Reply to: What's the fastest you've driven on a UK motorway?

[sasguru]

You really should put your hatred of successful people behind you and start using that destructive energy for a more beneficial purpose, like getting a job!

Says the itinerant IT "engineer" (like my boiler man calls himself one too ) currently working in Swindon.

[shaunbhoy]

Not to mention all the fresh kidneys, livers and corneas they provide.

Not sure all the livers and kidneys are that "fresh" judging by most of the bikers I know.

[gingerjedi]

I must disagree, those sorts of shenanigans are both big AND clever and the chicks dig it.

Not to mention all the fresh kidneys, livers and corneas they provide.

[Scrag Meister]

I must disagree, those sorts of shenanigans are both big AND clever and the chicks dig it.

WDS

Bikes rule.

[Durbs]

Yes, you are number one twat surpassing AtW

I must disagree, those sorts of shenanigans are both big AND clever and the chicks dig it.

[shaunbhoy]

You really should put your hatred of successful people behind you and start using that destructive energy for a more beneficial purpose, like getting a job!

He really has allowed that Honorary Doctorate he received from the Institute of Advanced Muppetry to go straight to his empty little head!

[Paddy]

Max i've had my GSX-R up to is 160 on an A road (never taken it on a motorway and wouldnt risk that sort of speed there anyway as too visible). Was rock solid stable but still scary as hell.

There is no rock steady motor bike, hence the numerous deaths from riders who think they are invincible. Nobody is expecting anything going that speed off a motorway least of all Tom the tractor driver or Fred in his Micra pulling out from a side road.

Yes, you are number one twat surpassing AtW

[Spacecadet]

Max i've had my GSX-R up to is 160 on an A road (never taken it on a motorway and wouldnt risk that sort of speed there anyway as too visible). Was rock solid stable but still scary as hell.

bikes probably don't have the same problem as the airflow under the vehicle has little or no effect.
Most modern high performance cars have various bits of ducting under the car to help it stick to the road at speed instead of developing a nice little cushion of air.

[Durbs]

When you get above 120mph every little bump makes the steering feel a bit lighter than it should do.

Max i've had my GSX-R up to is 160 on an A road (never taken it on a motorway and wouldnt risk that sort of speed there anyway as too visible). Was rock solid stable but still scary as hell.

[SupremeSpod]

Oh also, I live in a county which has no fixed speed-cameras. No way I'd go burning about on a road I wasn't very familiar with, not knowing which junctions people jump out from like loons.

I work in a county with no fixed speed cameras...

[d000hg]

Oh also, I live in a county which has no fixed speed-cameras. No way I'd go burning about on a road I wasn't very familiar with, not knowing which junctions people jump out from like loons.

[Spacecadet]

Tosh. The M1 is pretty straight as is the M5 (I think, the pretty bit), even assuming you are right about the bends... which I think is not the case. 140+ in a Focus, etc, maybe... they are not built for it... but any fast car considers 140 pretty average.

The problem with a "normal" car is the lack of extra down force at speed.
When you get above 120mph every little bump makes the steering feel a bit lighter than it should do.

[gingerjedi]

I had 'W' (168mph) rated tyres on my Type-R, it failed its last MoT due to a lobing effect caused by delamination.

[NotAllThere]

Aren't tyres the limiting factor? I thought the tyres on most cars, apart from sports cars obviously, are rated only up to about 130 MPH.

Frankly, the last thing you need (and probably the last thing you'd hear) is an offside blow out doing 150 on the outside lane on a left bend.

My winter tyres are rated only up to 100mph (not surprisingly being constructed for cold). However, the speed rating means sustained speed. It doesn't matter if you ocassionally exceed that.

[Paddy]

Tosh. The M1 is pretty straight as is the M5 (I think, the pretty bit), even assuming you are right about the bends... which I think is not the case. 140+ in a Focus, etc, maybe... they are not built for it... but any fast car considers 140 pretty average.

Anyway... on a motorway barely over 100. But 130 on an A road, when we test-drove an RX8. Then it started to smell a bit hot so we slowed down since we didn't want to have to buy it.

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Parts of the M1 are straight, just look at the London end. Some motorway bends won’t even support 30mph!

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