This thing is pretty fast.

Bill, I don't own a Harley.


And I've often thought about getting a blackbird. I remember reading an article about them in cycle world back in I think '96. The fastest production bike made at the time.

 

Whoops! My bad. All you bad mofos start sounding all the same after awhile not leaving much to go on in the way of any sort of distinguishment.

So you read this article in 1996 and haven't made up your mind yet? Like the man sez. " Don't let nothing but fear hold ya back."

 

I will see what I can do, perhaps Derstuka and Reg can help me with the new Avatar....otstir:

 

60 is just a little over half a century......You are still young :thumbsup: ride on brother and be safe.

 

My sense is that the first thing to do is get Chicky lined up for the shoot. These sort of things have a flow to them. First the artistic then the technical IMO.

 

...took a crow to the top of my helmet once, on a wide country road, at triple digits, on a 1987 VFR700. Clear roads still contain superb hazards. The darned birds jumped out of a tuft of grass in the field next to the road. Those things feel like a fast pitch baseball to the helmet and make you see stars. The track is the only quasi-safe place where you can actually account for most hazards and manage the risks.

 

any one wanna get drunk, rail some coke and open it up on the highway with meotstir:

 

Only if you're buying and it ain't LaBatts.

 

funny thing with vfrs they'll handle sitting on the throttle stop in top gear for a full tank ,day in day out for years. must be built off an endurance racer or something. :-D

 

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Explaining it to the new generation:
A good motorcycle is like having a string that is tied from your throttle wrist to the hypothalamus in your brain. You give that throttle a tug and the string goes >bing!< and you get this pleasurable shot of adrenalin straight into your head and out pops your smile. Motorbikes are like a force-feedback videogame in 3D that totally immerses you in the sensation of speed in all it's beauty, especially when you add a corner or two into the mix. Youtube videos of other people driving them are but pale imitations of the real thing. Once you've mastered the bike, and you no longer think about the shift, the brake, or the apex, and the gears find themselves, and the machine sings it's chorus in your ears, and you see ribbons of asphalt peeling away, it's like a dance of love between you and the machine.

Yep, once ya think you've mastered any bike some bird decides your skidlid is something to eat at some over the double nickel and that asphalt is peeling away the skin on your ass.

Who said that anyway? Some harleydood?

 

I like turtles.

And this thread.

 

If you were ever to be smacked in the head by a turtle at even below that double nickel, you'd change your tune..

 

Opened mine up yesterday to the tune of 150 for the 2nd time, amazing how smooth it handles and how fast the world goes by:bolt: at that speed. What an adrenaline RUSH!!

 

Now this is living!!!

- That's - A - Man's - Corner -

MOBY- The Spectacular Isle of Man Tourist Trophy (Motorcycle Road Race) - YouTube

Of course Chicky would be texting

 

We can hope that neptech was heading in the right direction on the freeway when this frenzy of exhibitionism struck.

 

Wasn't on the freeway too many Hypo's and plus not too many freeways where I live.

PS/ I want the world to know...I Love You Billy :leghump:

 

Just think if you had a Harley, you could probably hit at least 70 or maybe even 75 downhill.

Yep, you and 10,000 Chihuahuas. Ay Chihuahua!

 

I am aiming for the sound barrier but 150 will do for now :crazy:

 

Providing you last long enough, this should be your next step to achieve mach 1. I think probably the folks from both timing associations are just holding their breath in anticipation of your grand entrance.

SCTA - Event Schedule

 

I am going to need sponsors, can I count on you having my back Billy??

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