These idiots fit well into the Darwin improvement of the gene pool!
In spades
Adrian, I have never heard you use such language. [:0]
I was just referring to an AOL news article. I will give a link BUT I don’t think it will work unless you have AOL.
http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20040921164009990002
Adrian, since you now have high speed internet service maybe you could find a link to a different source and post it for us. I don’t want to copy and paste the whole article, AOL might “get” me. [;)]
The event happened Saturday but the article was date the 21st.
It happened near WABASHA, Minn.
Here,
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=8&u=/ap/20040922/ap_on_fe_st/205_mph_ticket_2
The guys over on the dieselstop.com think it is bull too.
Adrianspeeder
Why I’ m surprised that you did not hear of this dual wheeled technological achievement. We heard about it last Monday the 20th down here in far away North Carolina in the local newspaper. I just hate it that the news travels so slowly don’t you?
Adrian,
My helper has a 1800 Honda retro…
yes, it will.
Scared him bad, but he wanted to see if it would.
Was on his way to Florida three weeks ago, found a nice flat strech of highway, and let her rip.
Told me he wouldnt ever do that again, for the reason Larry said, he realized that by the time he could have seen anything ahead of him, it would already be too late to do anything about it.
Ed
If an old Pontiac Fiero can be rebuild to achieve 170+ why not a motorcycle? GP race bikes hit and surpass these speeds all the time and theres no shortage of speed freeks on the highways stupid enough to try it. I Have to agree with what Ed said, you get above 120+ mph and your eyes to brain to hand reaction responce time drops off severly. Racing schools teach student things like begining your turn before your even in the turn because if you wait until your at the turn by the time your eyes register the turn, your brain processes the info and sends the signal to your hands to turn the wheel, your already into the guard rail. So they teach you to turn before so that when your arms start the turn your at the right place. Its very much a learned habit at these driving schools but most of these Speed Racer Wannabes have NO training and think they know how to drive fast. Most end up on the organ donor lists before long.
Is there some kind of new trend going on with motorcycle riders? In the past 1 month in NW Indiana there’s been at least four cycle deaths from hyper-hundred speeds. Last week there was one in Chicago on the Stevenson Expressway. Coming home from Joliet the other day on I-80 I was passed by a whole fleet of bikes going at least 120mph. Whatup with this? I care not to witness the next episode of “Puree-fest.”
Out here in the cornyards, most young-adult deaths are preceeded by the phrase,“Hey guys, watch this!”
Mitch
There needs to be a new category of infraction for this type of behavior.A felony and certainly one that prevents the convicted idiot from operating any machinery more powerful than a pencil sharpener.
I have no problem with morons like these killing themselves, preferably before they further pollute the gene pool. The problem is the innocent people that are often victims of their stupidity.
Honda wouldn’t dare use this in an ad campaign.
Wayne
personally i think writing speeding tickets based upon a stop watch from an airplane is bullcrap…second…i used to have a z28 camaro in which i went just shy of 150mph in. dumbest thing i ever did, but i just had to do it one time. it’s amazing how fast things go by at that speed…and how dead i woulda been if something happened…
The Minn. Star Tribune article about this proud moment in Minnesota history did raise questions on how one makes a 1000 get to 200 mph… either way, good grief, just asking for it.
I had my honda up 140mph and the front wheel statred to come of the ground.
Scary stuff.
And down here in the south the redneck’s famous last words are, “Hey ya’ll, watch this.”
A la the story about the voice black boxes allegedly placed in SUVs. In most of the country, accidents were preceded by the driver saying “Oh, S–T!”. In the south, accidents were preceded by “Hey ya’ll, watch this.”
And a little math - at 200 MPH, the potential victim is travelling at 293 feet per second. That’s basically the length of a football field, of course. Never mind a deer or another vehicle. At that speed a June bug would be almost enough to do you in. And that’s assuming you have your visor down…
Remember an incident in West Texas about twenty years ago when truckdrivers were reporting a fast moving ferrari traveling eastbound on I-10. The Texas state troopers were trying to set up a roadblock by listening to the truckers when he flashed past. They finally caught up with him when three truckers blocked the eastbound lane on a bridge. I still remember the state trooper pacing off the skidmarks of the braking car that they finally apprehended thanks to the tgree truckers. The state trooper estimated the ferraris speed in excess of 200 mph. Couldn’t outrun the truckers CB radios.
A brand new Suzuki Hayabusa 1300 will do 185 mph in stock trim. A Honda 1000, possibly a CBR1000 if it is a late model will go about 170 mph in stock trim. It is very possible for a bike to go over two hundred, but it would have to be highly modified.
Every component in the engine would have to be exchanged for high performance parts that are available to be able to handle the amount of power necessary, then to generate that power, cylinder heads, cam timing, special fuels, blower/turbo, and nitrous oxide injection.
To handle the speed, the bike’s chassis, brakes, and wheels are also highly modified, using expensive and exotic materials.
This type of bike is used in proffessional competition on a track under highly controlled conditions. It is also very expensive to build such a bike.
In my own experience, I have been up to about 130 on a motorcycle, when I was younger and stupider, and I can say that if the bike is well tuned, it actually becomes so stable that it requires a great deal of effort to effect any change in direction. At this speed if you are a practiced and sane person you are intensly focused on a point at least a mile in the distance and every thing in between, which is exhilarating, but can get tiring pretty quick.
Proffessional racers typically go as fast and faster, then brake for a thirty mile an hour turn in an absolute minimum distance - Quite a feat !!! I like to imagine an olympic diver in comparison - he does what he does by practicing over and over with levels of increasing dificulty, tuning reflex memory, there is no time for thought in such an action.
I eventually came to the conclusion that if I really wanted to advance my skills, I would be wasting my time on the road, because it is imposible to control the environment. Also, that type of riding wears out things like tires, brakes, and chains really quick, and these things are expensive, and not replacing them is risking your life.
As
I have no doubt the bike was doing 205 mph. A bike’s power to weight ratio is already far better than any cars’, and modifying the bike only enhances that power-to-weight ratio, and there are more than a few cars that can reach the 200 mph mark. There was a bike in the Chicago area clocked at 196 mph.
Clocking with a stopwatch from an airplane is perfectly legal, and a simple mathmatical calculation of time over distance traveled gives speed.
More math - for a measured quarter mile:
4.0 seconds = 225 mph
4.39 seconds = 205 mph
4.5 seconds = 200 mph
4.74 seconds = 190 mph
5.0 seconds = 180 mph
6.0 seconds = 150 mph
Even assuming a small error in starting and/or stopping the stopwatch, he was still moving right along…
That is the same exact story that AOL News carried. Both of them, AOL and MSN just copied the AP News story.