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MOTOBRICK.COM => The MBdotCOM Community Center => Topic started by: wmax351 on November 05, 2014, 09:18:08 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNRfOQSjpCY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNRfOQSjpCY)
God I love the autobahn. When I was on it I only got up to 205 kph/130 mph (the Triumph Thruxton I was riding wouldn't go any faster).
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Too bad it's an Audi, which was likely parked on the shoulder soon afterward
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Coming back through Germany from Desert Storm in 91,my unit had some time off. I went to Avis at the Frankfurt airport and rented a new 91 MB 190 2.6 16valve w/ 17 km on the speedo. I had it out heading to Munich to see family relatives.
I thought I was bad ass in the Schnell lane (fast one) until a BMW GS80 flipped his lights for me to pull over to the slow lane ! :riding: I did and watched him go by @ 120mph...I was much more humble that trip.
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My favorite comment on the youtube video: "Kids were late for school"
It's something else to drive there. I was cruising at about 100 mph in the right lane while I was adjusting a mirror, and I was distinctively the slowest vehicle on the road at that point. That included a VW panel van. The funny thing is that I felt (and was) safer driving at these crazy speeds there than I am at the speed of traffic in the US. The entire 800 km I rode for over a weekend, I did not get cut off, pulled out in front of, or tailgated. Says something for a drivers license requiring as much behind the wheel time as a private pilots license in the states. Unfortunately, if I ever move there (I'm a dual citizen, I reclaimed my grandfather's citizenship under Article 116 of the German constitution, governing victims of the third Reich), I would have to either do the whole license process, or first transfer my US license to one of the 23 states that allows a direct conversion. (Note: you can still drive there for up to 6 months with a standard US license, this is just for moving there for greater than 6 months.)
The autobahn is better maintained than most US racetracks. They don't do tar snakes when it cracks: they cut out the section and replace it.
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There is a nut in PA with a volvo wagon that walked a R1 at 190mph. the Twin turbo LS1 sort of helps. lol
http://youtu.be/GFrPjMVhP04 (http://youtu.be/GFrPjMVhP04)
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The 850 t5-R wagon is no slouch to start with. It has 250 horsepower.