[SK]

Originally Posted by voodoo1

Right where I live the population has grown overnight...
The last few years it was #2 or #3 in the country for fastest growing area in the country.(when you enter the town we even has a sign that says so..... Boy it did. it went from a nice comfy less than 1k people to dang near mid 2k plus in three years.......OH also has bragging rights to the most registered motorcycle licensed vehicles.......

I know Arizona has taken over fastest growing state from Nevada this past year..guess more are coming across the border more than ever (don't know if I'm kidding here). Well..seems like it any way. I know Las Vegas at least was having 6000 people moving into the city each month for a couple of years (might be down to 5000 a month). Guess where a lot of them are coming from? Put it this way..the majority in Las Vegas area just recently went Hispanic..how many cities in the US with a population in the area of 1.9 million or more have that? But that's another story altogether. I've got no problem whatsoever with the Hispanics..just the language barrier.

Pretty cool about OH having the the most registered motorcycles. Guess it's not a wonder why the Motorcycle Hall of Fame is in Pinkerington, OH (just outside of Columbus).

[FlynDutchman]

Originally Posted by stevenh

I think the worse thing on the road is the cell phone. If somebody's pulling on to the highway from a on ramp and they have a phone planted on their face it's almost a sure bet they're just gonna pull on and expect traffic to merge with them.

LAST YEAR I RODE OUT TO MY MA'S HOUSE IN INDIANA, BOUT A 350 MILE ROUND TRIP ON THE HARLEY, & ANYBODY WHO HAS DRIVEN BACK TO ILLINOIS FROM INDIANA CAN TELL YOU THAT ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON ON i80/94 ITS A PARKING LOT FROM I65 UNTIL I294.....WELL SEEING AS IT WAS PRETTY HOT OUT, I WAS ONE OF THE ONLY A-HOLES OUT ON A BIKE WHO HAPPENED TO BE CAUGHT IN TRAFFIC. IT WAS THEN AFTER ABOUT 200 CARS NEARLY HIT ME THAT I REALIZED THAT WHEN TRAFFIC GETS BACKED UP LIKE THAT, EVERYBODY & THEIR BROTHER GETS ON THEIR CELL PHONES, LIGHTS UP A CIGARETTE, EAT, DRINK SOMETHING, PICK THEIR NOSE OR OTHERWISE TUNE OUT FOR THE NEXT 20 MILES WHICH MAKES ME THE ONLY GUY OUT THERE PAYING ANY ATTENTION TO THE ROAD!!IT DRIVES ME CRAZY !! THE ONLY THING I THINK MAKES ME MORE NUTS IS WHEN IM THERE IN TRAFFIC LIKE EVERY OTHER POOR SCHLUB & SOME 20 YEAR OLD ON HIS RICE ROCKET DECIDES THAT THE SHOULDER OF THE ROAD IS HIS PERSONAL LANE...

[voodoo1]

I Have been one of those schlubs..... on more than one occasion..... got stuck on trips and the heat gets to going ..and the bike warms a little too much for my liking so I cruise to keep the air moving.....

[chucktx]

when traffic starts getting like that for me...i get off the first chance i can....find some secondary roads and take the scenic route.....keeps me calmer!!!

[ironhorse]

went puttsing up and down the coast the other day done ok being it was foggy. It seemed that the ones I needed to watch for was the bicycle riders they truly belive they are invincable. got to go home for a while and met a fella out in nevada landing, said he stays away from vegas on his bike to crazy there , needless to say I kept mine loaded and headed for the house.