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From: kehoe@reed.UUCP (Dave Kehoe)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Correction -- 147mph
Message-ID: <1739@reed.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 28-Jul-85 16:59:12 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 28 16:59:12 1985
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Reply-To: kehoe@reed.UUCP (Dave Kehoe)
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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Sorry, I posted a mistake: the Reed College student last year
was ticketed at 147mph on I-5.  He was pissed because his GS1000ES
can do 155mph, or so he claims.  And the bike is mostly stock.
(His CB500-four, which he raced at 140mph, was definetly not stock.)
By the way, he was driving on a suspended license with $200 in
unpaid fines, and he failed to appear for the 147mph ticket, and
then the state sent him a letter saying that if he paid his $200
in fines they'd ignore the 147mph ticket and give him his license
back.  I wouldn't believe all this if I wasn't living with him.
So there, Doug, you can just

In article <854@teklds.UUCP> dougs@teklds.UUCP (Doug Schwartz) writes:
>eat it, eat it, da-da-da-da...
>
>I hope the person
>who posted the 143 on the GS1000 really doesn't believe everything everyone
>tells him, especially about a CB-450 going 130.

I didn't say that I believed that, I said that I read in a history
of motorcycling that people used to rides CB450's at 130, but that
mine can't get over 100mph.

Also, someone recently noted in passing that he used to ride
a Kawasaki A-1 Samurai.  I've never heard of that -- was there
really such a bike, or did you confuse that with the K-1 500-triple
two-stroke, also known as the "suicide bike"?  And can anyone tell
me about the Suzuki GT750?  I'm thinking about maybe rebuilding
one.  It's a triple, appears to be a two-stroke, and is the meanest
looking thing I've ever seen on two wheels.  I don't want to ride
it, I just want to put it in the driveway.
-- 
"Why my thoughts are my own, when they are in, but when they are out
they are another's."  -- Susanna Martin, executed for witchcraft.
Dave Kehoe   tektronix!reed!kehoe   (503) 230-9454