top speed

2 years

not long
as long as i dont hurt anybody else in my stupidty i dont know what i would do if i was to hurt somebody else due to my error

to make all feel better tho i did get flashed by a camera on the a12 today 70 ina a 50 zone my own stupid fault so i cant moan really shouldnt have been speeding 3 points left then by by license and ikll be paying for a bike i cant ride

one reason I love the SV.... have loads of fun on it but at speeds under an instant ban whereas the CBR was a bike where it was a matter of time before I lost my licence.... the only fun is in the powerband and when youre there your at 110...

have to force myself to slow down on the CBR because its so easy to go fast and then even faster... and Im obviously not one of the rev head brigade where speed is everything... I actually had fun on the CBF today blatting down the A20.... corners nicely at 85 and much fun was had...

speed occasionally is good fun but dont have the need to blatt it everywhere now..... guess Ive hurt enough to not want to hurt anymore now.... and Ive also learnt one thing from BA and my accidents... it seems to hurt more the faster you were going at when you came off.... always at the back of my mind now..

Originally Posted by lynw

speed occasionally is good fun but dont have the need to blatt it everywhere now.....

That's pretty much how I'm riding now.
I have promised myself that I won't make anymore stupid overtakes (you know the ones I mean) I've even taken that to the point where I wouldn't have made some moves that Scoobs did last week (and I consider Scoobs to be a pretty safe rider)

Done an indicated 142/3 mph on the sv a few times and chased an Audi down the m65 at 130 the other evening.
It's not big or clever and I don't do it anywhere near as often these days... the older I get the less bottle I have/more sensible I become(delete as applicable). I'm always on the look-out for plod, but at silly speeds by the time you see them, they've seen you

did a ton 10 past a police car on the patrol car mount on the M25...

the factor involved just coming out of the dartford tunnel and was in the middle lane overtaking and seemingly being overtook by something in the outside lane.

What happened is lorry from far left lane part of the tunnel needed to get into lane of car I was overtaking and in typical lorry fashion just indicated and started to go into lane. Car obviously started coming into my lane to avoid lorry. At the same time, car overtaking me had a beemer up his **** so decided to let him through so starts to pull into the gap where I was....

Me realising Ive got 2 cars effectively trying to be where I was and road ahead of me was clear.... I just gunned the throttle.... got up to ton 10 and outta there.... once clear... slowed back down to around 90... then saw the police car sitting there...

think I got away with it because they could see what was happening, why I gunned it and that I immediatly slowed down when clear...

[Biker Biggles]

Just got back from Lydden(you must go tomorrow its great)and found myself being tailgated by somene who was too impatient to wait 5 seconds for the car in front of me to complete overtaking the slower one in lane two.As soon as all was clear I erm pulled away from the tailgater.When I checked the speedo about half a mile down the road I think it might have said 150 but I can neither confirm or deny that any of the above ever happened.It is satisfying to do that to tailgaters though innit?

125 mph is all i get out of my old lady

[Biker Biggles]

That 150 wasnt on the SV,that would be a miracle,I was on my zx9 which does that all too easily

[Viney]

70mph, maybe 80mph once or twice.

You lot give bikers a bad name. All this bragging about i have been this fast etc. Also, our boys and girls in blue do watch these sites. When we all do rideouts, with highly planned routes etc, then they may if the need takes them, be hiding in the buses for us.

Speeding isnt big or clever, and can cost money.

Have seen 167 on my Gixer 6
Hit 279KPH on Topcats Fireblade (about 174MPH)
Saw 181 on my mates 'Busa

All on various parts of unregulated roads in Europe - honest !

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