So i'm driving home fom the movies at midnight after paying for Manchurian candidtae and sneaking into Alien Vs Predator( a good title for this post). I take the freeway exit onto the service road to the mall near my apartment when a mid size car followed by a very very loud moped aproaches on my left. Theres also a car in front of me going very slow and so i let the car/moped team pass and cut across two lanes into the far left lane and we all stop at a light. When the light turns green i dont gun the engine but give her just enough to pass the other vehicles and get into the far right lane, or so i think. I am just about to 50 mph or so when i hear this very loud buzzing sound near my rear passenger side. I look over but cant see anything but i can tell the moped guy is trying to race me!?!?!?!?
We are approaching a up to a light at about 100 yards with a bus in the far right lane and since i saw cops two blocks back i have no interest in gunning it, but i did give her a little throttle. Man, i could really hear that little moped engine straining ( very comical sound)to keep up and the funny thing is,..as far as i can tell he did almost catch
my right rear bumper!. Turns out that my semi hard launch at the light had provoked the street racer in this fast and furious moped guy and he was doing a semi decent job of hanging close back right bumper area. We are coming up to the light and theres no room to really show this dude whats up so i slow down consierably and let him pass only to get what sounded like somekind of victory rev ,...or a taunt of some kind, who knows.
I think this is the funniest thing thats happened in my car in awhile. Hes gonna go home and post in the ricer moped forum about how a he gave a vette run for its money despite the fact that i go the jump on him.
So, this begs the question. has something like this ever happened to you? You speed up a little and the next thing you know the guy next to you in the Honda, Neon, moped whatever tries to race!

 

Yeh, happened a lot early on when I got the car, but being sort of a 'staple in the store shelf' these daze in this smallish town I never get 'challenged' anymore....no where to run anyway, freakng traffic is getting worse,.....

GENE

 

He'll be posting that you won because of your car being all modded up and stuff..

 

I'll race you on my sons 43cc moped. I bet I can take to 30 mph. HeHe. Little sucker will smoke the tire. It's been modded though, so maybe it wouldn't be a fair race. Now if I could only figure out how to mount a twin turbo on it.

 

I was driving home yesterday evening and pulled up next too a new yellow GSXR600 suzuki at a light entering the freeway on ramp. I used to own an older GSXR750 (86) in the late 80's which was an extraordinarily fast motorcyclefor the time and was admiring the bike giving the guy a thumbs up as it is just a truly gorgeous bike. We head up the on ramp, I'm not interested in a race given I'm driving the wifes 740 but I figured he would gun it which he didn't. Well, after we merge and reach freeway speed 65-70 MPH he pulls up right next to me, gives a thumbs up, and pops a wheelie from 70mph straight up for about 10 blocks up to about 90MPH! I just couldn't believe the power of that new 600!!!! I was just completely blown away by how much they must have improved the power on those bikes, my 750 which had a lot of mods couldn't even come close to doing that. I really really want one now. I always figured that anything under a 750 was still just a waste of time but that little bike was just incredible and I still can't stop thinking about it. Amazing the power that can be squeazed from some of these modern little engines.

 

Similar thing happened to me when I first bought the Vette with stock L48.
Moped was behind me at the lights just before a freeway on ramp, I take off and a few seconds later zing the moped goes by me at about 30mph on the ramp, well I got on it a little ( same as you ) and passed him as I got on the highway and to my amazment a couple of seconds later zing this stupid moped goes flying by me again this time about 70mph.

Well I have had just about enough of this and mash the pedal into the floor and wave at the guy as I make him eat dust now I'm gettting close to 100mph. I am thinking that's the end of him and the next thing I know zing this freaking guy blasts by me at about 120mph. Well it was close to my exit and I am getting into the slow lane and I see him up ahead and he is slowing down too. I get off the highway and now this guy is behind me on the ramp, I slow down to stop at the lights and he comes up beside me when I stopped. I was wondering if he wondering if he was going to start a trash talking.

Well he was out of breath and he looked a little startled and said " Jeese I am glad you finally stopped I got my suspenders caught on your bumper back there at the lights before the on ramp "

 

i'm going to put together one the should run 60mph
getting it quick will be the trick

 

Are you taking about your vette.

 

I pull into the lights after staging. This was test+turn befour Bracket racing. I look over and see a old banged up VW Gulf a 4 banger. Although he red lighted and jumped out in front of me. Bye one of his car lenth. I laughed to myself and the race was on. Never could catch him . All my friends had a good laugh on me. I asked the kid driven what was in her. He smiled, 6 cylinders with juice. I had to laugh at that.

 

My last nice cruiser-car was a '96 Chevy Impala SS. It had a K&N cold-air induction and Flowmaster exhaust. Other than that, bone-stock.

My (ex)wife and I are cruising about 75 MPH from San Francisco toward Sacramento on I-80.... and we pass by a mid-80's Mustang with the license plate of "Z28 ETER." Maybe 30 seconds go by, and then this knuckle-head is sitting even with me... Gunning it a little quicker, dropping back, gunning it....

My wife says "Eric, don't do it..." Well, as he dropped back the third time, I floored it... And we left him in the dust!!!

At about 130, I finally let off the pedal, the car dropped back to (the cruise setting of) 75 MPH... and maybe a minute or two later, he comes up again... Tries the same sh*t again... And I laughed at him.

He finally hammered the throttle, took off....

 

Watch out racing some of these hopped up go-peds. They can be an eye opener.

go-ped vs TA WS6

 

That is one of my all time favorites.

 

I went to college in Boston and I used to ride an old 20" BMX racing bike back and forth to class. One of my favorite things to do was to pull up to a car (vettes were always a target) at a light, then flip the driver the bird or make an otherwise overt gesture and then take off through the light. On Commonwealth ave during the day there is no car made that can beat a small bike over the mile stretch from Allston to Kenmore square. Of course I would blow all the lights and jump over curbs etc. That was always a blast.....

 

Thought you guys might like this one. My brother sent me this one and I thought about this thread.

Notice in the video 23,000 RPM and nitrous

http://www.kontraband.com/show/show....T=movies&NSFW=

 

[QUOTE=BatManFire]Watch out racing some of these hopped up go-peds.


HOLY SACK OF SUDS BATMAN...

Haaaa haaaaa that is just too funny. "TWO DOLLARS... I want my two dollars...." hahahaha anyone remember this show? AHAHHAHHAHA

 

[QUOTE=Mr.Gearhead]The movie was "Better Off Dead"