TurboTJ
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Rave: I took my brand new 2020 into the dirty yesterday and it was amazing! I aired down to 32 front/28 rear as the Raptor Assault instructors recommended. We did buffalo pass near Steamboat springs Colorado, which is fairly rough but most cars can make it through given enough time. We were probably averaging 60+ in the straights and caught air in a few spots. I never realized how good the Raptor is in a power slide around corners! It’s predictable but loose enough to setup your skid correctly. Everyone was really good at letting us pass and we passed slowly not to leave them in a dust cloud. We were careful to go slow when anyone was around to not give us Raptors a bad name though I was grinning ear to ear as we chased down razors with ease.
Rant: and then we came upon a Jeep Gladiator going maybe 15MPH. The Jeep sees us in the rear view and rather than letting us pass (like every other decent human being), he accelerates to maybe 25MPH (half the speed we were going) and tries to keep us from passing... wtf??? Who does that? I didn’t want to accelerate too hard since I’m still <500 miles on the odometer but this idiot got the best of me. After almost 10 minutes eating his dust and watching his stock Jeep struggle at 25MPH, he slowed down for a particularly rough spot and chose a line on the left side of the trail and I gunned it putting my right two tires in the grass. He started to come over towards me probably (understandably) not expecting me to pass on the right. I beeped my horn To let him know I was there and was passed this ******* before he knew what happened. Needless to say, he was out of sight within seconds. Definitely not my proudest moment but wtf! The time to speed up is when you’re by yourself, not when someone is trying to pass!
What do you guys think? Have you ever been in this situation? What’s the etiquette to let someone know you are going to pass? Or is it just to risky?
Rant: and then we came upon a Jeep Gladiator going maybe 15MPH. The Jeep sees us in the rear view and rather than letting us pass (like every other decent human being), he accelerates to maybe 25MPH (half the speed we were going) and tries to keep us from passing... wtf??? Who does that? I didn’t want to accelerate too hard since I’m still <500 miles on the odometer but this idiot got the best of me. After almost 10 minutes eating his dust and watching his stock Jeep struggle at 25MPH, he slowed down for a particularly rough spot and chose a line on the left side of the trail and I gunned it putting my right two tires in the grass. He started to come over towards me probably (understandably) not expecting me to pass on the right. I beeped my horn To let him know I was there and was passed this ******* before he knew what happened. Needless to say, he was out of sight within seconds. Definitely not my proudest moment but wtf! The time to speed up is when you’re by yourself, not when someone is trying to pass!
What do you guys think? Have you ever been in this situation? What’s the etiquette to let someone know you are going to pass? Or is it just to risky?
