realter wrote:
SidecarFlip wrote:
realter wrote:
I think the advantages of a pop up, being able to store it at home in an 8' foot high garage door, then zip across the plains at 80mph would outweigh the few times I'd be camping in bear country and need a hardside camper. My apologies to the OP for getting off track here.
You must be one of those people who suck the paint off my doors when you pass me and I'm doing a safe 65 mph. 80 is way too fast for any RV, trailer or TC.
It's a vacation not the Indy 500.......:R
I read you have your own private spot in Upper Michigan. Some of us live 500 miles from those pretty places like the mountains, and just want to hurry up and get there.
I do but it's not the only destination I go to.
But then, after driving over the road for 32 years as a commercial driver and seeing countless wrecks, of which a lot of them are attributable to excessive speed and the inability to stop or correct in time because of speed, I prefer to drive safely and at a speed that allows me to act evasively if necessary and 80 isn't that speed.
I think you'll find that driving slower is one, more relaxing and two, it will put you in a safe spot because the 'speedballs' who are usually tailgaters anyway have passed you.
You have a loaded vehicle, you need to allow for that load. Believe me (and the NHTSA), at 80, it's not happening, though it could 'happen' to you in a bad way at that velocity.
You may get there quicker than me, but I'll get there just the same. I'll consume less fuel, less wear and tear on my vehicle and less stress.
Have fun, I do.
