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To: ThunderSleeps

Like many other forms of competition, the firepower expands to consume available budget.


110 posted on 04/10/2020 5:33:44 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: nascarnation
Yeah, crazy capabilities. My personal high speed (on land) is about 115, and that was years ago on a closed race course, not on public roads. In the air, flying my buddy's aerobatic plane I've hit about 175 knots by giving up on and diving out of a particularly sloppy aileron roll... :-(

I'm afraid on the road I'm a fairly conservative old-guy driver or rider. Even on my bike (a cruiser) I don't generally violate the speed limit. Sure, every once in a while I might roll up single-digits over but...

113 posted on 04/10/2020 6:52:20 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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