Keyser Söze wrote:
On 5/23/15 11:37 AM, Califbill wrote:
wrote:
On Thu, 21 May 2015 06:32:32 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

My guzzi ambassador wasn't the fastest thing in the world WOT was in the
Low 70mph. I haven't researched it but I'm thinking it had side hack
gearing. The claim is that the top end was normally in the high 90mph
range. It didn't matter to me. When I'd hit the 4 lane I'd WOT and let
it hammer away, usually and according to the veglia speedo, about 73 was the top mph.


Must be a story here

http://gfretwell.com/ftp/New%20Zeala...ory%20here.jpg

Problem these days with new motorcycles is the power. Talking to my
daughters neighbor last weekend. He said his buddy, a chief Master Sargent
told him they are losing more soldiers from motorcycle deaths than from
combat. They figure they are immortal after returning from the Middle East
and buy a new bike. And off the showroom floor these days you buy 170+ mph
bikes for a couple hundred down.



You think you are any less dead in a 100 mph motorcycle crash, eh?

Dead is dead. But a lot easier to get dead on a bike with 3 times the
power of that 100 mph bike. My 350 Kawasaki rotary valve did 90. Took a
while to get there. Unlike it's big brother the 3 cylinder version. That
would go from 0-120 and never get the front wheel on the ground.