70 MPG. 60 MPH. Way cool. The Stella from Hell!!!
Posted on 07/14/2010 2:08:59 PM PDT by Willie Green
If you’re a bad biker, that’s good because the cagers will hate you.
(Slaps forehead) Should have been paying attention. My bad.
The T-Bird is the other one that really piques my interest. VERY handsome scoot, and I’m hearing nothing but good about it.
The Roadster was carried home on my 3 rail trailer from Idaho Falls on June 4th. I was going to ride it, but the wind was too bad and there was thunderstorms in the area.
The Tbird has an “upright” sitting position that I love for carvin’ up twisties out in the country.
Actually, there have been far too many times that someone coming from an on/off ramp or merging into my lane on the highway “didn’t see me” but then nearly peed themselves when I cracked the throttle right beside their door which prompted them to immediately yield right of way.
I tried using the pitiful horn but it was always ignored.
Just last weekend, an idiot pulled out of a side road _right in front of me_ and I pulled in the clutch, hit the brakes and roared the motor...he *then* swerved onto the shoulder just in time for me to get by him, unscathed.
When he pulled out, I was so close to him that there was -no- chance for me to either brake or swerve in time....*only* the roar caused him to jerk his Jeep [barely] out of my way.
He “didn’t see me” but he sure as hell heard me.
Loud pipes saved ~my~ life many times.
I know you’ll deride this post because I have no “formal data” to back it up...just the fact that my life has been spared numerous times, thanks to those pipes.
I liked that about my old Concours. I don’t do twisties as well on the Rocket. It likes sweepers and four-lane highways.
I met clouds of HD folk southbound on I-95 after Rolling Thunder on Memorial Day. I was going down for a short run to Fredericksburg that day. I’d creep up on ‘em, then hammer it and suddenly disappear over the horizon.
No quarrels with the HD folk- God bless ‘em, some of ‘em are my good friends, but I love doing that. (emits the Muttley laugh)
Yeah, the Harley guys are usually OK...most of ‘em had a XX Triumph “back in the day”.
They keep calling them ‘Trumpets’, for some unknown reason. :-)
LOL I have 850 in each cylinder!
I agree not enough...but more to come I’m sure. Electric bikes make more sense than electric cars... to me anyway.
B-b-but you need a reputable research project to prove your point!
Mine will easily set off car alarms and those who don’t see me in their mirrors still know I’m there ‘cause then hear me.
I have a 95 mile commute into the country’s 4th largest city. I’ll take every advantage I can get.
“B-b-but you need a reputable research project to prove your point!”
I’m still sucking oxygen.
That enough “empiric evidence” for ya?....:)
Ride safe....*they* are out there.
[baffles? what baffles?]
;D
[I've only got 790 in each...hubby's got 875...I hate you both!]...LOL
But I have three of 'em.
My wife has a female co-worker who just totalled
her Speed Triple. She’s not afraid to take the bike
out to a formal track at 160 MPH. She took a corner
on a public road too fast and went over a bank
and into some water. She’s got some back pain, but
otherwise OK.
Ya say they're gonna call it the "Vulva"?
Pretty catchy. I don't think anyone has thought of that before.
Ouch! Glad it wasn’t worse!
If I’d stayed in California, I was thinking of buying a ‘Busa for track days at Sears Point. Probably should have done it- it’d have been great fun.
Wise guy....:P
Don’t you just loooove setting off roadside car alarms?
I do. And my 2 to 1 Hooker pipe has plenty of bottom end torque for pulling the Sierra Nevada Mountains’ winding roads.
May be loud, but not too loud, and it works, real well.
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