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Originally Posted by alansmithee
Honestly I think you have to be at least mildly unbalanced to ride one of those things, so it goes with the territory. I know a couple of my friends who have hit around 140 on them, which is ok when you're surrounded by 1500+ lbs of metal, but seems a little nuts when you're just sitting on about 200lbs of plastic.
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135mph and 850# in my case. "mildly unbalanced" and "a little nut's" are much kinder phrases than my wife used.
In fairness, the bike was in perfect mechanical condition, the pavement was smooth and clean (I checked it), no traffic, no wind, and I'm an experienced rider. I backed off when my helmet started giving me problems.