55 in a 45 in the Vanagon, the Idaho state patrol let me off with a warning. I told him I was try to build up speed for the 8 miles of 6% grade up ahead, and since I had the entire van full of bags of stove pellets, he went for it. My job is to tune and repair motorcycles that are very very fast. I had a Ducati 900ss in the shop that had a hestitation at about 6500 rpm with the engine under load. I was trying to duplicate the problem the customer was having and ended up getting a 72 mph in a 35 mph ticket, this was from a cop that three days earlier gave me a lecture because he said it "sounded" like I was speeding on another bike. When I got the 72 in the 35, I was in first gear and just acelerated and let off, didn't think I even went that fast, and only did it for a few feet. Last year my whole team was coming home from motorcycle road racing at SIR in Seattle. I was working in Idaho at the time so we were driving I-90. The speedo in the Vanagon was not working so I was just watching the tach and keeping it at around 4000. One of our racers was in his GTI and there was a big ford truck with a 32 foot trailer. For some reason I caught up to everyone and passed them. The next day they said I was doing like 85 the whole way. I only slowed down when the proximity alarm on my scanner would indicated a police radio frequency with in 3 miles, and every time I did, I would see a cop. David
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