**** I hit 150 this week, and a huge bug hit my helmet screen and I thought that damn thing was gonna crack. But I was on the track with full race gear on, I agree with everybody I would not ride 150 on the streets. Once you ride on the track you will never ride hard on the streets again.

 

Blackdog, this post can go on forever, but i want to commend you on your wisdom...you have very good points and i want to say thanks from a fairly new rider to someone who has been on the roads long enough to understand stupidity and how to stay away

 

i dont get it, everyone tells how stupid it is.
well DUH!
cmon guys, we all know you can be seriously splattered at anytime. i doubt going 100+ is more dangerous than riding in traffic. you gotta know where your personal limits are and if you dont know you really shouldnt be on the road on any vehicle.
we all could die tomorrow so might as well live now. if your not comftorble putting yourself at risk of death, dont ride and dont tell others how to ride.

 

its a good thing theres people to tell us its a bad idea to go fast and that we might die if i didnt have u guys i would die. i like five0addict's comment +1 on that.

 

for you guys that say it's your life and you can do with it what you want . i say your right, but there are also people that care and love your *** and want you to be able to walk and wipe your own butt.so grow up a little and slow down. i have ridden fast myself but iam learning to slow down and yes you can have fun riding at a lower speed. set goals for yourself like learning how to really ride and sportbike things like smoothness correct lines in and out of a corner. learning how to stop in case someone cuts you off.how many times do you come up behind someone and you watch how they are really not in good control of there bike. learn what they don't know.learn how to be one with your bike, you think turn and it does.learn when to make your turn into a corner. you can do all these without an excess of speed.believe me learning how to ride a sportbike takes time and you learn at slower speeds where there is less chance to get hurt.I love this site and want to see all you guys around for awhile.

 

i am all for riding in your limits and i have riden at like 140 at the highest but i only have twice and i felt comfortable personally i like going slower and just hitting a 100+ rarely on highways with little or no traffic... the twisties are a hell of alot more fun than booking down the highway imho... oh and +1 to blackdawg on gearing up you never know when some a$$ hole is gonna cut you off or turn in front of you doesnt matter how safe and well you ride it only takes one person not to notice you or to think they got enough space to take you out and personally i like my skin a lot and would like to avoid losing any of it not to mention if i survived a crash and happened to kill someone that guilt would be worse than dying imho

 

Here Here, this week,I got suckerd into (again)... "way too fast", by... me. It's really easy to go 150+...just slide a round in the cylinder, and give'r a spin !!!!!!!!!

Thats what it really is... attitude, ability,animals, debris, traffic, weather, bike maintanance, fluid spills on road... the list just never stops. I went through a spree, about spring , where I never went anyplace, w/o 135... NUTS!!!!!!!!!! And I seemingly could'nt( didn't) want to slow down. after about 1 1/2 mo. I begain to even look at motorcycle fatalities, on the web, desperate to "wake up"!!!!!!!!!!

I'm an addict in recovery(6 years) and the speeding was( IS) just like using for me... THEE rush !!!!!!!!! It's like hump'n a female tryranasourous, w/ PMS, hop on... one HELL of a ride, and hope you get your's, before she get's her's (ME)!!!!!!!!!!!

Ya, way too fast... I'm sevearly suseptable... at 49!!!!!!!!!!!!! I encourage all ( ME), to pick and choose wisely, 'cause no one ever says" I think I'll Die, today" If you have watched my latest focus on the forum... I'm hit'n up the blackbird people and single focus liter bike people, on what to "really" go fast on... I think I need to look again at my motives and ability, to be reasonable, Honesty, is my valued friend. God, help me, I love to go fast and Quick... But ,I really see the "odds" are stacked against me ...by the varibles, the road.

Clean and free, ( still sick!!!) Ripp'n... the name, says it all !!!!!!!

 

Topped my 05 F4i out at *shown* 166mph on I-45N headed from galvastion around 4am.

 

i live in mass yeah theyll just chase cuz if your not in a town where u can get out of gthe cops site theyll get you. i know its stupid but people go faster than thatthe only difference is that a cop clocked him at that speed and chased him. my buddies and i have been chased by a cop a couple of times but they are always that the cops coming towards us so we have a little more time to shoot down a small street and hide. we really werent speeding just had a good escape root its better than a 100 dallar ticket and surcharges.

 

Ok, we all understand that everytime we get on our bikes we run a risk of getting killed and our familys will greive (sp) and so on, but there are some risks that you have to take to live your life. Riding at 2x the speed limit isn't smart, but most of us have done it more than once myself included. Everyone makes dumb decisions and then you learn from your mistakes, or not and you keeping making the same mistakes until sometime you learn from them. But seriously anyone can die in your sleep, or walk across the street and get hit by a car, or drive your car through an intersection and get hit, but these are risks that you have to take almost everyday. I ride for the freedom and the feeling of being out in the open and getting all of the looks as you ride past people, especially little kids that think your a god when you ride by them. But riding at a high rate of speed isn't going to kill you, its the other obsticles that will. You can come on here all you want and preach about wearing gear, and riding the speed limit, but your not going to change anyones mind for them if they are already set in their ways. I'm sure everyone has heard the saying "I'd rather not tiptoe through life to arive saftely at death" Sorry but I'm going to "live" my life to the fullest extent that I can and if you don't like it you can change your ways, but not mine. If you want to go out and ride without a helmet, go for it. I'm not gonna stop you, but you know the risk. I ride within my limits and I don't try to force myself to do something that I feel is beyond my limits, but there are people that do that and no matter what you think you can do for them 95% of the time your not going to even make them think twice about it.

And about the running-My brother just tried this about a month ago and its not treating him real good. So far he has a felony evasion, riding at night without a liscense, and 128 in a 55. Right now hes facing 3 years in jail, over $8000 in fines and e few other small things. He ran for about 8 miles and then got lost and ended up turning out right in front of the cop car that was chasing him. He stopped and took of his helmet and clearly told the cop he was done and put his hands up. The cop charged at him and tackled him to the ground and drove his knee into the back of his head as he was cuffing him and screamed "do you hear the f**king sirens now" 3X. Then he put him in the back of the squad car and he spent the night in jail. Now he has a laywer and its only costing him $5000 to get out of the felony and the other charges. My brother is a smart rider and he thought he could get away, but he made a bad decision. But I support his decisions and just told him that I'm glad he didn't wreck and end up in a body bag. He learned his lesson, but sometimes that what it takes, IMHO everything happens for a reason so no matter what you get yourself into sometime it will help you out in the future.

I'm not trying to **** anyone off, but just saying that you have made your points more than once and everyone knows what could happen if something goes wrong and we don't need to hear the same things over and over.

-Jesse-