03-21-2020, 06:57 AM
I was always on the opposite end of the spectrum. Posted speed limits were merely friendly suggestions, akin to grandma telling the little ones not to go swimming right after eating a big meal. This was particularly the case up in the mountains and canyons, where there is simply no way to adhere to the posted 35 mph or 45 mph speed limits, not on a modern sportbike or sport standard, nor even on something as slow and leisurely as a CB1100.
Yeah, sorry, not happening. If the motor is running and the clutch lever has been released, the bike can't help but go faster than those arcane speed limits, which were engineered for '50s-era, slab-sided, ill-handling family sleds, not modern sporty motorcycles rolling on wide, grippy Michelin rubber. The moment you breathe on any modern literbike's throttle, or even any modern 600, you've blown straight through those numbers.
Different story on the freeway. Tooling down the highway, fine, even a fast motorcycle can be comfortably reined in to those more reasonable speed limits.
Yeah, sorry, not happening. If the motor is running and the clutch lever has been released, the bike can't help but go faster than those arcane speed limits, which were engineered for '50s-era, slab-sided, ill-handling family sleds, not modern sporty motorcycles rolling on wide, grippy Michelin rubber. The moment you breathe on any modern literbike's throttle, or even any modern 600, you've blown straight through those numbers.
Different story on the freeway. Tooling down the highway, fine, even a fast motorcycle can be comfortably reined in to those more reasonable speed limits.