Me too, Bro. I ain't nuthin' like I was when I was younger. In '72, when I came back from overseas, I bought a new 750 Honda 4 cyl. Pretty hot bike back then. In '75, I bought a brand new Super Glide, and at first I was really pissed off that it wouldn't accelerate or corner anything like the Honda, but hey, it was a Harley.
When I was drivin' truck, if the truck would've done 130, I'da dunnit. I was drivin' a '72 Jimmy conventional with a sleeper box, had a 903 Cummins V8 and a 13 speed Roadranger tranny, and on one occasion runnin' empty, from St. Ignace, Mich. to Toledo 5 Truckstop in 4hr 20 min. I'd called dispatch and told 'em I was leavin' St. Ignace, and when I called 'em a few hours later, they wouldn't believe I was at T5. If I recall, St. Ig was at the 350 mile marker on I-75, plus 23 miles of Ohio to the truckstop. 373 miles in 4:20. You do the math.
When ya hit overdrive in that truck, the speedometer would come down to the m in mph at the bottom of the speedo. I don't know how fast that was, but for an 18 wheeler, that's gittin' on down the boulevard.
Back in those days, Michigan was good runnin', especially from about 50 miles north of Detroit, all the way up to the Soo on the Northern Peninsula. You'd a been hard pressed to find a cop back then. Sigh. Those were the good old days.
Nowadays, I run the speedlimit, may just a little faster. Sometimes less than the limit. I might be one of those painintheasses that causes roadrage.
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