Street? 120-140 in a car. Glad I wasn't watching speedometer a few times on bikes. Self preservation kicked in to shut her down a bit.
Speaking of.. anybody been watching Isle of Man TT's last couple nights?
I grenaded the first motor in my GPz 1000/ZX-10/Ninja 1000R going about a buck thirty on slow left hander on 495 maybe 7 or 8 years ago. Fun ends quickly when that kind of shyt happens.
This thread causes me anxiety from thinking back on what I used to do with motorcycles.
I still like to twist 'em up a little here and there, but for the most part my need for speed has been quelled.
These days I like to get out on the country roads around the horse farms and just loaf around at 50 mph. There's usually hardly any traffic at all on a lot of them and the roads are kept in good shape because the county government likes to keep the horse farm areas very well maintained.
It's a fairly unique situation. Ride 3 miles out of town and there's a very large, nicely manicured countryside area with miles upon miles of nice two lane roads with hardly any traffic.
This stuff is all over the place.
Now you can imagine the pain, when you were young you thought how you could roll but survive. Now surviving can still kill you.
125 on '75 BMW 90/7 going over the 7 mile bridge heading into KeyWest. 18 years old and DUMB...It was a two lane bridge at the time and at the top of the bridge I saw a semi coming who had to be doing 100 mph plus Whoa...I slow down to about 100 but his wake still pushed me all the way back to the edge of my seat while I barely heald onto the grips with finger nails as the front end goes into a wobble. I was very lucky to have pulled out of that
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155 in my 68 GTO on a closed (not open yet) freeway stretch. Got pretty light in the front the last 20 mph or so.
Somewhere between 135 and 140 on a V45 Magna still in 4th gear with a couple more gears to go on an old country 2 lane. Once I realized how foolish I was being, I drove back slowly and gave my BIL his bike back and haven't ridden since. Just don't have any self control on a bike- I always want to fly.
Bob
Never underestimate your ability to overestimate your ability.
168-169 several times, on motorcycles. Miss track days
One thing about bikes, a lot have spedos that are way off, especially the older ones. And guaranteed to be off if they changed sprockets to gear it lower. Drag raced a buddy, me on a 929RR (stock), him on a Gixxer 750 (geared) - he redlined in 6th showing 172 while my speedo said 130. He stopped there and I kept speeding up. Don't take all videos for face value. That Busa isn't going anywhere near indicated.
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