Height, top speed to date, number of cats?

Ducatista · Post by **Ducatista** » June 13th, 2007, 5:52 pm

5'11", 165mph, 3.

Just wanted to cash in on the measuring craze.

PaulS · Post by **PaulS** » June 13th, 2007, 7:43 pm

6'2", 155mph (maybe more but I was too busy to look, a friend that I passed told me later that he was doing 90, which surprised me, I thought he was obeying the posted limit), 0 Currently but mostly 3 growing up.

Max piloting Airspeed is a bit faster, but I'm thinking you meant ground oriented vehicles.

Next up: Multiples of the posted speed limit. I'll open with 17.

Ducatista · Post by **Ducatista** » June 14th, 2007, 11:45 am

PaulS wrote:Max piloting Airspeed is a bit faster, but I'm thinking you meant ground-oriented vehicles.

Ha, yes. One of the guys I ride with pilots corporate jets, and he's been known to bust out airspeed when the "top speed" discussions get underway. But as with cycling, his most fun piloting comes at much lower speeds, when he moonlights with his family's crop-dusting business.

17x the posted, eh? Da-amn.

ancho · Post by **ancho** » June 14th, 2007, 12:46 pm

187cm, about 250kmh (as a codriver

), 3 kids and my GF has 1 cat...
So, how much is that in New Pence?

Nosmo · Post by **Nosmo** » June 14th, 2007, 2:02 pm

5'7"
67 mph (on a tandem bicycle)
3 Dachshunds

PaulS · Post by **PaulS** » June 14th, 2007, 3:58 pm

Ducatista wrote:
PaulS wrote:Max piloting Airspeed is a bit faster, but I'm thinking you meant ground-oriented vehicles.
Ha, yes. One of the guys I ride with pilots corporate jets, and he's been known to bust out airspeed when the "top speed" discussions get underway. But as with cycling, his most fun piloting comes at much lower speeds, when he moonlights with his family's crop-dusting business.

17x the posted, eh? Da-amn.

Well, I'm definitely not in the corporate Jet class, just a tad under 200mph in a Pitts Special which may be somewhere in the realm of a crop duster, tons of fun, but way above the power lines.

The 17x wasn't all that fast, it just happened to be a unique opportunity. Just after Mt. St. Helens blew her stack back in 1981 many of the small towns in eastern Washington posted "5mph" on the highways starting a mile out of town to keep the ash from getting blown up badly. I happened to be heading across the dark plain about midnight when I blew by one of the signs wondering what it was, the next one showed up in about 20 seconds and after I had slowed a bit I made it out and tried to really slow down, nonetheless I passed through town at idle, but the following cloud was pretty obvious. Fortunately the LEO's must have been doing something more important than watching Main St.