8min blast, what do u think??

**andy1** · 3rd June 2003, 14:06

i was just wondering what u think of this.
we meet a guy on a 954 a couple of weeks back, man could this guy ride. im not to sure how many k's the blast is(kopu to whanga turn off) but if someone could suggest would be good. now the point of this.
he started at the kopu petrol station (coromandel) and finished at the whanga turn off(there is a small area to park on the right). now the part that i think is amazing is that the journey only took him 8mins!. he reached a top speed of 300km and sometimes on one wheel. to get the correct time people where at the start and finish. maybe its just me but i think thats a bit extreme. if u havent done this road u should but not this crazy.
thanks

**bluninja** · 3rd June 2003, 17:12

Hasn't this guy heard of trackdays or racing on a track? What do I think? I think 8 minutes of video might look good online. I also think 300k is a bit of a brag...real 300 k is hard to reach on a bike.....what the speedo says is not always accurate, and it always overestimates. As for timing at both ends.... a stopwatch on his dash would have been accurate to within a few seconds.

TTFN

**Dave** · 3rd June 2003, 17:38

Its all fun 'till someone looses an eye!
I think this nutcase should get out on a race track.
There the bragging stops!
What I found when roadriding is the guys who can pull off stunts like this just don't care if they take out other people,or go home in a box. Yes it probably can be done-But most people just won't try.
It will look good on his tombstone though;
Kopu to whanga in 8 Minutes-RIP

**Coldkiwi** · 3rd June 2003, 17:50

The authority on this one would be KiwiDan. I understand he knows the kopu hikuai road VERY well.

I did it a month or so ago and I recall that stretch took me between 15 and 20 mins.. maybe 25ish. I don't know the road that well but I was pushing reasonably hard and gave it the berries whereever I could.

I think the odds of HALVING my time on that road are pretty friggen slim unless your last name is Rossi, you're wielding an RC211V GP bike with hot slicks, no traffic and no regard for your own life... then your odds are just marginal.

maybe I'm a limp wristed rider but I think your friend on the 954 is bending the truth somewhat!

infact... I thought that was so much arse that we've just worked it out.. kopu to hikuai turnoff.... 33kms.... in eight minutes.. an average speed of 247kmhr!!! AND MONKEY'S MIGHT FLY OUT OF MY BUTT!!! Forget Rossi... you'd need scotty from Star trek to teleport you to get there in 8 minutes.

Blu and I averaged 96kmhr from wellsford to mangawai going pretty quick over a far less twisty and hilly road thats in better condition. Rossi wouldn't even average 247kmhr at Pukekohe.

your mate is as full of crap as a broken dorm toilet after some big bran muffins for breakky.

**andy1** · 3rd June 2003, 19:05

hey, thanks for the reply's.
on board video coming soon!! and pics!
top speed 298km! where he reached it was down hill there's a brigde in the middle. i know that speedo's can be off maybe 5km maybe more.
he rides this road everyday, so he know's every bump and every corner. there was no traffic on the road, i think he did it early on sunday morning.

sometimes he waits on his deck of his house till other bikes pass by and then chases them, then passes them round a corner.

this 8min blast can only be proven with the on board camera, so like you i cant want till i see it. also i have found out that it is 29km exact, from kopu to whanga turn off.
thanks

**Nouseforaname** · 3rd June 2003, 20:03

well i sure do hope that im not riding on that stretch of road ( or any other for that matter ) when that asshole is coming round the corner....... sure it's a very impressive 8min ride, but fuck..... thats just stupid... if he kills himslef, agh who cares, but some poor person has to scrape him up.... and anybody else he takes out in the process. have we already forgotton the poor girl who died only a few weeks ago after some clown did they very same thing, thought he could ride his bike at crazy ass speeds and not hurt anyone.

**eNZed Fred** · 3rd June 2003, 20:18

nah.......... sorry, don't believe it can be done. But shit, I've been wrong before. You're still talkin average speed of 217kph. (135mph) Maybe going west from Kopu to Waitakaruru would be more like it. Isle of Man is done at 125mph. Cheers.

**andy1** · 3rd June 2003, 20:53

yea, i dont think anyone will believe and myself until a video is seen. 217km is far to fast through those corners.

some motorcycle shop's know of this crazy man and know of his crazy missions. even tho he might know the road things can change over night (trees etc..) i just wanted to read other people's opinions, thanks

**Coldkiwi** · 3rd June 2003, 22:17

perhaps it can be done by removing every 2nd frame of video footage and putting it on high speed? Like the lady said '... that don't impress me much!'

Sorry... with those kopu end corners as tight as they are, even if he could (lets conveniently ignore inertia forces for a second) pull 100kmhr through all of them, he's still got to be well over 300kph for the same amount of time to break even at 200kph..... assuming he can do 200kmhr the rest of the way.

thats simply a bunch of arse! if he can only just pull it to 298 on one of the longest downhills I know of, he got feck all show of doing over 300 anywhere else.

he's lying... pure and simple. if not, then we have our very own replacement for Valentino Rossi who somehow didn't find his calling...

I guess that makes him an egotistical fruitloop then who's out to hurt himself and others. Crazy missions indeed. L