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I have a new car (I say new, it is new in the sense that I haven’t had it for long) I have never driven a car that doesn’t vibrate at 60mph (speed limit on most UK roads). So I’m driving along and start to think to myself this feels quite fast so I look down at the speedometer and realize I’m going 70mph :oops: so I brake a bit, lucky for me that there was no one behind me.
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I run into this problem whenever I get the tires balanced and front end aligned. The car rides so smooth, it's easy to think you are driving slower.
pfft cars. Trucks are better!https://img163.imageshack.us/img163/...02pm2fx.th.jpg
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This 95 Crysler Condord that is 'my' car vibrates at any speed. Sometimes the engine klunks. Sometimes it dies outright, but only just after starting.
I love speed. On my island there's a nice strech of highway going from Waimea to Kona which has no stop lights or signs and is rarely patrolled by cops. I drive a light truck so I don't go too fast but it's great when I get up 75 mph for a bit. Usually cruising at 65 mph though.
I've got a '75 MGB I'm trying to get going but I can't find a damn title for it. :furious3: It'll be great if I get on it on the road though.
My current mode of transportation does not go over 60mph.
Still enough to get a ticket, if any cops patrolled the countryside.
Crazed Rabbit
My car is certainly not a sports car (just a crappy Corolla) but I also have problems with accidentally speeding, even when I am in the city (I have caught myself hitting 45 in a 35- boy is that scary! ~:eek:). It just drives too damn smoothly; it has really well-balanced wheels.
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Originally Posted by Beirut
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I have driven my little sports sedan at ridiculous speeds. There's a stretch of highway near my home that is flat, empty, and straight as an arrow. You can see any cop from a mile off. Once I wondered to myself, What would this car feel like at 100 miles per hour? That was fun. Later on I got to thinking, What would this car feel like at 110 miles per hour? That was even more fun.
I've only gotten one speeding ticket, and that was largely because I was sick, not paying attention to anything but staying on the road, and didn't see the state trooper making his quota. The fine was so absurdly high that it made sense to engage a lawyer to bat the ticket away.
Lawyers. They're possibly an even lower life-forms than politicians, but they have their uses. I just wouldn't want my daughter dating one. And I wouldn't want one living in my neighborhood. Frankly, I'd prefer it if they didn't live in my town. Useful, but scummy.
I don't think that the car I'm going to receive when I pass my test can go up to 60mph...
Nor can it drive in the cold (that is, around about 0 degrees and lower)...
Nor can it drive without a disconcerting noise resonating throughout the vehicle...
Nor can it drive uphill very well...
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I never driven a car properly. I just started them and drove in my dad's lap when I was a small kid. ~:)
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Sounds like my old Rover. :sweatdrop:Quote:
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@topic: isn't 70 mph the same as 112 km/h? I think most people drive that fast in the highways... I have never driven any faster than around 80 km/h myself though.
Did 250 on the German highway in a sooped up volve V40..loved it.
190 in my own car...
Busy with my motorcycle license now, so expect the numbers to go up soon ~D.
I've just recently been handed a speeding ticket for doing 37mph in a 30 zone, at 6.30am on a Saturday morning on an empty road while going to work. Strewth, the boys in blue are keen round here!
That's a £60 fine and three points on my licence. I could cry. Only my third ticket in 26 years of driving and motorcycling, but it still hurts, especially when my little car is almost regularly blown off the road by the draft from genuine speedsters thundering past at ungodly rates of knots. :no:
Oh well, I'll soon be able to ditch the car when I'm back at uni, and trade it in for a nice bicycle. Roll on September.
Happy and safe motoring chaps!
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Originally Posted by Stormcrow
They are kph I assume. I don't know of any production motorcyle that will exceed 250mph ! And if one did, I wouldn't ride it! 170ish is my limit. :laugh4:
I never got the nerves/opportunity to top 85mph on my motorcycle.
In my car I stayed at 120mph for good stretches during my 16hr trip from California to Colorado (around 1,900 miles).
No need for the big speeds really, the real rush of the motorbike is the arm-wrenching, eye-popping acceleration and cornering at the limits of your nerves and tyre rubber. Sheer exhilaration! I miss it.Quote:
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Ahh..... a Vespa man. :creep:Quote:
Originally Posted by Red Peasant
I find most inadvertant speeding occurs when you've just come off a motorway. It's quite frightening, 50 feels like 30 and 30 feels absurdly slow.
Amen to that. Too bad my bike can't accelerate too fast.Quote:
No need for the big speeds really, the real rush of the motorbike is the arm-wrenching, eye-popping acceleration and cornering at the limits of your nerves and tyre rubber. Sheer exhilaration! I miss it.
Crazed Rabbit
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He WARNEd me for that, man... he freakin' WARNED me!
Do NOT mess with the Axeman.
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Lol. Vespas and Lambrettas are real death-traps! I'm not mad or tough enough to ride one of those. :laugh4:Quote:
Originally Posted by InsaneApache
What kind of motorcycles do you drive ? Post pictures if you acn find any please..
And do wear leather or textile for protection ? & final question : the bigger the engine, the steadier it is at higher speeds, right ?
@ Red Peasant, km/ph indeed ~:(.
I ride a tiny bike that has a redline speed of 60. But it's got a big back tire. It seems pretty steady even at 45mph plus, though.
I've got leather boots and gloves, but no jacket yet. I want to get one though (though I don't know if it'll be textile or leather).
Crazed Rabbit
Those are two things I enjoyed. I miss it as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Red Peasant
My old '82 Honda 750K would get a front end wobble at 145kph that would scare you into old age. That's as fast as I went on that bike.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stormcrow
https://img204.imageshack.us/img204/2396/vfr750eq9.jpg
In 1997 I took my brand new bike to GB (UK) and spent a week in Scotland. When the day arrived and I was going home, I overslept due to a rather wet evening the day before. Needless to say I finally had the right excuse to see if I could reach the advertised top speed of the bike (240 kph/ 149 mph). It was quite easy reaching 240/149 and there was more power in it.
I did not pursue the actual top-speed as I had my luggage on the back of the bike. It would have been nasty if I had lost that in such speeds.
The average speeds probably were around 200/125 on the stretch between Glasgow and Newcastle.
I remember nearly stepping off the bike at a gas station probably doing 20/12. When my foot bounced on the ground I realized I was still moving…
Awesome bike!What type is it?
I'm looking to buy one, but since my budget is a bit tight, I have to go for the older models. I find myself constantly drawn to kawasaki's...
this one would be affordable & I quite like the looks of it :
ZZR 1100 ~:).
https://img302.imageshack.us/img302/...zr11001hs0.jpg
It was a Honda VFR 750 and it looked exactelly as in the picture... I don't have it anymore... since 1997 i got married and have 2 kids. = No bike.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stormcrow
I will get another when I get a little "older".