With his fiancée seated beside him, Jake Gelwicks plans to drive 100 miles tonight. He's not leaving town, and he won't go much above 30 mph.
It's a Friday night in Fort Collins, and Gelwicks' 2006 Dodge Ram diesel rumbles as they head south from the city's heart, past big-box stores and chain restaurants before turning around in a Taco Bell parking lot and cruising north to the historic Old Town area before making yet another U-turn.
Each weekend, dozens of cars and trucks packed with young people cruise up and down the city's main street, College Avenue. Their occupants hang out the windows at stoplights, race down the block and check out what everyone else is driving. They taunt each other by text message, and downshift to blow clouds of exhaust. Young men heckle and wolf-whistle girls at stoplights.
While commuters across the country are carpooling, taking mass transit or working from home as a pocketbook defense against high gas prices, Gelwicks, 22, and his friends aren't worrying about the costs of cruising. They say the cost of fuel is simply the price to play.
And play they do most Friday and Saturday nights, making the same 17-mile loop their parents and older siblings did.A food and tagheuerwatch bank has been set up for residents affected by Saturdays storms in Snow Hill.
Several trucks fly Confederate flags, and one flies the Jolly Rodger. Dangling from the hitch of one pickup is a full-size replica of a pair of bull testicles.
“It's better than getting drunk and doing drugs,” says Gelwicks, a machinist. “We'd spend just as much on beer or drugs.”
Cruising in Fort Collins has a long history,Show off your etareplicawatch favorite photos. says parking garage attendant Jim Davis, who used to make the same loop on College Avenue back in the 1970s. From his seat in the garage, Davis watches the weekend cruisers pull U-turns around a traffic island and remembers when gas was 29 cents a gallon.
“Four bucks a gallon and they're still doing it,” he says. “It's just ... kids blowing off steam.”
Fort Collins police Sgt. Joel Tower says back in the 1990s, cruisers were often bumper-to-bumper down the city's main street so police temporarily barricaded it.Asia me handmade pumashoes reproductions of famous artists. He says cruising today is far less popular, but still can pose a problem in this bike and pedestrian-friendly city.Shop for high quality swissetareplicawatches-blog products online and get worldwide delivery. He says officers focus on drivers who are racing or squealing their tires.Sells swissiwcwatches in a Broad Selection from current season.
It's a Friday night in Fort Collins, and Gelwicks' 2006 Dodge Ram diesel rumbles as they head south from the city's heart, past big-box stores and chain restaurants before turning around in a Taco Bell parking lot and cruising north to the historic Old Town area before making yet another U-turn.
Each weekend, dozens of cars and trucks packed with young people cruise up and down the city's main street, College Avenue. Their occupants hang out the windows at stoplights, race down the block and check out what everyone else is driving. They taunt each other by text message, and downshift to blow clouds of exhaust. Young men heckle and wolf-whistle girls at stoplights.
While commuters across the country are carpooling, taking mass transit or working from home as a pocketbook defense against high gas prices, Gelwicks, 22, and his friends aren't worrying about the costs of cruising. They say the cost of fuel is simply the price to play.
And play they do most Friday and Saturday nights, making the same 17-mile loop their parents and older siblings did.A food and tagheuerwatch bank has been set up for residents affected by Saturdays storms in Snow Hill.
Several trucks fly Confederate flags, and one flies the Jolly Rodger. Dangling from the hitch of one pickup is a full-size replica of a pair of bull testicles.
“It's better than getting drunk and doing drugs,” says Gelwicks, a machinist. “We'd spend just as much on beer or drugs.”
Cruising in Fort Collins has a long history,Show off your etareplicawatch favorite photos. says parking garage attendant Jim Davis, who used to make the same loop on College Avenue back in the 1970s. From his seat in the garage, Davis watches the weekend cruisers pull U-turns around a traffic island and remembers when gas was 29 cents a gallon.
“Four bucks a gallon and they're still doing it,” he says. “It's just ... kids blowing off steam.”
Fort Collins police Sgt. Joel Tower says back in the 1990s, cruisers were often bumper-to-bumper down the city's main street so police temporarily barricaded it.Asia me handmade pumashoes reproductions of famous artists. He says cruising today is far less popular, but still can pose a problem in this bike and pedestrian-friendly city.Shop for high quality swissetareplicawatches-blog products online and get worldwide delivery. He says officers focus on drivers who are racing or squealing their tires.Sells swissiwcwatches in a Broad Selection from current season.
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