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Trying so hard to be cool, and failing so spectacularly next to Marianne Weber
She tested the R68 for the French magazine "MOTORCYCLE" (issue 81/August 18th, 1952) and achieved a top speed of more than 160 km/h, proving that the R 68 was a true 100mph racing bike. Marianne Weber later achieved 162,895 km/h (101,24 mph) in a "flying kilometre" near the City of Waterloo in Belgium, 1954.
Imagine how fast she would have gone if she hadn't been risk-compensating for her almost total lack of protective clothing.
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