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Court
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 - 05:42 am: | 
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Too funny...having ridden all the above roads, I'd say our communal need for speed is to place straight roads behind us quickly.
Buells fuel consumption seems to change about 80MPH.
Ride safe,
Court |
Pammy
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 - 06:44 am: |
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Just this past weekend. Remember I live in the land of straight and flat. |
Black_sunshine
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 - 07:43 am: |
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Don't care too much for top speed. I like to keep my XB9 in the twisties where it was designed to be.
I must admit...a Z3 decided he wanted to race in Hwy 316 in Atlanta, Ga. I hit 115 or so indicated when he trailed off the gas. It was only for a few minutes anyway. That particular road is crawling with State Patrol. |
Jpl9sx
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 - 08:03 am: |
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110 mph (indicated) for 1 1/2 hours on Hwy 70 in East Utah riding a 91 Electra Glide Sport, two up, and fully loaded. After stopping for gas completed the rest of the trip through Utah at a more reasonable 90 mph which felt slow after the speed run. |
Wyckedflesh
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 - 09:50 am: |
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Court, if I keep the XB under/around 90, I still get about 50mpg, provided I am not fighting a headwind, which seems to be when it dropped down to 40mpg, that stint on I-8 was done in the slipstream of a Suburban for half an hour possibly longer, so I still got decent gas mileage. |
Rick_a
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 - 10:40 am: |
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I found that with 23/50 rear gearing I could do 125 with the wife on the back...and was still at least 500 rpm from redline...she wouldn't rev any further. I kept it over 100 for well over 30 minutes going from Kissimmee FL to Jacksonville. I later got a leak in the head gasket and tried hard to keep it below 90. I had some pretty serious oil carryover.
I could get it up to 129 when it had 75hp (a well calibrated bicycle speedo told me so)...don't know what it'll do now.
Fast enough. I've always wondered what a full fairing and an aerodynamic tail section would do for it. |
Glitch
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 - 10:52 am: |
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Josh_
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 - 11:53 am: |
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Coming back from Thunder In the Mountains '01. Kansas City->StLouis was 100-110 with a brief slow-down for Columbia. 2-up fully loaded.
Coming back from Homecoming 99 after 2 days at CLASS I averaged 105 from Elkhart Lake to St Louis. 1-up, loaded.
S3s rock.
I bought an Escort 8500 to use on the FJR just in case I try to repeat.
Got my first ticket on a bike a couple weeks back. 48ina35 through curves. on the RS.
Not I'm looking for a mount to put the 8500 on it 
(Message edited by josh_ on September 22, 2004) |
Ethanr
| | Posted on Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 03:08 am: |
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Interesting observation, Court. Certainly true for me. Most twisties are just too darn pretty to blast through...too easy to get your attention divided. |
Mr_grumpy
| | Posted on Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 04:15 am: |
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Hey Court, you forgettin the rest of us outside the good old US of A.
I once did Rennes to Paris (350km or 220m for those who not gone metric yet)in 2 1/2 hrs on my FJ1200 with 1 stop for fuel & coffee included. Dam I was tired when I got there, those speeds take it out of you!  |
Scrap
| | Posted on Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 01:06 pm: |
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130, oink,oink, what a pig..Life begins at 200 |
Glitch
| | Posted on Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 01:14 pm: |
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Oh yeah like you would know anything about speed |
Blake
| | Posted on Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 04:01 pm: |
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Scrap,
How about doing 100 mph coming into turn 1 at Liberty City? I can't recall; was that on your XR100?  |
Scrap
| | Posted on Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 05:30 pm: |
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where? hey I need to talk to you about oak hill. |
Blake
| | Posted on Thursday, September 23, 2004 - 06:01 pm: |
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Lone Star Speedway, the 1/2 mile dirt oval in Kilgore.
You have email.
Or not, looks like it bounced... call anytime.
(Message edited by blake on November 20, 2005) |
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