Inch from death  By  geh3333 (Read 159 times)

Well , I take chances on the interstate riding as close to cars and trucks , mostly the big semi's so I can negate wind resistance on the scooter. This allows for much higher speeds and less gas consumption. I had a car hit its brakes on me at about 80+ mph and I missed the rear bumper by about an inch or 2 . Yes its dumb to ride like this , however these ppl don't realize that bc I'm on a scooter , hitting the pavement at that speed would have been almost certain death. Needless to say I was instantly enraged . I grabbed a lighter from the compartment and did my best to catch this prick .I was gaining at one point and was going to get infront of him and toss the lighter back at his car, but I "luckily" was unable to catch him. I got home and looked at my max speed on the GPS and it read "96 mph" . I've never had my GPS speedo glitch and read an incorrect speed , so now I need to see if I can hit that speed again. Was it my rage in feeling the need to catch this car that helped hit this speed? I was at 7500 rpms all out for miles trying to catch him , so did I really hit this speed ? My max up until that point was 83 mph at around 7100 rpms , so did the extra 400 rpms propell me to that speed ?