09-19-2015, 12:13 AM
You're fron Chicago? I never lived there. Is traffic in my lil' ol' burg in the mountains - admittedly, growing like a weed, and full of college kids...but is it worse here than in the Second City?
How did that knot of twelve get behind me? We were moving in a clot to the light. The knot formed, on Reserve Street, at the freeway cloverleaf and the first signal; and we move as if in a parade all the way to our destinations...which are mostly one of two busy intersections.
So they stopped when I stopped, since the traffic lights somehow manage mostly to drop in my face. So, three minutes at Expressway Blvd, another three minutes at Union Pacific; and then SIX at Moran. And, on a summer afternoon, the mercury in the high nineties.
There is really nothing to do for that engine to prevent catastrophic overheating, other than shut it down at those lights. I love this machine; but one thing the modern water-cooled rides have over it, is their radiators, mostly with fans.
As for the escape route...nice theory they teach. I've never needed it; and to be able to avail, you'd have to be looking in your mirror AT THE EXACT SECOND OF INCIDENT. Which means staring in the mirror. Not watching the traffic or the light.
Now, if I was naked at that stop...the first and only one out...that's another matter. Of course I'd be watching. But the only time that happens out here is between 3am and six.
How did that knot of twelve get behind me? We were moving in a clot to the light. The knot formed, on Reserve Street, at the freeway cloverleaf and the first signal; and we move as if in a parade all the way to our destinations...which are mostly one of two busy intersections.
So they stopped when I stopped, since the traffic lights somehow manage mostly to drop in my face. So, three minutes at Expressway Blvd, another three minutes at Union Pacific; and then SIX at Moran. And, on a summer afternoon, the mercury in the high nineties.
There is really nothing to do for that engine to prevent catastrophic overheating, other than shut it down at those lights. I love this machine; but one thing the modern water-cooled rides have over it, is their radiators, mostly with fans.
As for the escape route...nice theory they teach. I've never needed it; and to be able to avail, you'd have to be looking in your mirror AT THE EXACT SECOND OF INCIDENT. Which means staring in the mirror. Not watching the traffic or the light.
Now, if I was naked at that stop...the first and only one out...that's another matter. Of course I'd be watching. But the only time that happens out here is between 3am and six.