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     Desmo450 |
If you read about this Minnesota Biker who recently was ticketed doing 205mph on his Honda; This is a Copy of that Citation. Now if they only charge him 5 dollars per mph of the Posted Limit that still comes to 700 bucks........Honda should Pay for this Ticket. This is the best advertising you can have for having a Fast Bike.....Pretty Foolish to be going that Fast(if correct) probably a 99% certainty that if he Crashed, he would be History....  | ||
| Ray_maines |
Let me offer this as a dissenting point of view: Tis true that it's "a 99% certainty that if he Crashed, he would be History...." however.... He wouldn't hurt the bridge abutment at all. From a personal safety point of view, this was a dumb trick but I get annoyed with politicians and traffic patrol types that get all up tight because some kid endangers himself. Cops get paid to pick up the mess. Give the kid a speeding ticket and lets all just go about our own business. You keep care of yourself the best way you know how, I'll keep care of myself the best way I know how, and we'll all just let this kid rock and roll. | ||
| Darthane |
Who's to say he would hit a bridge abutment? People who say that speeding motorcycles only endanger themselves SERIOUSLY need to retake physics. Granted, a RC51 cannot reach those speeds, but even at 150mph, 550lbs of motorcycle and rider have an INCREDIBLE amount of kinetic energy. It he hit a vehicle at that speed the person in the car would only have even a chance be alive if he managed to miss the quarter that they were housed in. | ||
| Johncr250 |
Very true, just look at how much damage a deer can do to a car. | ||
| R1DynaSquid |
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| Wyckedflesh |
Do you remember the old "urban legend" about the Honda Hurricane rider ripping a BMW in half when they he it at speed in the door...well its not an urban legend, no this isn't a case of my sisters ex boyfriends sisters aunts yadda yadda yadda, I was on Highway 101 northbound waiting for them to clear the accident so we could continue. A girl in her BMW decided to turn around, as she made the first part of a three point U-turn a Hurricane rider came FLYING up the line of stopped cars. He then literally went flying as his bike ripped through the doors of the BMW. This was during the Summer of '89. | ||
| Outrider |
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| Buelluk |
Why do we have to assume that cops are paid to clear up the mess, in the UK you will be billed for any costs associated with cleaning the mess up. My brother is a cop in the UK, he had to cover up the body of a 13 year girl who was wrapped around the wheel of a bus that run her over | ||
| Midknyte |
Many a good nights sleep I'm sure... | ||
| Buelluk |
Yes, i know cops are fair game for most of us, but they have to do some •••••• stuff as well, it's not fair to assume that for the amount they get paid that they should have to clear up after idiots who wipe themselves out ,either through their own misguided actions or others. Great joke Mikej, lets see how you would have responded as an 18 year old and then having to tell her parents | ||
| Steve_a |
I've investigated several car/bike accidents that killed the car driver. One was a middle-aged woman that pulled out from a side street in a little Nissan. She crossed two lanes of oncoming traffic and was in the pass-through in a wide parkway that divided a four-lane road. The oncoming motorcyclist was doing over 60 in a 35, and swerved left as he saw her pull out. He actually swerved all the way out of the fast lane and center-punched her door after she cleared that lane and was in the pass-through area. He was on an adventure touring bike, and went over the top of the car. He lived with a spinal cord injury that cost him the use of his legs. His bike bent the car like a banana, pushing the driver's door in about 2 feet. A handlebar end went right through the woman's head. Oh, and the bike rider tested positive for cocaine. He sued the estate of the woman, the homeowner on the corner whose bushes blocked the view when you were 20 feet away from reaching the curbline, and the city the accident occurred in for allowing the bushes and putting the stopline so far from the curb. This was a classic case where the car driver most likely (I can't be sure because she was dead) misjudged not the distance but the speed of an approaching motorcycle. Even with the bike going 75 percent faster than the speed limit, she still cleared oncoming lanes, and there would have been no accident if the motorcyclist hadn't swerved left. And certainly no accident if he had been going a little slower, say 45 in a 35. | ||
| Mikej |
Wasn't really a joke, more just tieing the two comments of your's together. But since you saw it as a joke, as your's was seemingly meant as a jab itself, consider it gone. For the record I was involved with a Search&Rescue team out west where victims were sometimes billed for searches, but the billing rules allowed for subjective assessment. We never charged for covering victims nor for retrieving them from ravines and such. bye. | ||
| Desmo450 |
Follow up from original post. Here is the guys explanation from a road race forum, he swears he wasn't going over 145. lol He writes- "All right, I was the one who got the ticket and it is time to clear some things up. For one, I was riding a 2003 Honda RC51. Next, the bike wasn't impounded, it was towed so it wouldn't be in the roadway. Ok, on to the tickets. 205...uh no. On Sept. 22, we did a top speed run on his dyno, in 6th gear, and maxed nearly 60mph slower than I was arrested for. The "no motorcycle endorsement" is because my licence was expired, I do have a motorcycle endoresement for all you people digging into me about that. The stop watch method may be accurate at times, but this is un-conceivable for my motorcycle to approach 205. Honda's RC211v, which is Honda's MotoGP race bike, 5 cyclinders and 268 horespower, just broke 200mph on the track within the last week. Also, both of us were arrested, and no, the slower one did not get a warning, he was ticketed for 111mph on a F4i. I hope this clears things up for everybody, I am just sick of everyone saying things about what they dont know, making me look like this horrific person. People speed, and if anyone knows anything about the "Flood Run" (which was the ride I was on, which by the way benefits the Gillettes Children Fund) I would be a hell of a lot more concerned about the 7,000 bar-hopping motorcyclist out on the road. 99% of the people you hear things from are misinformed. If you have questions, I will answer them. And one last note, this is information you don't know, the pilot who clocked me, was clocking me, the F4i, and flying his plane at 110mph all at the same time. Think about that for a second." |
