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Damn toll booths

Jethro

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This is a technique I recently thought of.

Ever have troubles at the toll booths if you are riding with winter weight gloves? Obviously, I have. I have a tank bag which has a perfect pocket right up front, but I wear big thick gloves if it's below 50 and I ride. I take those big paper clamps- you know, they look like a black triangle with two handles to open the clamp- don't know what they are called, but I stole some from the office. I put two quarters in a few of them and keep them in my tank bag. Pull up to the toll, unzip the pocket, grab a clamp with my gloves, and squeeze the thing right over the hopper.
 
Cool idea! (Ugh, I can't believe I said that. Sorry about the pun.)

Those are called "binder's clips," by the way.

Dave
 
Re: Damn toll booths

Jethro said:
This is a technique I recently thought of.

Ever have troubles at the toll booths if you are riding with winter weight gloves? Obviously, I have. I have a tank bag which has a perfect pocket right up front, but I wear big thick gloves if it's below 50 and I ride. I take those big paper clamps- you know, they look like a black triangle with two handles to open the clamp- don't know what they are called, but I stole some from the office. I put two quarters in a few of them and keep them in my tank bag. Pull up to the toll, unzip the pocket, grab a clamp with my gloves, and squeeze the thing right over the hopper.
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Bravo. Perfect. I will use this. I have always hated being on a trip and seeing toll booths approaching on the horizon. Run the whole glove off/change scramble/glove on routine and hope you don't drop a glove in the road somewhere in the process. I will keep clips loaded with various amounts in the front of my tankbag.
 
Excellent idea - thanks for sharing! As little highway riding as I do (back roads are more fun ;) ) I can't really justify getting a transpass for the bike. That, and my general aversion to allowing my movements to be tracked. That whole personal privacy thing, ya know. This way, I can keep using good old fashioned cash. Or coins, as the case may be. :)

And even better if you know in advance exactly how much each toll is going to be. For a trip from Maine to Mass, for example, I'd make a line of 50? to get on the Pike, $1.50 for the York toll, and $1 for Hampton, NH. Reverse for the trip back, except I'd bail in Gray to skip the last toll heading north. :twisted:
 
Zook said:
Reverse for the trip back, except I'd bail in Gray to skip the last toll heading north.
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The first time I read through this sentence I thought you were saying you'd use the clip to hold your bail money.

I guess I should pay more attention. Sorry.

Dave
 
Hinermad said:
Zook said:
Reverse for the trip back, except I'd bail in Gray to skip the last toll heading north.
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The first time I read through this sentence I thought you were saying you'd use the clip to hold your bail money.

I guess I should pay more attention. Sorry.

Dave
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Hey you never know, there is a State Trooper base in Gray...
 
If you wheelie thru the toll booth, they can't read your license plate on the complimentary photo you get- Priceless.
 
oldschoolGS said:
If you wheelie thru the toll booth, they can't read your license plate on the complimentary photo you get- Priceless.
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Speeds in excess of 70mph also will do the trick :twisted:
 
oldschoolGS said:
If you wheelie thru the toll booth, they can't read your license plate on the complimentary photo you get- Priceless.
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I'm confused. If they can't read your license plate, how do they know where to send the complimentary photo?
 
I like the tip, but down here if you pull up on a bike at the toll booth you get waved through without paying anyway.... Next time I will try the wheelie tecnique, but isnt that just plain rude?

Oh, hang on, at the booth there is a price displayed for bikes, however, the traffic law dictates that motorcyles are illegal on the toll roads! Not that I or anyone I know has been stopped, but urban legend has it that one guy was stopped and made to turn around and use the "old" road, then again, he was supposed to be riding a Harley!!! :twisted:
 
oldschoolGS said:
dpep said:
oldschoolGS said:
If you wheelie thru the toll booth, they can't read your license plate on the complimentary photo you get- Priceless.
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I'm confused.
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Does that happen often?
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Only when tryiing to make sense of something that doesn't. Or perhaps you would like to post for us the complimentary photo which the toll authorities who could not read your license plate sent to you after you wheelied through a booth.
 
If you sit there with your chin propped up long enough you just may figure it out- or maybe not.
 
They charge tolls by axle and tires. So, if you wheelie through the toll booth , you pay half.

Frankly, I used to just "look down" and I could find all the change I needed to pay the toll...heh heh.
 
Only when tryiing to make sense of something that doesn't. Or perhaps you would like to post for us the complimentary photo which the toll authorities who could not read your license plate sent to you after you wheelied through a booth.
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oldschoolGS said:
If you sit there with your chin propped up long enough you just may figure it out- or maybe not.
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Gosh, GS, it's just not registering with me. I guess you are going to have to post that photo. I'll be glad to help you with that if you need.
 
The only thing you could help me with would be "how to be a condesending a$$hole" lessons, but I'll pass as one resident c. a. (see prior sentence) is enough.
Cheers.
 
oldschoolGS said:
The only thing you could help me with would be "how to be a condesending a$$hole" lessons, but I'll pass as one resident c. a. (see prior sentence) is enough.
Cheers.
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If you change your mind, let me know. :) :) :wink:
 
Here In Illinois they are doubling the toll cost for folks that don't have the electronic IPass system boxes. I called the toll booth authority on a lark and explained that I as a motorcyclist would like to use my IPass but the only pockets available for me to use made it impossible for the system to reliably "see" my IPass... I explained that I was on the way to the toys for tots run and that tollbooths were a rather dangerous place to begin with and I didn't want to be in one of the manual lanes digging for change in sub freezing temps. As a matter of policy they tell all motorcyclists that if they want to use thier IPass they must remove the unit from their pockets and hold it above their heads on the way through the tollbooth.

Ummm let's see sub freezing temps, trying to keep up with traffic they want me to dig in my pocket, pull out the IPass, hold it over my head for the requisite 30 - 50 feet, and then try to tuck it back into a pocket all at highway speeds. I immediately asked if they were in the habit or if it was policy to ask people to attempt suicide. The woman on the other end didn't see the humor in my comment and gave me an alternative for illinois at least.

Make sure your bike plate is registered to your IPass and sail through the tollbooth IPass lane or unattended toll. They will write up a ticket and send it to you in the mail. You call them and tell them your IPass number and that your bike is registered and supposedly they will just subtract the toll amount from your account.

For some reason I am very skeptical of option number 2 and still go through the manual lanes. That binder clip idea looks promising I'll give that a go. Nothing like the look of a tollbooth attendant when you try to tell em to keep the change because you tried for 3 minutes to get the change out of your front pocket after getting the change out of the front pocket you drop the change all over the ground and dig for more change. Succefully hand them, 50 cents for a 40 cent toll, and simply don't want to mess with trying to stuff the two nickels they are handing me in a pocket. The attendant tried to argue with me they couldn't keep the change... I put my hand out and promptly added the two nickels to the other bits of change I littered the ground with minutes before and took off. Dang I hate tollbooths.
 
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