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I reckone you could chip that up to at least 6 hp.

I'd be happy if it were producing any HP at the moment, wretched carb is porked and I'm awaiting some bits to fix it.
Still, saves mowing the lawn just now, although the vast quantities of water falling from the sky are currently seeing to that as well.

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There's a lot of talk about power here, but isn't it inversely proportional to the size of a man's todger?

I ride something which has less than one horse power called a man on a push bike.

0 - 60? Impossible. Once got up to 45 down a hill and thought I was going to die.

Torque? Depends on my anger and body weight, currently 14 stone.

Emissions? Some, but at least they're environmentally friendly. I have my own built in catalytic converter, and it smells about the same sometimes.

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You will be branded a threat to society by going over a speed limit where it is safe to do so, and suffer the consequences of your actions in a way criminals do not, more so than someone who is a real threat to our society.

You ride a man on a push bike?

Doesn't he complain?

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Oh no! Not you as well as Handy now

Cut me some slack. I have to do all this stuff quickly at work on a slow connection and make up the time later.

Ok then, I've got one with an engine too: -

1000cc V-Twin
100 bhp at the back wheel
200kg in weight
0-60 about 3 seconds, sometimes on the back wheel

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The views expressed in this post are personal opinions and do not necessarily represent the views of Safe Speed.
You will be branded a threat to society by going over a speed limit where it is safe to do so, and suffer the consequences of your actions in a way criminals do not, more so than someone who is a real threat to our society.

So if the power output is inversely proportional to the size of the owner's willy, what does that say about me?!?!

BTW - reading the last few posts whilst drinking soup was not a good plan....

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I couldn't possibly say Sixy, I'm a gentleman.

Any men out there brave enough to say what I'm thinking?

Maybe this whole speeding thing started because someone originally misunderstood what was said about having to do something about speed and got the drug confused with road speed? He didn't want to loose face once he'd committed to the spend of course, hence, we got cameras instead.

I'm all for the conspiracy theory...

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The views expressed in this post are personal opinions and do not necessarily represent the views of Safe Speed.
You will be branded a threat to society by going over a speed limit where it is safe to do so, and suffer the consequences of your actions in a way criminals do not, more so than someone who is a real threat to our society.

Dunno .... .... what's you're bra size?

Nope, that doesn't work cos my sis-in-law's got a 1450cc Harley and she's quite large in every way.

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And I'm not nor ever have been!

R1 - that's a VERY personal question to ask a lady! Where you'll find a lady round here I'm not sure...

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Science won over religion when they started installing lightning rods on churches.

From the look of the rogues gallery I would guess 34C, and very nice too

Is there a picture of R1 on there I wonder. Perhaps we could make a guess at his lunchbox?

Phew, I'm off for a cold shower now. Back later... On topic hopefully...

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The views expressed in this post are personal opinions and do not necessarily represent the views of Safe Speed.
You will be branded a threat to society by going over a speed limit where it is safe to do so, and suffer the consequences of your actions in a way criminals do not, more so than someone who is a real threat to our society.

No pics of me yet. Just not got round to it.

My lunchbox is big enough to leave the missus full after a snack

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Close but no cigar...anyway, that was then.... (*wanders off whistling who ate all the pies*)

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Science won over religion when they started installing lightning rods on churches.

EXACTLY!!! I wish you would enter politics Paul. You'd get my vote.

Trouble is, good guys always come second

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The views expressed in this post are personal opinions and do not necessarily represent the views of Safe Speed.
You will be branded a threat to society by going over a speed limit where it is safe to do so, and suffer the consequences of your actions in a way criminals do not, more so than someone who is a real threat to our society.

This is the first I have heard of this:



So, no Ferraris etc. in 8 years time.

They also say that a manufacturer can exclude small runs of 500 cars from the controls. I can see lots of specials coming up.

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Malcolm W.
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Or cars that are low power and low CO2 until you press the Sport button.

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- James May

The AGW bubble should burst long before then, and then the whole limiting emissions thing will be absurd.

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Paul Smith
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The statement about no cars over 240g/Km on sale in the EU in 2015 can be paraphrased as:

"Mercedes and BMW out of business by 2015!"

This is only 7 years away and is not enough time for them to get hybrids/hydrogen/whatever fully into the market. Lobbying German politicians by these big players will stop this happening rather than AGW falling over.

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Malcolm W.
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Yes, but....

Everyone in the EU except us cherry-picks EU legislation as they see fit, and will probably ignore it. Can you see the Italians legislating Ferrari out of existence?

Fortunately we don't really have a motor industry any more...

Worst-case (highly unlikely) scenario is that manufacturers will export CO2 compliant cars to us because our government wants to stick to the rules, and keep all the fast ones themselves, while our gov. helpfully bans importing them.

Much the same way as the French block lamb /beef imports when it suits them , the EU carmakers will just ignore it .

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lets bring sanity back to speed limits.
Drivers are like donkeys -they respond best to a carrot, not a stick .Road safety experts are like Asses - best kept covered up ,or sat on