Suzuki Bergman (sp?)

Nippy little buggers, aren't they?

One surprised me this morning at the traffic light motoGP, so I followed
him.

"Har har" I thought, as we approached some stationary traffic. "He'll
never squeeze through there with those mirrors."

Then they magically folded in! Leccy folding mirrors on a bike.

Want.

 

As are 911 turbos, as I found when riding back from the BOSM on Sunday.

Mind you, would've been a different story if I could've been arsed to
change down. Still, we both got to 160 pretty quickly.

 

Coveting a scooter ?

Gaylord ..

Paul.

 

Au contrair, Superscoots are the ideal transport for arthritis riddled
oldpharts who can no longer get their leg over [1].

[1] Feedlines R us

 

Gaylord *with* chickwheels, I'll have you know.

 

I saw a 60's Lambretta the other day, and secretly coveted /it/

But a modern superscoot ? [1]

Paul.

[1] Oh, ok, maybe an MP3, just 'cos it looks so cool.

 

I remember chasing one down the M23 a few years ago, and I had to get to
95 before I got past it.

 

I've only had one proper race with a car when I was on a bike.
Unfortunately the bike in question was the Tiger, & the car was a TVR
Cerbera. I lost.

Curiously I can only recall one proper race with a non-friendly car
when I was also in a car, & that too was a TVR. I was in my turbo
porker that time. I won. Oh actually I've just remembered another,
against an Escort Cossie. I won that too.

 

I've had three proper dices before

- my ZXR400 vs some horrible shitty japanese thing that had been tuned
to hell and back and I was spanked beyond belief.

- the gixer thou vs a Lambo Murcielago on the A5. No contest, as darsy
will testify

- a Merc/AMG CL or something on the A41 to Aylesbury. We both pinned it
alongside each other and it was only when he hit his speed limiter that
I started to pull significantly ahead. Then I realised that meant I was
doing more than 155mph in torrential rain. Self-preservation kicked in
rather quickly at that point.

Oddly, I've only been spanked in the car once, by one of those Clio V6
thingies. I rarely bother though, as I forget how fruity the Leon is.

 

Simon Wilson spoke:

When I did my IAM thing at Sheffield there was a chap who passed his IAM
test on one - their first pass on a scooter.

Out on runs he had no trouble keeping up with the rest - and before anyone
says owt, the Sheffield lot were bloody quick and treated NSL's as
'advisory'!


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Rob_P
UKRM(at)indqualtec.co.uk
uppercase(d) BBIWYMC#1 BOG#11? MRO#31 IBCDBBB#1(kotl)
FJ1200, CCM130 Benelli Cabriolet (gone)
Looks like Rab C Nesbit.

 

Krusty spoke:

My most recent was chasing a Porsche down the A46 on the fully laden FJ1200
with panniers & top box full - I backed off when it started weaving at 140

Earliest was a drag-race against a Jensen FF on my old CX500 - I won, but
backed off at 60 as it was a busy main road in St Helens (Near YTC's gaff
as it goes) and he passed with a smirk on his face thinking he had won.

--
Rob_P
UKRM(at)indqualtec.co.uk
uppercase(d) BBIWYMC#1 BOG#11? MRO#31 IBCDBBB#1(kotl)
FJ1200, CCM130 Benelli Cabriolet (gone)
Looks like Rab C Nesbit.

 

My Carrera 4 could spank any bike/rider on a wet twisty road but on
something straight and dry your Gixxer should cream any sort of conventional
car between 10-160mph, AMG or not? Something like an Atom, perhaps not, but
one is hardly going to object in that case.

 

In the AMG case, I'm not sure I was really pinning it, more matching his
acceleration. It was, as I said, absolutely pissing down.

 

I recall Loz collecting the GSXR1000 from Belfast. I was in a Carrera 2 or a
Cab. When we got to the motorway on ramp we both nailed it. Pissed all over
the porker.
That said he nearly went to Enniskillen rather than Dublin )

 

I daresay your 911 was a bit slower than the turbo.

 

Not much difference at those sort of speeds, the 996/7 Turbo is a pretty
pointless road car unless you live somewhere it can be regularly wound up in
the 140-190mph range.

I haven't driven one but I understand the latest version Turbo is something
else altogether though.

 

Bear in mind I had recently had a mini stroke and wasn't up to riding
much, and had only just picked the bike up and wasn't used to it so
wasn't giving it 100%... still pissed all over the Carrera 2 though.

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Inter-Continental Hyperbolistic Missile , CBR600F-W racebike
in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere)
BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite
they churn out)

 

Is that you Mr Rossi?

 

We had a nice little run out to Lisburn on that basis but on the M1 sliproad
you gave it the beans. Sufficiently so that the Dublin junction a mile
further down nearly eluded you ;o)
I was trying to catch you up and flashing the lights.

 

I didn't actually max the bike right out until I was past the Drogheda
toll booths. Until then I'd been fairly careful as I was on A roads and
dual carriageways and had no idea where I was going. I still haven't a
clue how I made it to Dublin in time to catch the ferry - all I did was
point the bike south and rode.


--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Inter-Continental Hyperbolistic Missile , CBR600F-W racebike
in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere)
BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite
they churn out)