I'm an idiot

[FJRider]

No it doesn't. Otherwise they'd have a shit hard job selling tickets on a Boeing 747. That has to be one of the most mindless mantras ever repeated ad nauseum .

It would be easier to sell copies of the bridge video's for that time frame.
Evidence ???

[Rogue]

Speed is a funny thing once you been there its hard turning back
Keep it to the track

We all get a kick from speed otherwise we wouldnt ride bikes and have sore noses

[Grumpy Gnomb]

No sympathy for doing this speed and its just stupid and there are more than just you on the road

[jade]

Since my post got deleted I was gonna quote some bits out of it and leave the bad parts out but now Im not so bothered, alot of the posts here made me furious, because they were so far off being true,
Anyway, I can deal with whats coming to me, specially when I know how much worse it could have been, I'd also rather this than having a crash
Ill be at the moto tt trackday april 4th, on an rs that hasnt been ridden for 3 weeks...

Kittyhawk, attention seeking ?
How bout the time I PM'd you about the ATNR because I hadnt been on one and you hit me back with a pm saying you were bi sexual and come up and say hi and blah blah blah when I had never met or talked to you
THINK before you speak

[Patrick]

Pity it wasnt on a real bike to actually do a proper runner. It's people like you who really do fuck the biker image up with cops.

Nope... THAT sort of attitude from Kitty is the exact image and attitude that gets the cops attention focussed on all bikers....

This guy stopping straight away saved him time in the clink and earned an exceeds 100kmph charge only. No matter how good one is on ones bike, I bet it can't outrun Eagle.

[Kittyhawk]

Kittyhawk, attention seeking ?
How bout the time I PM'd you about the ATNR because I hadnt been on one and you hit me back with a pm saying you were bi sexual and come up and say hi and blah blah blah when I had never met or talked to you
THINK before you speak

ROFL well considering I have short hair one would assume Im completly gay! If you have issues with who I am or what Im like I couldnt care less, I dont plan on changing for anyone. And nope that wasn't hitting on you if you thought that as well lol... Oh yea, Im mentally fucked too so far gone... just ask the rest of the ATNR crew lol

Nope... THAT sort of attitude from Kitty is the exact image and attitude that gets the cops attention focussed on all bikers....

This guy stopping straight away saved him time in the clink and earned an exceeds 100kmph charge only. No matter how good one is on ones bike, I bet it can't outrun Eagle.

Question is why did he do it in the first place?
And for the record, its the primary reason why I got out of road biking so I can take it to the track and not worry bout cops. Shame too many bikers always get stung on the road.

Aint my worry tho!

[Unit:Me]

Well you obviously got the attenton you were seeking....
Pity it wasnt on a real bike to actually do a proper runner. It's people like you who really do fuck the biker image up with cops.

I hope you get what you deserve. Maybe you should have grown balls and sold your bike before that all happend - Im glad I did!

Pot Kettle Black (re attention seeking).... Cant believe you are advising people to do 'a real runner', not cool in my book.
BTW, you may be less confused now you have grown balls lovey

[Edbear]

And the inference that speed doesn't kill flies in the face of common sense when you look at the carnage caused in crashes involving vehicles travelling at high speed.

Go find a few survivors of Boeing 747 crashes and ask them for an opinion.

It's not the speed that gets you, it's the rapid deceleration when you hit something after falling off

Very true, perhaps the speed limit should therefore be raised to the average speed of a 747. It makes perfect sense, it has to be the higher speed of the 747 that makes it so safe.

Well, rapid deceleration when you hit something is a good bet

Hitting something when (if) you fall off is longer odds

And falling off just because you are going at a certain speed is propaganda not logic



I'm all for that. And, yes it probably would, especially if it was matched with a minimum speed limit of, say, 120kph. Can you please suggest it to your collegues ? (Including the wanker who didn't manage to give me a ticket today but spent the better part of half an hour trying before I finally gave him the slip on a gravel road)

Having just returned from a trip to the Far Norf, I was impressed by the huge number of totally incompetent dodders doddering along at 70kph and less. Fully 50% of the traffic of the roads north of Whangarei doesn't go over 75kph. If there was a suitabvle minimum speed limit it might encourage them to stay off they roads.

Interesting posts! Of course, speed, per se, is not the problem. It's a factor in two problems. One is that for far too many drivers the adage, "unsafe at any speed" applies, as they have no idea how to drive safely. The second, is that the "chance" of having an accident increases with the increase in speed, especially on the roads with incompetent drivers and hazardous conditions.

Now we all like to think we are competent riders/drivers, well able to handle higher speeds, and that may be true of many, but show me an incompetent driver who actually knows he's incompetent and I'll show you a passenger!

I'm sure SD can cite times he's questioned someone's driving skills and had an indignant response that they were driving perfectly well, thankyou!

SO we've all done high speeds at times, for sure, hopefuly in the conditions and circumstances that were as safe as we could find, but you can't argue that high speed brings much greater risk and a much greater chance of having an accident in the first place, not to mention the other catch-cry, "The faster you go, the bigger the mess".

[Goblin]

Men take it on the chin and move on . You deserve a bling for admission.

Better on the chin than up the bum eh!

[doc]

clocked at 170,
this is not the first time this has happened
done alot worse.

Better on the chin than up the bum eh!

Just watch this space girl if he continues, he will be experiencing both .

[Unit:Me]

Just watch this space girl if he continues, he will be experiencing both .

What, a right royal shafting up the bumbum at warp speed? Brings tears to the eyes

[DMNTD:Me]

What, a right royal shafting up the bumbum at warp speed? Brings tears to the eyes

...and no babies

[doc]

...and no babies

Inside,where he should be heading , they also like to rough up the newbes, as foreplay.

[Matt_TG]

I feel compelled to reply to this:

And falling off just because you are going at a certain speed is propaganda not logic

Ixion, all's fair that you have a 'speed does not kill' attitude, but common sense would dictate that if someone couldn't handle a machine (bike, car, rollerblades etc) at high speed and they come a cropper they would end up worse off than at low speed.

A rider may be experienced at high speed, and therefore is less likely to fall off at high speed, but road conditions, other road traffic, obstacles that may suddenly cross the road and other things you don't encounter on a race track mean that it's inherently more dangerous speeding on public roads.

Cheers

[Goblin]

I feel compelled to reply to this:

Ixion, all's fair that you have a 'speed does not kill' attitude, but common sense would dictate that if someone couldn't handle a machine (bike, car, rollerblades etc) at high speed and they come a cropper they would end up worse off than at low speed.

A rider may be experienced at high speed, and therefore is less likely to fall off at high speed, but road conditions, other road traffic, obstacles that may suddenly cross the road and other things you don't encounter on a race track mean that it's inherently more dangerous speeding on public roads.

Cheers

I think that's the point he was trying to get across. It's not the speed that does the damage...it's the sudden stop.