What's your favorite turn?

"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa) 09/30/2014 at 08:57 • Filed to: None

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Everyone has that favorite curve or off-ramp that becomes a game of 'how far over the recommended speed can I go' every time there's no traffic on it. What's yours?

Mine is the off ramp from southbound I-135 into Southeast Boulevard. It branches off from a highway with a 60mph speed limit where everyone is doing 70, and heads off to the right. It curves right, then as it heads under a bridge there is a banked left curve and a very short section to merge with the 50mph street.

Recommended speed is 20mph. Generally I enter the curve at whatever I was doing on the highway, then slow down to 50 and grab 2nd gear just before going under the bridge. I swing wide to the point of being a couple feet away from the right-side guardrail (in the process making my passengers poop themselves if I have any) before giving it the beans and swinging left to clip the apex and merge into traffic doing exactly the speed limit (the left lane is always empty due to adequate (!!!) signage).

Nibby > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 09/30/2014 at 09:00

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Nibby > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 09/30/2014 at 09:01

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Nibbles > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 09/30/2014 at 09:05

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This one:

505Turbeaux > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 09/30/2014 at 09:07

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the amount of times I talk shit about the local and state police on here I am not revealing mine lest they lie in wait for me one day...

Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again. > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 09/30/2014 at 09:10

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I always try and double the recommended speed, regardless of corner.

Bad Idea Hat > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 09/30/2014 at 09:11

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I've taken to calling this "Row Rouge." Street name obviously being the partial donor to the name. The other part is that it's a gentle downhill to the creek, and then sharply uphill until the breaking zone (red). I stay in my lane for the entire corner, because I'm crazy, not stupid.

Down the gentle slope to the creek, then gentle incline at quick right bend, increases grade to left bend. Aim right after left bend to set yourself up for the top of the hill. At crest, brake hard from far right margin into turn, accelerate at apex and out.

I put my car into a four wheel drift on this corner one winter. As a result, this track is closed in inclement weather.

ZaqAtaq > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 09/30/2014 at 09:13

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In my home town... speed limit is 55, suggested speed for these curves are 25... don't even have to break the speed limit to have a good time. They are banked well also... the blindness kind of ruins them a bit but still a load of fun. Bonus points if anyone knows where this is.

macanamera > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 09/30/2014 at 09:13

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nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 09/30/2014 at 09:14

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how could an off ramp be exciting you ask? Shouldn't it be on ramps because that means go fast? Sure but this off ramp though it doesn't look like much is banked and has enough apexes and all sorts of passenger pants crapping when you hit the last turn, the weight lifts and a touch of understeer comes into play.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 09/30/2014 at 09:16

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and SO many more back roads in Vermont... but both of the above are well banked, have excellent visibility, and offer a radius that allows the ass end of the FieSTa to get all happy and drifty at speeds that still leave my entry to the main road "unsurprising" to other drivers.

Leadbull > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 09/30/2014 at 09:16

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Nice try, DOT.

Milky > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 09/30/2014 at 09:18

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That braaaaap zone … those are the best zones.

Every damn morning, traffic permitting.

ZaqAtaq > ZaqAtaq 09/30/2014 at 09:19

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Okay, no bonus points. I realized they have street view of it which is fun to click through. Make engine noises and click as fast as you can for enhanced experience.

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.98681…

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again. 09/30/2014 at 09:20

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Which almost always seems easier than it sounds. I did that on Highway 101 in California once.

fhrblig > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 09/30/2014 at 09:20

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From downtown Denver, go west on Colfax and then take the ramp for I-25 south. It's downhill, then at the bottom it turns sharp left and upward. Fun, just not during rush hour. When there is no traffic though, it always brings a smile to my face.

Milky > Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again. 09/30/2014 at 09:20

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Yupp, I also abide by this unspoken rule.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > macanamera 09/30/2014 at 09:21

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I want so bad to take a couple laps of Laguna Seca in my car. Favorite track ever.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul 09/30/2014 at 09:21

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Oh man that looks excellent.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Milky 09/30/2014 at 09:23

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The curve I take always has people going 20mph through it so I rarely get to drive it how I'd like. Super disappointing :(

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 09/30/2014 at 09:26

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just watch out for the dead opossum

Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again. > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 09/30/2014 at 09:28

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Most roads it is possible, if it isn't then I try at least to maintain the last speed limit. it drives me nuts when people slow down to the caution speed in warm dry conditions.

Milky > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 09/30/2014 at 09:28

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Same here, thats why I put "traffic permitting". I'd say only like once a week I get to really take it at speed, most days I just make noise.

But those days when I'm merging onto the highway and see its all clear I'm like …..

Jayhawk Jake > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 09/30/2014 at 09:33

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I'm usually doing 50 on that ramp. It's not a 20mph curve by any definition

As Du Volant > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 09/30/2014 at 09:35

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(start on the right side of the image)

From the right. Enter from a straight, hard brake, 90 degree left, sweeping banked right, then another 90 degree left, over the creek (metal grate bridge, makes a nice satisfying clang when you hit it), then another almost-90 degree left followed by steep uphill over the highway and another sweeping right while still going uphill. Plus the road after crossing the highway is pretty rough and rutted and makes me feel like a rally driver.

Agrajag > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 09/30/2014 at 09:39

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05:55-06:07 My favorite turn. It is a mini corkscrew. You don't even need to speed. In fact it is one of the only turns where it's wise to follow the advised speed on the yellow sign, but it's a lot more fun if you don't.

Sweet Trav > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 09/30/2014 at 09:39

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Going west on M-14 towards an arbor, the left lane ends, but the pavement continues for a while, this butts right into a banked turn, it feels like a circle track turn when you start high and end low because the extra bit of the left lane turns into the middle lane

JAREAL > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 09/30/2014 at 09:47

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Not exactly a turn, but a series of two lane roundabouts. CHICANES!!!!!

DocWalt > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 09/30/2014 at 10:06

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Slightly difficult choice, but because of the first corner of this string, I've gotta go with this.

From the right side of shot to left. The first corner is a stunning corner, if you have the required confidence in your car. It's possible to come down the hill from the kink on the right at full throttle, hit the corner at 75-80 mph, driving through the little dip on the inside and unsettling the car just enough to make you wonder if it was a good idea to keep your foot on the floor. The dip isn't very visible, but you'll know it's there even at 40mph. In the background you can see the uphill, cresting, off camber corner #2....

Corner #2 is frightening at speeds much above the speed limit, and I know a few people that have lost their cars to this corner. This corner is really deceptive, it looks a lot tighter than it is because the crest kills vision of the apex. However, it's entirely possible that subconsciously slowing down is a good thing, because the off camber cresting right before the apex leads into an even more off camber exit that can easily suck your car into the ditch, or worse spin you into the telephone poles on the left. Following this corner is a relaxed left hand sweeper down to the simple corner #3...

Run wide on the right hand side of the road, using at least half of the apron, and this corner really opens up. The entry is slightly off camber, but quickly flattens up as the corner straightens up and starts to climb to corner #4...

The view below is what you can see at entry. The road just disappears and there's free air in front of you. There has been plenty of incidents of drunk drivers launching their cars here...

Corner #4 is a pretty tasty morsel of a corner. If corner #2's uphill braking zone into a corner that's wildly off camber, decreasing radius, and on a crest don't get the adrenaline flowing, maybe corner #4's uphill braking zone into a corner that's wildly banked, decreasing radius, and on a crest will! Exit speed can be well above the posted 40mph ;)

roflcopter > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 09/30/2014 at 10:25

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Didn't feel like fully annotating it, but coming off the highway into the first sweeper I typically end up at the top of 4th, then get to heel-toe back down to second for the first constant radius, then listen to it roar through the underpass towards the second constant radius, then back up to the top of 4th on the straight, heel-toe back into the increasing radius followed by gassing it out back onto the highway towards home. This town is dead after 11pm...

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > roflcopter 09/30/2014 at 10:34

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Oh my god that looks amazing

roflcopter > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 09/30/2014 at 10:37

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I forgot to mention that they're all banked too. It's kind of unnerving looking at all the black marks up the barriers though from people getting too gutsy.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Jayhawk Jake 09/30/2014 at 10:37

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Not at all. 55 is the fastest I can take that without ludicrous amounts of tire squeal that scares women and children.

Rainbow > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 09/30/2014 at 10:55

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https://www.google.com/maps/@34.04053…

If I was REALLY supposed to go 15mph, they wouldn't have banked it.

JEM > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 09/30/2014 at 11:31

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On ramp onto 146N from I-90 in Worcester, MA (red outlined route on map):

What you can't see on the map is the major left hand section is downhill, and then bottoms out and comes up a little as you go into a slight right hander to merge back.

It's sort of like a baby Eau Rouge that's 3 minutes from my house :-)

Fun in anything, Jeep or motorcycle.

briannutter1 > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 09/30/2014 at 12:16

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This is Deadman's Curve in Cleveland. It's fun, but notice to the left of this picture the wonderful loop to send traffic eastward. It's a very complex curve to apex correctly