Yeah usually speeding up to get away from a tail gater results in a faster cage on your butt. Finding a safe place to pull off is not always convenient. If you can't, I guess just go at the speed you are comfortable with on that road till you can get out of the way.
Twenty five years ago when I used to ride as a kid, I could get away easily from most of the cages using the go faster approach and the nimble handling of a bike vs. late seventies era auto technology.
But now with 300 hp cars becoming routine, BMW M3s, Subaru WRX, Lancers, insanely power pickups and SUVS and in general very high performance stock autos combined with aggressive young (or old) drivers, speeding up usually results in a cager "rising to the challenge". Basically the last thing you want.
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On 2005-11-27 09:00, 50yrDream wrote:
Good advice Chuck! I probably woudn't have passed them even tho I wanted to ride a bit faster than them because then at least one of them would have wanted to race & i'm not about that! Many many years ago when my 69 Z28 Camaro was new a couple of jerks boxed me in with their cars, I just poked along with them a few miles til I knew the twisties were coming up just over the hill when I topped the hill I was already in 2nd gear & shazam I was in the twisties & gone! Funny part was when I got to town & cruised around a bit the cops stopped them for speeding in town!
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