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Re: [Spridgets] calculating speed

To: "Jack Brooks" <jibjib@att.net>, "'Friends of Triumph'" <fot@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] calculating speed
From: Kathryn Bales <kgb@frontiernet.net>
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:51:00 -0700
Tractors were never meant to be driven fast.  You can't plow a good 
field at 50+ MPH.  My '72 Midget has been clocked at well over 200 on 
the straight at PIR.  Had I known I was as close to a class record as I 
was, I would have pushed her a bit further over red line. 

Kate
>
> Personally, I have calculated the top speed of my '76 as 62.5 MPH, for that is
> the speed at which the front wheels start to hop slightly, allowing the
> steering wheel to be sawed backed and forth with absolutely no effect on
> trajectory.
>
> Drew
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