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GreatwhiteNorth

GreatwhiteNorth

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Sir Napsalot said:
Thanks! I've gone 160mph on that bike
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I got tagged by a State trooper in Fla (going the opposite direction) in the early 80's on my Kaw Z-1 that MTC engineering punched to 1400 cc's doing a buck 58. It was early morning & I was only wearing jeans, tenners, a T-shirt & light jacket - and since I was going over the inter-coastal I had no where to go so I pulled over & put her on the kickstand. Several minutes later he comes blasting by me only to do a Starsky & Hutch 180 with smoke poring out of his wheel wells.
Pulls up behind me & puts me in the passenger side - "What the fuck are you going so fast for" & I say Cause I'm freezing & just want to go home (and I was).
He writes me a ticket for 84 mph & says "don't do that again, I'm being nice because you stopped"

I wish I still had that bike.
 
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Sir Napsalot

Sir Napsalot

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GreatwhiteNorth said:
I got tagged by a State trooper in Fla (going the opposite direction) in the early 80's on my Kaw Z-1 that MTC engineering punched to 1400 cc's doing a buck 58. It was early morning & I was only wearing jeans, tenners, a T-shirt & light jacket - and since I was going over he inter-coastal I had no where to go so I pulled over & put her on the kickstand. Several minutes later he comes blasting by me only to do a Starsky & Hutch 180 with smoke poring out of his wheel wells.
Pulls up behind me & puts me in the passenger side - "What the fuck are you going so fast for" & I say Cause I'm freezing & just want to go home (and I was).
He writes me a ticket for 84 mph & says "don't do that again, I'm being nice because you stopped"

I wish I still had that bike.
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Man you got lucky! Glad it worked out

The only speeding ticket I ever got on a bike in 45 years of riding was for doing 52 in a 40 zone, on a '77 RD400

The cop says "how much have you had to drink tonight?" and I told him (truthfully) "not a drop." He says "well, I'm smelling something that smells a lot like alcohol..."
I said "It's all that cologne you're wearing blowing back in your face, what is that, Brut?"
 
GreatwhiteNorth

GreatwhiteNorth

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Sir Napsalot said:
Man you got lucky! Glad it worked out

The only speeding ticket I ever got on a bike in 45 years of riding was for doing 52 in a 40 zone, on a '77 RD400

The cop says "how much have you had to drink tonight?" and I told him (truthfully) "not a drop." He says "well, I'm smelling something that smells a lot like alcohol..."
I said "It's all that cologne you're wearing blowing back in your face, what is that, Brut?"
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RD's were bad ass little bikes!
My older brother had one & used to lesson me stoplight to stoplight on my Z.

Then I picked up a 72 Kaw H2 750 with smoothbore carbs & bassani pipes.
The RD wasn't that quick after that. :smile:

Kawasaki-H2-750-Front-Left.jpg
 
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Sir Napsalot

Sir Napsalot

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GreatwhiteNorth said:
RD's were bad ass little bikes!
My older brother had one & used to lesson me stoplight to stoplight on my Z.

Then I picked up a 72 Kaw H2 750 with smoothbore carbs & bassani pipes.
The RD wasn't that quick after that. :smile:
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Bassanis were great pipes! The RD should've been able to hang with the H2 in the twisties though.

this was my RD:

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