How Much Have You Indulged Your Need For Speed?

[LabradoRacer 2]

Ok,I'm curious to know the fastest you guys have driven & been driven on a bike & a car.

Here's mine:

Driving the bike myself : A gearless scooter at 60 kph (Around 37/38 mph) (Don't have a license )

As pillion rider : 95 Kph(Around 60 mph). I admit it isn't a nice feeling to be a pillion rider at high speeds. Not that I'm afraid of high speeds ,but would rather be in control.

No car license.

As car passenger : 110 kph.(Around 69mph)

Yeah ,the figures are pitiful. Anyway,do pour in your figures.

[Jean Todt 4]

Ok,I'm curious to know the fastest you guys have driven & been driven on a bike & a car.

Here's mine:

Driving the bike myself : A gearless scooter at 60 kph (Around 37/38 mph) (Don't have a license )

As pillion rider : 95 Kph(Around 60 mph). I admit it isn't a nice feeling to be a pillion rider at high speeds. Not that I'm afraid of high speeds ,but would rather be in control.

No car license.

As car passenger : 110 kph.(Around 69mph)

Yeah ,the figures are pitiful. Anyway,do pour in your figures.

There guys here who might have suerly gone faster and there was a thread earlier on this, anyways, I will update my speed when I have read others.(just to know if I have been fast enough)

[ykickamoocow 0]

Im too young to get a real speed fix. I only have a provisonal license so that means the fastest i can go on the road is 90 kph (56 Mph)) and i also have a really slow car which has about a maximum speed of 110 kph (68 Mph) and goes from 0-100 in about 20 seconds. When i get my full license i plan to go to a racing school for fun where they teach you how to drive a Formula Ford which i think will be very exciting

[Shooting Star 0]

I owned a Civic in the US. I used to see myself drive between 80 and 100 mph pretty often.

My friend and I were messing around with his new Audi A6 which touched a 140 mph and seemed like it could do more. We didn't push it further though.

Here in India, amidst all the traffic, speed is rare. I have hit 120/130 Kph on a few occasions in my Corolla.

[pumpdoc 2]

I've been over 140 mph more times than I can count, and saw 159mph once in a race truck(Off road, radar gunned).

[rumblestrip 0]

140 once, in a Mustang I used to own, and the top speed was 140.0 and not a mph faster.

My last car could have easily surpassed that by 20mph, but I never went for it.

On a bike, 58.2 mph. But my kind of bike is probably different from yours, because I am the engine.

[AutoRacer5 0]

In the two cars I've driven by myself, I went 90 in a cavalier and 91 in a mini-van. There was fog with the mini van.

[F1 FANatic 1]

Living in San Diego everybody drives 80 mph on the highway anyway but I did once get to 110 in an 98 Explorer on that really long strait bit of the I15 heading up to March AFB, then the speed limiter kicked in. I did get to rid shotgun though for my neighbor who bought a Lotus Exige. We got up to 135 and then flew past a cop who was just handing out a ticket to someone else so we slowed down

[Jean Todt 4]

I owned a Civic in the US. I used to see myself drive between 80 and 100 mph pretty often.

My friend and I were messing around with his new Audi A6 which touched a 140 mph and seemed like it could do more. We didn't push it further though.

Here in India, amidst all the traffic, speed is rare. I have hit 120/130 Kph on a few occasions in my Corolla.

What the hell? who says speed is rare in India? I have touched 230kph in a 5series, and 170 kph in an old Ninja! There are guys in Chennai who touch 280-290 in their Ferrari! (early hours of the mornings mate..not during the rush hour) And i regularly touch 140 in my diesel Innova(in a normal highway) ! I am sure there is some one here who has thouched 300, atleast close!

[Shane2 0]

Not really had much experience of speed tbh. probably about 100 in a car and about 45 on a quad bike

[Quiet One 15]

Just cars for me. Many times came back from my old work (it was about 80 kilometers - 50miles from my home) and got as fast as 135mph in a Megane. Not for long, of course as there was too much traffic (not to mention that it was way beyond the speed limit )

[Jean Todt 4]

Just cars for me. Many times came back from my old work (it was about 80 kilometers - 50miles from my home) and got as fast as 135mph in a Megane. Not for long, of course as there was too much traffic (not to mention that it was way beyond the speed limit )

are they really strict with speed limits on highways in your place?

[Player(1) 0]

Think 120mph is the fastest in a car ages ago as a passenger and a not very straight motorway. Don't care much for speed on public roads though.

About 35mph in a kart aswell, on a circuit ofcourse. Someday i'll go to Nordschleife and change all that.

[Niall McBride 0]

probably doesn't count since i didn't drive but i was a passenger in a car going 70mph

[suomenpankki 0]

224 km/h in my old Honda cbr1000

[goferrarigo 0]

I have been 150 kph in bbay passenger and 100 kph by my own(i was on learners license and was just learning (on an optra on sunday on worli) when i go back will get a full license and probably go above that, once i get a little more control

I pretty much know most of it, but just find it hard to pick up a car(after the signal comes on) on a slope with cars all around me and pressing their horns.

[c21 0]

I have done about 130 mph in a formula vauxhall-lotus around Mallory in England, and about the same in my car on the German autobahn in Germany

[Quiet One 15]

are they really strict with speed limits on highways in your place?

No they are not and that is exactly why people dies like flies down here

[Jean Todt 4]

I have been 150 kph in bbay passenger and 100 kph by my own(i was on learners license and was just learning (on an optra on sunday on worli) when i go back will get a full license and probably go above that, once i get a little more control

I pretty much know most of it, but just find it hard to pick up a car(after the signal comes on) on a slope with cars all around me and pressing their horns.

Mumbai to Pune express highway road is there!

[Jean Todt 4]

No they are not and that is exactly why people dies like flies down here

same here! but its because of the commercial vehicle drivers trying to own the roads and motor cyclists thinking that they drive a Rolls Royce, causing so many accidents, infact one of the highest in the world. I hope everyone in the forum wears a seat belt though!

[goferrarigo 0]

Mumbai to Pune express highway road is there!

will go after getting my license. and being sure abt the slope thing, any help on that, i find using the handbrake quite trickyto lift and then release the cluth adn press the accelerator at the same time, i sure it will be easier after some tries(hopefully not some crashes ) but any tips?

[goferrarigo 0]

same here! but its because of the commercial vehicle drivers trying to own the roads and motor cyclists thinking that they drive a Rolls Royce, causing so many accidents, infact one of the highest in the world. I hope everyone in the forum wears a seat belt though!

I am sure they do even though F1 drivers don't(i think)

[Jean Todt 4]

will go after getting my license. and being sure abt the slope thing, any help on that, i find using the handbrake quite trickyto lift and then release the cluth adn press the accelerator at the same time, i sure it will be easier after some tries(hopefully not some crashes ) but any tips?

Since its the Optra you are driving, using hand brakes do work because its front wheel drive (as it is with most of the new cars). It also depends on your taste. I dont like to burn the wheels that much, I prefer drifting, and Innova is really capable of drifting on dirty roads. Last december while driving back from Ooty with my friend, (they were repairing those roads after a deadly landslide) I found some superb spots to drift that car where the mud had dried up and made it very slipery. But its a bit difficult for me drift to a left hand corner, drifting (turning) towards right seems to be much easier affair. At present Innova is the only vehicle I have that is capable of drifting since its a rear wheel drive (hey...its my dad's car ), the other rear wheel drive vehicle we have is a Maruthi Omni . My car is a Cielo, I am modifying it myself in our factory!

[Jean Todt 4]

I am sure they do even though F1 drivers don't(i think)

yes they do!

[cavallino 2]

Ok,I'm curious to know the fastest you guys have driven & been driven on a bike & a car.

Here's mine:

Driving the bike myself : A gearless scooter at 60 kph (Around 37/38 mph) (Don't have a license )

FFS get a license, as if it's that hard to get one there

I pretty much know most of it, but just find it hard to pick up a car(after the signal comes on) on a slope with cars all around me and pressing their horns.

Ignore horns, completely. Pretend they don't exist. As for getting the car off a slope, that's clutch control, that just means you don't know half of it yet

Here's the easy way of doing it, you could start with this.

Park on the slope, apply the handbrake. first gear, press accelerator more than normal (depends on degree of slope), release clutch, when you are sure you are moving forward, release the handbrake. disclaimer: The method may not be too nice on the car.

The proper way:

Stop on slope, apply brakes. If you have to stop for more than a few seconds, apply handbrake. when it's time to move, release handbrake and apply the brake with your right foot. begin to release clutch until you get to the point where there is a slight 'scratchy' noise. hold your left foot there, move the right foot from brake to accelerator. The car will not roll back if you have got the clutch just right.

As for speeds, did 120mph in a mkIV Golf Gti in the Australian outback.

And did 130kph on this:

At that point the car was shaking, and the wheels (which incidentally had been aligned manually) were a bit out, so I let go. The lovely little 800cc engine still had grunt left

F1 drivers wear a 4 point harness. They didn't wear seat belts in the older days though.