Re: [St] Speedo Issues

["marc Ve" <daytona955.marc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Takes a long time to get a bike to stop at those speeds.

Even at 200 Kph you are peering over the edge of the screen, the vibration
is making it hard to focus clearly and you start to get the "tunnel vision"
effect.

It just takes a brick in the road, or a drunk pedestrian stumbling into the
road off some farm and there's going to be trouble.

Chances of getting caught here are slim if you avoid their favourite spots.
If you do get caught you wont enjoy the experience, SA jails are among the
most dangerous in the world, any kind of sentence could turn into something
much worse real easy.

I've done some silly speeds, I once topped out the Daytona on a public road
miles from anywhere , but these days I just let the loonies go.

I prefer blasting through the twistys and just enoying myself.

Every now and then I do a track day, but I havnt done one since I wiped out
last year on the KLR and spent three months on crutches.

I think I've lost my invincible coating - dont bounce to well anymore.

happens as you head past 40.............



cheers


marc



On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 5:54 AM, <BrettWilson21@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> There are plenty of videos on You tube showing people doing those sorts of
> speeds on public roads. Theres even a few where people have recorded their
> own
> deaths and/or someone elses.
>
> I know people that have been dumb enough to do such things and lived to
> tell
> the tale.
>
> I guess I'm a bit old and into self preservation and keeping my licence
> these
> days. In the state of NSW Australia, if youre caught doing 45kph or more
> over
> the speed limit, its instant licence disqualification and confiscation of
> your vehicle and a date with the magistrate with possible prison time
> depending
> on how fast you were going. Funnily enough this happens on average about
> twice
> a week.
>
> Brett.
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