How Fast Would You Dare Go?

[Count Steer]

I'd go infinity and exist everywhere all at once.

Might need a turbo or some nitrous tho'

Improbability drive would be

[Supermofo]

I imagine the difference between crashing with no lid at anything over maybe even 40-50 mph is all probably much of a muchness so if I made the decision to do over 40 then I'd be fine with doing 200. I'd want eye and ear protection though. Got a bee in the eye at about 25 mph and it hurt like fook for hours and wind noise ain't happening regardless of the stupidity of doing 200 mph without a lid.

Thinking about it I did 80 mph in a Tiger Moth with a stupid snoopy pilot hat on, no real difference to riding a bike with a faring. And with no parachute crashing wouldn't have been fun either.

[Trinity765]

Can I wear goggles?

[Yorick]

Can I wear goggles?

Just goggles ?

[Trinity765]

Can I wear goggles?

Just goggles ?

If I went fast enough, no one would be able to see me

[Yorick]

Can I wear goggles?

Just goggles ?

If I went fast enough, no one would be able to see me

[demographic]

1.2 mph x the percentage protection provided by a fairing - the diameter of the bum of the flightee bee in hundredths of an inch.

So assuming no local chubby bottomed bumble bees and a great fairing then mebbe 120

Or a shite fairing where your main protection is provided by a large speedo and wide bars minus the 30 hundredths of an inch bumble bee ass. Which takes us to about 60.

Wot, you've never hit a bumble bee or even worse a cockchafer flying beetle while riding a motorbike with no shirt on? Fukin hurtz.

[demographic]

Oh and obviously Cockchafer beetles only fly for a couple of days a year but I've seen the bum of a flightee bee in December so those barstools are almost all year round.

[Yorick]

Oh and obviously Cockchafer beetles only fly for a couple of days a year but I've seen the bum of a flightee bee in December so those barstools are almost all year round.

Wtf have you been smoking ?

[ZRX61]

Wot, you've never hit a bumble bee or even worse a cockchafer flying beetle while riding a motorbike with no shirt on? Fukin hurtz.

Took a bumble bee to the eyeball at about 80mph just as I reached up to close the visor on a '76 Z900 on a back road bear Bury St Ed's back in the mid '80's... (remember, I grew up riding around Cornish lanes).

Two up, instantly blinded as bee parts ended up in the other eye, couldn't see shit.

and when I say back road, I mean two tire tracks with grass growing in the loose gravel middle of the road. Managed to bring the bike to a halt without binning in by feel through the bars & sound of the tires in the loose gravel on either side of the road & in the middle.

Not sure how many off's I've had over the years, but riding completely blind was absolutely fucking terrifying.

[demographic]

Oh and obviously Cockchafer beetles only fly for a couple of days a year but I've seen the bum of a flightee bee in December so those barstools are almost all year round.

Wtf have you been smoking ?

Ahh, sorry I forgot theres an elderly contingent amongst the forum members. They're a flying beetle called cockchafer or as you might know them Doodlebug (thats where the flying bombs from your teenage years got the name).
Quite interesting type of european scarab beetle with much studied fermenting guts.
Theyre big and clumsy feckers, flying about like they're drunk.
Some bumf about em here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockchafer

Picture of one...

[Wossname]

Wot, you've never hit a bumble bee or even worse a cockchafer flying beetle while riding a motorbike with no shirt on? Fukin hurtz.

Took a bumble bee to the eyeball at about 80mph just as I reached up to close the visor on a '76 Z900 on a back road bear Bury St Ed's back in the mid '80's... (remember, I grew up riding around Cornish lanes).

Two up, instantly blinded as bee parts ended up in the other eye, couldn't see shit.

and when I say back road, I mean two tire tracks with grass growing in the loose gravel middle of the road. Managed to bring the bike to a halt without binning in by feel through the bars & sound of the tires in the loose gravel on either side of the road & in the middle.

Not sure how many off's I've had over the years, but riding completely blind was absolutely fucking terrifying.

“The older I get, the faster I was”.

Well known t-shirt.

[ZRX61]

“The older I get, the faster I was”.

Well known t-shirt.

Any damn fool can go fast on a straight road. Maybe try it sometime