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Ms Peel is half cougar, ie: older gal that out leaps and pounces on younger but bigger cycles and has her way with em. Ms Peel has conquered pavement handling *totally*, there is not another cycle ever fielded like her, so yes indeed where the newbies are holding back because their frames and fat tires can't take the wind up loads w/o popping loose, Peel winds up her frame/isolastic spring and lets go, when i pull her trigger, like a sling shot or spear gun maxing out more G force in decreasing radii than my drag bike could in opens, which like the solid buzzie newbies was a corner cripple. Truly Ms Peel didn't give much speed sense d/t so smooth she disappeared, so only thing I went by was the level and time spent in harsh acceleration which was so much more than anything else > road racing was a solo event on Peel no contest no neck and neck danger no fear and not enough thrill to bring on the adrenalin trembles, plus nil muscle effort either, so only off road challenged Peel and me. There is only one way to corner like Peel could and that requires HI Power going into turns so no engine braking issues, no desire-need of slipper clutches nor brakes. What no one seems to realize is how limiting two tire cornering is to G forces, can't hardly get even one G that way. You've seen the whiplashing of moderns hi side crashing, that's how fast Peel does phase 3 & 4, no way humans can move or force forks that fast and hard. Similar to sail boat in a tack when the boom snaps across the deck for a moment of acceleration hesitation then the wind suddenly inflates the sail and the pull to full speed strains ya to hang on while whole flank of boat develops the turning force. In longer sweepers where ya see the newbies barely hanging on, Peel is so boring I just snap her rear out to get a slight hi side to upright and NAIL her for dragster acceleration that leaves the struggling balloon tires behind so fast they seem like parking lot cones.

Peel will have a G force meter to objectively record her capability. Peel could put over one G force through her rear patch because straight steering forks force the rear down harder than gravity and frame unwind puts even more spike of mass on the mashed patch, so can take full torque hits for even higher G spikes on top of the sling shot release. Peel literally left me breathless with dimmed tunnel vision and unable to move eye lens muscles fastest enough to clearly focus on Zoooming in bluff faces or guard rails dead on 10-15 ft away at 60 mph before saving by G spikes into another Zooming in rock face or void of drop offs. I want others to have similar sensations, having to grip bars hard, plant butt deep in seat lip and catch breath and lock diaphragm down hard so blood pressure held in brain - before pulling Peel's trigger, going into turns.
 
A friend of mine bought himself a Cobra replica a few years back from the Superformance. I don't completely recall the horsepower rating but it was large and the car didn't weigh much. I sat in the passenger seat and tried to time from launch to 100 MPH with a digital stop watch. We never fully figured out if he was doing it in three seconds or not because the launch and acceleration was so violent that I couldn't hit the button on the watch with any accuracy! It was good fun trying until I started feeling concussed and had to fall to the roadside barfing. The guys who pilot the hot dragsters must have brains with very little water in them!

Russ
 
Russ I was disappointed with my ride in a lesser hp Corbra, but even its cornering too after Peel's spoilage. But the real deal are brutes that can easy over power into wild slides.

As a Central Nervous System neurologist I see the upper gut go into reverse with whiplash injury, especially older worn necks that impinge on the Phrenic nn at base of brain stem about two fingers below skull base. Brain blood loss just makes ya weak knee'd dizzy to blacked out. Really bad news or injury views can make brain tense upper neck to point gut erupts though.

Its educational to search youtube with 11 sec 1/4 mike bikes, then 10 sec the 9's.

I don't want varrROOMM, I want my BLATT back!

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjqNtH0lYYA[/video]
 
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=FeRXI0XRNaI&NR=1[/video]
 
Yeah, I`ve seen a drag racer with neurological & retinal issues [maybe toxic fuels exposure? & too much high-G shute popping for the dislodged retinas].
That musta been some Cobra, from memory the Can-Am 917 Porsche turbos were running something like 1500hp in qualifying trim to match those 0-100mph times..
 
Hydrogen burns with a near invisible blue flame, so some aspects of that article are not quite correct ?

Some of those big top fuel engines must be nearer 20,000 hp to achieve those levels of acceleration, so some of the math is a bit off/old too ??
 
LIke some to the engines pistons and head metal are adding brightness to these rocket exhaust flames. A Brown's gas H2 O2 flame is blueish but pollution in the flame or torch can make it appear orange. A bag filled with stociometric H2 O2 will explode with a white flash and garbage bag size will sound like a super tanker blew up but no evidence found, hehehe.

2 H2(g) + O2(g) → 2 H2O(l) + 572 kJ (286 kJ/mol)

When mixed with oxygen across a wide range of proportions, hydrogen explodes upon ignition. Hydrogen burns violently in air. It ignites automatically at a temperature of 560 °C. Pure hydrogen-oxygen flames burn in the ultraviolet color range and are nearly invisible to the naked eye, as illustrated by the faintness of flame from the main Space Shuttle engines (as opposed to the easily visible flames from the SRBs). Thus it requires a flame detector to detect if a hydrogen leak is burning. The explosion of the Hindenburg airship was an infamous case of hydrogen combustion; the cause is debated, but combustible materials in the ship's skin were responsible for the coloring of the flames. Another characteristic of hydrogen fires is that the flames tend to ascend rapidly with the gas in air, as illustrated by the Hindenburg flames, causing less damage than hydrocarbon fires. Two-thirds of the Hindenburg passengers survived the fire, and many of the deaths which occurred were from falling or from diesel fuel burns.

H2 reacts directly with other oxidizing elements. A violent and spontaneous reaction can occur at room temperature with chlorine and fluorine, forming the corresponding hydrogen halides: hydrogen chloride and hydrogen fluoride

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/At_What_tempe ... z2D6Kh6WTl

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J.A.W. said:
Yeah, I`ve seen a drag racer with neurological & retinal issues [maybe toxic fuels exposure? & too much high-G shute popping for the dislodged retinas].
That musta been some Cobra, from memory the Can-Am 917 Porsche turbos were running something like 1500hp in qualifying trim to match those 0-100mph times..

I never claimed we achieved 3 second times...Frankly I don't have any idea how close we might have gotten but it was fun trying. It is impossible to time that event from the passenger seat. I think can say honestly we were below 4 seconds, but that might as well be eternity when you are talking about something like this. Or maybe the brain damage was more severe than I thought. Maybe it was 6 seconds standing and under four rolling. Regardless it didn't stop us from trying to get to three. The point of the story, really is about what doing that shit does to the fluids in your brain!

Russ
 
Fun indeed, I `ve never had the opportunity to strap in to a 917 either, but I have been in a big block lightweight hot-rod that would torque-step sideways with a stomp on the gas, a viseral gut-tightening, neck snapping, hand hold grabbing, involuntary-laugh fest..
 
here's pretty detailed dissection of a top fueler rail
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VF0JwxQqcA&feature=related[/video]



A vector has both speed and direction components. Acceleration is a change of velocity, either by change of speed or by direction or both at once. I think gravity is a type of consciousness, so acceleration is what most makes me feel alive yet too much can knock a man out of it. Give me some H2O2 rockets and I'll empty my blood out for less compressible oxygenated fluid then submerge laying in a liquid filled capsule watching a display so good posture of spine/skull so the nervous system enjoys the rush...

Col John Stapp Takes a Lot of G's
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4tuvOer_GI[/video]

The gals can take it like a he-man too
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RT4yQnNtxY&feature=related[/video]

For the Speed Racers out there
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBD8ve9lYVs[/video]

For the little kidde Speed Racers
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm79PKoWY7M[/video]

Cycle version
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paLr5lfla-Y[/video]

just skip to 7:30 on this one
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jArfx4W1Obs[/video]
 
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