06-04-2021, 10:42 AM
(05-27-2013, 10:16 AM)CB4ME_imp Wrote: Once the bike is broken in, I'll take it up to 120 under the right conditions as long as the bike behaves - which I'm pretty sure it will. But I'll only stay there for a few hundred yards and just to see how it handles (and for so-called "bragging rights".
Back when I was in the Navy, I used to push my old GS1000 up past 130 indicated on the Escambia Bay Causeway. The causeway is 2 miles long and prefectly straight. At that speed the front end would start to get really light and if the bike hit a decent bump, the bars would start shaking.
On the other hand when I took my GSXF-650F up past 120 indicated it felt as solid and confident as it did at 80. I did that speed once on a completely open stretch of new interstate.
I do not advocate high speed riding, normally obey all laws, and I urge fellow riders to do so too. I cringe when I see sportsbike crazies weaving in and out of traffic on busy interstates doing twice the speed limit, and I'm reminded of the saying about bold pilots and old pilots.
Funny you mention the Escambia Bay Causeway. If it is the same one I remember as a kid of 15 in Pensacola, that is where I got my Suzuki 100 up to a decent 67mph!