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Coming out of the workshop I wind the throttle full open. There's a jet like howl from the back end and the front wheel skips two or three times before rearing wildly into the air and stays there for a mile or two. Coming over the Mittagong top bridge I'm approaching 150mph and ready to snick it into second gear. On the first left hander the clocks reading 175mph and the left peg is grinding heavily into the road with a shower of sparks behind from the rapidly disintegrating left peashooter. The magic mile comes and goes in three seconds flat and I'm overtaking cars going backwards relatively at over 200mph. I decide now to really open her up. Coming out of the right hander there's nothing left of my right knee pad and now at 300mph and three miles from Berrima I start heavy braking. No parachute on this baby. I stop outside the pub (only just) in plumes of smoke and the rear tyre is on fire. Warwick tips his 30th beer on it (I say I'll shout him one, but forget). There are no blinkers or rear mud guard even left. The front calliper has melted onto the disc and the engine is rattling badly. Not the effing mains again I scream!!

I tell Warwick the trip took 45 seconds flat.
He says he's done it in 44.
On the bike he owns but no one has ever seen.

Must be a Mach III with ten jet engines in it.

It was fun to ride the Unapproachable Combat.
The Dragonfly was nothing on this!
Now I'll have to go and buy another one.
This one's stuffed!!
I wonder if Norton still offer a warranty?
 
Amazing how many stories are generated by 5 short lived horsepower! :mrgreen:
 
Re: Part 3 Combat Version

Yep pretty close to what I expect from Peel evolving on boost into nitro-methane plus a NOS+H2O sprayer button hit when sensors switches kick in. Will need pow wow with tire manufacturers to up the skinny tires speed/heat ratting first of course when shaving just ain't enough. If I want to go faster quicker then already did some the basic math for hydrogen peroxide rockets passing gear. But bee line is boring and more G's can be forced in cornering so may need install active aero dynamics and couple of ballistic steering rockets to point and shoot w/o worrying about traction limits.
 
Hey, is that bike totally stock then? Cool, that's how I remember my old Commando performing back in the 70's... :shock:
Cheers, Martin
 
My beard is alway 1 inch longer after a night on the piss.

Ashley
 
Re: Part 3 Combat Version

hobot said:
Yep pretty close to what I expect from Peel evolving on boost into nitro-methane plus a NOS+H2O sprayer button hit when sensors switches kick in. Will need pow wow with tire manufacturers to up the skinny tires speed/heat ratting first of course when shaving just ain't enough. If I want to go faster quicker then already did some the basic math for hydrogen peroxide rockets passing gear. But bee line is boring and more G's can be forced in cornering so may need install active aero dynamics and couple of ballistic steering rockets to point and shoot w/o worrying about traction limits.

Then I gather you'll be shaving a few seconds of Warwick's speed/time record between Mittagong Bike Shop and the Berrima Pub?
Your real name's not Warwick by chance is it :)

Looking forward to the report Steve
Cheers
Phil
 
sportsroof said:
Hey, is that bike totally stock then? Cool, that's how I remember my old Commando performing back in the 70's... :shock:
Cheers, Martin


I forgot to mention in the report, I never did get the bastard out of second gear, I forgot the gear pedal was on the right :)
 
ashman said:
My beard is alway 1 inch longer after a night on the piss.

Ashley

Then don't tell the wife that for god's sake, she'll know where you've been Ashley. :)
 
worntorn said:
Amazing how many stories are generated by 5 short lived horsepower! :mrgreen:


This baby had three combat engines in it!!
Only one left when I stopped.
 
phil yates said:
Coming out of the workshop I wind the throttle full open. There's a jet like howl from the back end and the front wheel skips two or three times before rearing wildly into the air and stays there for a mile or two. Coming over the Mittagong top bridge I'm approaching 150mph and ready to snick it into second gear. On the first left hander the clocks reading 175mph and the left peg is grinding heavily into the road with a shower of sparks behind from the rapidly disintegrating left peashooter. The magic mile comes and goes in three seconds flat and I'm overtaking cars going backwards relatively at over 200mph. I decide now to really open her up. Coming out of the right hander there's nothing left of my right knee pad and now at 300mph and three miles from Berrima I start heavy braking. No parachute on this baby. I stop outside the pub (only just) in plumes of smoke and the rear tyre is on fire. Warwick tips his 30th beer on it (I say I'll shout him one, but forget). There are no blinkers or rear mud guard even left. The front calliper has melted onto the disc and the engine is rattling badly. Not the effing mains again I scream!!

I tell Warrick the trip took 45 seconds flat.
He says he's done in 44.
On the bike he owns but no one has ever seen.

Must be a Mach III with ten jet engines in it.

It was fun to ride the Unapproachable Combat.
The Dragonfly was nothing on this!
Now I'll have to go and buy another one.
This one's stuffed!!
I wonder if Norton still offer a warranty?
 
Re: Part 3 Combat Version

hobot said:
Yep pretty close to what I expect from Peel evolving on boost into nitro-methane plus a NOS+H2O sprayer button hit when sensors switches kick in. Will need pow wow with tire manufacturers to up the skinny tires speed/heat ratting first of course when shaving just ain't enough. If I want to go faster quicker then already did some the basic math for hydrogen peroxide rockets passing gear. But bee line is boring and more G's can be forced in cornering so may need install active aero dynamics and couple of ballistic steering rockets to point and shoot w/o worrying about traction limits.

Hobot
The report was not intended to emulate any of your posts. Yesterday was "hobot free Sunday post day". Didn't even think of you' all day. Which is unusual on mother's day darling. :)
Written late last night (with some spelling mistakes) it was an afterthought to Part 2 MkIII ride on the same stretch of road. It was pointing out the slight performance differences between Combat and MkIII on the Mitta to Berra road.
MkIII was more reliable.
Combat a tad faster.

I've told you before I like your posts, I wasn't joking.
So please don't stop em!

Phil
 
Re: Part 3 Combat Version

phil yates said:
hobot said:
Yep pretty close to what I expect from Peel evolving on boost into nitro-methane plus a NOS+H2O sprayer button hit when sensors switches kick in. Will need pow wow with tire manufacturers to up the skinny tires speed/heat ratting first of course when shaving just ain't enough. If I want to go faster quicker then already did some the basic math for hydrogen peroxide rockets passing gear. But bee line is boring and more G's can be forced in cornering so may need install active aero dynamics and couple of ballistic steering rockets to point and shoot w/o worrying about traction limits.

Hobot
The report was not intended to emulate any of your posts. Yesterday was "hobot free Sunday post day". Didn't even think of you' all day. Which is unusual on mother's day darling. :)
Written late last night (with some spelling mistakes) it was an afterthought to Part 2 MkIII ride on the same stretch of road. It was pointing out the slight performance differences between Combat and MkIII on the Mitta to Berra road.
MkIII was more reliable.
Combat a tad faster.

I've told you before I like your posts, I wasn't joking.
So please don't stop em!

Phil

Further Hobot
You've never even been to Mittagong.
If the brake fails on Peel and you can't stop (no trees in the Pacific Ocean).
Drop in for a beer at the hotel.
The boys have heard all about you.

Phil
 
Ugh, thought you were dissing me like many do routinely on what I've reported Ms Peel is capable of. Alas ran out of power to find out how much more she's got. My P!! would pull mid 10 sec 1/4 mile on a slick before me and me about 11 sec on a street tire. If Peel can't break under 10 sec and hit 170 then she's a failure but will have fun trying, keeping in mind fastest things at Barbers can only touch 150 mph here and there. Other wise isolastic Commandos no matter how hopped up all strike me as quaint fragile dangerous antiques any cheap decent used sports bike can leave in its wake very soon with just so so pilot. The solid engine racers have same handling limits I've run into on sportsbikes and see in video, poor risky corner cripples. Someday hope to show why my sign off motto, meantime can only leave ya wondering maybe ya don't yet know what ya missing out on in a certain triple linked way. Its 4wd rally cars events and ice spike speedway racers I look at as worthy opponents and I don't even know how to ride that well or secure, except on Ms Peel - so good anyone could too.
 
hobot said:
Ugh, thought you were dissing me like many do routinely on what I've reported Ms Peel is capable of. Alas ran out of power to find out how much more she's got. My P!! would pull mid 10 sec 1/4 mile on a slick before me and me about 11 sec on a street tire. If Peel can't break under 10 sec and hit 170 then she's a failure but will have fun trying, keeping in mind fastest things at Barbers can only touch 150 mph here and there. Other wise isolastic Commandos no matter how hopped up all strike me as quaint fragile dangerous antiques any cheap decent used sports bike can leave in its wake very soon with just so so pilot. The solid engine racers have same handling limits I've run into on sportsbikes and see in video, poor risky corner cripples. Someday hope to show why my sign off motto, meantime can only leave ya wondering maybe ya don't yet know what ya missing out on in a certain triple linked way. Its 4wd rally cars events and ice spike speedway racers I look at as worthy opponents and I don't even know how to ride that well or secure, except on Ms Peel - so good anyone could too.

Certainly not dismissing you hobot
As said, I enjoy your posts and whilst maybe more than many others, there is a lot of talent and extremely good knowledge in this forum. You're just one of those but I enjoy ALL posts on all facets of Commando owning/riding by all in here who write them. Can't keep on top of them all but I certainly have a good look around the forum at topics of interest, as do you. Some I read only and some I make comments on. Not too hard for me sitting in front of this computer seemingly 24/7 at times, due work issues and other.

We all see things differently, humour often different indeed. If people don't like what you say (don't mean you) then so be it. That's life and that's forums. At the Mittagong Hotel, If someone isn't liked by someone they don't talk to each other, otherwise we have an all in brawl and those left standing are deemed to be the good guys. Works real well. Can't be done in here.

Phil
 
phil yates said:
hobot said:
Ugh, thought you were dissing me like many do routinely on what I've reported Ms Peel is capable of. Alas ran out of power to find out how much more she's got. My P!! would pull mid 10 sec 1/4 mile on a slick before me and me about 11 sec on a street tire. If Peel can't break under 10 sec and hit 170 then she's a failure but will have fun trying, keeping in mind fastest things at Barbers can only touch 150 mph here and there. Other wise isolastic Commandos no matter how hopped up all strike me as quaint fragile dangerous antiques any cheap decent used sports bike can leave in its wake very soon with just so so pilot. The solid engine racers have same handling limits I've run into on sportsbikes and see in video, poor risky corner cripples. Someday hope to show why my sign off motto, meantime can only leave ya wondering maybe ya don't yet know what ya missing out on in a certain triple linked way. Its 4wd rally cars events and ice spike speedway racers I look at as worthy opponents and I don't even know how to ride that well or secure, except on Ms Peel - so good anyone could too.

Certainly not dismissing you hobot
As said, I enjoy your posts and whilst maybe more than many others, there is a lot of talent and extremely good knowledge in this forum. You're just one of those but I enjoy ALL posts on all facets of Commando owning/riding by all in here who write them. Can't keep on top of them all but I certainly have a good look around the forum at topics of interest, as do you. Some I read only and some I make comments on. Not too hard for me sitting in front of this computer seemingly 24/7 at times, due work issues and other.

We all see things differently, humour often different indeed. If people don't like what you say (don't mean you) then so be it. That's life and that's forums. At the Mittagong Hotel, If someone isn't liked by someone they don't talk to each other, otherwise we have an all in brawl and those left standing are deemed to be the good guys. Works real well. Can't be done in here.

Phil

One last point hobot, I know you play around with Japanese dirt bikes but there's some young turk who comes blapping up my street here on one of those horrid things making a serious racket. I'm concerned the street's gunna blame my Commando for blowing their ear drums. I come up real slow on the MkIII to avoid just that. Saw it on a Steve McQueen movie, tomorrow five minutes from his usual noisy blapping time I'm going to string a piece of very thin wire across the street. I doubt we'll see him again after tomorrow and the Commando will return to king of the street. Advise if you have a better idea. Phone me again tonight.
 
Les
Just curious, at Forum Headquarters is there some big red flashing "Alert Light" that goes off every time I put in a post?
Just wondering because every time I do or say something wrong (nearly always) within thirty seconds of me posting it, it's vanished somewhere and I can't find it again. Or I get a threatening PM followed by an even more threatening letter in my mail box.
Just wondering, is it you? Or some nasty (probably non Commando riding) sort who doesn't like me at all? They are never signed.

If it's you, please advise your sleeping hours.
If it's not you, please monitor it for me 24/7.
It's driving me nuts!!
 
phil yates said:
Les
Just curious, at Forum Headquarters is there some big red flashing "Alert Light" that goes off every time I put in a post?
Just wondering because every time I do or say something wrong (nearly always) within thirty seconds of me posting it, it's vanished somewhere and I can't find it again. Or I get a threatening PM followed by an even more threatening letter in my mail box.
Just wondering, is it you? Or some nasty (probably non Commando riding) sort who doesn't like me at all? They are never signed.

Nope! Not me!
 
L.A.B. said:
phil yates said:
Les
Just curious, at Forum Headquarters is there some big red flashing "Alert Light" that goes off every time I put in a post?
Just wondering because every time I do or say something wrong (nearly always) within thirty seconds of me posting it, it's vanished somewhere and I can't find it again. Or I get a threatening PM followed by an even more threatening letter in my mail box.
Just wondering, is it you? Or some nasty (probably non Commando riding) sort who doesn't like me at all? They are never signed.

Nope! Not me!

Thanks Les
He's out there somewhere, or rather in here somewhere. Could be a lurker.
I'll find him.
 
phil yates said:
Just curious, at Forum Headquarters is there some big red flashing "Alert Light" that goes off every time I put in a post?
No, but there should be.

phil yates said:
Just wondering because every time I do or say something wrong (nearly always) within thirty seconds of me posting it, it's vanished somewhere and I can't find it again. Or I get a threatening PM followed by an even more threatening letter in my mail box.
Take the hint, but leave the bike.

phil yates said:
Just wondering, is it you? Or some nasty (probably non Commando riding) sort who doesn't like me at all? They are never signed.
A guardian angel for the rest of us.

phil yates said:
If it's you, please advise your sleeping hours.
If it's not you, please monitor it for me 24/7.
It's driving me nuts!!
Will that be all, your Majesty?
 
pete.v said:
phil yates said:
Just curious, at Forum Headquarters is there some big red flashing "Alert Light" that goes off every time I put in a post?
No, but there should be.

phil yates said:
Just wondering because every time I do or say something wrong (nearly always) within thirty seconds of me posting it, it's vanished somewhere and I can't find it again. Or I get a threatening PM followed by an even more threatening letter in my mail box.
Take the hint, but leave the bike.

phil yates said:
Just wondering, is it you? Or some nasty (probably non Commando riding) sort who doesn't like me at all? They are never signed.
A guardian angel for the rest of us.

phil yates said:
If it's you, please advise your sleeping hours.
If it's not you, please monitor it for me 24/7.
It's driving me nuts!!
Will that be all, your Majesty?

Rather than leave the bike Pete, I'll crate it up and send it to you. I presume it's the Combat you're wanting, not the MkIII.
Under the seat you'll find a large green button. Came red but I painted it green just for you. It starts the engine. Leave my address details with the wife for sending your combat to me.
Then press that green button down.
See you in another place, at another time.
Maybe :)
 
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