You seem really hung up on that bike.

Post #342,916 by Andrew Grygus 5/22/11 7:18:43 PM Reply	You seem really hung up on that bike. You should just go out and buy one. So what if you have to mortgage your soul to pay for it. What good is a soul without the bike anyway?
Post #342,917 by Another Scott 5/22/11 7:40:25 PM Reply	The memories and stories are better than reliving them. I loved a 1970 Pontiac GTO growing up, but even though I sometimes toy with the idea of getting one sometime in the future, some things are best left in the past. Of course, a GTO is nothing like a Black Shadow (which truly was an amazing machine), but I imagine that even if Ashton could get one he would think long and hard about actually putting the money down. Lots of kitties could be helped with $75k. ;-) Cheers, Scott.
Post #342,918 by drook 5/22/11 7:57:46 PM Reply	And few things wreck a good bout of nostalgia quite like ... ... realizing you're too old to find out if it was as good as you remember. -- Drew
Post #342,921 by Another Scott 5/22/11 8:02:31 PM Reply	Yeabut, not applicable here. I'm sure Ashton could still ride down the highway like this if the mood struck - http://upload.wikime...2C_record_run.jpg ;-D Cheers, Scott.
Post #342,923 by drook 5/22/11 8:07:03 PM Reply	Dude! Planking!!!11!1!11one!!1!! -- Drew
Post #342,926 by Another Scott 5/22/11 8:12:22 PM Reply	So it is! 63 years ahead of his time. ;-)
Post #342,935 by Ashton 5/22/11 10:13:12 PM Reply	Heh.. I should have remembered that photo! And the brief story of that ride: Rollie Free was hitting high 140s, noted that his leathers were fluttering / no skin-tight fit, that set. Time for the record run was evanescing, he had fresh experience that bike was handling well, no wobbles, was rarin to GO ---> So he did That and juuust broke 150, a record which stood for n-years (too lazy to look up.) And yeah.. slightly reduced reaction-time / inner-ear-gyroscope etc. are no hazard to piloting such a beast routinely. [that was a Lightning, of course not a Shadow ] Not about to attempt '100 map-miles in an hour' these days and I've seen 122+ a few years ago in the Plutocrat, just for a poor-man's 'dynamometer check' of HP at 4000' alt. Still haven't found a good formula for extrapolating that test to likely HP at sea level. I no wind tunnel to calibrate shape efficiency. You're also right about the (maybe 100K+ by now) and what Else that could do. This scheme only works if there are so many C-notes flooding into Raptor HQ, that even Andrew stops updating the spreadsheet. Certainly I'd overtly embezzle a few sacks of those for general kitty welfare, if I could. The Vincent would be chump change at the L Ron Hubbard level. And we all know now that Barnum was Right, eh? Zoooom

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