Your Speed...
07-10-2001 | 04:25 AM
#5
Racer
Joined: Jul 2001
Posts: 395
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From: Chicago
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not possible, the road slopes uphill!
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I think calling it a ramp may be more appropriate.
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not possible, the road slopes uphill!
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I think calling it a ramp may be more appropriate.
07-31-2001 | 07:09 PM
#6
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Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 12
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From: Minneapolis
Gravity at that small slant is negligable at that speed. If this car can hit 167mph on level ground, then it should be able to do 165 at a 10 degree incline. Wind resistance is the true killer. That is frickin' awesome!
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08-01-2001 | 06:13 AM
#10
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Joined: Jul 2001
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From: Midland, Texas
For your perusal and consideration...
Once upon a time....
Was cruising the Bahn after leaving a rest area headed south from Bremerhaven to Stuttgart on my weapon of choice: an 1150 E model Suzuki,custom faired, dual front-end dampners, 20 over skirted/lightened pistons, custom lightened/peened rods, hardened pins, cammed-UP, worked carbs -freshly balanced-, new alloy high end countershaft and wheel sprockets, new Tzubaki, new Dunlops. All was right with the world ie... mild, sunny, calm day... no traffic and what appeared to be a 3 mile straightaway. I SHALL FEAR NO EVIL FOR I AM THE MEANEST S.O.B. IN THE VALLEY...RIGHT?
SO, there I was off the speedometer with the Tach still climbing, tunnel vision, focused,
Mortality creeping into my thoughts - Jeez!
A flat at 180+...sling the chain...engine or tranny lock-up... Chin on the tank bag, left hand on the faired left fork tube, F#$K IT! Wring this puppy out!
SUDDENLY! A double tap of lightning flashed around me - no horn - and I got passed by an as of yet unidentified rolling object.
Whatever it was entered the straight well after me. And I was winding to 100 in third when I found the straight. When I hit the long left hand sweeper at the end of the straight he/she/IT was out of sight.
Speed is both real and subjective. They weren't making F-1 McClaren's yet and I'm not sure if it could have done what happened to me if one had been around.
There I was hyper velocity on the Highway to Hell and by pure unadulterated chance God puts someone ( and there couldn't have been many)with the capeability and attitude to go out of thier way to humiliate me. At least he/she/it didn't toot the horn. Somebody call Sculley and Fox, this was for real.
John 'Never Again' Struthers
82'Weissach, Auto. 'Pattycakes'
Once upon a time....
Was cruising the Bahn after leaving a rest area headed south from Bremerhaven to Stuttgart on my weapon of choice: an 1150 E model Suzuki,custom faired, dual front-end dampners, 20 over skirted/lightened pistons, custom lightened/peened rods, hardened pins, cammed-UP, worked carbs -freshly balanced-, new alloy high end countershaft and wheel sprockets, new Tzubaki, new Dunlops. All was right with the world ie... mild, sunny, calm day... no traffic and what appeared to be a 3 mile straightaway. I SHALL FEAR NO EVIL FOR I AM THE MEANEST S.O.B. IN THE VALLEY...RIGHT?
SO, there I was off the speedometer with the Tach still climbing, tunnel vision, focused,
Mortality creeping into my thoughts - Jeez!
A flat at 180+...sling the chain...engine or tranny lock-up... Chin on the tank bag, left hand on the faired left fork tube, F#$K IT! Wring this puppy out!
SUDDENLY! A double tap of lightning flashed around me - no horn - and I got passed by an as of yet unidentified rolling object.
Whatever it was entered the straight well after me. And I was winding to 100 in third when I found the straight. When I hit the long left hand sweeper at the end of the straight he/she/IT was out of sight.
Speed is both real and subjective. They weren't making F-1 McClaren's yet and I'm not sure if it could have done what happened to me if one had been around.
There I was hyper velocity on the Highway to Hell and by pure unadulterated chance God puts someone ( and there couldn't have been many)with the capeability and attitude to go out of thier way to humiliate me. At least he/she/it didn't toot the horn. Somebody call Sculley and Fox, this was for real.
John 'Never Again' Struthers
82'Weissach, Auto. 'Pattycakes'
08-01-2001 | 10:25 AM
#11
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Joined: Jun 2001
Posts: 12
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From: Minneapolis
Snowball,
I don't like them either, but when you say the guy hit one in a bike lane, are you talking diamond lane or pedal bike lane? If it is the latter, how fast was this guy going and where were his eyes? They don't exactly leap out at passersby.
Regards
I don't like them either, but when you say the guy hit one in a bike lane, are you talking diamond lane or pedal bike lane? If it is the latter, how fast was this guy going and where were his eyes? They don't exactly leap out at passersby.
Regards