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Old August 11th 04, 07:19 PM
AustinMN
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Bill Baka wrote:
I think I will take the extra 4 miles to avoid this road and forget I
ever mentioned it.


Most of us have found alternate routes because of places we didn't want to
ride. Cycling should be fun. If it's no fun, why bother?

Austin

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Old August 11th 04, 08:07 PM
Bill Baka
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:19:44 GMT, AustinMN wrote:

Bill Baka wrote:
I think I will take the extra 4 miles to avoid this road and forget I
ever mentioned it.


Most of us have found alternate routes because of places we didn't want
to
ride. Cycling should be fun. If it's no fun, why bother?

Austin

It is fun, I just never thought I would get so much **** for
mentioning how I ride on one section of road. I avoid it
now and use a much busier road that has all the Air Force
hot shots on it from Beale AFB. Those guys know how to
speed, and if they can lose a cop by the time they get on base
they win.
Bill Baka


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Old August 12th 04, 06:14 AM
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"Bill Baka" wrote


It is fun, I just never thought I would get so much **** for
mentioning how I ride on one section of road. I avoid it
now and use a much busier road that has all the Air Force
hot shots on it from Beale AFB. Those guys know how to
speed, and if they can lose a cop by the time they get on base
they win.
Bill Baka


Having driven onto dozens(?) of airbases, literally thousands of
times...you're full of crap.
Especially after 9/11. 100% ID check at the gate. Usually a line, if only 2
or 3 cars. So he's stopped, at least for 20 seconds or so. Along with a
weave barrier so slow you down.

After having run the plate, and gotten the drivers details...they KNOW where
he's going and where he lives. And if the cop gets a peek at the windshield,
the base sticker is quite prominent.

And base cops and city cops usually work quite well together. So much so
that often there is a city liason officer on base a couple of times a week.

Pete


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Old August 12th 04, 12:47 PM
Bill Baka
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On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 05:14:31 GMT, Pete wrote:


"Bill Baka" wrote


It is fun, I just never thought I would get so much **** for
mentioning how I ride on one section of road. I avoid it
now and use a much busier road that has all the Air Force
hot shots on it from Beale AFB. Those guys know how to
speed, and if they can lose a cop by the time they get on base
they win.
Bill Baka


Having driven onto dozens(?) of airbases, literally thousands of
times...you're full of crap.
Especially after 9/11. 100% ID check at the gate. Usually a line, if
only 2
or 3 cars. So he's stopped, at least for 20 seconds or so. Along with a
weave barrier so slow you down.


Actually I hope you are right and the few guys I have talked to are
bull****ting me. They do blast down the road to the base at well
over the speed limit either way.

After having run the plate, and gotten the drivers details...they KNOW
where
he's going and where he lives. And if the cop gets a peek at the
windshield,
the base sticker is quite prominent.


The cop is usually behind, since they don't seem to be using radar on
Beale road. I don't know why since they could make their quota easily.

And base cops and city cops usually work quite well together. So much so
that often there is a city liason officer on base a couple of times a
week.


In the evening there is no line, just 2 M.P.s and if they know someone
they get past pretty quick. As a civilian I know I get checked very
thoroughly.

For the sake of everyone I do hope the enlisted guys I talked to were
bull****ting me.
Bill Baka

Pete





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Old August 12th 04, 12:58 PM
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On 12 Aug 2004 06:58:53 GMT, Hunrobe wrote:

Bill Baka


wrote in part:

He
told me of the guys making it to the gate and the local cops having
no jusrisdiction. Others have told me of the same thing, times ten, at
Travis AFB near Vacaville and highway 80, a well known speeding area.


---snip---

Don't believe everything you hear. The jurisdictional issues are handled
quite
nicely when the MPs refuse to open the gates for the offender or, if he
actually manages to make it onto the base, when they return him to the
civilian
authorities. In the latter case he can get whacked twice- once in the
form of a
speeding ticket and again in the form of military discipline.

Glenview, huh? Evanston area north of Chicago. Is Pal-Waukee airport
still there? I learned to fly there in a J-3 cub. Probably paved over
like everything else.



It's actually between Glenview and Evanston and yes, Palwaukee is still
operating. The airstrip has been paved for as long as I've known. Wasn't
it
paved when you were there? ;-)


I was there in 1962-1963 and it was paved. I was 14 at the time and
couldn't
wait to spend my $5.00 a week on flying lessons. The only thing I ever
flew was a J-3 with a stick and I loved it, getting airborne at only
about 30 MPH. It was nice to drop the sides and look out and straight
down, and I remember landing into a good wind I could have run alongside
the plane. Top speed was only about 75 or 80.Good times.
I lived in Wheeling at the time so it was a bit
of a bike ride to the airport, but well worth it. I lived in Mc Henry,
then Des Plaines, Park Ridge, and then Wheeling as my parents bought
progressively bigger houses. From Wheeling I rode with a friend up to
the Wisconsin state line one Saturday, on 3 speeds, no less, and that
was a great day of riding adventure. I went back there in 1993 and
every place that I had played in (corn fields, etc.)was paved over
with houses. Metra rail extends like spokes of a wheel from Chicago
and everywhere the rail goes, people go and more houses take over.
Sad really, but they have to live somewhere.
Bike on,
Bill Baka

Regards,
Bob Hunt




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