Re: Timewarp

Boots Blakeley wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 14:03:52 +0100 in uk.rec.motorcycles, Bear says:
>
>> Mined ewe, even then, 3 hours Lizard to London would have been highly
>> unlikely.
>
> It's about 280 miles by the shortest route so that's an average of
> 94mph - close to bloody impossible and then you'd have to factor in 2
> fuel stops adding say 20 minutes and driving the average up to over
> 100mph.

Thing is, I did Thornbury-Brighton on the Trophy[1]. Not the fastest bike
on the planet, but all-day 120mph until the petrol runs out. Bike got
131MPH out of one. So, anyway, I had a meeting to get to in Brighton, and I
was a bit late, so I was riding like a ***. This was M4-M25-M23, so no
skill required, apart from the high-speed filtering-like-a-*** skill, which
I'm okay with. Okay, 180 miles to go, it's a nice sunny morning, and I'm
not wearing sunglasses.

Hit it.

The Trophy had a trip, a clock, and a full tank of petrol, and I can do
mental arithmetic. Which is why I knew, when the petrol ran out on the
outskirts of Brighton, that I had averaged 75-ish[2] MPH.

So, big fast bike, *** in command, motorways all the way and the *average*
speed, the *point-to-point* speed, which is what really counts, the best I
could do, being in a hurry and all, was about 75MPH. Lizard to London would
have been about 4 hours.

Of course, if I'd had a TR1...


[1]...being as this is a Triumph 1200 Trophy, the biggest Triumph in the
world, and would pull your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself the
question: doI feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?
[2]Can't remember exactly

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platypus

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