My first race in my new WS6!!
I was coming home from work yesterday, it was beautiful outside so I had taken the TA. I was on a freeway, two lanes in each direction, when two street bikes entered on just a head of me. They were getting on it and doing some weaving in and out of traffic so I thought they might want to play if I caught up to them. After a few miles the traffic thinned out and I passed them nice and slow to see if they would play. Of course, I got the long stare as I went by, and as I passed them, both of them got right up on my ass, not more than a car-length behind, and stayed there. At this point we were doing about 80 and I knew it was on.
I wasn't thrilled to have my first race be a loss to a couple of street bikes because I fully expected them to easily pull away from me... but hey, a race is a race. As I passed the last car that was in the way, I stomped the gas and immediately got into the other lane so they would be able to pass me. To my surprise, they couldn't. I didn't gain on them, but they weren't passing me either. For my own protection, I won't say at what speed the race terminated, but they started falling back once the speeds really got up there, but I think that was by choice and not because I was beating them. At this point I slowed back down to the original 80 but they still weren't catching up to me. I think I might have wounded some pride. My car is a 97 WS6 with a cat-back as it's only mod.
Before anyone asks.... at no point were we racing in traffic. I never passed one car during my little sprint. And no, I don't know what kind of bikes they were. I'm not into bikes that much and it was too dark to tell. They didn't seem to be brand new top-of-the-line crotch rockets because I'm sure I would've been toast if they were. But they weren't like dirt bikes either. They looked and sounded like they may have been a few years old with something smaller for an engine.
Just had to share!
I wasn't thrilled to have my first race be a loss to a couple of street bikes because I fully expected them to easily pull away from me... but hey, a race is a race. As I passed the last car that was in the way, I stomped the gas and immediately got into the other lane so they would be able to pass me. To my surprise, they couldn't. I didn't gain on them, but they weren't passing me either. For my own protection, I won't say at what speed the race terminated, but they started falling back once the speeds really got up there, but I think that was by choice and not because I was beating them. At this point I slowed back down to the original 80 but they still weren't catching up to me. I think I might have wounded some pride. My car is a 97 WS6 with a cat-back as it's only mod.
Before anyone asks.... at no point were we racing in traffic. I never passed one car during my little sprint. And no, I don't know what kind of bikes they were. I'm not into bikes that much and it was too dark to tell. They didn't seem to be brand new top-of-the-line crotch rockets because I'm sure I would've been toast if they were. But they weren't like dirt bikes either. They looked and sounded like they may have been a few years old with something smaller for an engine.
Just had to share!
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