Seems like the first question I always get is 'How fast is it?' so I've been working on a response to that.
My standard answer has been 'I've had it up to about 100.'
My new answer is 'I can do the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs'
This is actually a better answer than it first appears. I was looking up the
wiki page for our uninformed Euro-friend and found this explaination. So what you'd really be saying is that your bike straightens the corners.
The Falcon is often connected to the Kessel Run, a pathway from Kessel past the Maw Black Hole Cluster used by smugglers to transport precious Glitterstim spice. Solo in A New Hope brags that the Falcon made the Kessel Run in "less than twelve parsecs". As this is a unit of distance, not time, different explanations have been provided. In the Expanded Universe, it refers to his ability to move the ship closer to the Maw's black holes and therefore cut the distance traveled. On the A New Hope DVD audio commentary, Lucas comments that, in the Star Wars universe, traveling through hyperspace requires careful navigation to avoid stars, planets, asteroids, and other obstacles, and that since no long-distance journey can be made in a straight line, the "fastest" ship is the one that can plot the "most direct course", thereby traveling the least distance.
...and I'm really glad I didn't know all of that before I looked it up.
