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In 1977 I had a brand new 76 GL1000 with a windjammer on it. We were all hangin out one Friday night, and me and a guy with a bored out Triumph 650 (loud pipesand a Zig-Zag man painted on the yellow tank)went out to pick up some beer from a local store. He thought his bike was fast, and it was a pretty cool bike. He got on it off a light, and I just stayed with him and let him wind up the Triumph. He went through all the gears, and I just stayed next to him in second. We he was done with his show, I opened up the wing and just smoked him. We got back to the group and and he was speechless. He said all he saw was a tailight and a woosh go past him. They thought I was kinda different, and quiet, and thought the wing was just a big oldlumbering road bike. It changed their minds pretty good that night.
Same bike, I was going up I-75 from Detroit toRoscommon and I stopped for gas at an exit on the side of the freeway. A couple of guys were on a Mach III, and was in the store looking at the magazines when I went in to pay for the gas, and they said nice bike and all that and were acting kind of weird. I got back on the freeway, and after a couple of miles they showed up next to me, kind of weaving towards me and hollering and acting stupid. I opened it up from about 65 mph and held it there about 5 minutes. I didn't see them again ever, and when I looked down at the speedo, I was moving along at a brisk 110 MPH. I was surprised, on the one hand it was smooth and did not have a sensation of going 110, on the other hand, I thought it would have gone faster. I wonder now if I had it all the way open?