Not a road for Firestorm riders...

http://www.goodexperience.com/broken/i/04/07/emergency-s.jpg

(Well, except maybe Cat, she can't talk so phones aren't any use to her
anyway, right?)

big

 

from http://evilurl.com/SEMENURINEslash

have a read of it....good read

at the speeds you do up there...I think a lot of us could be in trouble

"The planned route set out by BMW honcho and high-speed aficionado John
Kananghinis was simple. Start in Darwin, belt down to Katherine, then embark
on a big, fast day to cover the 1158km to Alice Springs. The next day would
see the travelling high-speed circus make the trip to Uluru and then back to
Alice.

The distance from Darwin to Katherine is around 200km. Fortunately there is
fuel available fairly freely on this leg of the journey. You see we'd
learned the hard way that a BMW K12 will get rid of its full fuel load of
20.5 litres in around 170km at full noise. For the mathematically-minded
amongst us, that's drinking the go-fluid at 8.2km to the litre. Serious
juice-use is the short analysis.

Now, generally, using lots of fuel on road tests doesn't matter. That's what
it's for after all. It can become a little more complicated however when
fuel stops are tantalisingly placed just outside that aforementioned 170km
range. Yep, on more than one occasion we found ourselves with tanks as dry
as a dead dingo's donger. And I can vouch for the veracity of all that
oft-quoted dryness because examples of parched ex-wildlife were
well-represented on this trip...

So, we had to be somewhat circumspect. Wheels road tester Bill McKinnon and
myself found ourselves forced to govern our speed at times to 200km/h. We
worked out you could get around 200km out of a tank at that speed and that
would be enough to see us able to fuel when required."


love this bit.....if you *have* to own a cage

"Upside here was I got the chance to drive the M5 for a while and it is
simply breath-taking. It takes a lot of car to excite a motorcyclist in the
go stakes, but this thing is a weapon. That scream of 5.0 litre Bavarian
bent eight at 6000rpm (it still has another 500 to go before redline!) and
an indicated 265km/h will live with me forever. Toss in the fact that we had
a conversation without rasing our voices at that speed and it all becomes a
little surreal. It is an amazing motor car."

mh

 

Eh?

What are you trolling to say?

You've lived in Sydney too long!

Hammo

 

Bah! You see them everywhere!

http://members.optusnet.com.au/za2bb/odyssey/66.jpg

And other sights:

http://members.optusnet.com.au/za2bb/odyssey/71.jpg


BTH

 

OK, how 'bout _this_ then...

http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/st2_owners/message/64471

He wants to go break the record time from the northernmost road in
the US (in Alaska) to the southernmost road (in Florida), a distance
of only 5,600 odd miles.

The only problem is, that road in Alaska is over 3,000 miles away, so
what does he do? Rides there - in 4 days!!!

Oh, and _then_ goes on to ride 5,600 miles in 100 hours (handily
beating the previous 114 hour record).

Then the 2,700 mile trip home must have been a piece of cake...

And yeah, they're all _miles_ - thats over 4800km to the start point,
8960km in 100 hours, then 4320 km home...

!!!

big

 

I'm allowed to natter away as much as i want now : )

Voice totally restored!!

Cat

 

"The planned route set out by BMW honcho and high-speed aficionado John

Dude, the distance from Darwin to the Alice is 1480km and its like 320km
from Darwin to Katherine. Maybe that why you had problems with calculating
fuel!

 

Argh! My eyes!! My eyes!! You bastard!

 

THAT is what you were suppose to do ya bastard. made me freaking open it again after i had fergotten about it, didn't ya?

Mike.S

 

Heeheehee! :-D


BTH

 

Loo stops can be just as bad ...

http://lamp.infosys.deakin.edu.au/acis03/img_100_0657.html

Cheers
Goaty

 

Bummer!

Cheers
Goaty

 

In aus.motorcycles on 7 Jul 2004 17:16:17 -0700

Needs a caption competition....

"OK, I *know* I can't compete, no need to look so smug"

Zebee

 

tell , because I dont


mh

 

It was a cold day! ;-)


BTH