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We took the rescue ambulance to Sweetlamb to provide cover for a Nissan test day, they offered us passenger rides, it's not the straight line speeds but how fast they can go round a corner sideways and still be in control.
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?What is it with Porkys?
I was making good progress, LM3, on the Coast Road one day with a RS MK3 Escort, I think, for company. We came across a Porsche in the middle lane doing 70 or so. Bye bye, we split around him doing a bit more
then off home for lunch.
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they just seem more eager around here to try and show off. the boy racers in corsa's know they cant keep up, the bmw drivers a too lazy to change gear and the guys with the aston martins only use them one sunday a month to go to the pub. only seems to be the beetles big brother that wants to try and prove something
I once overtook a Rover SD1 going down a steep hill, he was doing 60 and did a double take as I flew past him pedalling like a loon, checked my speedo at the bottom ... max 73mph.
The only problem is you can only pedal for short bursts as the cadence is so high.
I used to have a tuned up Volkswagen caddy sport pickup, dunno how fast that went, the speedo stopped at 120 and the needle was well past that, funnily enough it would only do that in 4th gear, in 5th it wouldn't pull past 110mph.
I've got a few motorbikes now but I deliberately haven't got any fast ones 'cos I'd either loose my license or my life
hadn't thought to rule the earths rotation out of this one
Well ruling out the rotation speed of the earth at about 1000 mph, I'm doing approximately 67,000 mph lying in bed typing on my iPad as I whizz round the sun
in a defender i assume that metres per hour??
i hope you mean come off.........
Back in the 80's me & a bunch of mates built a sailing outrigger canoe for the Southend raft race as they introduced a sailing "raft class". Voodoo Child was built from 3 ex USAF grp drop tanks cut & shut together & was 36ft long, the hull was 2ft in diameter & the outrigger sat on the water 16ft out. A 25ft mast allowed a very large set of sails from an admiralty whaler approx 250 sq ft. To this day she is the fastest sailing boat i have ever been on. She did a measured mile at well over 15 knots. It doesnt sound fast but on board that day as we rode the beast with the outrigger flying 6ft over the waves with three men on it & a 6ft roosters tail off the rudder it seemed like she was doing the ton! Best fun i ever had with my clothes on.
Its not the speed of the speed its the quality of the speed!
Its not the speed of the speed its the quality of the speed!
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My previous car was a 4.4l V8 2001 BMW 540i. Brilliant car...
You might now be expecting some boast about how I hit 190MPH on a downhill straight of the Nurburgring, but NO!
My wife bought me a race-your-own-car day at Knockhill racing circuit, Fife, Scotland (highly recommended, by the way).
I spent a fabulous 2 hours haring around the track with an instructor (alternating between her driving and me driving) and I was convinced that I would be bouncing off the 155MPH limiter...
Nah. Afterwards, the trip computer said that our VMax was 97MPH. Fuel consumption was 2MPG..
I've gone faster in a Vauxhall Astra 1.3...
You might now be expecting some boast about how I hit 190MPH on a downhill straight of the Nurburgring, but NO!
My wife bought me a race-your-own-car day at Knockhill racing circuit, Fife, Scotland (highly recommended, by the way).
I spent a fabulous 2 hours haring around the track with an instructor (alternating between her driving and me driving) and I was convinced that I would be bouncing off the 155MPH limiter...
Nah. Afterwards, the trip computer said that our VMax was 97MPH. Fuel consumption was 2MPG..
I've gone faster in a Vauxhall Astra 1.3...
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Yeah... that would hurt...
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I regularly go down a short[a few hundred yards] section of steepish hill, The pic is a speed thing from a few years ago; I had about 30psi in the the bike's original 20 year old tyres.
If I have a gps with me I have between 44-49mph on that hill almost every time I come down it, it's only
a few hundred yards going down and then you have to get round a bend at whatever the max speed was, which is no problem unless there are cars to go past. I should try pedaling and see if I can get 50mph.
If I have a gps with me I have between 44-49mph on that hill almost every time I come down it, it's only
a few hundred yards going down and then you have to get round a bend at whatever the max speed was, which is no problem unless there are cars to go past. I should try pedaling and see if I can get 50mph.
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I use Strava for my commute and my personal best is around 32MPH. 44.3MPH is bloody scary! Were you worried at all?
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I do it every other day and don't even think about it.
Actually I know the model fairly well as one of the guys I worked with had one. Bit of a plodder hulking that huge body around but smooth and quiet as you would expect on a 7 series. Def a cruiser machine for the motorways. Not sure the 728i could ever truly get to 155 though I think you would need a bigger engine one.
You wanna try coming off a push bike going flat out down a hill. It's happened twice to me on road race bikes and the feeling of hitting tarmac with no protection is pretty horrible.
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Rowlocks to that; the Earth is whizzing around the sun at ~30 km/sec, around the centre of the milky way at ~220 km/sec and the Milky Way is departing from the central point at ~600 km/sec. (all courtesy of google and maths)hadn't thought to rule the earths rotation out of this one
The fastest I've driven was 140 em pee aich indicated in a Nissan Stagea, which is ~62 m/sec.
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I came off in august off road, well I come off a bit to regularly but rarely do any damage, this was
one of my elbows, the other elbow was the same, my shoulder was the worst bit, I also went through
a gloove. and soil is a whole lot softer than tarmac.
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I don't know the speed wasn't looking at the speedo, popped No3 Con Rod through the bottom crankcase of my zzr1100 while up against the rev limiter in 5th gear, oil dumped into the fairing and then it was channelled nicely onto the rear tyre/wheel.
I can assure you all,,,,,,, there were 2 ring type things that were very skittish that night......
I can assure you all,,,,,,, there were 2 ring type things that were very skittish that night......
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