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On 5/12/2011 10:18 PM, Mike Jacoubowsky wrote:
> http://chainreactionblogs.com/diary/2011/05/12/can-you-drive-that-fast-on-skyline-apparently-not/
>
> --Mike--     Chain Reaction Bicycles
> www.ChainReactionBicycles.com

I'm sure the guy's insurance company would love to have that video!

No Verizon coverage, but Nextel coverage? Amazing. My wife's company has 
to cover that area and when they had Nextel they never had coverage up 
there, they all had to carry AT&T or Verizon phones. Sometimes they had 
to call the resident to open a gate or call off a dog, and Nextel had no 
coverage.

One thing I've found is that my smart phone with no external antenna 
will have no signal, while my old dumb phone with an external antenna 
(which I've kept activated at $2.50/month) will get enough of a signal 
to make a call. Just experienced that last Sunday again down in Muir Woods.

On 5/12/2011 10:18 PM, Mike Jacoubowsky wrote:
> http://chainreactionblogs.com/diary/2011/05/12/can-you-drive-that-fast-on-skyline-apparently-not/
>
> --Mike--     Chain Reaction Bicycles
> www.ChainReactionBicycles.com

I have a vague memory of being on Skyline in the 1980's, pre-cell phone, 
and having something similar happen, a crazy driver going by us at high 
speed and later coming upon the car crashed on the side of the road. 
Also near Skylonda. Seems like it's irresistible to drive insanely fast 
on Skyline.

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> On 5/12/2011 10:18 PM, Mike Jacoubowsky wrote:
>> http://chainreactionblogs.com/diary/2011/05/12/can-you-drive-that-fast-on-skyline-apparently-not/
>>
>> --Mike--     Chain Reaction Bicycles
>> www.ChainReactionBicycles.com
>
> I'm sure the guy's insurance company would love to have that video!
>
> No Verizon coverage, but Nextel coverage? Amazing. My wife's company 
> has to cover that area and when they had Nextel they never had 
> coverage up there, they all had to carry AT&T or Verizon phones. 
> Sometimes they had to call the resident to open a gate or call off a 
> dog, and Nextel had no coverage.
>
> One thing I've found is that my smart phone with no external antenna 
> will have no signal, while my old dumb phone with an external antenna 
> (which I've kept activated at $2.50/month) will get enough of a signal 
> to make a call. Just experienced that last Sunday again down in Muir 
> Woods.

I wasn't thinking as clearly as I should have; I'll bet I could have 
made a call if I'd disabled 3G. The phone the guy was using looked like 
one of those yellow "work phones" with PTT. I didn't ask if it was 
Sprint/Nextel, but not sure what else it could have been, since we had 
AT&T and Verizon covered by the rest of us.

In general, coverage on Skyline has improved by leaps and bounds in the 
past two years. They've been putting up a lot of poles (you can see 
several of them on 84 that have gone up in just the past 6 months).

> I have a vague memory of being on Skyline in the 1980's, pre-cell 
> phone, and having something similar happen, a crazy driver going by us 
> at high speed and later coming upon the car crashed on the side of the 
> road. Also near Skylonda. Seems like it's irresistible to drive 
> insanely fast on Skyline.

I've seen motorcycles come *close* to the speed this guy was going. The 
section was one of the longer straightaways, but he'd come off of a 
couple of bends. Funny thing, no tire squealing (when he was behind us), 
nor did we hear the sound of the crash, even though it was only a a 
thousand meters or so ahead. Of course, we're not listening for it; we 
were talking among ourselves about the guy's insane speed.

--Mike--     Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com