3 news now - biker caught at 300k???

[Sparky Bills]

Mmmmmmmm.. Painting my bike..... Thats a great excuse!

[James Deuce]

http://www.qsl.net/n5mya/testdata.html

190mph is 305km/hr

[ZorsT]

Front number plates for bikes, new boy racers laws and a 90kmh open road speed limit by Christmas.

You forgot about the increase of motorists failing to stop for police, and the decline of road safety as a result

[James Deuce]

And just in case it isn't getting there, the following article describes the proportional relationship between horsepower and drag, and how horsepower requirements quickly become astronomical to boost a 'busa past its maximum of 190mph or 305km/hr, to 200mph, or 327km/hr and beyond. 400 horsepower for 227mph or 365km/hr.

http://superstreetbike.com/features/122_0336_max/

[gav]

Be that bloody Burt Munro bugger........or the ghost of.....

[Bonez]

I smell a rat. A big pungently fermenting rodent. The road safety nazis want the open road speed limit reduced to 90kmh.

Nah it's suzuki publicity stunt to get us all on GN250s.

[ducatilover]

Even my bike is capable of 142kph...But if I forgot to connect 2 plugs, it wouldn't be going anywhere unless I'm pushing!

aha! so it was you! even mine would still run without 2 plugs.... ahhhh the luxury of twin spark....

330? thats a wee bit over the top aint it?

[madboy]

Thank you Slingshot. I look forward to watching the rerun of 3 News on Sky at 8.30 for their take.

Comment on the TV1 article/item... clearly I'm a great big f***ing cream puff, cos this stuff about the 5O pulling out when it gets too dangerous hasn't come into play in any pursuit "my mate" has been involved in. NEVER. They've pulled out after they've lost the bike, but they've NEVER pulled out cos of the danger element. And the f***ers misrepresented the situation to comms too so that comms didn't tell them to pull out either. And those mofos question our morals? It's all a great big farking game to them.

So fellas, I can assure you that in order to get a pursuit pulled you need to do more than 200km/h into oncoming traffic, more than 180km/h in a 50 zone, and it would definitely help if you lanesplit at above 250k. School zones anyone?

[James Deuce]

I agree Dynamytus, it's not individual memebrs of the Police force, Human Beings that they are that dislike motorcycles, rather it is the faceless entities of LTNZ and ACC that are most likely manipulating the flow of information regarding dangerous speeding motorcycles.

The Police are the public Human Face of the campaign. Unfortunately for them.

Though I do agree with Hitcher's premise that there is a plan to increase the road toll by decreasing the speed limit to 90km/hr. The road toll was nasty when the speed limit dropped to 80km/hr, and it took forever to get anywhere.

[Marmoot]

Man you aint smelling a rat, you smelling your ass; there aint no way that "cops dont like bikes much". I dont know anyone i work with who targets motorcycles, most cops dont bother with them more for the fact that by the time they turn around they are gone. All of our traffic unit's in central have cops that ride bikes, among some of the bikes they own is a CBR600RR, ZX-12R, blackbird, busa and a R1. There are normally 10-30 bikes parked at central at any one time not incuding Police BMW's.

It's not the cops that I'm worried about. It's the politicians and "Joe Public".

[WINJA]

Needs to get the Laser checked. There are about 20 Busas worldwide that can crack 330km/hr and none of them lack a turbo.

AMCN GOT 302(2002) KMH AND 311KMH (99)OUT OF STOCK ONES WITH THEIR STALKER , BUT THAT EXTRA 20KMH IS FUCKEN HARD

[James Deuce]

Yep that's right WINJA - If you have a look above I've provided a link for every magazine that's done speed testing in a 'busa and what they got out of them.

7. AMCN - AUSTRALIAN MOTORCYCLE NEWS May 2000

Top speed.
Hayabusa = 302 kph
Zx-12R = 297 kph

400m (1/4 mile).
Hayabusa = 10.5 sec.
Zx12R = 10.7 sec.

400m top speed.
Hayabusa = 228.2km/h.
Zx12R = 223km/h.

0-100km/h.
Hayabusa = 3.17 sec
Zx12R = 3.49 sec

0-160km/h (0-100mph).
Hayabusa = 5.7 sec.
Zx12 = 6.02 sec.

20-180kmh.
Hayabusa = 6.17 seconds
Zx12 = 6.43 seconds

Quotes and storyline

[smokeyging]

At 330 K.P.H I’d be questioning the accuracy of the radar detector. Wouldn’t that open up a can of worms for all the speedsters? a G P S apparently isn’t completely accurate, so at 330k there’s good chance radar isn’t accurate neither.

[WINJA]

I smell a rat. A big pungently fermenting rodent. The road safety nazis want the open road speed limit reduced to 90kmh. They don't like bikes much either. This story plus all of the recent bullshit about road tolls, during the news "silly season", has set my conspiracy antennae all a quiver.

And the state broadcaster is complicit. This is not a news story. There is no evidence, only some cop doing a piece to camera where he says he heard once that some bike was clocked at 330kmh. That may be exactly what he heard. So?

Front number plates for bikes, new boy racers laws and a 90kmh open road speed limit by Christmas.

+1.........

[Jantar]

At 330 K.P.H I’d be questioning the accuracy of the radar detector. Wouldn’t that open up a can of worms for all the speedsters? a G P S apparently isn’t completely accurate, so at 330k there’s good chance radar isn’t accurate neither.

When the story first started circulating down here about a rider being clocked at 330 kmh a local Busa rider admited (not to the cops of course) that he had been testing his Busa at the time in preparation for the drags. Although the cop claimed 330 kmh, the rider stated that his speedo was showing 299 kmh. At the sprints a few days later his official speed was recorded at 298 kmh. Radar accuracy? Speedo accuaracy? At those speeds who cares? Crash and you're dead, stop and you lose your licence.