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Old 01-22-2008, 09:54 AM
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Default Catched Air?!

Right, everyone has been in this following situation:
The light turns from green to orange, you are to close to brake, but to far away to keep the rate you are going. So you give it a little gas.

I ended up going a little faster than the 40 mph limit, and cross the intersection. But it wasn't flat, rather, it had a nice little ramp in it. When I went over there was this split second of nothing. Then I had contact with the road surface again. I was going dead straight, so I didn't feel out of control. But yet it's something I'd rather not do again.
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Old 01-22-2008, 10:07 AM
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Lol so you were pretty much like this?
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Old 01-22-2008, 10:19 AM
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I didn't think our s197 would catch air slightly faster than 40 mph if you pushed it off a cliff.
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Old 01-22-2008, 10:21 AM
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"Caught" air?
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Old 01-22-2008, 10:24 AM
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Old 01-22-2008, 10:26 AM
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"Gave it a little gas" and caught air? LOL! Yeah, baby!
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Old 01-22-2008, 10:32 AM
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it's possible that your tires never left the ground but you still had a floating effect with your springs stretching out.
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Old 01-22-2008, 10:33 AM
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its "caught air", and the light turns yellow....not orange.
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Old 01-22-2008, 10:35 AM
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Dukes of Hazard, eat your heart out. ^_^

I did that once, but this was a horribly steep dip with a nice rise, and my pony got probably a foot up and landed on all 4s and kept going. No screech, no lost traction, no out of control. She rolled like there was basically nothing.
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Old 01-22-2008, 10:40 AM
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Glad I am not the only one, CAUGHT.

Anyway. Never done it in a car, but I have done it on a motorcycle, (street bike not dirt bike) and it is sure a butt pucker moment.

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