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Originally Posted by Ernest72
I am rethinking handling. This weekend I went mountain biking. On the way back I took some mountain twisties in my WRX and I was behind a fire truck going to a fire call. He was hammering those blind curves. That thing handled way better than I thought it would.
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Reminds me of the time I was driving up to the Manic 5 power station. It's 200+km of nothing but twists and turns that's paved all the way to the dam and then continues on through the wilderness all the way to Labrador City. It was my first time on that road and I was going at a sporting -but safe- speed and a few loaded work pickups and chevy savanas weren't exactly slowing me down. They were probably regulars
hauling ass to labrador, I would NOT trust a plumber van with a loaded roof to do that. All the gear and mats in the back were probably a mess when it got to where it was going, because the ice box I had on the passenger side floor sure was moving around.
On the way back down I had a firmer grasp on the road so I was going at a brisker pace, I left the dam to a deserted road and ate up the first straightish bits in the 140-160km/h range. Once I hit the more twisty bits I still kept a good pace, way faster than when going up, but still with safety margin in place, staying in my lane, not eating up the double yellow, etc.
I soon got caught up by a toyota highlander, which passed me on a double yellow and vanished after a few corners.
WTF
some time later, another highlander (slightly newer) caught up and passed me, again on a double yellow between blind corners. I thought I'd keep up this time and see what the locals were doing. The first thing I learned is, there is no double yellow, it's racing line all the way going edge to edge of the pavement, low visibility or not. I was keeping up with the highlander going track mode while staying in my lane with safety margin.
Then a Corolla, 2005~ish body, showed up in my mirror and soon passed us both on the double yellow between blind corners, and again, soon vanished after a handful of corners.
At that point I thought screw this, who needs handling when you've got stupid :lol