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Oh great. PIF now has me going 145 through a residential neighborhood with kids, baby strollers and lemonade stands lining the street. :lol: Dude, where did I intimate in the OP that I was driving anywhere near children? There was an empty field on the right and a few industrial warehouses on the left, well off the road.

Why are you responding to him? His ridiculosity is endless.
 

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Why are you responding to him? His ridiculosity is endless.

I like PIF. He amuses me. Every once in awhile, he's even hilarious.
 

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FOD (foreign object debris) is a big concern at airports and runways will be closed until it can be cleared if a pilot reports seeing it. It doesn't take a big object to cause immediate tire damage at high speed.

But no need to belabor this -- I suspect I'm a bit older than some of you folks and either have a lower testosterone level and/or less desire to take on risky endeavors.
 

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I get it. I had a motorcycle as a student at UF. I used to take it out on two-lane rural roads after class to blow off steam. I remember several times having the thing up over 100 mph. All it would have taken is a deer running out in front of me to change my life trajectory. You wouldn't catch me doing that now.
 

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Good set of roads to open it up on '78..... Sometimes cut down there after work, just to give the car and Italian Tune-up. I'm sure it was a blast.
 

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I love motorcycles but gave up riding about 2 years ago. There are just too many people who "pop out" from a side road without looking at all. It is bad enough when you're in a car but if you're riding and have nowhere to go or no time to react, you become a statistic.
 

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I did 180 on my bike, on a road i'd never ridden before thru the Ocala Forrest, nothing happened but I didn't think about doing a test run on it first, pretty scary. it was straight but the yellow dashed line turned solid about 150, the trees off the road were a greenish blur. Those things do 0-70 in first gear, under 2 seconds, and it was a 600. Sorry to hijack the thread. I like going fast too.
 

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I did 180 on my bike, on a road i'd never ridden before thru the Ocala Forrest, nothing happened but I didn't think about doing a test run on it first, pretty scary. it was straight but the yellow dashed line turned solid about 150, the trees off the road were a greenish blur. Those things do 0-70 in first gear, under 2 seconds, and it was a 600. Sorry to hijack the thread. I like going fast too.
Crazy stuff Heavy....funny how speed draws you in. Suddenly you just say f vck it and keep rolling the throttle, or pressing it if you're in a car. As I get older I just don't have the balls for higher speed stuff....however give me an a somewhat empty non residential road with no one else at a stop sign and it's hard to resist a good hard 1st thru 4th pull.....
 

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I did 180 on my bike, on a road i'd never ridden before thru the Ocala Forrest, nothing happened but I didn't think about doing a test run on it first, pretty scary. it was straight but the yellow dashed line turned solid about 150, the trees off the road were a greenish blur. Those things do 0-70 in first gear, under 2 seconds, and it was a 600. Sorry to hijack the thread. I like going fast too.

You must've been on a crotch rocket. I was on a Honda 500. I don't think that thing could go above 110 or 120, but that seemed like flying. I can't imagine 180 on a flipping bike.
 

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I did 180 on my bike, on a road i'd never ridden before thru the Ocala Forrest, nothing happened but I didn't think about doing a test run on it first, pretty scary. it was straight but the yellow dashed line turned solid about 150, the trees off the road were a greenish blur. Those things do 0-70 in first gear, under 2 seconds, and it was a 600. Sorry to hijack the thread. I like going fast too.
180 in a well tuned sports car is pretty hair raising on your typical highway. Can't imagine doing it on a bike.
 

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I did 165 on my Yamaha Fazer on the way to Daytona from Gainesville one year with somebody's daughter riding bitch. At night. I don't ride anymore...too many crazies out there.
 

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yeah, suzuki gsxr 600, i regretted settling for the 600 within a week, I really wanted a 1000, just absolutely CRAZY pull on those things. i was young and dumb. we'd routinely run from Gainesville up to the oasis in st. Augustine in 30-40 minutes. 120-150 was nothing out of the ordinary on 206 and 207. speed is more addicting than any drug. I only had one close call (besides my last close call), pizza delivery guy pulled out right in front of me and a buddy riding next to me. luckily we were both on the same page, ducked in to the other lane. pulled up next to the kid at a redlight and slammed the universal #1 against his window. looked like he saw a ghost.
 

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yeah, suzuki gsxr 600, i regretted settling for the 600 within a week, I really wanted a 1000, just absolutely CRAZY pull on those things. i was young and dumb. we'd routinely run from Gainesville up to the oasis in st. Augustine in 30-40 minutes. 120-150 was nothing out of the ordinary on 206 and 207. speed is more addicting than any drug. I only had one close call (besides my last close call), pizza delivery guy pulled out right in front of me and a buddy riding next to me. luckily we were both on the same page, ducked in to the other lane. pulled up next to the kid at a redlight and slammed the universal #1 against his window. looked like he saw a ghost.
Well, if it wasn't for people like you there would be fewer organ donors, so I guess we have that to thank you for.

I think bikes are damn cool. Just not worth the risk. They also inspire a kind of dumbassery in young men that is mind-blowing. Ever wanted to open your door when some asshat 20-year old on a crotch rocket, who feels invincible in his own mind, tries to blow by you between cars? Yeah, we all have.
 

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thanks mom.

I never split cars like that. I did during traffic at times, and if a prick ever did open his door on me, he'd be paying for a new window on every one of his doors after my helmet went thru them.
 

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thanks mom.

I never split cars like that. I did during traffic at times, and if a prick ever did open his door on me, he'd be paying for a new window on every one of his doors after my helmet went thru them.
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So you never split cars, and then you did? :crazy: It's extraordinarily obnoxious whether it's at 100 MPH or 5. You call someone who would open their door in that situation a "prick", but isn't that what you're being by spitting cars in the first place?
 

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Ox has a point, though. You never see a guy riding a Harley splitting lanes or darting in and out of traffic. It's always some under-25 kid who's in a major hurry to get 30 seconds ahead. I think of what the kid's parents would think if they could see him in the act.
 

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that's not completely true 78. I rode with a few older "vested" fellas if you catch my drift, that I've known since I was a little kid. they did some crazy stuff that I didn't have the sack for on their HD's. and to be clear when I said traffic, I meant stand still traffic.
 

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A crotch rocket and an under-25 male is an extremely dangerous thing, both for him and everyone else on the road. It's a miracle any of them survive. I agree that speed is addictive.
 

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that's not completely true 78. I rode with a few older "vested" fellas if you catch my drift, that I've known since I was a little kid. they did some crazy stuff that I didn't have the sack for on their HD's. and to be clear when I said traffic, I meant stand still traffic.

I'm sure it happens, though it's the exception rather than the rule. The percent of idiotic things you see on a crotch rocket far exceeds that of a Harley, and mainly because of age.
 

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