Scott Loveless wrote: >On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: >> When your car and your motorcycle both have roughly the same >> horsepower, getting on the bike for the first time in several months >> makes for a profound demonstration of the concept of "power-to-weight >> ratio". > >Considering that you drive a Prius, had you not specifically said >"motorcycle", I wouldn't have known which bike you were talking about. > >:-O
Funny thing is, I was recently looking through some car stuff on the web and came across specs on the original Ford Mustang - the base V-6 was rated at 105 horsepower, which is 5 *less* that the Prius (and my Triumph Sprint) and had a top speed of 95 mph, which is 10 mph slower than Al Gore's son got busted for doing in his Prius ;-) Of course, the top speed of the Triumph is around 160... Bwahahahaha! "The point is, ladies and gentleman, is that speed -- for lack of a better word -- is good. Speed is right. Speed works. Speed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the competitive spirit. Speed, in all of its forms -- lap times on road courses, quarter-mile times on drag strips, flat-out runs on the salt flats -- has marked the upward surge of mankind." -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
