Anyone else hate the feeling of speed?

[OBLAMA2009]

i love speed, which is why i like roadbiking (no compact cranks here) and have almost no interest in mountainbiking

 

[SpatiallyAware]

i love speed, which is why i like roadbiking (no compact cranks here) and have almost no interest in mountainbiking

lololol

 

[z1ggy]

Well I can tell who all the old timers are in ATOT now.

 

[_Rick_]

I don't mind being co-driver to someone going fast.
I do mind it, when they're going fast, and displaying a lack of capability/attention, such as when I sat beside my sister, the car in front hits the brakes and I see her foot still on the gas by the time I turn my head to check

Basically, it's not speed or lack of control that would worry me, it's evident danger to which the driver does not react, where I get a slight tingle of irritation.

 

[_Rick_]

i love speed, which is why i like roadbiking (no compact cranks here) and have almost no interest in mountainbiking

But how do you get up the steep hill that enables you to go properly fast, without the compact crank?

 

[monkeydelmagico]

Depends on the driver. My sister is unsafe at any speed mostly because of cell phone distractions. A friend with some driving credentials can go as fast as he likes and I will usually egg him on.

 

[manimal]

my four year old triplets love driving fast but mom gets pissed at me when I let them drive their carts.

She made me get rid of the Jr Dragster sadly.


Teaching them to ride the YSR50 soon when they get better at riding their bikes without training wheels.

 

[DrunkenSano]

My whole body clenches up when a buddy is driving to fast. I don't like the feel of terminal velocity.

I can't be the only one that hates it and gets pissed off at the driver? Don't be fucking with my life.

Is your buddy driving a car out of a cargo plane?

 

[manimal]

Is your buddy driving a car out of a cargo plane?

I think its a metafor for buttsecks

 

[DownTheSky]

Actually it's the inertia that kills you. If you could accelerate to a rate high enough as to a deceleration that kills you, it would kill you just as good.

 

[SlitheryDee]

It's not so much the feeling of speed, but the feeling of making good time. I never gave a shit about racing or going fast for the pure exhilaration of it, but I like getting places quickly.

 

[Paul98]

Nope, just riding with bad drivers

 

[KidNiki1]

There once was a poster named Mayne,
Whose posts were always mundane.
He just won't quit
With his horrible shit
And it's driving us all quite insane!

10/10, would definitely read again!

 

[dank69]

My wife is like that. Hey sweetheart, I don't suddenly get into accidents when you aren't here to warn me about that thing I saw 5 seconds before you did.

Maybe you are a woman trapped in a man's body?

 

[_Rick_]

10/10, would definitely read again!

Thanks to your quote, that's what I just did!
No regrets either!

 

[PliotronX]

in my experience, it's not the speed that's unnerving you, it's the lack of control.

i had my bike at 140mph this past weekend (track days ftw) and felt perfectly comfortable.

on the other hand, when riding passenger with friends at autocross, i still felt uneasy because i wasn't in control. they are great drivers, and far more capable than i am, but i still felt weird. which is how i know it's the lack of control, not the speed

100+ on a bike, nothing like it! I think there is definitely a scare factor when someone else is doing the driving.

 

[NoTine42]

The earth's orbit is moving around the sun at 67,000 mph + and at the equator the earth is moving an additional 25,000

...and we're worried about the feeling of an extra 100mph?

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970401c.html

 

[SlitheryDee]

The earth's orbit is moving around the sun at 67,000 mph + and at the equator the earth is moving an additional 25,000

...and we're worried about the feeling of an extra 100mph?

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970401c.html

The earth doesn't give a shit if it hits something though.

 

[gorcorps]

I don't think it's fear of speed, it's fear being wreckless in a car that can go anywhere and kill you. How do you feel about roller coasters? I have no problems with those but I have the same feeling as you do when people get a little loose with their driving. I have one friend who floors his truck during icy conditions to clear the snow out of his tires, and my asshole puckers up every time he does it. I won't drive with him in the winter anymore.

 

[BlitzPuppet]

I'm sorry if my threads piss you off, but they mean something to me.

No they don't.

 

[jwhorfin]