0 to 60 in 4.5 SecondsAny one who has ever gotten on a race bike
and felt the acceleration knows that such temptation is just to
great. Once you give it some throttle you want to take it thru
the gears. Yet, if you do choose to take it thru all the gears
and redline the sixth or last gear you find yourself often over
135 miles per hour even on a 600 CC race bike. On the 750’s and
1000 plus CC race bikes you are well over 160 miles per hour at
redline. Those of us who dare know that you must really pay
attention when you are going at such speeds while sitting out
in the open, namely you need to hang on.
Why do we sell these
motorcycles to teenagers if we know that there is no possible
way and no current teenager alive who owns one who has not sped
on it? It is safe to say that such a statement is correct.
Perhaps we ought to have speed limits within reason; for
instance if you have taken a super bike class and have shown
you can handle the raw power and speed; then you should be
allowed to open it up all the way when no one else is around to
get hurt. Montana use to have such a law on their roads,
unlimited speed limit as long as you were not endangering
others, this seems to be a good rule. Germany has the autobahn,
yet we are denied the pursuit of happiness because some
lawmaker who has no balls is afraid we might get hurt and it
might go into the newspaper and make a few weak voters sob? No
one has the right to deny those capable and willing to push the
envelope a little our pursuit of happiness as such rules are in
complete contrary to what it means to live in a free
country.
Just because there are Jerry
Springer guest stars out there still wearing their free
T-shirts for being on the show and a few Jeff Foxworthy “here’s
your sign” recipients is no reason to make laws to protect the
weakest link of humanity from their destiny and happiness. The
need for speed is an innate characteristic of mankind and there
is absolutely nothing wrong with that. For those who cannot
perform, they can win the Darwin Award, but we should not make
laws to protect the stupidest human and deny the crème of the
crop their destiny. Think about it.
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