I banged out the Hurricane!

Hey All,

I hope everyone made good use of the great weather we had. There were
a BUNCH of motorcycles out on Saturday!

I was out riding and had a nice ride. I had the Hurricane all tuned
out and looking nice. I'd scrubbed it down the weekend before and so i
didn't have to spend any wasted time cleaning before riding. I headed
out early in the morning and started looking for good roads. I turned
on the GPS and the PSP and set my sights toward the northeast. I just
rode down a highway until the other looked good and then I switched. I
ended up on Hwy 82 and started riding west, and then it dawned on me
that I could divert and hit the Ida Road. This was the same rode I got
stopped on and the state trooper called me a usenet pussy for going so
slow...and didn't write me a ticket. I was out to prove him wrong! I
headed down Hwy 11 south and caught the Ida Road going toward
Whitewright. Someone must've cleaned the road just before I got there,
because damn if it wasn't pretty and fast curves. I felt like that
bike was on fire. It would sweep from one side to the other with the
most effortless flick from me. I was scraping both toes and I had them
tucked under. I'd see a sign saying 30mph curve and I was taking it
between 80mph and 100mph. This bike is RIGHT now. This is how Honda
should've built this bike.

As I left the Ida road heading home, I got on 78 south and found a
nice straight path to see what this bike would do. I twisted up the
throttle and let it hum up to it's potential. When we hit 135, it
started showing signs of that was it. I wasn't letting it give up that
easy. I've been reading the rags saying this bike was good for 140 and
we were going there. I pulled into the tank and I felt the bike as if
to say "thanks, we'll get there now!". The speed started going up
again and got to 152mph and then "pump, pump....pump, pump". As luck
would have it, we banged the rev limiter and found out this bike's
true top speed. I let off the gas and let the bike down slowly to get
back to a normal speed. After this, I just said "good work day, let's
go home now!".

 

152 mph?? Thats it?? Better not try and race Big Eds Venture...It will
run that in 4th gear.

Redshad

 

That is so like the ride Big Ed and I took Sunday, except for the location.
We were more East Sout East, and Yamaha'n.

.....louie

 

One of these days, you won't be going home! They'll be picking your body
parts up. Now, I'm not saying this to start a fight, just telling the truth.
If you have family, especially children, you should be more considerate and
not try to get out and kill or mame yourself.

 

152 mph?? Thats it?? Better not try and race Big Eds Venture...It will
run that in 4th gear.

Redshad

Now, folks like Redshad and Louie could care less if you Brian get hurt,
won't hurt them at all and they'll soon forget you. Just remember your dear
wife and children and how lost they would be without you. Please be careful
Brian. Here in my neck of the woods, there's been 5 guys killed on
motorcycles in the past 2 months. They too didn't think they'd ever go to
the big cycle in the sky but they did. Death doesn't care how old a person
is, how strong or weak, Just act responsible..........hey even if YOU don't
get killed or hurt, YOU might hurt or kill somebody else...have you ever
thought about THAT BRIAN????

 

Wow, what=a=ride. That was one ''solo'' ride.
-Say Bebe, the only way Brian could get hurt is to have a ''wreck'',
surely you realize that?
-Brian is an excellant rider. Those fatalities, you mentioned,
apparantly were'nt skilled riders.
-BeBe you need to re-evaluate your words of wisdom/advice. clearly, you
are an Easy Rider.
<g> Mr.JayT.Friendly=

 

Naw, the only real skilled rider is a SMART rider, one who doesn't try to
prove him or herself by acting stupid and breaking the law. You do know that
going as fast as Brian was traveling is breaking the law don't you? I'm
surprised at you Mr. Jay T. I thought you would have had more sense. I am
thinking you are only saying this so you will remain a good guy supposedly
on this here newsgroup? You don't want to "rock the boat" in other words so
these guys will think you're a coward. LOL I suppose you get out and act
stupid too taking chances trying to prove your riding skills or something.
heh heh When you've had a son or daughter get killed in such a accident,
come back and talk some more huh?

 

....and maybe Bebe Brian already understands that might happen but would
rather "live" life instead of running away scared of what "could" happen.

I remember seeing a patch one time that said "Bikers aren't afraid of
dying - they're afraid of NOT LIVING".

Rule #1 of riding - Know your limits.

 

Tell that to their survivors and see if they think it's amusing?

 

Naw, it's only the asshole's fault!

 

I dont think it was the assholes fault..at 152mph, I bet his asshole
was all puckered up trying to hide.

Redshad

 

===L.m.a.off, Bill Walker style........ On those butt Rockets, the
ass'end is certainly being aired out....so Brians was probably in a
puckered po'sition, awright.
Mr.JaYT=

 

'''Anonymous'', I do declare and believe BeBe, missed my point.
Reader' again, BB. hehe.....Mr'JayT.)

 

First of all Louie and myself do care if Acorn gets hurt because that
would be one less person we would have around to race. Theres not many
people that can keep up with these big bikes that Louie and I ride. We
then would have to ride all the way down to Texarkana and find BJ to
race us.

I believe that the bigger your life insurance check is the less your
wife will miss you. Leave her a million and your name will never come
up again..leave her nothing and your name will be brought up everyday
as such...."That sorry SOB should have bought some life insurance
instead of all that chrome crap".

Redshad

 

"Redshad"

"Speaker of Truth"

--
Ed Hart
I am confused.When I die,should I go to
Heaven for the climate,or Hell for the
company?

First of all Louie and myself do care if Acorn gets hurt because that
would be one less person we would have around to race. Theres not many
people that can keep up with these big bikes that Louie and I ride. We
then would have to ride all the way down to Texarkana and find BJ to
race us.

I believe that the bigger your life insurance check is the less your
wife will miss you. Leave her a million and your name will never come
up again..leave her nothing and your name will be brought up everyday
as such...."That sorry SOB should have bought some life insurance
instead of all that chrome crap".

Redshad

 

Just calm down a bit, Bebe. You have to understand the players here to
understand the situation. Redshad and I will race each other. Louie
will race, but he likes to dig his motorcycle into the pavement too
much. Louie also prods the rest of us into racing. Jerry will race,
but when Cookie is along she kinda pulls back on his reins. Bjay will
race until he gets to his zip code line and then he pulls out his cell
phone and finds some other place to go. Ed will race, but you have to
turn him toward his house and deal with his slow (gas saving as he
puts it) ass until you get far enough out he won't punch a hole in his
garage going back home. Bill will race, but you've gotta be careful
and not let him get too many choices, otherwise he'll choose the
middle. I'll race, and I'm mounted on one well handling bike that
*can* race....and I've got another that's a 200mph missile. The
problem with me, don't let me out front for too long, otherwise I'll
get lost and get arrested. I guess that's a hazard of going
fast....you tend to miss turns and not notice. All the while I'm
getting arrested, I keep thinking "just wait til my buddies get here,
they'll show you whats what"....and it turns out my "buddies" are on
the other side of the state!

To ride with any one of us, you could expect a bunch of fun and good
riding. As Bill said, we're not afraid of dying, it's the not living
that we don't want.

And yes, if I scattered my motorcycle through three counties and had a
bunch of chopped meat left over, my wife is well aware that I was
doing what I love. I ride safe, I ride careful, I ride with a bunch of
safety gear....and I ride to enjoy life. Being safe doesn't always
mean obeying the speed limits and traffic on the road. I've seen WAY
too many people hit by cars for doing what they thought was safe.
Sometimes you just have to ride like you have good sense and know how.

I don't know if you understand all of what I wrote, but if you manage
to stay on a motorcycle as long as I have, you just might.

 

That bike was just fine, other than getting up to the top end and
having it pop out. This bike will flat haul ass now!

(and it hauls my asshole just fine too! <g>)

 

The one and only reason I got my sportbikes is just to ride instead of
tearing up a bike trying to ride it. I'm certainly not going to change
my riding just because someone says I could wreck...

 

======Brian, you said it. -Shoot even Big Ed, couldnt've said itany
better, and you know how ''winded'' he can get when he puts a '
'top post'' response on this here great tx.moto forum''.- Seriously, I
agree teeTotally, with your sentiments of why we ride.''. Mr.JayT.=