You know...I REALLY TRY to keep er at 70,80.I'm pretty good about it.Actually,I'm very careful when running "above" the limit.I don't speed and such when there's any traffic.I stay right with the flow.Sometimes...well...that would be a car or truck cruising at 90 or so.It happens here with regularity.These roads mostly were designed for higher speeds....this was not many years back a "no daytime speed limit" state.So really doing 90 or 100 is not that dangerous or anything...EXCEPT...apparently for,and I hate to say it,the Harley riders.They're the ones getting killed here whenever there's a motorcycle fatality.Losing it while passing.IDK HOW you do that.Or taking a curve and drifting off the shoulder...ya...I COULD see that.I've had a couple of lower speed experiences with that one.This year I've really begun to pay real close attention to my cornering lines,and stayin where I need to be to be safe. I try to be VERY aware of what's coming up and what's coming the other way or behind me.These roads here are a 14 rider's dream...I'll say that.Mostly wide,open,and banked and not too many really sharp curves.At least where I ride.Plenty of room for two vehicles to pass headon with no real drama...as long as the cages STAY in their lane,and lay off the sauce(which DOES get people killed here several times a year).I'm not gonna try and justify my speeding.It's wrong...straight out.Illegal.This last year so far I've been toning my riding down.But there is ONE spot that's just almost a place of addiction...I always say.."okay,if I go home that way,THIS TIME I won't give er her head".As soon as I begin to come out of the long nice sweeper...there's that sweet,newly paved asphalt 2 mile run in front of me...with NO cars on it.I find myself tucking in and openin er up AGAIN.I'm not well...I'm really not.
You know as well as I do...having a bike that can outpull anything on the road...well,geez....she was MADE to fly!"I'm ONLY blowing the carbon out.Really Officer...that's ALL I was doing".Which is not a TOTAL fabrication .
Fortunately I haven't YET been clocked on "my favorite spot"....yet.So yeah,even that place is not getting the runs it used to anymore.Twice this year.And I've got no plans to do anymore runs there for the rest of the season...hell,maybe never.She's just so darn SMOOTH when she's breathin fire!Compared to last year....hmmmmm..can you say "IDIOT".
* Last updated by: blue07 on 8/12/2010 @ 1:14 AM *