Date:         Thu, 18 Oct 2001 09:49:19 -0700
Reply-To:     David Bingham <DBingham@CASAGOFASTICA.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         David Bingham <DBingham@CASAGOFASTICA.COM>
Organization: Casa Gofastica Motorcycle Service
Subject:      Re: speeding tickets?
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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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