Poor Mans Motorcycle

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SifuPhil said:
Pappy, have you ever had that puppy into the tach's red zone?

I like the battery-powered headlight idea - I used to have one of those generator ones, which worked a LOT better than the ol' candle-and-mirror set-up. :playful:
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Hey Phil....I'm lucky if I can get it to move at all. I mostly use it to use the odometer to see how far I have gone.
That headlight is real old but in beautiful condition. Remember these accessories that take the big batteries when you would hit a big bump, they would fall out......
 
Pappy said:
Hey Phil....I'm lucky if I can get it to move at all. I mostly use it to use the odometer to see how far I have gone.
That headlight is real old but in beautiful condition. Remember these accessories that take the big batteries when you would hit a big bump, they would fall out......
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I think the fastest I ever went on a bike and still remained ON it was a couple of years ago. I was riding a 21-speed hybrid mountain/street bike down a long, steep street in one of our little villages. For whatever reason (probably mental illness) I wanted to see how fast I could go, so I went through the gears, my little stick-legs pumping furiously.

I had one of those digital all-in-one bike computer thingies hooked up to the handlebars so my eyes flicked from that to the road, back and forth, one moment seeing "21mph" on the screen, the next seeing the look of unadulterated fear on a squirrel's face; "28mph" and something went "SQUEAK!" under my tires; at "35mph" my cheeks were flapping in the wind and bugs were committing hara-kiri on my face.

I finally hit 37mph and ran out of road. Now, 37mph seems like nothing in a car, but on a bike? Sheer terror.

I never had lights on my bike when I was a kid - we just rode in the dark. Stupid youth. Lucky youth. :distrust:
 

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