Davion
03-17-2009, 05:07 AM
This is not happening. I am covering ground at an unreal pace, 50 short of the indicated top. The acceleration has left my soul far behind. I must have done something right in this life or another to d,..eserve this (though I can't imagine what that might have been!). Later, I sat next to the bike on a deserted stretch of road with my hands trembling and my eyes closed, listening to the bike cooling down. Tack, tack, tack, tack ... it went. Like a pair of high heels in an empty cathedral. It was surreal. And I still don't believe any of this ever happened. How can I? Life has been rather strange over the last couple of days. Everybody is my best friend, I am an instant superstar wherever I go and most importantly, I have God-like power at my disposal. Power that made my entire life flash before my eyes, and yet I was pretty chuffed about it. How? Well.
2135
when you redline the fastest production motorcycle in the world in first gear, shift into second and have the front wheel come up a fair amount lat 1401, the aforementioned chuffing does tend to happen. That was my official indoctrination into the cult of the Hayabusa, a cult that makes the Kawasaki ZXI4R turn a deeper sh'ade of green. And now that the Hayabusa is officially available in India, the sole white ZX14 I've seen so far is going to have a tough time. The Hayabusa is a 300 kph bike. Shouldn't we verify this?' After everyone was done giving me 'shut up, boy' looks, it was decided that the bike is actually a silly-fast sport-tomer, so we decided to test this instead. Drat. The blokes at Hamamatsu themselves have stated that the top speed is incidental. What they wanted was an aerodynamically sound, fast tomer. And they justify this by pointing squarely at the bungee hooks on and under the rear seat. Preying on Blackbirds was never the intention. Yeah, right. Anyway, I had a day to head out and return, the chosen road being the fast, flOWing and scenic NH 17 up to whatever point I reached until afternoon so I could turn around and head back.
2135
when you redline the fastest production motorcycle in the world in first gear, shift into second and have the front wheel come up a fair amount lat 1401, the aforementioned chuffing does tend to happen. That was my official indoctrination into the cult of the Hayabusa, a cult that makes the Kawasaki ZXI4R turn a deeper sh'ade of green. And now that the Hayabusa is officially available in India, the sole white ZX14 I've seen so far is going to have a tough time. The Hayabusa is a 300 kph bike. Shouldn't we verify this?' After everyone was done giving me 'shut up, boy' looks, it was decided that the bike is actually a silly-fast sport-tomer, so we decided to test this instead. Drat. The blokes at Hamamatsu themselves have stated that the top speed is incidental. What they wanted was an aerodynamically sound, fast tomer. And they justify this by pointing squarely at the bungee hooks on and under the rear seat. Preying on Blackbirds was never the intention. Yeah, right. Anyway, I had a day to head out and return, the chosen road being the fast, flOWing and scenic NH 17 up to whatever point I reached until afternoon so I could turn around and head back.