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50 Years of Ludicrous Speed.

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Fatfatboy

50 Years of Ludicrous Speed.

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A history of how we got to ludicrous speed

https://www.cycleworld.com/2012/04/02/fifty-years-of-do-you-have-any-idea-how-fast-you-were-going/#:~:text=In%201925%2C%20the%20Brough%20Superior,Black%20Shadow%20could%20do%20125.

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You meet some of the best folks behind bars.

hacksaw

Re: 50 Years of Ludicrous Speed.

Well I had a couple of the older ones.

Inflation belongs in your tires.
Not in your grocery bill.

Fatfatboy

Re: 50 Years of Ludicrous Speed.

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I thought you had a 500 Mach III. Is that correct?

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You meet some of the best folks behind bars.

oldironnow

Re: 50 Years of Ludicrous Speed.

Nice to see this again.
Perhaps the top speed stagnation was a function of the brakes and handling of the time, and only increased as that odd off spring ‘Superbike racing’ caused street bikes to experience a positive evolution in those qualities.

Choose to Ride. Supports splitting everywhere.

hacksaw

Re: 50 Years of Ludicrous Speed.

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Yes. And a Norton I never registered

Inflation belongs in your tires.
Not in your grocery bill.

hacksaw

Re: 50 Years of Ludicrous Speed.

In reply to this post by oldironnow

Huh? Wtf r u talking about?

Inflation belongs in your tires.
Not in your grocery bill.