Thinking about going for 120
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That would take way too much money. Id just get a GSXR or something for that.
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I hit 100mph on everything i own when i first buy it. Nice little stretch of road around my place i dont have to worry about any cops. Im not a speed freak, i just want to see how the machine handles. Ride hard man!
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All my 4 bikes will do 120+ and are rock stable at that speed but everytime i get around 115 i start to thinking how old bones don't heal well and how my heirs would sell my bikes to buy drugs and alcohol and then i back off. I have one non-Harley(Deutsche Motorrad) that would do about 165 but not with me on it.
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I wouldn't do it. Think about this: Imagine all the moving parts in your engine, tranny,driveline, etc. NOW...imagine how fast those moving parts are reciprocating to propel you to 120 em pee aitch. If just one of those parts fail, let's say whoever built the motor had a hot date that night with the local sperm urinal & couldn't wait to finish his shift, so he installed some woodruff key or something a little off kilter because he was in a rush to go home,manscape & bathe in Aramis, & under normal speeds it doesn't matter, but at 120 that little part, or any of the hundreds of parts in that bike fails at that speed, locks up the rear wheel & you go down..if you live through it, you might be paralyzed from the neck down pissing into a little bag hanging off your wheelchair, now your bike is totalled but it doesn't matter 'cause you are a total cripple, you can't satisfy your woman 'cause you ain't able to get a decent ramrod 'cause you are paralyzed,and your insurance won't pay for boner pills, and even if you could you'ld hafta be swung from like a perpetual motion Hoya lift just to achieve a reasonably good pelvic thrust, and you'ld hafta pay a nurse a fortune to come in & wipe your rosebud every time you budge the fudge, or change your colostomy bag that they installed at the same hospital that was overloaded with COVID cases & you're in a bed next to one who has a chronic cough & is allergic to masks & spews COVIDIA all over you, but at that point you don't care because you'ld rather be dead than to have to use a well-lubed chicken bone to achieve a decent erection...all because you wanted to know if your bike would do 120. I don't think it's worth the risk. Stay safe.
Crash at 120 MPH and you won't have to worry about any of that stuff. They'll just hose what's left of you off the highway and your heirs will deal with your loss.
And I understand his need for speed. I've done an indicated 305 KPH (about 190 MPH) on my bike and 315 indicated on someone else's, on a public road when I lived overseas in an area that had no speed limits. Now I wouldn't be surprised if there was at leas a 10% error in those indicated speeds, but that's still 170-175 mph.
Speed is addictive as any drug.
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Its funny you start a thread bragging about DYNO numbers but a thread about going fast is unacceptable. Now you want to start the name calling. Good job tuff guy!
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Please point me to the thread where I was bragging about dyno numbers. You must have the wrong person. I've had completely stock bikes for the last 4 years. Prior to that, I had a 107 build from Fuel Moto, which was fine, but nothing to brag about.
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Crash at 120 MPH and you won't have to worry about any of that stuff. They'll just hose what's left of you off the highway and your heirs will deal with your loss.
And I understand his need for speed. I've done an indicated 305 KPH (about 190 MPH) on my bike and 315 indicated on someone else's, on a public road when I lived overseas in an area that had no speed limits. Now I wouldn't be surprised if there was at leas a 10% error in those indicated speeds, but that's still 170-175 mph.
Speed is addictive as any drug.
And I understand his need for speed. I've done an indicated 305 KPH (about 190 MPH) on my bike and 315 indicated on someone else's, on a public road when I lived overseas in an area that had no speed limits. Now I wouldn't be surprised if there was at leas a 10% error in those indicated speeds, but that's still 170-175 mph.
Speed is addictive as any drug.