Over 6min of 200kph+ lane splitting

[SpankMe]

Extreme hooning from Paris

28meg

[riffer]

I kept waiting ... and waiting ... all the way through that movie...

and the crazy frenchman never even looked like crashing

even going 250 km/h round a corner lane splitting!

... that's just bloody terrifying!

Cheers SpankMe - that made my lunchtime

[Coldkiwi]

haven't seen it yet but i always thought the frogs were crazy.. some are obviously a little more psycho than others

 

[jrandom]

He made it look very smooth, didn't he?

I think the key is not so much having godlike riding skills, the gaps weren't all *that* small. It'd have a lot more to do with the size of one's balls and willingness to accept almost certain death if there *was* a problem (given the lack of decent runoff area on most of that road!) Put most participants on this forum on a GSXR1000 and they'd probably be able to emulate that video (if they chose to).

Of course I should stress that I utterly condemn such a reckless display of irresponsible behaviour

[Car Dodger]

I think this mad frenchmen is trying to play a little speedo trick on us, I really dont think he's going as fast as he would like us to believe. I mean, at 240K those other cars on the road should be not more than a blur, unless the footage had been slowed down a little. It realy doesnt look to me that he is going twice the speed of those cars.

But it was fun to watch, have you got anymore?????

[bluninja]

Sounds like the footage of the guy lapping the periphrique (motorway ringroad) around Paris, but I haven't got the patience to download and have a look. The guy died a while back in an accident, rumour has it.

TTFN

[Motoracer]

Check out "Ghost Rider". He is one crazy cunt even if the stunts are staged. Thats what they say anyway.

http://www.ghostridermovie.net/

[James Deuce]

Forgive me if I'm wrong but I read in a recent AMCN that the dude that did this film is actually dead.

Not surprising really.

JIm2

[jrandom]

Originally posted by Car Dodger
I think this mad frenchmen is trying to play a little speedo trick on us, I really dont think he's going as fast as he would like us to believe. I mean, at 240K those other cars on the road should be not more than a blur, unless the footage had been slowed down a little. It realy doesnt look to me that he is going twice the speed of those cars.

I dunno, have you ever done 240kmh on the road? I haven't on a bike (yet... ahem...) but I have in a car, and that video looked about right for the speed. The French chap in the next-door cubicle at work here reckons that the Peripherique (or whatever it's called) has an 80kph limit - it's not actually a motorway, technically it's just a main road. Ouch.

And think about what a power or streetlamp pole looks like as you ride past it at a speed differential of 140kph - it's certainly not a 'blur', it just sort of whooshes by like those cars in the vid.

[Jackrat]

Yep if he,s the same french dude I read about he,s dead alright.
Maybe he ran over a limpit mine

[Car Dodger]

I've never dun 240k on bike, the best I can is 180k before I need to go piss.
However I have seen lots of footage of other bikers trying to kill themselves at those speeds and you can defenitly see the difference between 160k and 250k.

But, Im not saying I'm right, I have been wrong many times before. many, many, many times.

However I didn't know it was'nt a motorway!!!! Fuck that!!!

I'll be lucky if I can squeeze 150k out of my old girl. (but I try)

[matthewt]

Hey, if he is alive maybe we should get him over here to try and do the kopu to whanga turn off in 8 minutes ??

[Motoracer]

I'd say that he'd lack the skills required for the twisties (if he doesn't do the twisties as well). Its not all balls like going fast on a straight road around cars.

[bluninja]

Well I've done the Arc de Triumph roundabout on a bicycle, and that felt as dangerous

I've done 170 mph on a bike and it didn't seem particularly fast unless I looked down at the tarmac just in front of me; but that was on a track. I wouldn't do those speeds on the road.

TTFN

[wkid_one]

I've done 300+ on the bike (with Mangell in hot pursuit), the speed looked about right too me (yes yes all you pc people go 'boo hiss as it is stupid).  What a legend......makes me want to ride again.  Now if only someone will insure me.......