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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 08:46 am |
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So tell us about your first 100MPH on a motorbike!
I remember mine vividly. 500 twin weeks after passing my tests, hours after realising my 400 was never going to run agian I bought my mates bike. It had been lovingly looked after. He and his brother were compulsive about it.
I took it home and got my fieldsheer electric worm leathers on, and my badly missmatched boots (how can you match boots to those leathers anyway?) and took the beastie for a run up the burley bypass. heading towards Adel I opened her up... the 2:1 Lazer can howling as I did so I saw the needle ease past the ton, as it did so I felt my cheeks easing open... Fortunately it was the cheeks on my face and I was breaking into a smile that was to become a familar fixture in the presence of two wheeled entertainment. 
On the return leg I wound the throttle right back, slightly down hill I throttled back once I'd seen 127 indicated on the clocks. cheeks aching by the time I got home, I knew bikes were definately for me!
That bike lived in my bedroom for the duration of our time togther. We explored France, and huge tracts of Great Britain together. Only parted company because I lusted after in line four zing and performance. I was young and impresionable...
how about you?
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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 09:07 am |
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1st time - Yamaha SRX 400 - around 30BHP
Heading up to the BMF on the motorway following a RD350 YPVS.
Thrashed it in 4th to 90MPH then into 5th and just touched 100.
I had to let go of the clip ons because the vibration was shaking my shoulders.
Then when I went home it wouldn't go over 70mph.
Dont know if this was related.
but was okay the next day.
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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 09:13 am |
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| 1973-4 and I was 17-18... we used to haunt the byways of south Bucks between Marlow and High Wycombe....We had a collection of bikes Some old Brits quite a few Jap 2 strokes and My Ducati 350 Desmo which I had scrimped and saved for. The Marlow Byepass had just opened...Miles of near motorway smoothness and a long straight followed by a sweeping bend...To finally settle the which bike is fastest argument we hit the new and very exciting road, I stuck my nose down between the clocks and opened it up down the hill followed by a Suzuki hustler and an RD 350, I hit the bend as fast as the duke would go and leaned over for the bend and only slowed as the roundabout appeard.....By Veglia speedo was worse than useless but the guys on the Japs had followed me beyond the Ton until the bend appeared.
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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 09:18 am |
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1967 along the A40, can't quite remember which bit, early Sunday morning in summer. Among others, Gloucester bypass? Or was that later?
My first long run on the newly run-in Velo Norton and I had her flat out a few times.
I wasn't looking at the speedo, but as far ahead as it was possible to see. 
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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 11:26 am |
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Strangely, I don't recall any "first time", but through a process of elimination, I think it has to have been either, on a mates race tuned RD250LC (although that had the speedo masked out) or on the A65, but a seldom took that on roads that would accomodate 100MPH on an A65.
I shall try really hard to remember exactly when I first saw 100 on the clock.
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shakari
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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 11:42 am |
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About 1970/71 when I was 14 or 15 years old on the Sidcup bypass on the way to Brands Hatch on if I remember correctly, a RE Constellation.
Last time I did it was about an hour ago on the road between White River and Hazyview........... next time I do it will be in about 2 or 3 hours time when I go to White River for a haircut. 
Judging from what I saw the last time I was in the UK with the traffic and the rash of spped cameras etc I wouldn't have thought you'd get many chances to do it over there nowadays.
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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 11:58 am |
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1979 on my XS650, A418 just outside Aylesbury. Promptly followed by blue flashing lights.. he let me off though
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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 12:00 pm |
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| M61 southbound Between Chorley and Westhoughton (downhill) in 1975 on my Honda CB500T was my first and last ton, never felt the need since. Last edited on Tue Sep 16th, 2008 12:06 pm by surfsup
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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 01:07 pm |
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surfsup wrote: never felt the need since.
Nope me neither - Id much rather go on the twisties.
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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 01:17 pm |
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It was a month or so after passing my test on a little RD125 twin, managed to get a bank loan and bought a mates rebuilt T140E. Riding out of Cambridge to visit my parents, who lived south of town, up the Gog-Magog hills, down the other side. I remember thinking; These cars are bloody slow today"...Glanced down at the speedo and Yikes!
Better slow down a bit
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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 02:51 pm |
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| my first ton was on the soke parkway (A47) in peterborough on my RD250E just got it back from its running in service and wanted to see what it could do..happy days
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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 04:10 pm |
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Last year, 1982 cb750, took her up to 110 at a light aircraft run way.
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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 04:23 pm |
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Nov 2006, 8 days after i passed my test i picked up my Yamaha FZ6, found an awesome road from aylesbury round long crendon to bicester and the A41, opened it up on the dead straight bit before kingswood, got to 101 and didn't dare go any quicker!
eventually got it up to 131 on the M25 in February this year, before i sold it in May.
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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 05:02 pm |
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Doing the ton on a modern bike is sooooo easy,would think it now relates 150 mph or maybe more,doing the ton on an ole Brit 650 was something else and you really new you were doing it,just feel those vibes and watch those front forks shake,don't think many held it there for long,i certainly didn't.
Can't remember the first time i did the Ton,but i can vividly remember as a 16 year old the needle on my Triumph Terrier touching 70mph on a downhill run,it didn't matter if the needle was all over the place,i'd hit 70, ye ha
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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 05:02 pm |
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It was in the late eighties (88?) on Kawasaki Z500 about 4 minutes after buying it outside Barnton Hotel in Edinburgh, 4-1 alpha pipe, sawn off rear mudguard, completely shagged s/arm bushes (or bearings, can't remember), pitch dark, light drizzle, heading out the dualler towards the bridge.
Previous bike had been a C15/B40 hybrid so I was a bit wide eyed and frazzled by the time I got home.
First knee down, 1994, Monster 600, roundabout on the south side of Soutra.
Now if I could only remember what I came through here to do...
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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 05:06 pm |
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1981 on a mates XS750 on the A40 Oxford ring road between Headington and North Oxford. There is a gentle bend in the road as you get to the bottom end for some reason it seemed a lot sharper that day, wouldnt even attempt anything like that these days
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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 05:46 pm |
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It must have been 1992 and I remember being mightily impressed to see the speedo on my tatty CB650 reading almost 110, two-up and heading uphill on a long stretch of dual carriageway near Tiverton. Can't vouch for speedo accuracy of course.......
To be honest, it's not something I'm too bothered about doing - I've only really done it out of curiosity to see how fast whatever bike I'm on will go and then I won't often bother again. After fitting a bicycle speedo to my Radian, which recorded your top speed, Jon would borrow the Rad and go out to beat my top speed, then I would have to take it out and try to beat his new top speed..........we stopped that game after some heavy rain which caused it to show a top speed of 167mph
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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 06:20 pm |
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Refer to my picture in the Passing my test topix.
I had an RD250A (one mag actually got a ton in a road test in 1974 on one)
Anyway, it was early 1975 and the 250 was now run in. Between Chippenham and Calne in wiltshire there is part of the A4 that we called "Soho" (pub half way down hill). Its a long straight downwards for half a mile then it got steeper and then very steep! for a few hundred yards.
I was 9 stone and used to come down the hill flat on the tank with elbows in. On the steep bit I would regularly see the speedo reading 100/101/102/103.
Best I ever saw was 105mph on it (not sure how much speedo error there was though)
I could give exact dates and figure because I kept diaries thru 74 to 1981 and I carried a camera at all times.
Did 135mph on my GS1000E in 1981 - never wanted to go much faster, fast enough for me!!
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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 08:16 pm |
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shakari wrote: Judging from what I saw the last time I was in the UK with the traffic and the rash of spped cameras etc I wouldn't have thought you'd get many chances to do it over there nowadays.
twice a day for me its my cruising speed to & from work on the 14.
my first time would have been on that shed a RF600, probably about 3 months after i got my licence so april/may 2007. more than likely on the A24 as i rode it to work but i dont honestly know.
first time i know ive done the ton on a real bike was last sunday on the A65 with stroppy, was more in here too. i think i've had her that quick before but the dodgy speedo means i dont know. only knew this time as i pulled up alongside a vigaro & his clocks where showing 100 must do it again, stroppy sounded sexy as feck
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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 09:34 pm |
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| 1976 on my nearly new Bonne top speed restricted by weave/wobble at high speeds so I fitted a hydraulic steering damper bought from Norman Hyde managed to go flat out=110mph on A46 dual carriageway
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