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hobot said:Seriously so dead still air pocket I indeed lit most cigs over 70 hands off before zooming back over the ton to work. Some the most pleasing times of my life I want more of before gone. Air blast was a bit over top of helmet so could look over screen [sunglasses as big bugs don't deflect] and leave lid up to smoke w/o buffeting of blowing ashes in my own eyes like it does w/o a screen. I did not have to be a tough young buck enduring the chill. Exhaust sounds disappear by the ton so might as well buggey wooggy on hard acid rock and roll - which is another thing I could do on Ms Peel but not other cycles, kick rear with throttle and butt steering to dance with the base beats - very similar to chase freaked out zig zaging deer in my passtures - which do remember my wife Alicia says, about 1/2 mile away they now stand stiff legged alert then 100 yr or so the SNOT and race up Mt side.
Well I just can't match any of that hobot. Your riding skills on a Norton are far beyond me.
I might have given you a chase when I was younger, when the road used to tear a thong off
my foot on hard leans.
Life was fairer when we were younger. At least then the cops had to see you, chase you and
if they were lucky, catch you. There was many a Norton rider the police couldn't catch. Myself
included on at least one occasion, maybe two. It was fair game if you got away. Nowadays, you
get an infringement notice in the letter box for something you don't even remember doing.
These guys I see at the pub talking about how fast their Yamahaha XX18 whatever will go, just where
do they do these speeds? I think they are full of bullshit. I think someone told them that's how fast their
bike can go, on a race track. And who would care anyway?
Travelling on my Norton at much over 60mph, I find bothersome. Certainly it rips the ciggy out of your
mouth but just gives me the shits in general. And you spend more time looking out for cops and cameras
than watching the road. It's getting to 60mph that I enjoy, or a lot less around town. Acceleration is hard
to appreciate unless you are pitching it against something else, like a car.
And speaking of cars, in my day Holdens, Cortinas and Hillmans were the competition and you went past
them like they were telegraph poles. And around corners, bye bye motor car. Not so these days. The average
modern car goes and handles (and stops) like nothing ever did in 1972. I'm not saying you can't beat one if
you really want to, but you have to really want to if they are trying. In 1972 it was no competition.