So I was heading out to meet Mic to get my downpipe...merging from the service road onto I-20. I see a Volkswagen Golf GTI a few lanes over and back coming up quick. He was behind me and I stayed in front but we definitely got each others attention. Traffic didn't permit a side-by-side run, so it was just a lot of gun and go's when the opportunity presented itself. He kept up and may have passed me - I don't know - traffic never allowed for it. Cool dude though. We slowed down and chatted a little. Said he had a Magnum R/T being worked on or something. I thought there was a member on here with one so I asked if he was on the site and I thought he said yes. Hard to tell with the wind noise. Anyway, parted ways...maybe he'll see this and post.

On the way back, traffic was a little heavy - just enough to be annoying. Looked up in my rearview in time to see two crotch rockets zipping in and out and passed me a couple lanes over. Traffic clears enough for me to see them but they're way ahead. So I call ground control, they clear me for takeoff, and I'm haulin butt catching up to them (no traffic - keeping it safe). They had slowed down and saw me coming and did the whole turn-sideways-in-their-seats thing looking at me. They move over to the other lane and I pull up alongside. They look at each other and the one guy nods to the other one like 'you go'. He immediately tucks and twists the throttle (um, how about a beep or something?). When I saw him tuck though I punched it - of course he was already going. But I started reeling him in - it felt pretty awesome. He kept looking over his shoulder like he couldn't believe I was gaining. Got alongside him and walked on by. And he had that throttle twisted too, so I know he was all the way into it. I was pretty happy (I don't know my bikes, so I don't know what I beat).

Anyway, he looks back to his buddy who had been trailing us and nodded like 'come on - you get him'. Well his buddy obviously had a way faster bike. He tucks and he's screaming up on me. I figure maybe he'd pull up next to me so we could start evenly, but there came that point where it hit me that he isn't going to slow down. So I go WOT again while he was still behind me a little ways and stay ahead for a few seconds but he was already pretty deep into it and went on by me fairly easily. Whooptie-do - you had an 1/8th mile headstart! Neither one wanted a very fair race apparently. Probably scared of getting beat by a truck.

Anywho - I beat one and got beat. I was pretty happy though. This cam and gear combo is nice. Wished I had had the turbo and some spray. Would have been nice to burst their bubble a little.