I was headed home today in my 900T after a day of shoppping. I got onto heavy expressway traffic in the right lane moving only about 35mph. When I threw on my signal to make a pass, I saw this little honda Civic behind me. It was decked out with the shopping-cart handle style wing, vacuum-cleaner air dam, and all the fast & furious add-on's the auto-parts shop could sell hammered the gas. I could hear his little coffee-can tailpipe let out a a nasty fart as the kid downshifted and hammered the throttle. I downshifted myself, the turbo gauge hit the yellow zone, and I was off...well in front of rice-boy. However, I although I was going faster, I still was going a bit slow. Rice boy hung to my rear bumper like I was towing him.

I downshifted to slow down to this next batch of slow moving traffic, and to keep the engine wound up, and rice-boy just got even closer. Just then, the traffic cleared in front of me broke up, and I hammered the gas. With what felt like less than a second, I was up to the posted 65mph speed limit. I looked into the rear-view mirror, and rice boy was struggling to catch up. I edged my speed up a few more mph. Rice boy eventually caught up with me, but stayed well off my back end for several miles. I moved to the right lane and slowed down a bit to make my exit. Rice boy went slowly on by, but with none of the fanfare from his rear fart-pipe, he was even too embarassed to look at my car as he passed.

Just goes to show that you don't go to a gun battle with a knife. I didn't exceed any limits or break any laws...but definitely got the point across that my 900T was in a class well above his little toy!

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• playing with rice-rockets, steven W, Sat, 6 Dec 2003 16:34:57 <-- Viewing This Message
  • The pleasure of playing with rice-rockets, Noel, Mon, 8 Dec 2003 06:33:33
  • now when you work a porsche or BMW owner, now thats fun, Jordan, Sun, 7 Dec 2003 23:54:38
    • WOW - NICE CAR! People, do not try this at home!, jimtimkim w/ many Saabs, Mon, 8 Dec 2003 19:48:29
  • Re: playing with rice-rockets, jimtimkim with late-88SPG, Sun, 7 Dec 2003 19:04:13
  • Which is more fun, rice-boys or SUV's?, Russell Giuliano, Sun, 7 Dec 2003 07:03:43
    • ...just watch out for the Subuaru's, Steven W, Sun, 7 Dec 2003 11:24:44
      • Used to have one, KL, Mon, 8 Dec 2003 09:23:49
  • Re: playing with rice-rockets, destijl, Sat, 6 Dec 2003 16:53:41
  • that was embarassing...bad grammar!, steven W, Sat, 6 Dec 2003 16:49:21

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