205 mph outside Minneapolis

[scott540]

check it out. ThHink the pilot was correct?

http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/4992111.html

[smcgowan]

Even if he errored !! the guy was still moving. 140 over... oh my!. When I owned a 750katana I had it 140 for a few seconds and that was all I wanted! I just kept thinking about possums, dogs,or deer crossing the road. WHat about uneven pavement or a pothole!!!!

[winfred]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...5_mph_ticket_2

[1995 525i]

There ain't no way that kid was doing over 200 miles per hour. He would have to have two nox cans and turbo to run that fast. Not to mention the mods to the rest of the bike to make sure it could handle the overload. I think the Dodge V10 motorcycle can hit, and sustain 200 miles per hour but that thing isn't in productuion.

Based on
"The watch read 4.39 seconds, which Loney calculated to be 205 mph. " I say the cop either gets a new watch or some math lessons.

[632 Regal]

back a dozen years or so ago a couple friends bikes would blast fast. The mods were pipes, cams, ignitions, carbs etc, back then they would be able to top 190, mine did 165 and it was compared the theirs as "ancient". I see no problem with a newer bike with simple mods going over 200, shoot out of the showroom they can blast 180. These things are made for speed not touring the countryside at 65. As for the mentality to do this just figure idiot factor and a couple 40oz of beer.

[smcgowan]

Fuzzy Math 60 mph = 1 mile per minute 180mph = 3 miles per minute divide by 3 yields 1 mile per 20 seconds or 1/4 mile per 5 seconds @ 180mph

I'd say his correct, but at this speed do you think his Lawyer could get it reduce too? 180? Does it matter? Maybe he gets a PRayer for Judement Maybe he need to be his own lawyer and look at this website

http://www.beatmyspeedingticket.com/...ng_ticket.html

I see community service in his future....

[Patrick]

I've been to 145 on my 1992 Ducati, with room left to go, what I would estimate, to 165. Even a relatively ancient stock 1997 CBR1100XX is capable of 186. Brings to mind the saying, "There are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old, bold, pilots."

[JonE]

Yah, I laughed when I saw the news last night about this guy. His dad is some kind of cop. I bet he won't be too happy. Or, maybe he should get this kid on the race track!

[632 Regal]

Fuzzy Math 60 mph = 1 mile per minute 180mph = 3 miles per minute divide by 3 yields 1 mile per 20 seconds or 1/4 mile per 5 seconds @ 180mph

I'd say his correct, but at this speed do you think his Lawyer could get it reduce too? 180? Does it matter? Maybe he gets a PRayer for Judement Maybe he need to be his own lawyer and look at this website

http://www.beatmyspeedingticket.com/...ng_ticket.html

I see community service in his future....

[black_bird_blue]

I love the fact we get a stopwatch reading to 0.01 seconds - "the myth of accuracy"* if ever I've seen it. Sure the stopwatch reads to 0.01 seconds, but it's ******** that the man using it can really time to that.

Still, it does sound quite fast.

A standard Fireblade did something like 188 mph in this country's Motorcycle News a few weeks back. I was devastated, since my own Hayabusa pulls only a niggardly 180 or so (reading 186 on the speedo, apparently). 188 mph would give 4.78 seconds - as an engineer I have to say that's "about the same" as 4.39 seconds when we're talking about manual timing. So the bottom line is he was running his Blade flat out.

The MotoGP bikes pull 215 mph down the straights of the longer tracks - they are a 1 litre engine, no nitrous, no turbo and making about 230 bhp. Of course, they aren't terribly long-lasting but neither is anything running nitrous.

Someone who's never ridden a bike just doesn't get how quickly they get there, that's the big difference to a car. If I want to take my 540 past 150 on the clock I need at least 3 and preferably 4 miles of straight, empty motorway (I, er, I should imagine). I've had a Kawasaki ZX12R at an indicated 175 mph on our 1 mile straight** which has a 70 mph (tops) bend at the bottom of it. My Blackbird was knocking off 150 mph on the clock in half the straight for noise testing purposes - that's just half a mile. I went from standing to 150 to standing in 3/4 of a mile and I'm no expert at it.

I'm not saying it isn't fast, but the reality is that it doesn't last long. It's also quite uncommon for a motorcycle to cross the median and kill a family of four coming in the other direction.

I hate the "speed kills" moronic message. Bad riding/driving kills. Picking your moment and maxing something out is not the same thing at all. On the Isle of Man there are no speed limits on roads out of town and then there are the Autobahns in easy reach for us here, too. The Autobahns are the safest roads in Europe per passenger kilometre - and the US road system is horribly dangerous by the same measure.

Of course, doing it unlicensed is a bit dim and maybe it's a shame for the gene pool that something other than a traffic policeman intervened in this particular incident.

Damian

* "The Myth of Accuracy" - A Paper wot I wrote in October 2000.
** I work at a test track. And test things.