+/- 700 hp, +/- 1600 lbs, open cockpit

Jerry Seinfeld Is Being Sued, and When I Found Out Why, I Literally Died

This title is dangerously close to clickbait. It makes Seinfeld out like he’s a jerk and trying to screw people. As stated in the article after the click, Jerry didn’t do anything wrong. Jerry is just asking the folks crying that they prove it isn’t what it’s supposed to be. 

He *really* doesn’t need the money and has a pretty sterling reputation as a purveyor of fine Porsches, hard to see the incentive for him to dabble in intentional fakery like this.

Their own weight or the weight of their vehicle?

I used to work trade shows and we could spot a Mopar guy from 100 feet away. They all look the same.

Shhh...don’t give them any ideas.

The “Lightweight Package” should just be a Demon crate engine in a kart frame.

It doesn’t matter, this is just to increase resale value in 40 years when it goes across the auction block so the announcer can say it has the coveted and highly rare lightweight package.

you see no big changes in the country. it’s all the same*

I know it’s a tired exercise at this point but bear with me...

and in one of the strangest alterations, Trump’s fingers have been made slightly longer.

No, not with how the bike is geared. Picture yourself on a 27 speed road bike, in the 27th gear, starting uphill. Pretty much impossible, right? Now the gear ratio on this bike to be able to travel at 180MPH would be well in excess of even that impossible situation, so the bike had to be sped up before a person could…

She was pulled up to a certain speed and then accelerated more than 80mph in under 2.5min under her own power to hit a top speed >180mph. If you’ve driven behind a truck you know that drafting doesn’t provide THAT much of an assist - here it was providing enough of a windbreak that she COULD do that

A lot of replies here from people who’ve never ridden a bike!

Have you ever tried drafting even a dump truck on the highway on a bicycle?

Having a draft doesn’t mean you’re pedaling in a vacuum on a frictionless surface with frictionless bearings and chain.

It’s still windy, the salt is still lumpy, and you have 50lbs of meat reciprocating beneath you while you try to breath.

Heck…

“This isn’t a human power accomplishment, it’s engineering a means of getting a “record”.” 

An NPR article says she was towed up to about 100 mph, because of the gearing on the bike. So it would seem the last 80ish miles were human powered through the very tall gearing.

My dog has you beat

I know there is no “sarcasm font” but, I mean really, how obviously not serious does a comment have to be?

I’m not impressed.