Speed

Originally Posted by Lozzo

Now that I do find irresponsible. Not saying I haven't cracked well over the ton in a 30 myself, but I was a hell of a lot younger - to give you a clue, I was on a GSX750EFE and it was a nearly new bike. Nowadays I wouldn't dream of it because there's just too much that can go wrong in such a short period of time in a 30 limit.

thats powerangers for u thou tch

[ogden]

Originally Posted by neio79

a tip for those in Wiltshire thay are the BMW,s and Honda accords.

Tell me about it. I was nicked in the car by an unmarked beemer near Swindon a couple of months ago.

[ogden]

Of hitting triple-figures...

Originally Posted by ThEGr33k

Must get a hell of a runup

That's second gear on my gixer. I still find it astonishing just how quickly it'll hit 150, especially given how under-powered it feels.

[ogden]

Originally Posted by ThEGr33k

Aye and I guess back there there wasnt as much traffic?

The dudes with red flags kept getting in the way.

Originally Posted by ogden

The dudes with red flags kept getting in the way.

That's how we learnt our manouvering skills, winding in and out of the men with red flags

Originally Posted by ogden

Of hitting triple-figures...



That's second gear on my gixer. I still find it astonishing just how quickly it'll hit 150, especially given how under-powered it feels.

I never ceased to be amazed at just how mental my old Gixer Thou was, and mine was an earlier lardy one. 100mph+ wheelies were just a twist of the throttle away. Champ was saying that someone once asked him how he pulled second gear wheelies on his thou, he replied "you just open the throttle at any revs". The throttle on Gixer Thou isn't simply a device for making the bike accelerate, it doubles as a wheelie height adjuster in the first 3 gears. I found that my Thou was just so utterly competent at 150mph+ that it soon became a perfectly normal speed to travel at on A roads. That was the main reason I sold it.

Originally Posted by ogden

Of hitting triple-figures...



That's second gear on my gixer. I still find it astonishing just how quickly it'll hit 150, especially given how under-powered it feels.

Underpowered feeling? Isnt yours the 117bhp at the wheel?

Mine hits just under the tonne in 2nd, but 3rd will happily crach 120. Its just silly how fast a bike will hit silly speeds when you want it to. I can hit 155 (indicated, though my speedo seems to agree with revs and gear ratio's) on the local bypass and from roundabout to roundabout its maybe 1.5 miles. Just silly. Also pretty scarry how the front comes up if you arnt leaning forward with the head down in 3rd, never mind the lower ones.

This is why I take it easy on the streight bits now, too easy to destroy the licence, in the corners I have more fun and its less risky on the licence.

Originally Posted by ogden

I'm just happy the poll was anonymous.

Originally Posted by Lozzo

30s and 40s are the only limits I have any regard for, other roads I treat at my discretion. That usually means that any decent A or B road is just another trackday, but with cars around.

In residential areas there are kids around, one of them might run out, I might hit them and damage my bike...then I'd be angry and have to go slap their parents for allowing them to get blood on my paintwork. Our national speed limit is way outdated, having been introduced back in the early 60s when a fast car was a cross-ply shod 1500 Cortina Mk1 that couldn't stop from its top speed of 90 within a week and handled like a drunken pregnant hippo on roller skates. I don't hold with the government's 'Speed Kills' rubbish. Speed doesn't kill, inappropriate speed, bad driving, rappers and a lack of a decent punishment for causing 'death by dangerous driving' does.

+1
Most accidents are because of driver error.

In my opinion outright speed doesn't kill its misuse of speed
I heard it was something like the top speed of an Anglia that brought in the 70, i.e. well out of date

Originally Posted by Lozzo

<Hangs head in shame>

I may be 46, but I do still listen to Radio 1. I found GLC hilarious - proper p1ss-taking of the chavs, but the chavs were too stupid to realise it and held them up as god-like figures. Top work from The Chain.

GLC are the dogs!

[mister c]

I ride at a pace I am happy with & that I know I am in control. I read the road & the conditions & ride accordingly.

Originally Posted by Endellion

GLC are the dogs!

agreed.........