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A mere 103mph for me! And only twice at that.


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Been on the back of a bike at 150mph on the A46 or A47 (always get them mixed up)

Back of a bike at 170.

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Many years ago a 125mph in a ford Capri I think it was a suped up version that Ford knocked out,it was my brothers who then wrote it off along with the car he hit a few years later luckily nobody was hurt.

Once got 95mph out of an old knackerd Honda 250cc motorbike,a G5 I think it was.
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Think mine was a little over 100... in my faithful old Vauxhall Nova. That was fun... for a few seconds... then the back end started swinging out and I nearly flipped it. Slowed down a bit after that, funnily enough, and haven't dared go stupidly fast since.

Um, 150+ on the back of a bike? Wasn't that a little terrifying?


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186mph on a bike, several times.
I know I was actually doing 186mph, because the bikes are limited to that by a 'gentleman's agreement' the manufacturers have.
The fact they clearly wanted to go faster but just stopped, told me I'd hit the limiter and was doing 186mph.
In a car, around 140mph is the fastest I've been.
And that felt a whole load scarier than the bike.
High speed in a car gives me a scary sense of a whole lot of energy needing to slow down.
A bike will come down from high speed with much less drama.
You're talking 300kgs, as opposed to 1500kgs for your average car.

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Um, 150+ on the back of a bike? Wasn't that a little terrifying?It was a bit scary yes - and I didn't know we were going to do it.  It was many years ago on an FZR-1000 Exup.  Tried to put my head out a bit to see the speedo - soon put it back in..

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Sums it up with bikes, it's just so effortless.
You're there in seconds.
Even a 600cc bike will do 0-130mph in around 11 seconds.