Highway 9 cruises come to an end ("touge" to ricers)
 

Well..
The time has come, I had predicted this day for a while and tried to warn people about the increased reckless driving on the mountains.

This is mainly for those of you who were saying "let's go for a spirited drive up on the mountains as a 50 person group" and being overcompetitive..

Last weekend I went out for a cruise as I have been doing for the last 10 years.

As i approach the beginning of the course, I noticed some people flagging me down, when i stopped to see what was up, I found out that:

Saratoga police has had it with the numerous crashes reported in the last few weeks and they will enforce the road with cameras and cite tickets for ANY modified cars. Reason for setting up these traps was because they had 3 crashes in 2 consecutive weekends.

The people who warned me not to go had already received tickets for going a couple miles over the speed limit and for being modified.

So this is a warning for everyone that want to go on these "TOUGE" runs (retarded use of JDM terms)

I'm just sick of having nothing to do, late at night when there's nothing to do, people were able to enjoy a nice drive at night but no longer.

I was once CHASED by some people who are there all night, and when they pulled over after we stopped they told me that they were PURPOSELY "pushing my limits"
With that said I can see why people are getting into accidents.

All in all, it was fun while it lasted...

Special thanks to Initial D and the 4wd inexperienced ricers!!

sucks but if you liked to drive it then others like to drive it as well, you can't claim something as your own though of course the idiot ricers crashing didn't help much.. i used to ride my bike up skyline when i lived in santa cruz so i know it sucks to lose such a nice drive/ride..

upside is there is TONS of roads just like skyline in those mountains and i know the ricers don't know of many of them. one i also liked was old highway 17, the frontage road that goes through the mountains for about half the length of highway 17 and plenty of offshoots that are just as nice of a drive and less traffic to worry about.

You're right, I don't own the road, just pointing out that it sucks not being able to drive out there in peace as I used to.

You forgot FF3 :) there they one that showed touge drifting :wallbash:

oh yeahhh to-Gay runs

dood that's the best way to get to loch lomond!!!!! FUCKING RICERS!!!!!!! I HATE THEM!!!!!!I KNEW THIS SHIT WOULD HAPPEN! :rant:

and I haven't even started my "backroads of California" book....fucking street racing, cock sucking idiots......you don't know how much I hate them.......

street racing? they were just enjoying the same roads we all do, they are just a little less adept at driving than we are is all.. :)

hahaha.............sure............I've been driving those roads for years and my only accident was cause by some asshole racing downhill...........he didn't even stop to see if I was dead.......lucky a tree kept me from going off the fucking ravine. don't even try to justify this shit.....

NeedFD, you dont happen to drop off your son off at berryessa community center everymorning do you?

I remember a couple of RX7 guys and I crashed a 240 meet years ago and a bunch of these idiots were driving in the wrong lane and trying to drift and they almost crashed into oncoming traffic........it was then that I decided NEVER to attent any car meets........bunch of idiots and retards and very few smart people.....sorry if anyone feels insulted but I speak from experience. I hate street racers, street drifters, and just plain old ricer retards.........:rant:

i hear ya, problem is they won't just disappear but hopefully they will continue to kill themselves and stunt the growth of their population.

Hmm you must have the wrong guy.. I'm still single and no children yet..

he does drop his children off at the pool though

why is everyone always talking shit about my twogay friends? you can't help it if you like it :p:

you like to be in the middle eh?

lol twogay sandwich

if we were a choochoo train, i'd be the caboose.
chuggachuggachuggachugga toot-toot

I hope you aren't lumping the NorCal7 events that I organize. If so then you are way off base about us. But you are right about the typical events that happen.

meh.......sorry for the few smart ppl but i never give people the benefit of the doubt.....there is always a retard that will do something stupid.

Well yeah, but if you live your life this way and think, "I'm not going to go to a NorCal7's meet because some jackass might whip em in the parking lot at the end of the meet" then you will never have fun in life and fully enjoy owning an RX-7 :)

Yes... that's right, if you don't come out to our meets you will never fully enjoy owning an RX-7 :fawk:

And WTF am I doing on at 5 AM. I gotta get some sleep. Talk to you guys tommorow at 3PM when I wake up.

i went to bed at 4:30 and it's almost 11 and my fiancee won't let me sleep....lol........that's what I get.

Agreed, I use to go up there every night myslef sometime just crusing sometimes alittle more but I never ever tryed things that would put other people in harm or my car in harms way. Sure im driving faster and taking cornors pretty quick but never to the point that it was out of conrtoll (myself or the car), always wider even at night to avoid bikes and never in others lanes. I cant blame Initial d because after all its a show, blame the person for not having common sense and not knowing there limits of them selfs, the road, and car

There's still quite a few nice roads running down the coast. Thankfully, most retards out there don't know about them and don't have the means to find out about them. Hopefully the next time I go on a drive I can have a decent road to drive around on.

I know :) ive been looking up roads to drive on yahoo maps for almost a year now when 9 started getting sketch. I would peruse the mountains and then I go on a safari and see how the road is. Most of the time the end up being peoples private roads or driveways but a few are good and some I've found are almost abandoned.

Well the real JDM is that you don't go up the mountains until you are initiated and approved by the veterians or accompanied by the them, and if you fuck up or are stupid you get your ass kicked out. Sounds too OG but it really make sense. If everyone is good at going fast then there would be not problems and crashes. But hey we are in America and your local community college kid will take daddy's money to buy a new STI or over priced RWD cars and think he is on a race track when he sees other toogay friends. I guess everyone just want to be the biggest fish in the pond but don't realize there is an ocean.

I would have to agree, it is the lack of common sense and knowing your course that gives American drifters a bad rap.

I used to live in Lake Elsinore (smell some more) and commuted to Irvine everyday over the infamous Ortega Hwy (78). So many accidents caused by ignorance and lack of common sense.

Only when it involves a 'ricer' or bike does it become a big story but in reality, it's the men and women with a cell phone in the ear not paying attention, going over the double line.

Freight trucks cutting corners. "Ricers" trying to pass people in blind corners on a Sunday morning.

Although I no longer drift Ortega, usually a friend would radio from ahead and let me know a certain section of road was clear....and this was at 2am.

~ cheers

I think fast driving on mountain roads in Japan is like Autobahn in Germany, Americans can never handle it and will always fuck it up. I was in Japan a few years ago and Japanese people drive fast and can handle it just fine. Auto hobbiests in Japan and Europe are more skilled and have way less ego, but in U.S. as long as we can afford it then we think we deserve it. Can you imagine the insanity if we have Autobahn here in a hi traffic area? Well I think it is the same with all this touge shit that is happening.

us americans just can't compete with the peripheral vision of asians :(

Just like I said Americans can't handle it, not even with a keyboard. As usual some white trash talker has to reprsent and talk shit with stupidity and racism. Just go drink some beer and drag race, after all the whities are the ones that have the best peripheral vision for going straight. Oh don't forget you ego you will need it to talk shit for no reason next time.

Does anyone else see the irony behind this post?

And what are you? you ever look at our roads!? there are sooo many offcamber turns its a wounder more dont crash.

Sorry Needfd, I crashed there as well. ;)

oomg....how do you retards go off on tangents and then fight about it?? ADD-having-rotards.......i hate the cock-sucking drifters who ruin nice weekend road trips for us.

I was there as well approximately 2 weeks ago. The cops set up a road block and "FBI" agents were checking under the hoods of several modified cars. They said it was to curb street racing as many people have been crashing there

$2K fine for every removed cat i think

Oh how great... no more "Oh I am bored, let's go for a drive" road anymore.

thats gay, i was going to go there this week since i just fixed my car...

I use to ride up 9 to Alices and 4 corners. I even took the 7 there a few times. I guess I wont anymore. That really blows. We all might as well sell our cars or keep em on a trailer.

too bad about 9 but no need to worry too much. there are still tons of roads up there. just today i went down 1 to 92,rode up skyline to alices and back. ive been driving up there for 3 years have seen cops only twice. the key is not to go up there on the weekends and holidays. and when the touge ricers come up to you, just pull over and let em pass. oh and something the ricers have a problem with ALWAYS STAY ON YOUR SIDE OF THE ROAD, NEVER CROSS THE CENTERLINE.

^^^^ yeah.......the SC backroads are great too..........but man I hate these ricers.

Hmmmmmmmm???? And how exactly did you get that little memento on the side of your car :D

lol.........i wonder.

BWAHAHAHHAHAAHHAAHA

Yea i got it driving normal thanks to that nice 90 degree onramp with sand, never happed anywhere else.

shit happens...coulda been worse........i hate sand, ang gravel for that.

yea it really was just bad luck

Highway 9 was a fun run when i had my FC... i didnt go there much, i stuck with Calaveras wich was my favorite... i prefer grip over drift... there's always other mountain runs like palmeras and Niles...

When i bought my FD i took a visit up to Calaveras and saw a bunch of Hondas and Integs and even a fucking muscle car... i dont know much about FWD's and muscle on mountain runs, but i heard they suck and every single one mugged me and revved at me... especially that mustang...

Personally.... i think it was that goddamn Fast and the Furioues Tokyo Drift Bullcrap!!! :madfawk:

So every single one of you say that you have never pushed yourself to your limits on a mountain road before? So you never pushed yourself in your car that you love so much and modify? Please!!! If you have never pushed youself on a mountain pass, or A TOUGE. (Hey, it is an actual word in another language!) YOU DONT DESERVE AN RX-7!!!! & YOU DONT LOVE YOR CAR

It's a mountain pass, not a track, leave "pushing the limits" to the track, while driving over the mountains there's people coming the other way, there's debris on the road and the road condition changes with the weather (cracks on the road etc).

Touge is definitely a word in another language like baka(you) and ksobaba(you) but that's just a ricer's term, JDM y0!! i'm toyte cause i Know JdM maiIng!

So in order to love your car you must beat it up and drive it recklessly? You just push the limits of your car on roads you don't know and then learn only when you crash? Get real, and stop watching FnF