Terrible Tom wrote:
>
> Barry Oliver wrote:
>
>>
>> Terrible Tom wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Dustin Williams wrote:
>>> > He was doing
>>> > about 150 (or so he says)
>>>
>>> >after a few months of fun he passed a game warden doing
>>> > about 140 or so, got pulled over and got a misdemeanor for reckless
>>>
>>>> driving and lost his license for a few months.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Shoulda had it taken away for good if ya ask me...
>>>
>>
>> Tom, put the cup down and carefully step away from the haterade...just
>> because *your* bike has a hard time going 40 mph... Remember, you
>> have friends that like to ride fast.
>
>
> Go as fast as you want... on a track or closed course. I don't care who
> is at the throttle or how good they think they are. Those kinds of
> speeds on any public road is reckless and immature.
>
#1 I don't believe for a second that he was actually going that fast.
#2 I don't know the guy so I am not defending what *he* [allegedly] did.
#3 That is the same type of generalized, blanket, one size fits all
opinion that the soccer mom crowd has toward offroaders.. Most of us
agree that speed limits are more about revenue generation than safety.
Our interstate system, for example, was designed to be safe at 75mph
with cars that were available in the 50's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_standards
I would that present that many modern vehicles are capable of being
perfectly safe at 100mph on those same roads now, merely due to better
handling cars. Admittedly, however, the average *driver* is has not
kept pace, and is not 25% better than 50 years ago.
http://www.buffalo.edu/news/8236
Unfortunately, the prevailing trend in the US is to pander to the bottom
10% rather than the average, "just in case". So if someone's 96 year
old Grandma cannot safely navigate the road at a given speed, no-one
else should be allowed to either.
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