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Skriven 2012-03-05 09:00:46 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 26391 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: question after reading conf for several days
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04 Mar 12 22:23, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Roy Witt:

 MvdV>>> 240 km/h IIRC.

 MvdV> Bob mentioned 210 and on reflection I think he is right. I mixed it
 MvdV> up with my other bike; a Honda VF750F.

That's understandable. We all make mistakes, even you. 8^)

 MvdV> Note that the Suzuki is a N600. The "N" standing for naked. There
 MvdV> is also a 600 model with fairing. That shoulkd go a bit faster.

That's true. The fairing is designed to route air around the bike and
rider, while none at all will tend to push the air in front of it.

 MvdV> Not that it matters, I very mich doubt I will ever try it out. 160
 MvdV> is enough.

Can't blame you for not wanting to go faster.

 MvdV> I dumped my first bike - a BMW R25 - when I was 20. I realised that
 MvdV> being a youg daredevil with a bike is a bad recipe for a long life.
 MvdV> Bow that I am no longer a young daredevil, I got myself a bike
 MvdV> again. Foir fun, not to end up as an old daredevil.

That came to me when I was about 47, when I dumped a bike for the first
time in my life. A Honda 400, 4cyl Cafe' style bike that I took off-road.
It wasn't designed to go there and I dumped it trying to get out of where
I was going up a hill I knew that I shouldn't have gone down. Since it was
the only way out of where I was, I didn't have much choice to do
otherwise.

 RW>> 149mph, that could almost keep up with my Z28. Top speed is computer
 RW>> limited to 156mph. I've had it up to 135mph, shifted into 6th and
 RW>> slowed down to legal cruising speed at 75mph. It's nice to have the
 RW>> space and roads for that kind of driving.

 MvdV> We do not have that in The Netherlands unfortenately. The days that
 MvdV> you could have the highway for yourself on a Sunday morning are
 MvdV> long gone.

The above was an early Sunday morning after a night at the drag races.
About 1am and no traffic on the roadway at all. I wouldn't have done it
had it been 2 hours earlier...

 RW>> If I had to do that on a Texas two lane black-top, I'd be in a world
 RW>> of hurt...

 MvdV> Same here in The Netherlands.

What I meant was that two lane blacktop roads in Texas are subject to
baking in the hot sun. The roads aren't smooth at all and tend to get
worse over time. Some even have ruts in them like dirt roads tend to do
over time.

 MvdV> First: if you get caught at 50 kph over the speed limit, they take
 MvdV> your license.

California would impound your vehicle for driving at 85mph, which was
20mph over the speed limit. Texas is a bit more lenient in that regard and
will merely write you a ticket and send you on your way.

 MvdV> The chance of getting caught on the highway is petty high because
 MvdV> of the camaras with plate recoginition.

Fortunately those don't exist here except in high density communities.

 MvdV> Second: Even if they do not take your license, the fine are very
 MvdV> high with a result that speed limits are observed pretty well as a
 MvdV> rule.

Fines are also expensive here too.

 MvdV> That is turn causes drivers not to expect to be overtaken at
 MvdV> extreme speeds. Even if they see you coming in the mirror, they
 MvdV> won't expect you to be there two seconds later. They may scare and
 MvdV> react in an unpredictable way. It is just too bloody dangerous. It
 MvdV> was different 30 years ago, but now the roads are just too crowded.

Here, the furthest lane on the left is reserved for passing. It's not
meant for traffic to use all of the time. This is true for long, lonely
stretches of the highway in Arizona, New Mexico and West Texas. This law
is bad news for the right lanes, as the heavy commercial trucks tend to
tear up the road from their weight. It also makes them travel in packs
down the right lanes and one after another doesn't give the pavement
enough time to recover from that weight, so they make those lanes ride
like a roller coaster. My dad once got a ticket in Arizona for driving in
the passing lane for too long a distance.


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  ... find out how far one can go ~ TS Eliot


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