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But i dont plan on driving aggressively with anyone in the future...maybe a couple cars if i trust them.

But i drive **** *****, **** *******, ******, *** *, **** ****, ****** etc all the time by myself after midnight on weekdays.

 

But you're one of a handful of people who won't whine and cry about the gas they use, or the mileage they put on the car, or how long the drive is...

...and that's one of the biggest reasons I doubt I'll put together any more drives. Besides, keeping the drives to a decent size (5-8 cars/all Subarus), and getting everyone on the same page about the drive is akin to herding cats...

...you get the people who want to invite their "driver friend" (who's usually one of the people who can't keep up/wreck trying), or people who can't pick up the pace to keep the group together on a nice clean road...but insist on staying in their position...

/rant

 

Because these roads are best driven alone or in small groups... anything larger than 10 cars is going to attract unwanted attention, and most organized i-club drives seem to easily grow to 30 or more cars these days. The residents in those areas live that far out in BFE for a reason... they like their privacy, and they HATE large groups of cars treating those roads like their own private raceway and disturbing the peace. That's why you have to move through in a compact group at a decent pace, and without stragglers. We've been on drives where cars that fell behind were stopped and threatened with weapons by angry residents.

Also, a lot of the "city" people seem to have a problem realizing that the cows have every right to stand in the middle of the road (most of the land is open rangeland), and that, just because there is an empty field by the side of the road, it doesn't mean that it's public property that can be turned into an instant rally-x course (yes, I've seen that happen too).

 

All of the stuff listed above is why I much prefer to organize TSD rallies.

First of all, everyone is assigned speeds that are reasonable and proper for the roads, secondly participants are seperated by one or two minutes, which means we avoid big high speed parades and the problems of following too closely.

The biggest problem is not enough people wanting to participate, which is again the opposite situation from the problem with "group drives".

But I have started working on this year's Redwood Rendezvous, so people who want in on that one should start thinking about it....

 

No thinking necessary here my good man!

-Brian