What speed are you riding at?

**Conquiztador** · 2nd April 2009, 21:30

Last w/e I was riding with a couple riders that kept the needle at 130 - 150 95% of the time. I have no prob with that. Feel comfy with that speed. As long as the bike is up to it.

These were riders I had never been riding with before. So it made me wonder: Is this what most riders do?

I have been riding with riders who cruise at 110 and the ones who do the 160+. Also with kamikaze pilots who consider anything below 180 to be a yawn.

What is the speed you do on the open road?

**SARGE** · 2nd April 2009, 21:35

Originally Posted by Conquiztador

Last w/e I was riding with a couple riders that kept the needle at 130 - 150 95% of the time. I have no prob with that. Feel comfy with that speed. As long as the bike is up to it.

These were riders I had never been riding with before. So it made me wonder: Is this what most riders do?

I have been riding with riders who cruise at 110 and the ones who do the 160+. Also with kamikaze pilots who consider anything below 180 to be a yawn.

What is the speed you do on the open road?

depends on my state of mind and the traffic.. sometimes 110 .. sometimes 160..

if my spider sense gets to tingling .. i back it way down

**ducatilover** · 2nd April 2009, 21:36

at the stop mate.....

I usually do 110-120 actually.
If i had a gn250 the the option I clicked would be true. White lie really

**munterk6** · 2nd April 2009, 21:36

Is there any cameras or microphones around here?
I cruise at the normal road going speed...

totally depends on whether I have a radar detector or not.

**Hitcher** · 2nd April 2009, 21:37

At the moment I have no idea how fast I am travelling on the open road. My speed sensor shat itself in Tairua almost 2,000km (estimated) ago. The only information I have available is the time of the day, rpm x 1,000 and left or right turns.

**Katman** · 2nd April 2009, 21:40

I ride according to the conditions.

**munterk6** · 2nd April 2009, 21:40

Originally Posted by Hitcher

At the moment I have no idea how fast I am travelling on the open road. My speed sensor shat itself in Tairua almost 2,000km (estimated) ago. The only information I have available is the time of the day, rpm x 1,000 and left or right turns.

brilliant answer, wish I thought of that.

**mikeey01** · 2nd April 2009, 21:41

Well as for me, I'm just like any other regular Ducati owner, we all sit at 100kp/h of course!

**Squiggles** · 2nd April 2009, 21:41

I enjoy the ride, rather than the destination

**Conquiztador** · 2nd April 2009, 21:42

Originally Posted by Hitcher

At the moment I have no idea how fast I am travelling on the open road. My speed sensor shat itself in Tairua almost 2,000km (estimated) ago. The only information I have available is the time of the day, rpm x 1,000 and left or right turns.

Isn't that a bitch! The bike is working well but the sensor that is supposed to tell you about any problems is faulty... Cost you $150 to replace a broken fuckin sensor so it can tell you that there is no problems. No wonder I like bikes with points and carbies...

**LBD** · 2nd April 2009, 21:42

Open road 100 to 140 depending on conditions. keep under 140 because I don't want to wear out any more shoes....

Tell me Sir, are you wearing comfy shoes?

Reasonably so, why do you ask officer?

Well there is a phone about 12 km down the road and it is a long walk in uncomfortable shoes...

**pzkpfw** · 2nd April 2009, 21:48

Did Tawa to Rotorua and back recently, trying hard to do 105-115 mostly. (That's about 0.005 of a degree of rotation of my speedo needle. Stupid speedo goes to 240 or something. Like I'd ever need that.)

180? Geez, not often. (If ever!)

A fair bit more than 110 sometimes when passing, if it seemed "safe", or in "interesting" bits of remote road. (Which makes 100-110 feel darn slow).

The fear of tickets was what kept speed down in most places - not road or traffic conditions. (Which doesn't mean I don't slow down in bad conditions, I mean that often the conditions would have allowed more than what was legal.)

A couple of times, as I was being "sensible", I got passed by cars.

e.g. on a straight (straights are boring) between Taupo and Rotorua I was doing 110-115 and got passed by five teenage guys in some Mums Daihatsu buzz-box doing 140 or so. (They then drove up the arse of some Falcon for a while, and when I caught up at a passing lane they moved out and either blocked me on purpose or just couldn't speed up again, up the hill - so I saw the red mist and passed them up the inside - at the kinds of license losing speeds I'd been trying to avoid. (Did I learn from that?)

e.g. Straights between Foxton and Levin. Doing 110 (dark and cold). Subaru wagon passes at 130-150. Whatever.

It's all relative. Passed a cruiser on the desert road. (What a loud noise they make when they touch-down on slow-sharp corners!). Later in Taupo I was patiently waiting in a queue at road works (this was in the 50 km/hr zone) and the cruiser passes me back - on the left-hand shoulder of the road, going to the front of the queue. That's cool. We all choose how and where we ride (and on what).

(Side issue: a modern 750cc bike is MORE than enough - for me. Geez.)