Anyone go for drives at extreme hours to avoid traffic?

[dave 911]

Saturday mornings at sunrise are a great time - meeting at McD's for breakfast and then taking the P-cars out on the twisties is a GREAT way to start the weekend!

[BK911]

I have done many midnight dragon runs. No traffic and no cops.

[911SauCy]

Originally Posted by dave 911

Saturday mornings at sunrise are a great time - meeting at McD's for breakfast and then taking the P-cars out on the twisties is a GREAT way to start the weekend!

This. A warm summer morning, top off, sun rising, and solitude...it's hard to get any better.

[fastfredracing]

When I lived in the City, my road was the entrance to a run down city park. It had the some serious twisty, off camber turns, and lots of elevation changes and switchbacks. It was awesome autocross practice. The park was mostly abandoned, but you could find dog walkers, and some joggers, and cyclist on the weekends. I would frequently practice driving there. Usually later in the evening, after work , or early in the morning. I would make a leisurely lap through, just to make sure there were no joggers, or cyclists, then I would rage on the place. It was my own little practice track. I had tire marks everywhere. I lived there for 3 years.
I always wanted to clean the place up, and stage a hill climb there .

[tevake]

On Kauai getting out very early was the way to have fun driving. Not many roads and lots of slow visitors driving slowly with their video cameras out the windows etc. later in the day.
Here in central AZ there are so many nice lightly traveled back roads in the mountains that I wait till it warms up to hit it. Having all these great roads to cruise had brought me to a new level of driving fun!

Cheers Richard

[oldE]

Sorry Guys,

I live in western Nova Scotia.
Imagine a place the size of southern Ontario with less than one million people. Then put more than half of those folks in a few urban areas.
Around here, we have to import traffic!

On the flip side some of those roads are frost-heaved and pot-holed, but you know where they are.

Best
Les

[T77911S]

the problem with middle of the night drives is you are more likely to get pulled over for speeding at a lower speed.
when there is traffic, going 10mph over is not a big deal. at 4am 5 over might get you pulled just to see if you are drunk.

[LakeCleElum]

I was just thinking last night about how it sucks to get into and out of Sydney, AU on a weekend....The last time thru on a Sunday, I took the "Putty Rd" from Singleton down to Campbelltown and had a wonderful drive:

Putty Road - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[epbrown]

Originally Posted by 911SauCy

This. A warm summer morning, top off, sun rising, and solitude...it's hard to get any better.

Same. In Chicago in the summer it's getting light not long after 5 a.m. Great time to hop on the motorcycle and get out to the state higways before congestion hit, or take the Z4 or whatever for a run before stopping by a car show/meet at 7 a.m. or so.

[notfarnow]

[tevake]

Big thanks for posting that Notfarnow!
Yet another excellent video from those masters at Petrolisous, this one featuring my favorite Ferrari of all time . The beautiful Lusso. Insightful commentary . Loved it!

Cheers Richard

[sugarwood]

Nice video. Captures many sentiments of pelicans

[911SauCy]

Originally Posted by notfarnow

this exact feeling

[dw1]

I not only go for very early morning drives, I regularly commute very early (leaving the house about 4:30 -4:45 am) to avoid traffic and enjoy the drive.

(This also gives me quiet time at work to actually get something accomplished before the "crisis of the day" hits.)

I also recently decided to drive on a solo long trip rater than fly because I like driving that much.

On weekend early morning joy rides, one has to be careful not to get too loud or you get the undivided attention of those who protect & serve.