Motorcycle speeding "Come off, you die"

[T.W.R]

No idea what you're talking about

18 odd kms of perfectly straight road out in the boonies has that effect
it's a dent in the ego at 18 though when you're two up on a CB900 hunched over like ruptured rats giving it everything it's got and your mate's old man pulls along side looks at you both, shakes a finger of dismay then proceeds to pull away in front, stops at Culverden and decides to give a lecture about how dangerous it is to do those sort of speeds 220 was pretty respectable back then

[Bounce001]

Article in our local paper this morning about a car caught doing 185km on the southern motorway on Friday night. Nothing about dying doing that speed in a car...

[Big Dave]

Poor ol' plod has probably scraped up what's left of a number of bodies with a shovel. He's just saying what he's been trained to believe in - publicly anyway.
I now call it 141 roulette.
We can't win either. You only have to guess what the future will hold. Governors, GPS tracking. We might be living in what they will call the 'golden age' in 20 years time.
Probably picking up a new 1000cc top of the line sports bike tomorrow, to ride on the road. 8 years ago I wouldn't sleep the night before that sort of gig. Now it's an exercise in self control and sticking around speed limit - or even keeping under disqualification speed in the racing crouch is not much fun.
My solution has been to move from bikes that were comfortable at 160kph to bikes that are great fun at 100kph. Ergo the tractor engine on pogo sticks that I now own, and general favourtism for Harleys, cruisers, ADV bikes and dual sports.
One of the best fun bikes I've tested is the Victory Hammer, it takes a great deal of effort to ride at 100kph. The Harley Trike is the same. Instead of just sitting on it and idling - you have to work it to make it get along. Same with a Triumph Bonneville.
Around Auckland on a sprotsbike I mostly just sit there and watch the speedo. 100kph short of where it gets interesting.

Right tool for the job, Tim.

[SMOKEU]

Poor ol' plod has probably scraped up what's left of a number of bodies with a shovel. He's just saying what he's been trained to believe in - publicly anyway.
I now call it 141 roulette.
We can't win ether. You only have to guess what the future will hold. Governors, GPS tracking. We might be living in what they will call the 'golden age' in 20 years time.
Probably picking up a new 1000cc top of the line sports bike tomorrow, to ride on the road. 8 years ago I wouldn't sleep the night before that sort of gig. Now it's an exercise in self control and sticking around speed limit - or even keeping under disqualification speed in the racing crouch is not much fun.
My solution has been to move from bikes that were comfortable at 160kph to bikes that are great fun at 100kph. Ergo the tractor engine on pogo sticks that I now own, and general favourtism for Harleys, cruisers, ADV bikes and dual sports.
One of the best fun bikes I've tested is the Victory Hammer, it takes a great deal of effort to ride at 100kph. The Harley Trike is the same. Instead of just sitting on it and idling - you have to work it to make it get along. Same with a Triumph Bonneville.
Around Auckland on a sprotsbike I mostly just sit there and watch the speedo. 100kph short of where it gets interesting.

Right tool for the job, Tim.

I never knew it was possible to have fun travelling at 100kmh on the open road.

[scracha]

Probably picking up a new 1000cc top of the line sports bike tomorrow, to ride on the road. 8 years ago I wouldn't sleep the night before that sort of gig. Now it's an exercise in self control and sticking around speed limit - or even keeping under disqualification speed in the racing crouch is not much fun.
My solution has been to move from bikes that were comfortable at 160kph to bikes that are great fun at 100kph. Ergo the tractor engine on pogo sticks that I now own, and general favourtism for Harleys, cruisers, ADV bikes and dual sports.
One of the best fun bikes I've tested is the Victory Hammer, it takes a great deal of effort to ride at 100kph. The Harley Trike is the same. Instead of just sitting on it and idling - you have to work it to make it get along. Same with a Triumph Bonneville.
Around Auckland on a sprotsbike I mostly just sit there and watch the speedo. 100kph short of where it gets interesting.

Right tool for the job, Tim.

Seconded.....

[Big Dave]

>> I never knew it was possible to have fun travelling at 100kmh on the open road. <<

Work hard - One day you might get a bike that can do it.

:-P

[swbarnett]

My eyes nooooo !!!!

hmmmmm my eyessss !!!!

Of course good eye protection is the one piece of protective gear I'd never be without at anything above a crawl.

[avgas]

For those of you who are so die hard and want to slam the cop.
Can I come around to your house and swing a 4x4 at your face at 150kph......I will let you wear your riding gear all of it.
I aren't strong enough to throw you at a wall at 150kph y'see.
The faster you go, the better sushi they can make out of squid. We all fuck up - but please keep your speeding for the special occasions.

[swbarnett]

For those of you who are so die hard and want to slam the cop.
Can I come around to your house and swing a 4x4 at your face at 150kph......I will let you wear your riding gear all of it.
I aren't strong enough to throw you at a wall at 150kph y'see.
The faster you go, the better sushi they can make out of squid. We all fuck up - but please keep your speeding for the special occasions.

As we keep trying to tell those that will not listen - time and place. Sliding down the road, even over 150kph, is no guarentee of death.

[TimeOut]

If 150kph was perfectly safe you would happily ride at those speeds with no helmet or gloves,in T shirt,shorts and jandals.If you aren't prepared to do that,then obviously you accept that there is some danger to ride at those speeds....

I won't even ride at 10kph without the proper gear

[scumdog]

As we keep trying to tell those that will not listen - time and place. Sliding down the road, even over 150kph, is no guarentee of death.

Or life...

[Laxi]

Oh my god, I'm public enemy number one! The paper says so.

ducatis are 1 of the safest bikes out mate, if your bike only runs half the time then thats 50% less chance to crash

[Pixie]

Yeah and intersections are pure lotteries,if you don't have stability control in your car you will get T-boned by a truck,your son will die if you speed when he's in the car,blah blah bloody blah

[Toaster]

As we keep trying to tell those that will not listen - time and place. Sliding down the road, even over 150kph, is no guarentee of death.

I would do it covered in maple syrup on an enormous 1 metre thick pancake....

....but on our bumpy, rough chip, narrow roads with rocks, holes, poles, trees, cheese cutters, road signs and anything else that is hard enough to split me in two as I slide off the road out of control.... yeeouch! After hitting any of that I might want to be dead. I doubt the chances of being lucky enough to do a smooth lowside slide would be all that great. On a track, maybe. On our roads?

[scumdog]

I feel SO much happier knowing I'm sharing the roads with everybody else on this thread who knows how to stay alive long enough on NZ roads to die of old age - despite the speeding etc etc..