06-12-2024, 02:52 AM
I haven't really thought about a speed limiter on my bikes. But, then I don't have any open highways around me where it would be prudent or reasonable to go any faster than the 80-85 of our prevailing traffic at it's best. And all three of my bikes are capable of those speeds, which is all that really matters to me.
But, I do have my own personal Hot Wheels track on my commute, a single lane flyover carpool bridge that runs for about a mile or so over a spaghetti-bowl interchange. It's hardly used, and it's fun to let the speedo tickle triple-digits from time to time. The CB1100 is rock solid, but the wind blast with my little Dart flyscreen tells me that I wouldn't want to maintain that pace for long. My Bonneville can hit a ton no problem as well, but I haven't subjected the Enfield's 48hp twin to that torture.
There was mention a few pages and years back on this thread about the old national mandated 85 mph speedometers. Here's a nerdy fun fact... when they made Back to the Future, the DeLorean had an 85 mph speedo, being an early 80s car. Of course, in the movie, the car has to pass 88 mph to travel through time. A cardboard speedometer face reading to 95 mph was placed over the factory speedo so that on camera, the needle could go past 88. To this day, if you look closely enough at the car's speedo, you can see that a corner of the cardboard overlay is peeling back a bit.
But, I do have my own personal Hot Wheels track on my commute, a single lane flyover carpool bridge that runs for about a mile or so over a spaghetti-bowl interchange. It's hardly used, and it's fun to let the speedo tickle triple-digits from time to time. The CB1100 is rock solid, but the wind blast with my little Dart flyscreen tells me that I wouldn't want to maintain that pace for long. My Bonneville can hit a ton no problem as well, but I haven't subjected the Enfield's 48hp twin to that torture.
There was mention a few pages and years back on this thread about the old national mandated 85 mph speedometers. Here's a nerdy fun fact... when they made Back to the Future, the DeLorean had an 85 mph speedo, being an early 80s car. Of course, in the movie, the car has to pass 88 mph to travel through time. A cardboard speedometer face reading to 95 mph was placed over the factory speedo so that on camera, the needle could go past 88. To this day, if you look closely enough at the car's speedo, you can see that a corner of the cardboard overlay is peeling back a bit.