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To: Pharmboy

I only once had any notion of going over a hundred. I was driving over a longish bridge in Panama City FL on a Yamaha XJ650 30 years ago (no other traffic) and there was a Navy Ground Effects Vehicle on the water going parallel to the bridge. The Navy had admitted to a top speed for those things “in excess of 70 mph.” I wondered how excessive that might be. I reached about 105 and the damned thing was still pulling away when I ran out of bridge and slowed back down.


52 posted on 05/04/2012 5:05:19 AM PDT by arthurus ( Read Henry hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson")
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To: arthurus
That was one impressive Navy ship.

I knew the Mass Pike was smooth...no potholes. When I lived in Manhattan and had the bike, it was Park Ave. for me...the smoothest road in the city.

102 posted on 05/04/2012 7:18:01 PM PDT by Pharmboy (She turned me into a Newt...)
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