any wonder some people hate bikes/Ghost Rider in Rotorua?

[madboy]

What "full" story???... the guy got clocked doing 117 in Fenton st... a main street with a limit of 50 on 90% (if not all) of it... he's a fuckin idiot... end of story!
If a dick in a subaru and a cap did it you wouldn't want a "full story"....

actually i would still want the full story - was he on the 10% that your say might not have been a 50 zone? I don't know the area, that's why I want the full story before passing judgement on the guy.

[scumdog]

SO STOP CALLING ME THEN , I SAID IM NOT INTERESTED, YOU KNOW I DONT DATE CHICKS WHO CAN RIDE FASTER THAN ME AND BEAT ME IN AN ARM WRESTLE

Hell, you must have a hell of a small number of potential dates!! Must be even harder trying to find them in your ward!

On second thoughts it might be just a small 'number' Jeff!!!

[Mitch]

Hell, you must have a hell of a small number of potential dates!! Must be even harder trying to find them in your ward!

On second thoughts it might be just a small 'number' Jeff!!!

HA Scumdog I don't think I know you.................. BUT I like the way you think!!!!!!!

[madboy]

We have been told that this event allegedly took place within the Rotorua city limits where, I would guess, 180kmh is likely to be "actually dangerous". No debate necessary, I would have thought. Per se.

As said, I don't know Rotorua, so difficult for me to judge the guy (not wanting to insult the crazy females out there, just making a general assumption that it's a guy). The story doesn't say the route the pursuit took, so everyone is making the ASSUMPTION that the guy was pulling 180k within the city limits. If that ASSUMPTION is correct, well maybe the guy has a screw loose. But unless we know the FULL story, we are all making ASSUMPTIONS - which was my whole point to start with.

Besides, you know me Hitcher - I never endorse illegal activity

[Coldkiwi]

agreed the rider is pretty suicidal/homocidal doing 117 down Fenton St. But the 180kmhr statement does seem a little bit fanciful. How would they really know? If they knew, they should've said 'was clocked at 180kmhr'. goes to show how stuffed stuff is eh?

[Funkyfly]

agreed the rider is pretty suicidal/homocidal doing 117 down Fenton St. But the 180kmhr statement does seem a little bit fanciful. How would they really know? If they knew, they should've said 'was clocked at 180kmhr'. goes to show how stuffed stuff is eh?

does kinda make you wonder, 180kph down fenton street in "peak traffic", hmm yea right. I have driven in rotorua peak hour traffic and you would be hella hard pressed to ride 50kph let alone 180kph.

[strayjuliet]

agreed the rider is pretty suicidal/homocidal doing 117 down Fenton St. But the 180kmhr statement does seem a little bit fanciful. How would they really know? If they knew, they should've said 'was clocked at 180kmhr'. goes to show how stuffed stuff is eh?

That's exactly what my point was in my earlier posting, it says he was clocked at 117 but does'nt mention 180, so I was wondering where the 180 came from, seems funny to me.

[**R1**]

Dont ya all think ya hanging the guy a bit quick?? fuk who's to say there was any trafic even on the road? A copper? fuk it must be true.....NOT.

dont know the full eye witness acount so as far as im concerned...GOOD ON HIM.

untill i see otherwise.

[Jeremy]

KE = 1/2mv^2

Weight of bike = 200kg (picking a heavy sportsbike, plus the maths is easier)
Speed = 180km/h = 50m/s

= 1/2 * 200kg * 50^2
= 250000 joules (might be Newtons, been a while since I did 6th form physics)

Now lets find out how fast a car has to travel to cause as much damage on impact.

Weight = 1000kg (perhaps on the heavy side but it'll counter act the bike weight)

250000 = 0.5 * 1000 * v^2
250000 = 500v^2
500= v^2
v = 23km/h

Sure he'd kill himself if he hit a car, however he's unlikely to cause that much of a dent in the car that he hit.

[madboy]

Weight = 1000kg (perhaps on the heavy side but it'll counter act the bike weight)

250000 = 0.5 * 1000 * v^2
250000 = 500v^2
500= v^2
v = 23km/h

Actually an early 90s Civic weighs that much, a late 90s Primera stationwagon weighs 1350kg... a Commodore is more like 1600kg, plus add some for all the shite those Commos with funny lights on them carry and it would be dangerous for the Commo to break walking pace... just as well really that it was behind the bike!

[tlr-steve]

sure as hell was'nt me.

[Blakamin]

Dont ya all think ya hanging the guy a bit quick?? fuk who's to say there was any trafic even on the road? A copper? fuk it must be true.....NOT.

dont know the full eye witness acount so as far as im concerned...GOOD ON HIM.

untill i see otherwise.

Cant you read either??? 8 am it says.. a main street in a town? ffs...... even raumati has fuckin traffic at 8am on a monday.....

[Blakamin]

Sure he'd kill himself if he hit a car, however he's unlikely to cause that much of a dent in the car that he hit.

your physics is all fine in theory... tell those numbers to a frined of mine who has been a vegetable for the last 18 years...coz a bike came up the bonnet and thru the fuckin window....


are all you pepole this fuxkin stupid?????


I quit.........................

[tlr-steve]

Cant you read either??? 8 am it says.. a main street in a town? ffs...... even raumati has fuckin traffic at 8am on a monday.....

well i can honestly say , riding/driving anywhere through
rotorua around that time in the morning can be bloody crazy

[madboy]

Can't say i'd be endorsing high speed activity round town at 8am, but i'd be a hypocrite if I waged too far into this debate. But what gets me is how quick everyone is to judge...

Does anyone involved in this thread actually know what really happened? Umm... "no" I think is a fair answer.

Had a similar debate with a work colleague today... off topic but... I like fast cars. Sooner or later once I've got my mortgage down, got my income up I'll own a pretty fast car again - probably the equivalent of the latest Evo (ver 27 by the time I get there) or something. But if I buy one before I'm old, wrinkled and grey, I'll be labelled a boyracer. Fact. I could also be a motorsport enthusiast who enjoys owning a quick car and regularly takes it to track days and participates in real motorsport sanctioned events... but out on street where no one takes the time to ask, I will be judged a boyracer...

Just like some are judging our fellow motorcyclist here based on 1/5th of the story.