With Age Came Patience to Wait Out Passing Frenzy

OFF THE WIRE
By ADAM NAGOURNEY 
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/us/21outhere.html?_r=1
With Age Came Patience to Wait Out Passing Frenzy
There they were, on a swarm of motorcycles, rumbling down Interstate 10 heading for the Pacific coast on a glorious afternoon. Their gray hair and beards suggested that this was not a chapter of the Hell’s Angels, as did the insignia on their leather jackets: Geezers M.C.
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Troy Eric Griggs It was a Sunday ride for a California motorcycle club dedicated to older riders who love their bikes. There were easily 40 of them, and they rode in a synchronized pack, an orderly two-by-two procession filling the left lane, radios blaring, reveling in the day.
And then: traffic.
The 10, as it is known, came to a stop. (A check of Waze, the hot new crowd-sourced traffic app, identified the problem: a stalled car a few miles up on the Pacific Coast Highway, though one could only hope that the men and women on the motorcycles were not being distracted by their iPhones.)
So it was that the Geezers slowed down their bikes in unison, and a few of them revved their engines to let out a loud and impatient roar, if only for old time’s sake. They raised one hand in the air and came to a syncopated stop.
As they waited, a reminder of youth — and a different era — buzzed past them. Other motorcyclists, more assertive and impatient (the word reckless came to mind), began snaking their way in the narrow space between lanes of stopped traffic, as is common here.
But their older brethren sat patiently in the hot summer sun until traffic began moving again, and then continued their journey to the coast.