Ride to Brasstown Bald and then Suches for lunch. Florida driver - grrrr!

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Hwy 76 west. A beautiful day.



Riding south down Hwy 17 towards Helen. I'm to take a right turn onto Hwy 180 that leads to Brasstown Bald.

Coming northbound is a grey SUV. The driver is so determined to make the turn before me that he cuts right next to their left hand corner of Hwy 180. A bit of body lean reveals the speed of the SUV.

I turn in behind the SUV which achieves the phenomenal speed of 35mph. Of course the SUV has to brake at any light downhill gradient or curve. A left foot braker. The worst kind.

I am hoping he doesn't turn on the road to Brasstown Bald summit.

After 5 miles of dawdling and passing pull offs they ignore my hopes are dashed. They make the turn.

The following shows the exemplary skills of the driver. A driver who proudly proclaims they are a Florida fire fighter with rear window sticker and tow hitch cover.
















Route can be seen here.
https://www.relive.cc/view/rt10004703914



Popcorn Overlook Hwy 76













Observation tower atop Brasstown Bald. Highest summit in GA.





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasstown_Bald


Photo mistake





Burger at TWO in Suches.

Best burger in north GA

https://twowheelsofsuches.com/

[Serk]

...thus why I've been known to either pass on double yellow, or sometimes I'll just pull over and wait 15-20 minutes to let the putz putter on before getting back on the road...

Was upper 70's/low 80's and sunny, but very windy yesterday.

Took the motorcycle loving boy of my spawn for his longest ride yet, we rode to the Ren Faire (A little over 50 miles each way). I did a strange thing and went wearing street clothes, very different experience that way.

The ride was excellent, the visit to the faire was excellent, a good day overall...

Thanks for sharing your ride with us!

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...thus why I've been known to either pass on double yellow, or sometimes I'll just pull over and wait 15-20 minutes to let the putz putter on before getting back on the road...

Was upper 70's/low 80's and sunny, but very windy yesterday.

Took the motorcycle loving boy of my spawn for his longest ride yet, we rode to the Ren Faire (A little over 50 miles each way). I did a strange thing and went wearing street clothes, very different experience that way.

The ride was excellent, the visit to the faire was excellent, a good day overall...

Thanks for sharing your ride with us!

I was in a county where I earned a fine previously for a double yellow infraction.

I stick behind them because I worry that I may get stuck behind an even worse road user.

[Bigwolf]

Nice ride report Britman.  Thanks for taking the time to share it.

[Chrisj CMA]

Nice ride.  I think the driver of the SUV was a great driver.  His goal obviously was to prevent you from passing him.  Yes that makes him an a$$ but none the less he succeeded, you couldn't get past him and he accomplished what was undoubtedly his secondary goal.....



To piss you off



Sorry 

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  I think the driver of the SUV was a great driver.  His goal obviously was to prevent you from passing him. 

ahhhhhhhhhh nope.

Steep uphill and 25mph limit inside the state park.

If I'd wanted to overtake him on a double yellow I had plenty of opportunity to do so before we entered the park.

[ridingron]

Sorry to hear you had to deal with the Florida driver today. Missed out on some nice riding, I imagine. It seems we get behind at least one every ride when we ride the Blue Ridge area. I don't apologize for them any more.  

 I'm with Serk, I would have passed them.

[The emperor has no clothes]

or sometimes I'll just pull over and wait 15-20 minutes to let the putz putter on before getting back on the road...

Hindsight is usually 20/20. But this probably would have been the best thing to do.

[Tx Bohemian]

Hey now!!

Don't give Florida driver all the credit for that inconsiderate type of driving, we've got our share here in Texas too!!

Probably the best idea is what Serk said, pull over for a bit and let them get gone, (but that is so hard to do sometimes when witnessing such a$$hole people)!

But also, you know, your on a bike and they are in a much larger vehicle so conditions are stacked against you to start with. (this is what I got to keep reminding myself)

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Florida driver - singular.

[Serk]

Florida driver - singular.

It's always singular... Are you familiar with the legendary Florida Man?

https://floridaman.com/

Florida man is legend. Florida Driver isn't far behind.

[The emperor has no clothes]

Florida driver - singular.

It's always singular... Are you familiar with the legendary Florida Man?

https://floridaman.com/

Florida man is legend. Florida Driver isn't far behind.

Easter bunny is in a foul mood. He could get on with the LV Golden Nights though.

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Florida driver - singular.

It's always singular... Are you familiar with the legendary Florida Man?

https://floridaman.com/

Florida man is legend. Florida Driver isn't far behind.

Nope.

I used the term to illustrate it was just the ONE driver that ticked me off and that I wasn't painting the whole of Florida with one swipe of the keyboard.

[Serk]

I used the term to illustrate it was just the ONE driver that ticked me off and that I wasn't painting the whole of Florida with one swipe of the keyboard.

I gotcha, sorry was trying to add a bit of levity...

[Jess from VA]

thus why I've been known to either pass on double yellow, or sometimes I'll just pull over and wait 15-20 minutes to let the putz putter on before getting back on the road.

Exactly my practice for 30 years.     (Skyline Drive and BRP more than anywhere else.)

I'll pass on the double yellow, but I have to be certain I won't get caught.   It can take a few minutes, but it can be done.  You still might be on a citizen's dash cam, but I don't worry that.    70 times and no ticket so far.

[The emperor has no clothes]

I used the term to illustrate it was just the ONE driver that ticked me off and that I wasn't painting the whole of Florida with one swipe of the keyboard.

I gotcha, sorry was trying to add a bit of levity...

Levity is always welcome around here 

[Moonshot_1]

Florida driver - singular.

It's always singular... Are you familiar with the legendary Florida Man?

https://floridaman.com/

Florida man is legend. Florida Driver isn't far behind.

Nope.

I used the term to illustrate it was just the ONE driver that ticked me off and that I wasn't painting the whole of Florida with one swipe of the keyboard.

Yes, but in doing so you severely criticized the one best driver Florida has got. 

Actually, I think it has something to do with geography and being so close to the Bermuda Triangle.
Back in Feb. my wife and I went down to the Cocoa Beach area.

After a flight into Orlando ( a story unto itself) we had to rent a car and drive to the hotel. The hotel, a little mom and pop motel on the beach, was about 50 miles away from the Orlando airport. 

A black Nissan Sentra.  Nice car.

Well, we got in kind of late, and it was about 11ish at night when we finally got in the car and on the road. We're going down 528, a 4 lane to the coast.

I've never driven this car, been on the road in a bus in the past and that was only to Port Canaveral in the day time.

15 miles down the road it begins to rain. Wasn't expecting this but ok. Flip the wipers on and....they don't work.

I'm in a rather tight group of cars, in the rain, at night, and we're doing 85 mph.

And the wipers don't work.

When I flip the wipers to the on position I do notice my wife sit up straight. She is very concerned.
Not because the wipers were not working, but because all the car lights suddenly went off.

I do not notice the lights going off because of my concern of the wipers not working.

I continue to try the wipers, flipping them on and off and wiggling the left stick.

I did mention that this is a rental car. The wiper switch is not on the left side.

The headlight switch is though.

Takes a couple of seconds for me to figure this out. My truck's wiper switch is on the left side. I am just conditioned to turn the wipers on that way.

So I'm smiling and laughing and my wife can't understand what is funny.

I told her I'm just wondering what the other drivers around me were thinking.

Tooling down the road at 85 mph, in the dark and rain and some guy just flips his lights off.

Yes, for a few minutes I was "Florida Man".

Made it to the hotel. A few more lights off, lights on incidents. But made it.

Sea Aire motel in Cocoa Beach. Well kept, 50's style motel right on the beach.

Had a good time.

[_Sheffjs_]

Yea, we live in it!