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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
BigBrunyon wrote: | 250's nothing. you get down in the deep deserts, the deep mojave, you get guys hitting 330 on some of those straightaways. |
Thanks Brun. I never said any of this was smart. I'm also pretty sure I'm not the only person on this board that has done dumb things in their youth. I'm honest about my stupidity. But was it ever fun! I'm pretty sure the Reno air races aren't all that smart, nor I'm sure is free soloing big walls! Human being push the limits all the time. I got my first motorcycle when I was four. I've ridden ever since. Until I lost my eye sight that is. now i'm selling my Harley Davidson. LOL.
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
Chief Joseph wrote: | I feel so inferior, the fastest I have gone on a bike is 120 mph, from one end of the Broadway bridge over the Snohomish river to the other on my Sons Honda 929, it was just picking up speed. My friends grandson was just killed on the same bridge heading north about a month ago on a bike when he was sideswiped by a car at about 1 am, he ended up in the river. RIP. |
Im so sorry to hear that CJ. There'[s no question street bikes are dangerous, mostly from other drivers that dont see them. In low polulated areas they are as safe as your judgement.
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
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fourteen410 Member
Joined: 23 May 2008 Posts: 2630 | TRs | Pics
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This testosterone flex fest is really something else. I'm all for people doing whatever they want as long as it doesn't harm other people. Driving over 100-200+ mph on a highway with other cars is nothing to brag about no matter how old you are/were. Just look at recent events - former NFL player Henry Ruggs killed an innocent woman in Las Vegas driving 156 mph on city streets. And no, it wasn't a quick death for her - she was pinned in her vehicle and burned alive.
Really not impressed by the chest thumping over reckless and selfish behavior
Eric, kw, rocknclimb, snowshoeman, drewcoll, zimmertr, half fast, domaz, williswall, GeoTom, reststep
Eric, kw, rocknclimb, snowshoeman, drewcoll, zimmertr, half fast, domaz, williswall, GeoTom, reststep
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neek Member
Joined: 12 Sep 2011 Posts: 2338 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle, WA |
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Tue Nov 09, 2021 1:11 pm
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...and there it goes (this Wednesday 6pm). Did anyone really think we'd make it to the 15th?
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Schroder Member
Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 6723 | TRs | Pics Location: on the beach |
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Tue Nov 09, 2021 1:54 pm
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There are tornado warnings for my area right now
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BigBrunyon Member
Joined: 19 Mar 2015 Posts: 1459 | TRs | Pics Location: the fitness gyms!! |
It ain't closing by the 15th if I have anything to say about it!!
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Cyclopath Faster than light
Joined: 20 Mar 2012 Posts: 7758 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle |
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Mon Nov 15, 2021 5:19 pm
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Randito wrote: | A colleague of mine used to share custody of a son with his ex who was living in Twisp. He said his best time from Twisp to Redmond was 2 1/2 hours. |
I hiked the Lakeshore Trail from Prince Creek to Stehekin in two days once, then took a Chelan Seaplane back in twenty minutes.
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Randito Snarky Member
Joined: 27 Jul 2008 Posts: 9514 | TRs | Pics Location: Bellevue at the moment. |
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Mon Nov 15, 2021 7:09 pm
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Cyclopath wrote: | I hiked the Lakeshore Trail from Prince Creek to Stehekin in two days once, then took a Chelan Seaplane back in twenty minutes. |
My colleague is certainly a candidate for a "I don't drive fast, I fly low" bumper sticker. Not that people that pour several hundred thousand into a car adorn it with bumper stickers.
Of course the real speed fiend from that team has a Piper Tomahawk not an Audi R8. But he and the mother of his children get along so he has no need to child care swapping between Redmond and Twisp.
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timberghost Member
Joined: 06 Dec 2011 Posts: 1333 | TRs | Pics
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probably not a lot of snow up there currently
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Bronco Member
Joined: 20 Jun 2010 Posts: 134 | TRs | Pics
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Mon Nov 29, 2021 11:16 am
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cdestroyer Member
Joined: 14 Sep 2015 Posts: 1251 | TRs | Pics Location: montana |
My street rod, 69 Mach 1, rebuilt 351 with 375hp racing firebird i5 between lynnwood-everett at 150mph. 1972...
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coldrain108 Thundering Herd
Joined: 05 Aug 2010 Posts: 1858 | TRs | Pics Location: somewhere over the rainbow |
When I was 17 or so I drove my parents '71 Plymouth Fury station wagon fast enough to bury the needle. 140 was the last number. I580 between Dublin and Livermore at like 2am. Some time in the late 70's.
Foolish kid...
Since I have no expectations of forgiveness, I don't do it in the first place. That loop hole needs to be closed to everyone.
Since I have no expectations of forgiveness, I don't do it in the first place. That loop hole needs to be closed to everyone.
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Riverside Laker Member
Joined: 12 Jan 2004 Posts: 2819 | TRs | Pics
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Back then, I drove a Volvo at 54 mph. Now I drive a Prius at 59 mph. It's nice all by myself in the right lane.
Eric, snowshoeman
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BigBrunyon Member
Joined: 19 Mar 2015 Posts: 1459 | TRs | Pics Location: the fitness gyms!! |
You should always COMPETE on the road. You're either winning or losing upon these roads. Drive like you're not afraid to get in an accident!!!!
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Riverside Laker Member
Joined: 12 Jan 2004 Posts: 2819 | TRs | Pics
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