dirtbikr
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Don't you luv it...
Don't you just love it when on hywy 1 you look in your side mirror and a semi is going to pass you? Holy crap is there anything more scarrier when
you are pulling a wide camping trailer which is wider than your truck, you're holding the lines, then a semi decides to pass ? Ahhhhh, I am still
alive, gotta say those mexicans truck drivers have a lot of skill. Except when I see all those roadside grave memorials, I have to wonder.
If you\'re not living on the EDGE... You\'re taking up too much room! Its never too late for a darkside.
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woody with a view
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David K
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bajabuddha
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I rate those moments on what i call the "Sphincter Factor". It's a 1 to 5 scale, like river running; and which a '6' is Niagara Falls. Ain't it
nice now you have another 12" of lane, and a smidgen of shoulder to cope with (most of the way)?
However, hats off to the Mexicano Camioneros... they are 99% the most curteous drivers on the TP1.
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
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Whale-ista
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Does anyone know the details of Hector's demise? I've admired his memorial, wondered about the circumstances.
Agree the truckers are generally professional/courteous. Their livelihoods as well as lives are on the line.
It's more often the private cars that are in a hurry and ride my bumper that concern me.
\"Probably the airplanes will bring week-enders from Los Angeles before long, and the beautiful poor bedraggled old town will bloom with a
Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
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woody with a view
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We have called those moments over the years, "The Mexican Orgasm!"
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vgabndo
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| Quote: | Originally posted by woody with a view
We have called those moments over the years, "The Mexican Orgasm!"
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Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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sancho
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Back in the day, I used to take the Bus TJ/La Paz
straight thru. These bus drivers knew 1 very well,
but one time, while sitting in the first seat near the
front door, I heard one of the drivers pointing out the sights
to this young newbie driver, it was obviously
this guy's first
time down. While going what I imagined was 80 mph,
around midnite
thru the wash's by Catavina, thoughts of cows coming
thru the windshield had me planning to get out, anywhere,
just pull over, just then this young Mexican woman came
up and was flirting with the driver, he immediately slowed
down and was I relieved
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N2Baja
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| Quote: | Originally posted by dirtbikr
...... Holy crap is there anything more scarrier when you are pulling a wide camping trailer which is wider than your truck, you're holding the
lines, then a semi decides to pass ? .... |
Yes. Looking in your mirror and seeing a semi about to pass. And then looking out your windshield and seeing a bicyclist in your lane in front of
you. 
Forget about the danger and think of the fun.
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vgabndo
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| Quote: | Originally posted by N2Baja
| Quote: | Originally posted by dirtbikr
...... Holy crap is there anything more scarrier when you are pulling a wide camping trailer which is wider than your truck, you're holding the
lines, then a semi decides to pass ? .... |
Yes. Looking in your mirror and seeing a semi about to pass. And then looking out your windshield and seeing a bicyclist in your lane in front of
you. |
Even scarier, would be to see piles of bicycle riding horses which had been flogged to death on this forum and left in the road!!!!
I call BS. If the truck has enough sight distance to feel it safe to pass then there has to be enough sight distance for the overtaken vehicle to see
a bicycle in the distance. The truck should need a thousand feet or so to pass, and the overtaken vehicle had better be able to stop in a third of
that at any time on the Baja highway.
Personally, when driving my 8' wide outfit, when I see that a truck is going to overtake, (and I agree that it is safe to do so) I get my left signal
on to let him know that I know he is there, and then I slow way the hell down, so the time we are beside each other is minimized. Then, in that
million to one chance that the bicycle is suddenly there, it is even easier for me to slow (to a stop if necessary) to eliminate the need for the road
to allow 3 vehicles to pass. This STILL isn't about bicycles. It is still about sharing the road. IMJ. For new drivers on this highway, I'd also
suggest a real resistance to the inclination to try to speed-up and stay ahead of the truck. Being overtaken only requires a few seconds, racing a
truck lasts for hair raising miles, isn't much fun, and I've done it and don't recommend it.
Something tells me that Hector wasn't passing anyone when he met his end! Those trailero memorials are rarely built along straight sections of the
road!
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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