving work early one day, had to hot foot it home for a funeral. Ran my Ducati smack dab into pea soup traffic. 1st gear stop and go, no room to split lanes. after about 75 minutes of this I call the wife tell her what’s up and I’m on my way. Another hour goes by and i’ve made it maybe 5 more miles, I’m still almost 10 from home and I’ve split between cars, down the center line at times. Still wasn’t getting anywhere because EVERY side and neighborhood road as full. I stopped again and told the wife to go ahead, I wasn’t going to get home in time.

You can imagine how this went over. That was 2014 and it was the day I decided I would not live out my life near DC. After the absolutely-Biblical tongue lashing I got, helmet on, visor down, get really serious. I got home literally in time to see her taillights, so got in, dismounted and called her and got her back home so we could get to the service.

After I began explaining she cut me off and said “Sorry, I saw the news, I didn’t know how bad it was”. It took me 3.5 hours to make 22 miles. On my Ducati 1198s. Ridden with purpose.

Life is --SO-- much better now.

If you’re staying somewhere that traffic is as bad as I’ve described above, trust me, there is life outside the bubble! Don’t make excuses, I did this for years. People are nicer where there are fewer of us :cool:
 
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