25K miles and "The Ton" - all in 1 day - Life's Good!

title is self-explanatory.

Had a Zen moment a couple of days ago, on a picture-perfect sunny day here in Southern California. Took the Mark 3 out for a spin on Ortega Highway (lots of nice twisties!) with a buddy.

Great ride, cutting and slicing through the turns for 30 miles heading East from San Juan Capistrano, and another 30 back. On the way back down to San Diego on interstate 5 I glanced down at the odometer, saw that it read 24,999 miles, and decided to celebrate the milestone by cranking the throttle. My buddy on his Super Glide was surprised to see me blast off past him at warp speed as I hit 100 MPH as the clock spun over to 25,000 miles.

It's a glorious thing, this two-wheeled life!!!!

Oh man I want some of that state too, thanx for sharing the hi times.

Sounds like a great ride. I thought you went around the world in one day.

I popped 100 for the first time a few weeks back. After our regular Sunday morning breakfast, most of the guys had other things to do, so I took off on a ride with a couple more modern bikes for an late morning cruise. We hit the same stretch of road on which I topped 100 with my old Honda a few years ago. I was in the lead and cranked it. They had no problem keeping up. When we took a break a little while later, they both confirmed 102 and were very surprised how quickly I went from 60 to 100.

My Speedo gear is shot and I have a cheap magnetic bicycle speedo that once it hits 74, it goes haywire, so I had no way to know how fast I was going after that. It felt good hitting it after the work put into it. I am not a speed freak and may never do it again, but it is good to know it's there.

It's such frivilous stupididty that gives us motorcylists a bad name. How long were you on WOT for?

man i dont know how I could get 100mph out of my bike. I ran it up to about 95 once and all I could think of is all the things in that motor stressing out in there. I think it could do it but I just dont have the heart (or the pocketbook) to recover right now hahahha Now on the RC51 I can do 100 in a couple gears between stoplights heh...

How many teeth sprocket you running when your doing this 100mph? I have a 19tooth front and when I am up to speed that motors revving up pretty good. good enough I dont want to push it!

Aw they will all do the ton if gritting teeth enough to stand the two blacksmiths having at it with failing crank and flinging cam and valves while wasting away the wimpy drive train. My Trixie Combat seems capable to show 120 on the speedo [before the cable broke this spring] but I am not able to take what I know is going on inside so only a few times gave in and ran with the moderns or by myself up to 115. i will never hold on till my factory bike tops out. I love acceleration more than speed and a Combat is quite pleasing below 90 mph but that is where 19T Trixie gets her 2S second wind so takes discipline not to zoom right up past the ton - yet that make me ache inside as I know dam well its using her up before her time. 80-90 is about tops for me in the wide opens when I'm feeling in a hurry on a plain Jane Cdo. I do not take much chances flinging turns on an un-tamed Cdo so nothing to brag about there either and in same operational zone as anyone else on Trixie, even getting tense fear to keep up with Wes in a good mood on his 650 Bonneville.

On 3-link Peel with lots of special and modified parts and cryogenic tempering and dry friction coatings and lightened up and geared tall I'd cruise to work @ 120 indicated in upper 5000 rpm range with power to spare to zoom to over 130 showing in the wide opens. What made her so temping is there was nil wait to get that fast so discipline went to hell as I was carried close to heaven on smooth as silk secure handling.

Still to me there is no other motorcycle I want to spend my short life on as much as I can - ugh- afford too.

Very cool. Congrats...................................

When we did the high-speed endurance testing on the Motor Industries Research banked track, we'd run 100+ for 10 hours a day, with breaks to change riders, gas up and tighten the chain. We had 1/4" final-drive chain in the early part of the testing until one broke when I was at the top of one of the banked turns at about 105 mph.

That gets your attention in a hurry, particularly when there's an Aston Martin coming up behind at about 140! I was lucky the chain separated cleanly and didn't jam the back wheel. We recovered the chain from the side of the track and found that the split link had failed.

Say What Frank? You were paid to hold WOT all day long and the Nortons took it?
I've had a couple chains break so lost drive speed in sudden surprise at same time surprised by this wild snake that pasted me down the road.

Mine went backwards down the road, slithering past my mate riding in line astern, fortunately, he was carrying a spare split link... now I always have one clipped around my clutch cable...just in case.
Mind you, early Honda 750/4s were reputed to break chains & wrap them around the drive sprocket smashing the cases...but could be worse, if it locked up the back wheel I `spose..
Hey Freddo, that WAS good old Englander sarcasm, right - your crack about giving motorcycle riders a bad name?
Riding a Commando W.F.O. is giving the public a treat - I.M.O...

" I hit 100 MPH "

Was this Down the Bypass ? :mrgreen:

I think I might have hit a hundred a couple of decades ago, but I wouldn't know...I can't remember when my speedometer last worked. PKieth, I'll watch for you, I'm right next door in Carlsbad.

Congrats on the "Zen" moment!