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Sudden Sam wrote: Summerville said the four tickets written in Alabama was for drivers speeding in the 80s and 90s.

80s and 90s?

Around here they'd be driving with the traffic.

No doubt, Mikey...80 or 90? Hell, the locals here in southeat MI don't even pull people over on I-75 until they're 85+ because the average speed is into the 80s.

And 80 to 90 is what these so-called Bullrunners were racing at? Puhlease.

Things in general just tend to move a little more slowly down south.

Sudden Sam wrote:
One guy from Montgomery got a ticket for doing 106 mph northbound at 10:00 in the morning and another for doing 108 mph southbound at 2:30 the same afternoon by the same Trooper......

Folks in general just tend to be a little slower down south.

Sudden Sam wrote:I was in Traffic Court in Clanton a while back and out of 30 people there 15 were ticketed for going over 100 mph on 65. One guy from Montgomery got a ticket for doing 106 mph northbound at 10:00 in the morning and another for doing 108 mph southbound at 2:30 the same afternoon by the same Trooper......

The warmer afternoon weather probably allowed him to stick to the track errrr road a little better.

Over 100 mph in Oregon and its a minimum 8 hour jail stay, plus a huge fine and mandatory license suspension for 30 days I believe...

I can go from Portland area to Salem , about 50 miles and see at least 3 to 4 100 mph cars, and the majority is moving at 85 to 90 anyway...

You have to ask yourself---do you really trust your tires-axles-suspension etc. all that much ?? Of course the other thing is your judgment--which at younger ages is crap. I remember taking my first brand new car-'63 Dodge Dart on a straight stretch of NY 37 outside of Ogdensburg NY and getting it up to 115 before I quit. I never drove that fast again and that was the same car in which I had my bad accident and was almost killed in '67. My speeding days are long gone and I will do up to 75-78 on an interstate (except in VA) and that is it !
Years ago MrsO and I were traveling south on I-81 just past Watertown. I glanced in my rear view mirror which I do as a habit and happened to see some vehicles bearing down on me at a pretty good clip. I told her to watch these cars as the went to pass me---WHOOOSH--WHOOOSH---WHOOOSH (x2) they went by--- 6 new Corvettes-- just a flying. They had to be doing 150 . I always wondered if they were doing some sort of Canada to PA or more "Cannonball Run". Never did know.

Wolfman wrote:You have to ask yourself---do you really trust your tires-axles-suspension etc. all that much ??

WTF dude... just how fast could you get a horse and buggy to go?

My "horse and buggy" had a slant 6 225 engine, Torqueflite tranny, and a 3.45:1 rear axle with heavy duty torsion bar suspension. Luckily when I had my accident, the road was bad and I might have been doing 40 MPH when I hit a concrete culvert head on. No seat belts in those days let alone air bags--put my head through the windshield (43 stitches to sew me back up), bent the steering wheel right over with my chest and smashed the dashboard with my knees. Not a broken bone ! Lost a lot of blood and looked like Frankenstein's monster for a while. Lucky for me the scars on my forehead are mostly horizontal and look normal.
Anyone been in a bad accident might relate.

Van, here's one for you.

Wolfman wrote:put my head through the windshield.

When are you due to recover from this trauma?

Diego, I'm through with all that now, but I put in my time, doing my fair share of stupid shit on motorcycles.

Probably the dumbest thing I ever did was the time I was riding home from Placerville one night, in a driving rainstorm. I was on a ZX-9, doing between 120-140 all the way through Cameron Park and El Dorado Hills; again, in a driving rainstorm.

It wasn't the speed, per se, that was the issue, it was the fact that heavy rain hides potholes, and other imperfections in the road. It also exacerbates them.

But wait, it gets worse....

The reason I was doing upwards of 140 on a bike, in a driving rainstorm, which also contributed to my being cold as hell?

I wanted to get the fuck home, to watch a basketball game....

...which my team lost, anyway.

Another Stupid Human Trick on a bike was the time I was riding in Nevada, on I-395, on my way to Virginia City. Again, I was riding through a driving rainstorm, this time on a BMW R1100R.

I was soaked to the bone, and I had to take a piss. Badly.

So, I did.

Van wrote:I wanted to get the fuck home, to watch a basketball game....

...which my team lost, anyway.

Yes! Now get the rebound... Nooooooo!!!

Van wrote:Another Stupid Human Trick on a bike was the time I was riding in Nevada, on I-395, on my way to Virginia City. Again, I was riding through a driving rainstorm, this time on a BMW R1100R.

I was soaked to the bone, and I had to take a piss. Badly.

So, I did.

IIRC fog has the same affect, no? And it was Diego who is wondering if you're 10 and 2, or 9 and 3 in the case of two wheelers, right?

Weird.

Jsc810 wrote:I don't need to drive that fast. And I don't need to jump out of airplanes or go mountain climbing either.

I'm of the same opinion at the ripe old age of 39. When I was 25 I drove my best friends brand new Grand Sport Corvette down a nice new stretch of highway. Got up to 158 mph before my sense of self preservation kicked in. As shit (signs, posts, etc.) fly by at 3 times the speed you normally see them you start to wonder what a corvette and yourself looks like after you hit a deer at 160 mph. That's what convinced me to back off even though the vette was purring and still climbing.

Van, you must be crazier than cat shit to drive a fuggin BIKE at those speeds in the fuggin RAIN! Couldn't imagine it...don't want to do it!

Van wrote:

I was soaked to the bone, and I had to take a piss. Badly.

So, I did.

Just go, man.

Papa Willie wrote:

Mikey wrote:Things in general just tend to move a little more slowly down south.

You've never driven in Atlanta, have you? :D

Geographically the ATL is southern. Culturally it's a bunch of northerners who can't handle snow.