0 to 60 in 4.5 Seconds
Any one who has ever gotten on a race bike and
felt the acceleration knows that such
temptation is just to great. Once you give it
some throttle you want to take it thru the
gears. Yet, if you do choose to take it thru
all the gears and redline the sixth or last
gear you find yourself often over 135 miles per
hour even on a 600 CC race bike. On the 750’s
and 1000 plus CC race bikes you are well over
160 miles per hour at redline.
Those of us who dare know that you must really
pay attention when you are going at such speeds
while sitting out in the open, namely you need
to hang on.
Why do we sell these motorcycles to teenagers
if we know that there is no possible way and no
current teenager alive who owns one who has not
sped on it? It is safe to say that such a
statement is correct. Perhaps we ought to have
speed limits within reason; for instance if you
have taken a super bike class and have shown
you can handle the raw power and speed; then
you should be allowed to open it up all the way
when no one else is around to get hurt. Montana
use to have such a law on their roads,
unlimited speed limit as long as you were not
endangering others, this seems to be a good
rule.
Germany has the autobahn, yet we are denied the
pursuit of happiness because some lawmaker who
has no balls is afraid we might get hurt and it
might go into the newspaper and make a few weak
voters sob? No one has the right to deny those
capable and willing to push the envelope a
little our pursuit of happiness as such rules
are in complete contrary to what it means to
live in a free country.
Just because there are Jerry Springer guest
stars out there still wearing their free
T-shirts for being on the show and a few Jeff
Foxworthy “here’s your sign” recipients is no
reason to make laws to protect the weakest link
of humanity from their destiny and
happiness.
The need for speed is an innate characteristic
of mankind and there is absolutely nothing
wrong with that. For those who cannot perform,
they can win the Darwin Award, but we should
not make laws to protect the stupidest human
and deny the crème of the crop their
destiny.
Think about it.
|
