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Re: Germany's treasured autobahn hits a bump in the road

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Over the years of wandering Europe, I've never driven, instead either walked, subways, trains, high speed trains pushing 180 mph, ears pop when going through tunnels, that was Spain, great service... Hawaii, yes, drove there, hired a driver in Queensland or taxis there, or London, but did drive in Denmark, it was a new VW Passat, engine shut down at a stop light, rather disconcerting at the time, but other than having to deal with all the bikes in Copenhagen, the rest was fine... Some countries won't rent cars to anyone over 70 anyway, so hiring a driver works...

Inlaw is a speed freak, had his 500 HP GT500 bumped up to 750 at the Shelby shop in Las Vegas, but rarely drives it.. I had my time on motorcycles back in the '60s, got way too many tickets, eventually outgrew the need, let my M/C endorsement lapse the last renewal, the XT500 is getting dusty in my shop, but maybe will sell it one day... Just don't have that reaction time of the days of old, one too many old friends broken up, paralyzed, even dirt bikers are not immune to bashing stuff...

We were told, when we were in Moscow, the cops there don't bother to chase bikers, too dangerous...


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Re: Germany's treasured autobahn hits a bump in the road
By: oldCADuser in FFT4
Thu, 23 Feb 23 8:41 PM 		Msg. 06320 of 13953

I've driven many miles, err kilometers, on the autobahn and it can be scary at times. The fastest that I've personally driven on Germany's autobahn was just under 200 KPH (124 MPH). That was in a large Renault sedan when my wife and I were driving from Belgium up to Denmark while I was there on business in 1993 for a couple of weeks. We also spent some time in Holland and eventually flew over to England for about another week before finally flying home. The fastest in which I was a passenger was once when one of our European salesman was driving me to the Bonn airport and we were running late. He promised me that I would make my flight, which I did, but he hit 240 KPH (150 MPH) a couple of times getting me there.

The really scary era was right after the Berlin wall came down. There were some horrific accidents for several months, until the people who were coming over from the former Eastern sector learned how to properly drive on the autobahn. The problem was that in East Germany, the national speed limit had been 100 KPH (61 MPH) and besides, most of their cars were grossly under-powered compared to the average car being driven by West Germans. And they had this nasty habit of changing lanes without looking.

But speaking of the scary parts, while on most of the autobahn, cars had no speed limit, large trucks did and so you would often pass long lines of trucks where you could be going close to twice as fast as they were going.

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