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Here's the ones I downloaded. The rear shot shows the biker who slowed down our progress and @HUAW wanted to punt off the road! 🤣
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And, of course, you can't miss the PERMAGRIN on Jeannie's face (@MyCaviar7 ) 😁
And, of course, you can't miss the PERMAGRIN on Jeannie's face (@MyCaviar7 ) 😁
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It IS a public road (Route 129) with a 35 MPH posted. And you may come across anyone at any speed traveling either way so you should choose your ride time wisely if you'd like to risk your life traveling at a much higher rate of speed. In this situation we arrive late morning so we were sharing the road with a much milder crowd than we would have liked. 
@Cruzrr66 Is correct it is an open public road. That said, I had several people pull over in the pull off spots. At some point I know I pulled over and let a new Z06 and Viper through. There is an understood etiquette. I’ll add: I never crossed the inside line as I kept the line in sight next to the front fender. I had the window open and would lean and look. I’ve seen people killed crossing the inside line.
The rest of the story is: The Houston crew was pulling out of the store parking lot and I was in front in. A few two wheeled rice rockets tore up the road. I looked around and saw my crew moving so we launched up the road. After a while it was clear there were no other SSRs in tow, so we pulled over and waited and waited and waited. Then along comes a bike followed by @HUAW and the rest of the bunch we filed in with the crew and it was... how shall I put it plainly? It was a pleasant cruise, but there wasn't much to do about it. After we got to the end and pictures were taken of all the Rs and discussions were starting about the return route. I was casually checking front wheel temps of a few Rs, mine were warm, but I could hold my hand on them, and others were pretty hot. I said to @Curbsssr "Lets go back." and we nonchalantly walked back to our Rs with @TLM and @MyCaviar7 following suit and we hauled out of there in the opposite direction. It was a very different experience. Tap the brakes to set the front, hug the line and power on. A few times the rear began to fully break loose, and it was fun. To borrow a motocross term, she squared the corners nicely. Side note: the 6spd rear end behaves much more progressively and predictably than the automatic, and I would not try and throttle steer quite so much in our automatic (a rear end swap is looming for both our Rs). We then stopped for pictures at some point, and swapped positions and continued the journey back to the stores.
The outbound tour:
Posing for pictures on the way back:
We even walked across the road and took pictures:
We pulled over and got a couple pics of Curb:
Look at that, there were warning signs with a suggested speed:
Somewhere along the way:
Posing at the store:
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