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Originally Posted by BAN SUVS
I know I personally can run a few of my local roads nearly as fast as they can be run, but I rarely do so. That's because I am always driving as fast as the current set of conditions allow rather than the limits of car/driver ability.
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Not to talk smack to you, Kevin, just to reinforce the point - I know at least a few of us here could successfully take roads we know flat out at 10/10ths, and probably get away with it 90% of the time... but it's the other 10% that will kill you. The other 10% holds the patch of water or black ice you don't see, or the deer that jumps out into the road (a real possibility, at least on a lot of the roads I've driven on in the bay area), or the smacktard driving the other way that drifts a little too close to your lane, or the kid playing in the road around the next sharp bend, etc. etc.. If you don't have some traction left in reserve for these emergencies, the results won't be pretty. I've driven in the hills at 10/10ths a few times in the past and, fortunately, gotten away with it... I don't do it anymore. Call it an increase in my intelligence/balls ratio.