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Old 05-16-2011, 02:56 PM   #1 (permalink)
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What's the ticket risk look like on the dragon this time of year?


Still need to pay the ticket I got in FFX by June. Don't need anymore attention from the police
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Pretty high! We don't really go all that fast on the dragon, anyways.

Last year, because the road was closed at MM11, it was fairly easy to tell when you were in the clear because they only had two LEOs patrolling and if you saw the two of them early on you knew you were clear the rest of the way. This year you'll never really know.

They are pretty aggressive with their ticketing. Make sure you keep your wheels off the double yellow lines, as that's something like a $500 fine for even touching them.
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Pretty high! We don't really go all that fast on the dragon, anyways.

Last year, because the road was closed at MM11, it was fairly easy to tell when you were in the clear because they only had two LEOs patrolling and if you saw the two of them early on you knew you were clear the rest of the way. This year you'll never really know.

They are pretty aggressive with their ticketing. Make sure you keep your wheels off the double yellow lines, as that's something like a $500 fine for even touching them.
From what I understand, you really don't get out of second gear on the dragon, so I imagine I won't need to speed to enjoy it. Is that about right?
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From what I understand, you really don't get out of second gear on the dragon, so I imagine I won't need to speed to enjoy it. Is that about right?
You'll get into 3rd eventually just to cool the oil unless you have an oil cooler.
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From what I understand, you really don't get out of second gear on the dragon, so I imagine I won't need to speed to enjoy it. Is that about right?
You use 2nd and 3rd gear a lot. If you don't have an oil cooler and temps are over 70* you're probably going to want to be using 3rd and 4th gear more just to keep the revs down. I think last year I was around 250-260* on the oil temp without really pushing hard.
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