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How fast have you been in a car or on a bike?

How fast have you travelled in a car or on a bike?

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GarfieldLeChat said:
it'll sit happly at 110 all day but at a push it'll do about 119 but it's shake the fillings from your teeth at that point... and you have to book your braking distances about 3 months in advance... ;) it's currently off the road atm beign rebuild the engines not been done for 10 years so needed it... we've be lent a speed 6 for the season (fuck me it's heavy to steet i've driven old lorrys with out power steering which have better steering... christ knows it'll do about 140 or there about's i'd imagine no speedo though only a rev counter...
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A Speed Six ... you lucky bastard!

I forget what your normal one is, come to think of it...
 
Bike Suzuki GS750 125mph in UK on Mway not for so long

Car Vauxhall Cavalier 2.0L 130mph for hours and hours on Autobahn
 
Fastest I've been on a push bike was about 40mph on a raleigh chopper, down a 1:5 hill when I was 11. I found out the spokes were loose in the front wheel when the bike started weaving all over the road and I ended up in heap with a broken arm and leg... that was fun :(

Fastest I've been in a car is about 175 in a Porsche 911 turbo. My mate borrowed the car for the day from his uncle and decided he was gonna let me have a go, that really was fun :D

I've had a speedo reading of about 205 on my Honda blackbird. Unfortunately, all speedos read high so it was probably less than 200.
I'd like to get a long enough straight and some real timing to see what it's really capable of. The calculations suggest it should be capable of 200 but I'd like to see it on a proper electronic timer or radar.
 
Dr_Herbz said:
I've had a speedo reading of about 205 on my Honda blackbird. Unfortunately, all speedos read high so it was probably less than 200.
I'd like to get a long enough straight and some real timing to see what it's really capable of. The calculations suggest it should be capable of 200 but I'd like to see it on a proper electronic timer or radar.
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erm all speedos read around 3% low if you stick a gps unit even as simple as a tomtom next to your speedo and do a speed check you'll see at 35 on the speedo you are doing around 29.8 mph and at 85 you are doing 70...

speedo's traditionally read under and almost never over unless you have fitted the connection incorrectly...

btw if ti was reading high and you were doing 205 then you'd really be doing 210 not 200 only if it reads low would be doing 200...
 
GarfieldLeChat said:
erm all speedos read around 3% low if you stick a gps unit even as simple as a tomtom next to your speedo and do a speed check you'll see at 35 on the speedo you are doing around 29.8 mph and at 85 you are doing 70...

speedo's traditionally read under and almost never over unless you have fitted the connection incorrectly...

btw if ti was reading high and you were doing 205 then you'd really be doing 210 not 200 only if it reads low would be doing 200...
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Akshally, I think you might want to think about that one :D
 
GarfieldLeChat said:
btw if ti was reading high and you were doing 205 then you'd really be doing 210 not 200 only if it reads low would be doing 200...
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Certainly Garf. :D :p
 
Dr_Herbz said:
Akshally, I think you might want to think about that one :D
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reading high...
speedo 205
real speed 210

reading low...
speedo 205
real speed 200

where's tha issue...

you stated it was reading high suggesting that it would be going slower i can't read high and be going slower....ever...

if you think about it...
 
GarfieldLeChat said:
reading high...
speedo 205
real speed 210

reading low...
speedo 205
real speed 200

where's tha issue...

you stated it was reading high suggesting that it would be going slower i can't read high and be going slower....ever...

if you think about it...
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You've still got 'Phone a friend' and 'Ask the audience' :D
 
Reading high would mean it read 210 when you're actually doing 205. Not the other way round. which is what you're saying garf.
 
This probably does not count as it is the inverse of it .. but

I have been standing drunk and cheering with multiple others from all sorts of nationalities within 5 yards from race cars doing 215 - 250 mph on the Mulssane straight at the Le Mans 24 hour (back when it was a single straight and when you could drink in the bar halfway down and lean on the low level armco as the cars flew by cheering on your favourites)

Of course since then they have gotten more safety conscious, it is not possible at any point on the circuit to get that close to the cars anymore and the Mulssane straight has been broken up by 2 chicanes .. the shame of it all. . ..

However as Mercedes still occasionally seem to bring cars that think they are aeroplanes perhaps it is no bad thing.
 
Done 100 mph in my friends Ford Ka (she was driving btw). Didn't seem as thrilling as it reads, we were on a motorway though.
 
One of lovely P's modes of transport is a motor bike - being a total girl I can only tell you it's big and silver :D

I thought it would be an excellent way to travel up to my sister's this last weekend. Fuck me :eek:

I've never been 100mph on a motorbike. We didnt do it for long as he was very aware I was on the back and and liable to shit myself so was being extra careful. However, the complete lack of traffic anywhere made it hard for him to resist. Bless. :)
 
GarfieldLeChat said:
erm all speedos read around 3% low if you stick a gps unit even as simple as a tomtom next to your speedo and do a speed check you'll see at 35 on the speedo you are doing around 29.8 mph and at 85 you are doing 70...
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GPS speed readings are nowhere near as accurate as a speedometer.
 
I still don't think you're getting it Garf...

If the speedo is reading high, ie. higher than true road speed, then a speedo reading of 205 is a higher reading than the true speed. Ergo, road speed is lower than speedo reading, ie. lower than 205... yes?
So if the speedo is reading 205 and we know it reads higher than the actual speed, the bike must be going slower than 205... agreed?

You still have phone a friend if you want to use it? :D
 
detective-boy said:
GPS speed readings are nowhere near as accurate as a speedometer.
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Really? I've been told by an ex traffic copper that as most car speedos are reading high a GPS unit will give you a much more accurate figure...
 
detective-boy said:
GPS speed readings are nowhere near as accurate as a speedometer.
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GPS units do tend to be fairly accurate... ish (depending on model) but they don't update fast enough to be truly accurate, they can only take an average speed which is calculated between updates. Also, the GPS units used by civilians are deliberately inaccurate, nowhere near as accurate as the ones used by the military.

Police vehicles have properly calibrated speedos but motor vehicle manufacturers tend to make speedos read higher than actual speed, usually between 5% and 10% higher as they don't want to be held accountable for speeding tickets.
 
Don't drive myself but I've been driven at about 135-140mph by my brother maybe 8-10 years back, in my dad's then car. Once was in a Fiat Croma Turbo, and then a few years later in a Nissan 200SX.

I did manage about 55mph when I did my CBT the other day on a 125cc Aprilia scooter though.

:D
 
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