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To: ThunderSleeps
In my younger stupider days I had my bike up to just shy of 120. Not hard to do at all on that bike. Kind of scary for my passenger.

What I wouldn't give to be young and dumb again! Had the wife on the back of the rice burner (Kawasaki Ninja 1100 w/Nitrous, racing gears, racing exhaust, etc..) and pulled a wheelie at 70.

Soon as I stopped she hopped off the bike and slapped the living daylights out of me (you know how women just flail at you? That's what she did ...)

She's never gotten on a bike with me since. That was around 1992 ... think I was still living in my first house then.

45 posted on 08/12/2013 6:43:27 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative

On the other end of the spectrum, I once owned a Dodge Omni GLH (GLH I was told stood for “Goes Like Hell.”)

It was a turbocharged 4 cylinder, 4 speed stick that was just flat out fun to drive! Near the place I used to work, there is a narrow road with a series of quick S-curves. The road was about a half-mile long. In any other car, you’d be lucky to get safely around those curves doing 20 (speed limit through this stretch was 25.) I used to gear down to second and take those curves doing 40, pulling some serious transverse Gs along the way. For about a mile almost every day, I felt like I was racing in the Grand Prix.

My fun ended when I went through two trannies on that car, but man it was fun while it lasted!


73 posted on 08/12/2013 7:36:57 PM PDT by Stingray (Stand for the truth or you'll fall for anything.)
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