Thread: Getting power out of a harley

Originally Posted by Shearer

Some strange things do happen with the police.
I passed one who was hidden is a small driveway off the side of the road. He was standing next to his car with a walkie talkie in one and and his mouth wide open. A glance at the speedo on my RG500 indicated 235 kmph and I thought "oh bugger". About half a km down the road I came up behind two cars and as we crested a small rise, sure enough, there was another cop standing next to his car just down the road who casually walked out and waved the first car in. I cruised passed and carried on my way to work. Another time I was caught out by the "speed strips" they used to lay on the road. I went over them at 120 kmph but as there was a really nice fast left/right sweeper coming up it speed up to 180kph. I came out of the right hander and there was a cop frantically waving me down. I jumped on the brakes as hard as I could but shot past him by about 30m and had to turn around and come back to him. He gave me a ticket for 120 but was laughing the whole time saying I was doing a lot more than that around that corner. On that ride I had a good mate (who later became a multiple IOM TT winner) on the back of my CB900. He didn't have a license at the time so his GSX750 was parked up at home.

Was the RG much quicker than the RZ. I had the first RZ in South Africa as a second joice as the RG never arrived in 1984. Most I ever saw was 250 kmh on the Yamaha.