| User | Comment |
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| supplicant | | posted 29-Jun-2000 10:08am |
Around 60kph I believe... you can't go very fast on a pushbike  |
| Andyroo |
lol |
| Oscar | | posted 29-Jun-2000 11:15am |
Somewhere around 124-125. I marked 100-124 though. |
| mary | | posted 29-Jun-2000 2:12pm |
Only 100mph |
| cody | | posted 29-Jun-2000 7:58pm |
I dont really know. I know for certain that I got up to 80 in my dads firebird once. But I have a feeling I broke 100 when i was operating a racing atv once. |
| mandy | | posted 29-Jun-2000 9:22pm |
120 |
| lion | | posted 29-Jun-2000 9:26pm |
Somewhere around 135mph between LA and San Francisco on I-5. |
Zang  | | posted 29-Jun-2000 9:31pm |
I've never had a drivers license, and it has been many years since I have driven at all, close to twenty years ago I drove over the speed limit briefly, I was drunk at the time. Maybe 65K in a residential zone, I honestly can't remember, it wasn't a highlight in my life. |
| Enheduanna | | posted 29-Jun-2000 10:15pm |
Probably between 80 and 99 mph when I was driving; over 120 mph on the back of a motorcycle. |
romkey  | | posted 30-Jun-2000 1:00am |
105 in an 87 VW Golf, I think I was in Wyoming at the time. The crystals couldnae take much more. |
| guillem | | posted 30-Jun-2000 7:30am |
I have never driven. |
| joachim | | posted 30-Jun-2000 8:23am |
135 on my motorcycle. I want to know who beat a buck fifty! Actually there are perhaps more people in the 125+ bracket than I might have expected. |
| Lauren | | posted 30-Jun-2000 11:10am |
89 |
| Jemmy | | posted 30-Jun-2000 5:06pm |
you have to be 16 to drive, but I bet I could drive really good if they let me. Better than some of the idiots I see. |
bill  | | posted 30-Jun-2000 6:32pm |
I'm not sure, I wasn't looking at the speedometer. |
| phi | | posted 30-Jun-2000 10:06pm |
I have pinned a 105-mph-reading speedometer, but not (I don't think) by very much. |
| cody | | posted 30-Jun-2000 10:40pm |
Jemmy, you have to be 16 to drive A car.. legally... in america. Riding a bike counts as "operating a land based vehicle", doesnt it? |
| Mongol | | posted 1-Jul-2000 10:11am |
Speed is a delicious thrill. |
| TwistedIvory | | posted 1-Jul-2000 11:12am |
I've reached a maximum velocity of 198 mph in a highly-modified Lingenfelter Chevrolet Corvette. That was the all-out fastest top-end I've ever experienced (and on a public highway, no less). However, the biggest thrill was from the 132mph I acheived in a quarter of a mile (10.9 sec ET @ 132mph) in a race-prepped Porsche 911 GT3. Now THAT was fun -- brute acceleration all the way down the strip!
Excellent survey! |
icurok  |
About 130mph in an Audi A4 on the way home from work.. (I still got overtaken by a motorcycle) |
| phi | | (reply to icurok) posted 3-Jul-2000 9:49pm |
Ever read Roald Dahl's "The Hitcher"? I think it's in the Henry Sugar compilation. |
| icurok | | (reply to phi) posted 4-Jul-2000 6:30pm |
I think I remember the Henry Sugar stuff from school, but I've not read it since. Any reason? |
| TwistedIvory | | posted 9-Jul-2000 12:09pm |
I just noticed: This states "While CONTROLLING a land vehicle." Honestly, as I've found out, control is a complete illusion; the only semblance of control is by a series of mechanics and electronics connecting you to a construction of metal and plastic. Control can be lost at any time! |
| joachim |
One of the reasons I love watching motorcycle racing is the delicacy and grace with which the racers manouver their vehicles around the track. Every once in a while, though, something goes wrong and you're suddenly reminded that these guys are riding the hairy edge of control. The amount of force generated by the rider is sufficient to control the forces generated by the machine, but obviously nowhere near enough to match them. I never realized how much energy a wheel had in it before I saw one take a rider and motorcycle and hurl them both fifteen feet into the air. |
| TwistedIvory | | (reply to joachim) posted 10-Jul-2000 3:35pm |
It's spooky, isn't it? Balancing on the edge of disaster; for some reason, I'd be more than happy to drive at insane limits of speeds and handling in a car, but a bike is something else entirely. I'm still tying to learn to ride one effectively -- but I doubt I'll ever have the nerve to autocross a bike! Give me four wheels any day. . . I've seen some crazy things happen in cars, but on bikes they're twice as bad. The Suzuki Habayusa -- now the fastest production bike made -- puts 300hp to the ground via the rear wheel an can reach a straight-line speed of well more than 250mph and can traverse the quarter-mile in less than 9 seconds. Yikes! Can you imagine piloting such a craft to insane speeds and through tremendous acceleration?!
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| mandy |
My father used to ride the Wall of Death(Motor Drome) on a old fashioned Indian motorcycle, back in the late 50's early 60's. Sometimes he even had a woman perched upon his shoulders doing tricks. He had one really bad accident and fell to the floor below the wall, the bike landing on top of him. It broke his leg.
You'd have to be bloody insane to ride a bike around a wooden wall track. Bloody Insane! |
| joachim |
I agree with your sentiment completely. Your numbers... I think are a little optimistic. In fact, the GSX-1300R Hyabusa has about 150 horses and tops out at about 190. Quarter mile times seem to be in the high 9 second range (this would presumably yield 0-60 times in the 2.8 second area). As far as piloting it, I'd be a little leery of doing 190, but the accelerations my motorcycle produces (Suzuki GSF-1200S Bandit with just over 100 hp) are actually not at all scary. It's just the high-speed travel with all the wind that gets me worried. |
| TwistedIvory | | (reply to joachim) posted 12-Jul-2000 12:38am |
Hmmm. . . odd. I could've sworn it was more than 300bhp and went faster than 250. However, I'm not nearly as well-versed on motorcycles as I am with cars! Thus, I stand corrected. Thank you! |
| Avocado | | posted 16-Jul-2000 12:52am |
90-something mph, I guess
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| Maarten | | posted 17-Jul-2000 2:21pm |
195 km/h |
| debaston | | posted 18-Jul-2000 10:34am |
downhill with wind hehe |
| regis | | posted 19-Jul-2000 2:21am |
i was really annoyed to discover that my pickup truck ('96 chevy S10) won't accelerate past 90MPH. a few years ago, i was out visiting friends in montana - land of no daytime speed limits - and i was on a long, fairly empty stretch of highway, so i decided to see how fast my truck could go. and once i reached 90, it would not accelerate past that. i'm guessing it's something in how the fuel injectors are programmed. |
| joachim | | (reply to regis) posted 19-Jul-2000 4:44pm |
The new Kawasaki Ninja ZX-12 has the same problem. Everybody was drooling over this new bike which was going to beat the Hayabusa and become the fastest production motorcycle in the world, and maybe even beat 200 mph. Just before it came out, Kawasaki joined some weird European consortium of backseat drivers (in order to be able to sell the bike on that continent) and cut the top speed down to 157 or some odd number like that. It was quite a letdown. Still, there's probably some wire you can cut that will get you back up to a comfortable 190 again! |
| Pollerbear | | posted 27-Jul-2000 3:33am |
When I was a freshman in college, I once hit 136 mph on an open Oklahoma highway late at night (early in the morning)....it was very stupid & dangerous. |
| Hotbabe |
I get an earbashing from my boyfriend every time I drive like a speed demon though! |
| dsysko | | posted 20-Aug-2000 6:33pm |
~135MPH for about an hour on the highway in kansas during the middle of the day with no-one around. My dad fast asleep in the passenger seat. Whe he woke up, he saw a road sign, looked at his watch, and gave me "the look". "How did we get here already?" he said. He knows I am a good driver, so he didn't give me a hard time about it. Faster in a race, but we don't use speedometers. Maybe around 180MPH, but on a controlled course. |
| phi | | (reply to icurok) posted 28-Aug-2000 8:54am |
It involves (among other things) being overtaken by a motorcycle at 130 mph. |
| barkalounger | | posted 28-Aug-2000 7:14pm |
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| Thunder |
Ever drive a Winston Cup car??? It is an awesome thing.... |
| North79 | | posted 13-Sep-2000 4:19pm |
My poor little Honda Accord starts to experience structural failure somewhere in the 150km/h ballpark, so I have to slow down then |
| kaleb777 | | posted 24-Sep-2000 5:35pm |
190kph in an old Holden Kingswood with shot shocks |
| TheBlackAdder | | posted 28-Oct-2000 6:59am |
speed limits suck. |
| TheBlackAdder | | (reply to cody) posted 28-Oct-2000 7:02am |
are you on crack??? if your afraid to break 80 in a car, you would be terrified to do 60 on something without a body! |
| TheBlackAdder | | (reply to North79) posted 28-Oct-2000 7:04am |
My Accord does about 125 mph, but I dropped it about 5-7 cm front-rear with Eibach springs. It feels real good now. |
| mandy |
rice boi!  weeeeeeeeeeeeeee weeeeeeeeeeee weeeeeeeeeee hehehehehehe  |
