motorbikes
Something about my bike makes me want to speed. I never do it through 30 zones but i speed outrageously on duel carrageways. im often seen wizzing by at 130mph+ thank the gods ive not been caught yet!!
(Serbitar Has a furry shit canon called Whitey., Thu 13 Mar 2008, 16:55, 2 replies)

yes
Yeah.... I have a BMW tourer and it's such a grandad bike... but I can get the back out on it, and do wheelies. I ask myself, is there any need, but it is very very exciting
(Snake (on a) Crane FKA thwack, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 17:33, closed)

:) I've got an old beemer GS
and although it's damned slow by 2-wheeled standards (0-60 in... erm... 5ish seconds? top whack being around the ton, though doing that makes the heads rattle very badly) it's more than fast enough for me. I've only got the back-end out on loose gravel, upsetting the mate on his lovely shiny new VFR behind me, and wheelies really aren't my thing.
Standing up on the pegs and launching down the road, however... It's got enough grunt to accelerate happily up from 70 with a 6'3 bloke standing upright leaning over the screen, which is damned good fun while overtaking lorries. Tall bike, tall rider, you get to nod to the truckers as you overtake :) Bit of care needed with the bow-wave, but it's worth it every time. (I'd also like to point out that I have a nice white flip-front helmet, high-vis jacket, and nondescript dark trousers for my normal biking attire, which explains the odd "wtf? gaaaah!" *drop phone* happenings in truck cabs)
I've only been stopped on the bike for speeding the once (wrong bike for it, really) with a big mate on the back and the luggage on. It would have been points at best, but I'd somehow lost the police T5 on a dual carriageway (without breaking 60) so they had to restart their videotape. I'm still not sure if/how that's possible, but I got off with a bollocking while my mate shivered in the cold outside, so I'm not complaining.
( evilstevie misses the Orange Place of late, Thu 13 Mar 2008, 21:00, closed)