SP1 at 205mph ?

platypus says...

http://www.geocities.com/volkerm1976/simson/modelle.htm

 

Nice.

I had a beautiful '50's mobylette for a while.

It got stolen from a mates shed unfortunately.

 

In fact the way airborne plod do it here in Minnesota is to measure
the time it takes to travel a quarter of a mile, there are white
stripes painted on the road surface every quarter mile. The state
patrol officer was only mentioning the bike's speed outdoing the
plane's speed as a 'gee whiz ain't he goin fast' factoid.

Still, plod had an itchy finger, there's no other earthly explanation
as the RC51 won't do over about 162-sih before hitting the rev limiter
in top gear. The bike in question is bone stock but for a set of slip
on cans (and an "I brake for whores" bumper sticker), and has been
dyno'ed twice on two different machines since the ticket was issued,
with identical results.

 

I always wanted a Wallis. A sort of airborne ShiteOldBike.[/QUOTE]

Hove a go on one of these. Great fun.

url:http://hovercraft.com/menu_hoverwing_specifications.html

I am nearly tempted to buy one......nearly

 

jpegs man jpegs!

 

Look around the site and you'll find them. Having said that, the
enlargements are Java-powered, so you'll have to use a decent OS to
see them.

 

Who invented java pip?

 

Why, the Javanese, of course. Tsk.

(I dunno if they are Java, actually, but they popped up so I made a
possibly-rash assumption)

WGAF?

 

Why, the Javanese, of course. Tsk.

 

I'm sure YTC#1 will be along to give you a slap presently ;-)

 

Pip, have you noticed that there's an echo in this subthread?

 

He'll be naked, of course.

 

I should have seen that coming.

I should have seen that coming.

Now you mention it, Rog ...

 

Apart from the bells round the ankles.

 

No, that's TOG.

 

Vass typed:

And the ticket is on display here...

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0922042speed1.html

 

"No Motorcycle Endorsement" - that's "no bike licence" in Merkin, innit?

 

From what I have read elsewhere, Mr. Tilley claims his license was
expired, but before it expired, he did have a valid motorcycle
endorsement on it. Okay... ,six of one, etc.

Either way he's going to have a tough time buying insurance. Not that
it will stop him from riding, as I doubt he ever had insurance in the
first place.

It is illegal in Minnesota to operate a motor vehicle without insurance,
and it is illegal to operate a motorcycle without a learner's permit or
an endorsement on your auto driver's license, but a surprising number
of anencephalic knobhandlers manage to break one or both laws seemingly
without a care in the world.

 

Yes.

 

Obviously wasn't his fault, then. Didn't know what he was doing, bike went
out of control, just kept accelerating wildly, lucky to be alive...