Posted on 03/23/2018 1:44:52 PM PDT by Elderberry
f you don’t know, maybe you should. Her name is Valerie Thompson. She crashed her motorcycle Monday at the World Speed Trials at Lake Gairdner in South Australia. She was going 343 miles per hour at the time. The tail of her vehicle, called BUB Seven Streamliner, became airborne at the four-mile mark of the 12-mile run and her braking parachute deployed.
Thompson was trying to break the land speed record of 376.363 miles per hour. If she had finished the course she would have broken her own record for women of 304.263 miles per hour.
The bike left a mile-long debris trail. Thompson walked away. Afterward she said, “Today didn’t go as planned. I always said that crashing was not on my bucket list, but I did it. It doesn’t feel very good because at 343 miles per hour, standing here talking to you is pretty, truly amazing.” Sturgis Hall of Fame
BUB Seven is a red, pointy-nosed two-wheeler made of carbon fiber. It reportedly has a drag coefficient of .08 which is very efficient for a two-wheeled vehicle. It is powered by a turbocharged V4 engine that makes 500 horsepower. Thompson sits in an enclosed cockpit. It was built by Denis Manning. After the crash he said, “All the safety stuff we designed worked.”
Thompson is older than she looks. She used to be a banker. She started racing motorcycles when she was 37. Her first real bike was a Harley-Davidson Fat Boy. She used to ride with men. She scared them. They thought she rode “out of control” so she took her motorcycle to a track to see what it would do. Her first drag bike was a turbocharged V-Rod. She broke 153 mph on that in All Harley Drag Racing Association competition.
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Be still my aching heart.
THAT is the kind of woman I would like to re-populate the planet with....
“And, btw, she’s nuts.”
High up on the hot/crazy matrix but in a good way.
Otherwise they would not place, unless prorated.
Powderpuff Derby. LPGA.
Typical woman runs like a girl because of the geometric relationship of femur to pelvis. Each leg kicks outward instead of straight back.
“Evel Knievel is a pussy compared to a gal who crashes at 343 mph. Knievel cowardly pulled his parachute prematurely.”
In Evels defense, he was a showman and I’ve seen the Snake River canyon.
With that said, yeah, compared to this 50 year old gal who rode her first bike 12 years ago, he’s a wuss.
And so are most of the guys riding bikes, most of NASCAR, 99.9% of the NFL and ME.
The beautiful part is she is determined to set the record. She’ll be back, aiming for 500 mph.
Like I said, my kind of gal.
Arlo, is that you?
“On one side of the mountain road, there was a mountain, on the other side, there was nothing.”
Arlo best known nowadays for frequent appearance on crossword puzzles.
Only way to go when the NY State Thruway is closed.
Well then I know where they can get an Aussie, if they ever want one.
This one has waterskied at 90 miles an hour, and that’s more than fast enough for me.
Females may run differently, but it doesn’t mean it should be a term of mocking. For a man to “run like a girl” it takes a demented effort, which isn’t really at all like a female, but some kind of perverse, icky, demonically inspired movement. To watch a man with effeminate movements, is to watch something that is truly nauseating. To watch a strong and graceful woman run, is as God intended, a thing of beauty.
“To watch a strong and graceful woman run, is as God intended, a thing of beauty.”
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My granddaughter——a marathoner and a natural runner.
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This one has waterskied at 90 miles an hour, and that’s more than fast enough for me.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
90 mph? I would have gone bald after the first run!
There has to be a military application for that skill! (grin)
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