grego@athena.UUCP (Grego Sanguinetti) (07/25/85)
> > Last summer a Reed College student got ticketed at > 143 mph. He'd already lost his license, I was > surprised that he wasn't thrown in jail. He was > on his Suzuki GS1000ES. He used to race his Honda > CB500-four at 130mph. He rides in town at 120mph and > above. Surprisingly, he's a very safe driver -- he's > never been in an accident. Most people that try to do > stuff like that get seriously hurt. Anyway, an unmarked > cop car clocked him on radar at 143 mph and started chasing him. > My friend was thinking, "I'd better slow down -- I might get > a ticket." When he slowed down the cop caught him. If he > hadn't slowed down the cop wouldn't have caught him. > Once before someone had seen my friend being chased by a > cop, and blowing the cop off, and my friend had never even > noticed that he was being followed. > > I don't ride above 65 mph when I'm alone, and never above 85 mph, > but the previous owner of my bike (a 1972 Honda CB450) once rode > it at over 100 mph, and I read that CB450's used to be ridden > up to 130 mph. My neighbor rode his Honda CB550 to 100 mph, which > developed a front-end oscillation and flipped over. He luckily > wasn't hurt, and decided not to try to break anymore speed records > (and to tighten up his headset). > -- > "Why my thoughts are my own, when they are in, but when they are out > they are another's." -- Susanna Martin, executed for witchcraft. > Dave Kehoe tektronix!reed!kehoe (503) 230-9454 Well here we are folks at the landspeed record championships of Smallmind, USA. We're about to witless an attempt at the two wheeled, normally aspirated, land speed record. Kinky Kerker, of Exageration, Oregon will make the attempt on her 1975 Honda CB175. This vehicle has been altered by adding new tires and lower handlebars. Kinky has also removed the headlight, turning indicators, and passengerpegs. Kinky's best fiend tells us that she's been clocked at 300mph in the standing mile. Kinky's only handling complaint was that she couldn't hear the tape deck! Serially folks, there could be some truth to Dave's article. The CB450 could have been dropped from an airplane? Perhaps towed by a jet heliocopter? The part about falling over on the 550 at 100 sounds plausable. A stock CB500 would be lucky to clear 100. When it was brand new my 1977 GS550 would just barely clear 100. When my 1983 VF750F is tuned to perfection it will clear 130, but not by much and all of that is "on the speedometer", which are very inacurate at high speed. My GS1000 had Wiseco pistons, Kerker pipes, racing fairing, etc... and it would be very hard pressed to hit 143 mph. Let's refrain from alot of "wow I rode my CB90 at 150mph" stories and stick to usefull and serious articles (-: like this :-). Like wow Doug, 95mph in your driveway!! Like watch out for your mailbox! Grego Sanguinetti tekronix!teklds!grego
gadfly@ihu1m.UUCP (Gadfly) (07/29/85)
-- > Let's refrain from alot of "wow I rode my CB90 at 150mph" > stories and stick to usefull and serious articles (-: like this :-). > > Grego Sanguinetti That's easy--Honda never made a "CB90". There was the classic S90 (a/k/a CS90), the C90 step-through automatic, the road/trail CL90, and the off-road SL90. What a simple, dependable, low-maintenance, high-milage machine, the Honda 90 (in all its incarnations), and one you can still get engine parts for since the ATC90 uses the same top-end. I've owned as many as 4 S90's at one time (3 running, 1 for parts), and my remaining '66 has 12K on its last rebuild (won't get any more--it needs another rebuild). My personal speed record (downhill, of course, and if you can trust the speedo): 68mph. -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 29 Jul 85 [11 Thermidor An CXCIII] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7753 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!iwsl8!ken *** ***