I just don't get this safety lecturing all the time, if you are cycler you are either a conscious decided admitted risk taker or in ignorant bliss with same risks non the less. Face it we all like the speed and power of our cycles, some more often than others of course. I have two dimensions of speed ratings one by motivation level ie: legal, spirited, race and chase, as in police cars in hot pursuit. The other scale is based on performance of a particular cycle, tour and fast, by their power response vs air drag. I don't really notice or bothered by blast till 120 bolt upright, so that's when I tuck in and knee grip, only times I've been air+ bounce lifted off seat was at 120 threshold surprises that twern't gonna surprise me no more on that joy ride. I have so so many close calls into and over blinds I rarely blast into any unknowns, so if I'm in a speeding mode I still tend to practice strong/squealing braking routinely down to sane reserves then roar back up into opens. There's a number of rural hyw's that remind me of top of ski lifts with pretty straight shot into the valley so takes extra effort not to whiz bang down em. Then close by is 'Race Track Road' bluff faces on one side - drop off the other with and w/o railings, leads to Trigger Gap bridge. If you ever see the Gap name on a map definitely mark it to ride it. Once was THE Gravel when I first got no-name- pre-peel Combat that helped train me to ski a cycle and use up tires. Well paved for 8 yr now to earn its name for the banked sweeper chicanes marked 30-45 mph so can work up rather faster for G's that heat tires and your spirit too. This is where I finalized my complete disrespect and disgust for balloon tires and rigid cycles, after Peel rev'd her power out I recovered SV650 from what ever last animal take down and figured I could at least practice Peel's lines to stay fresh to absolutely freak out not to even be able to grip well enough to get set up just to enter turns let along pick up pace and power like Peel through them, YIKES!!! Hot race tires walking around wrong shaped patch let goes or front scrubbing w/o doing a thing till tank slapped silly and scary frame twitches trying to press just a bit faster than full stick stable, YUK! I gave up to become sedate moderate rider on SuVee and Trixie as explored them to know how close they always are to crashes by just a wee bit past nice smooth operation.
Btw I've some new photo's of skid marks with SuVee on side at the end again, happened about 30 sec after self talk congratulating self on how safe and sound and slow the tour went and just a mile from home draging both brakes not to go 30 mph in long down hill I like to take over 70 on any cycle, to see what I first thought was deer, ugh, then resolved to 3 dogs excited to chase something and didn't just rooster blast over em SPLAT. Can you even put yourself in my state of mind of kicking myself time and again for being too slow w/o enough energy to out race a crash. Crazy making hobby I may completely loose it over.
