Why do you like to go fast?

[Triepsyn]

Why do you like to go fast? This isn't necessarily about racing, but going fast-- period. It can be racing; street, drag.. autox, drift.. Going home late.

Man has always wanted to travel faster. You think the Interstate Highway Act was about defense or supporting suburban development? Wrong. It's about open roads for driving fast. Why do you love to drive fast?

So tell us, why do you like to go fast?

[MikeOnFoot]

i dont...because if done in the wrong place=tickets
:P

[rjmancia]

...........................................its cool.............................................. .......all... the jdm kidz do it.....

[Turbodreamz]

adrenaline rush....duh

['Cuda66]

I wanna go fast.

[ChunkySupra]

The sound of the turbo under full boost never gets old.

[Will]

I like to go fast, too bad my car doesn't. LOL

[07 STI Ltd]

G-forces poke me in the adrenal gland :)

I'm more of a G junky than anything else. I once had a lust for acceleration and topspeed, but that got old quickly for me. Drag racing is fun, but requires $^3 and long topspeed runs on the highway are dangerous.

I choose cornering as my form or amusement now :) Lateral G's are my drug of choice :)

[JasonH]

The sound of the turbo under full boost never gets old.

+1, with the sound of throwing a fireball due to not having a proper tune.

[FlawleZ]

Adrenaline. I love the feeling of being shoved in the back of your seat as the car rockets forward under boost. ;)

[Shado]

G-forces poke me in the adrenal gland :)

I'm more of a G junky than anything else. I once had a lust for acceleration and topspeed, but that got old quickly for me. Drag racing is fun, but requires $^3 and long topspeed runs on the highway are dangerous.

I choose cornering as my form or amusement now :) Lateral G's are my drug of choice :)

Id have to agree with this i get more rush out of lateral G's than fast acceleration.

[FlawleZ]

Id have to agree with this i get more rush out of lateral G's than fast acceleration.

That's because you guys haven't felt a real fast car yet. :))

[07 STI Ltd]

That's because you guys haven't felt a real fast car yet. :))

Riiiiiiiiight. The injected 532 I had in my '67 chevelle drag car was good for high-mid 10's in the 1/4 ;)

I KNOW speed, it's just not what I crave anymore. If I was still into topspeed runs, I would never have left west TX. Smooth straight empty roads everywhere. Even the big rigs run 95mph+ on these roads. I moved back to AR for the twisties that are available to me within 15 minutes of leaving my driveway. :)

[FlawleZ]

Riiiiiiiiight. The injected 532 I had in my '67 chevelle drag car was good for high-mid 10's in the 1/4 ;)

I KNOW speed, it's just not what I crave anymore. If I was still into topspeed runs, I would never have left west TX. Smooth straight empty roads everywhere. Even the big rigs run 95mph+ on these roads. I moved back to AR for the twisties that are available to me within 15 minutes of leaving my driveway. :)

I'm in San Antonio so I get to experience the wide open roads that you're talking about. Mid-high 10's at ~125 mph or so? Twisties are fun, but I don't have my car setup for them just yet so I'll keep sticking to my highway fun. Something you can't experience in Arkansas.

[Shado]

That's because you guys haven't felt a real fast car yet. :))

After riding in a car that did 0-60 in 1.3 secs and 1/4 in 9.11 when it was running bad.... most everything else seems MEH! :sarcasm:

[FlawleZ]

After riding in a car that did 0-60 in 1.3 secs and 1/4 in 9.11 when it was running bad.... most everything else seems MEH! :sarcasm:

That's not bad. Which car?

And I've personally ridden in StreetFighter's 300ZX. Nothing seems fast after that. Its nuts when you're just cruising down the freeway and knowing that the liter bike willing to play is destined to lose.

[Shado]

I knew a guy who had a pro mod car. got to ride in it once. id be scared shitless if i rode in the latest one he has.

[Triepsyn]

+1, with the sound of throwing a fireball due to not having a proper tune.

and following behind said car with the fireball is always exciting when you're on your way to the track... You get a little giddy knowing that was just as exciting for them as it was for you...

[07 STI Ltd]

I'm in San Antonio so I get to experience the wide open roads that you're talking about. Mid-high 10's at ~125 mph or so? Twisties are fun, but I don't have my car setup for them just yet so I'll keep sticking to my highway fun. Something you can't experience in Arkansas.

The chevelle was never consistent on the big end while I had it. Trapped anywhere from 120-130 depending on traction :)

I also got many rides in pro-sportsman series drag cars when I workd at Sunset Racecraft. Tracy took me for a ride in his two-seat '57 corvette pro-sportsman and I got to pilot one of his rails one time. Both were so fast its hard to describe.

I'd still rather play on a roadcourse than a dragstip :)

[FlawleZ]

The chevelle was never consistent on the big end while I had it. Trapped anywhere from 120-130 depending on traction :)

I also got many rides in pro-sportsman series drag cars when I workd at Sunset Racecraft. Tracy took me for a ride in his two-seat '57 corvette pro-sportsman and I got to pilot one of his rails one time. Both were so fast its hard to describe.

I'd still rather play on a roadcourse than a dragstip :)

Hrm I was pretty close on trap guess then. And roadcourse>dragstrip anyday. It's harder on your car though. Especially here in the dead texas heat summers.

[laotionracer101]

The sound of the turbo under full boost never gets old.

like the supra mate! got one myself! ^.^ :rally: SEPT no turbo

[ChunkySupra]

^^^Cool man. Post up pics of your ride. If you haven't wondered over to SupraMania (www.supramania.com) yet, Highly recommend it. There is an Arkansas thread in the regional section.

[Torkels]

i go fast because im addicted to adrenaline

[Jet-Lee]

"There is cold, and there is cold on a motorcycle. Cold on a motorcycle is like being beaten with cold hammers while being kicked with cold boots, a bone bruising cold. The wind's big hands squeeze the heat out of my body and whisk it away; caught in a cold October rain, the drops don't even feel like water. They feel like shards of bone fallen from the skies of Hell to pock my face. I expect to arrive with my cheeks and forehead streaked with blood, but that's just an illusion, just the misery of nerves not designed for highway speeds.

Despite this, it's hard to give up my motorcycle in the fall and I rush to get it on the road again in the spring; lapses of sanity like this are common among motorcyclists. When you let a motorcycle into your life you’re changed forever. The letters "MC" are stamped on your driver’s license right next to your sex and weight as if "motorcycle" was just another of your physical characteristics, or maybe a mental condition. But when warm weather finally does come around all those cold snaps and rainstorms are paid in full because a summer is worth any price.

A motorcycle is not just a two-wheeled car; the difference between driving a car and climbing onto a motorcycle is the difference between watching TV and actually living your life. We spend all our time sealed in boxes and cars are just the rolling boxes that shuffle us from home-box to work-box to store-box and back, the whole time, entombed in stale air, temperature regulated, sound insulated, and smelling of carpets.

On a motorcycle I know I'm alive. When I ride, even the familiar seems strange and glorious. The air has weight and substance as I push through it and its touch is as intimate as water to a swimmer. I feel the cool wells of air that pool under trees and the warm spokes that fall through them. I can see everything in a sweeping 360 degrees, up, down and around, wider than Pana-Vision and than IMAX and unrestricted by ceiling or dashboard. Sometimes I even hear music. It's like hearing phantom telephones in the shower or false doorbells when vacuuming; the pattern-loving brain, seeking signals in the noise, raises acoustic ghosts out of the wind's roar. But on a motorcycle I hear whole songs: rock 'n roll, dark orchestras, women's voices, all hidden in the air and released by speed. At 30 miles per hour and up, smells become uncannily vivid. All the individual tree- smells and flower- smells and grass-smells flit by like chemical notes in a great plant symphony. Sometimes the smells evoke memories so strongly that it’s as though the past hangs invisible in the air around me, wanting only the most casual of rumbling time machines to unlock it. A ride on a summer afternoon can border on the rapturous. The sheer volume and variety of stimuli is like a bath for my nervous system, an electrical massage for my brain, a systems check for my soul. It tears smiles out of me: a minute ago I was dour, depressed, apathetic, numb, but now, on two wheels, big, ragged, windy smiles flap against the side of my face, billowing out of me like air from a decompressing plane.

Transportation is only a secondary function. A motorcycle is a joy machine. It's a machine of wonders, a metal bird, a motorized prosthetic. It's light and dark and shiny and dirty and warm and cold lapping over each other; it's a conduit of grace, it's a catalyst for bonding the gritty and the holy. I still think of myself as a motorcycle amateur, but by now I've had a handful of bikes over half a dozen years and slept under my share of bridges. I wouldn't trade one second of either the good times or the misery. Learning to ride one of the best things I've done.

Cars lie to us and tell us we're safe, powerful, and in control. The air-conditioning fans murmur empty assurances and whisper, "Sleep, sleep." Motorcycles tell us a more useful truth: we are small and exposed, and probably moving too fast for our own good, but that's no reason not to enjoy every minute of the ride.

[shocker]

if ya aint first your last, i like the rush. and i like winning.

[freeplus]

Hi.
Clearly i don't know why but I feel very well when goes fast to his bike..

[eg6.merrill]

dang jet lee lol. you let it all out.

reading that almost makes me want to learn to ride.

really though. I keep telling myself, the way I drive my car, , If I had a motorcycle, I'd be like one of those dumbasses going 120mph down 540 passing everything down the middle dotted line...

and something bad would probably happen lol.

still want to learn though.

[WORPeclipse]

Riding is easy.

[Jet-Lee]

dang jet lee lol. you let it all out.

reading that almost makes me want to learn to ride.

really though. I keep telling myself, the way I drive my car, , If I had a motorcycle, I'd be like one of those dumbasses going 120mph down 540 passing everything down the middle dotted line...

and something bad would probably happen lol.

still want to learn though.

I copy/pasted from someone else.

But yeah, riding is easy and fun.

[Jet-Lee]

Hi.
Clearly i don't know why but I feel very well when goes fast to his bike..

...and you, shut the fuck up.

[blackztsfocus]

...and you, shut the fuck up.



LMAO!!!!