I just got back from a nice afternoon ride with my dad - I met him out in Goshen at a smokehouse / restaurant and then we headed home north through Norfolk and Winsted. On the way out to meet him I took 179 to 20 to 8, and on Rte 8 I had an interesting experience.
Route 8 starts in Winsted, and is a rarely patrolled highway. Therefore, everyone drives on it REALLY fast (about 95 on average). I got on the highway and was in the left lane doing 95 behind two cars, one in the left lane, one in the right. When a slow vehicle lane opened up to the right of the latter, a guy on a Harley - wearing a t-shirt and no helmet - blew past all of us.
Not one to let down my Japanese crotch-rocket image, I swung out behind him and throttled up to catch up with him. He was doing nearly 120 - without a helmet - all, apparently, to show me (ricer) that Harleys could outperform. I kept up with him just to show him that I wasn't being outperformed, but I was wearing leather and a helmet.
Crazy mofo...
