Top speed while passing

[RC1]

one squirt of the laser gun while your passing at 141 and your walkin home sunshine./I]

was not the case with me , got off at way more then that

[Timber020]

Get good night vision gear, only ride at night at crazy speeds overtaking everything with your lights off. Chances of getting a ticket would be alot lower, but then the chances of an accident would be much greater.

[MaxB]

was not the case with me , got off at way more then that

Recently? Thought the cops booked everyone these days.

[RC1]

Recently? Thought the cops booked everyone these days.

within the last month YES, twice in the last 6months

[HDTboy]

Speed Kills.

Though, a friend of a friend passed a car at speeds north of 250 on a naked GSXR 1000, and he's still alive.

[slopster]

I know how you feel! I was cruising up to Coromandel 3 weekends ago, sitting around 120 km/hr indicated and the GPS trip computer recorded a HUGE amount over the limit, almost certainly whilst I was overtaking but I simply had no idea where and when. It was probably on the back road between Matamata and Te Aroha, not a major highway. It's certainly something to be aware of on a big grunter.

GPS's can give false readings like that when they lose the signal then get it back and assume that you were still at the last recorded point suddenly your somewhere else and it thinks you were fair moving to get there that quick. I once had a max speed of 915kmh and I was on foot.

[Pwalo]

The new beast records the maximum speed reached on the trip computer. This is a bit of a concern as I have found while passing in top and even keeping the bike below 6,000prm (running in and below 1000kms) some horrendous top speeds were recorded.

My practice has been to accelerate quickly to get past a car and then slow back down. Passing a car doing 90 - 100 kph with a reasonable amount of throttle means license losing top speeds. Should I be tootling past instead of using the power? Clearing the computer before someone else (wife, cop) sees the top speed from a little cruise is a good idea.

It's good to see that the Triple is keeping your commuting speeds down after the SV!

Look you know that you're breaking the law. Keep your eyes open, and be discrete (well as much as you can on a three cylinder streetfighter).

[bane]

I never exceed the speed of light (unless im tunnelling)

[MotoGirl]

In all my years of long distance highway driving I've learned to never place yourself in a dangerous position longer than you have to.In other words if overtaking,do it as fast as possible where it is safe to do so(i.e. the road ahead is clear).

Ditto. I nail it past cars and get back onto my own side of the road as quickly as possible. THEN I get back down to the speed limit.

This is another thing that makes bike fun because we can pass in smaller gaps than cars can, purely because we've got the acceleration.

Oh yeah, as for your bike recording top speeds, I wouldn't worry about clearing it because you could've done that on the track.

[craigs288]

Those famous words "I did not have sex with that woman" can surely be used in the statement "I was not speeding officer"

It all depends on what your definition of 'was' was.

[Swoop]

one squirt of the laser gun while your passing at 141 and your walkin home sunshine.

Not if Mr Blinder is riding with you.

[vifferman]

I nail it past cars and get back onto my own side of the road as quickly as possible. THEN I get back down to the speed limit.

In the Good Old Days, such sensible/practical behaviour was viewed appropriately, and duly ignored. Not so in these Blighted By Safety Nazism Days, where my first ticket in over 30 years was for just such an 'offense'. After following a dirty, stinking 4WD Behemoth for what seemed like an eternity, I efficiently overtook it in the first passing lane I came to, then promptly slowed down again. Mr Plod was eagerly awaiting such murderous behaviour (well, actually, he was hiding in a shrubbery at the side of the road, hoping someone would go a bit fast down the hill in the other direction), and pursued me for several kilometres in busy traffic, before he awarded me a $300 prize and 40 bonus points.

Oh yeah - that was 132km/h, and I killed at least 17.34 people during the few nanoseconds I was travelling at such sub-warp velocities.

[SVboy]

It is sad that we have the ability to overtake in a manner that is much safer than 100km ,with oncoming traffic, and get pinged for it. Sadly, mr Blinder and mr Bel may have to start riding pillon with you, and their mate Mr Screamer!

[MotoGirl]

In the Good Old Days, such sensible/practical behaviour was viewed appropriately, and duly ignored. Not so in these Blighted By Safety Nazism Days, where my first ticket in over 30 years was for just such an 'offense'. After following a dirty, stinking 4WD Behemoth for what seemed like an eternity, I efficiently overtook it in the first passing lane I came to, then promptly slowed down again.

This sort of crap drives me nuts and is totally unnecessary. Once again our personal safety is less important than sticking to the speed limit.

Argue if you will everyone, but it is not safe following something that makes you unable to breathe or flicks debris at you, even if that vehicle is doing the speed limit, or close to it.

Say the aforementioned vehicle is doing 90-95kph, we'd have to speed to pass it or risk spending around 12 seconds on the wrong side of the road if we stuck to 100kph. It's not safe to continue riding behind it so this gives us three options: pass it and risk being caught speeding, stay behind it and suffocate or be hit by flying debris, or drop back.

The safety experts would probably say pull over and let it go. This is fine and dandy except we'd catch up to it again and it's back to square one. Plus, who wants to spend their trip stopping and starting like that?

[2wheeldrifter]

Ditto. I nail it past cars and get back onto my own side of the road as quickly as possible. THEN I get back down to the speed limit.

Same.... conditions are ok and safely executed..... what's the problem. I have been seen a few times with no Constabulary infringements, once passed back to the speed limit.

I do wonder though if passing a line of cars 4-5 in a row, cop see's you on the incoming traffic, has he really got a shit show in turning around and catching up with you........ would you run?