Police get riders at over 200 km/h

[madbikeboy]

madbikeboy, you know the context. Citing Hitler? I should claim Godwin and claim victory now.

We, as a society, have agreed to a common set of rules and laws that govern our society. We agree to abide by them and continue to do so by living in this country. Don't we? And if we disagree with a rule, we can stand up, speak to our fellow Kiwis and use the powers of our democracy to change that rule.

What we do not do is take the law into our own hands, break the rules simply because we think we're above them. Those people usually end up behind bars.

(With Playstations and sattelite TV and a whole lot better food than most of us eat )

I agree that the meek shall inherit the earth too. And then some bad fucker will take it off them.

Point is, common sense and shared responsibility trumps poorly constructed rules. 55 kph down Parnell road is literally homicidal, people die each year. 211 clicks in the middle of nowhere, well, you see my point.

But I disagree with one thing (this is after wasting an hour of my life at a council meeting tonight), our fellow Kiwi's are fucking apathetic, and wouldn't get up to change channels, let alone change laws.

[3umph]

but but but thats what the signs and ads say...
do you mean they are lying to us....

may be.... thats the power of advertising

[PSYCHO]

I'd rather do 211 on the Gixer, that 110 kph in the wet on your virago.

I'd ratherwalk than ride a viagra

[98tls]

Citing Godwin doesn't give you victory; it just implies that rational debate has ceased.



And you know I'll be there to hold your hair out of the way, sweetie.

Also, stock Hayabusas don't do 320kph and never did.

I'm pretty sure wire-wheel Katana 1100s do, though.

You wouldn't know about that though, aye.

Now ya talking,the whole 300 click thing gets interesting,plenty on here have doneno doubt..hey its the interweb and this is a bike forum.Anyone know the equation when speeds get up there ie horsepower needed v speed achieved,read a bit of it years ago in a Bonneville article,roughly twice the hp needed v momentum?

[madbikeboy]

I've heard that those gsxr's can do 202 in third with out trying...

No idea. I've heard similar stories though.

[madbikeboy]

Now ya talking,the whole 300 click thing gets interesting,plenty on here have doneno doubt..hey its the interweb and this is a bike forum.Anyone know the equation when speeds get up there ie horsepower needed v speed achieved,read a bit of it years ago in a Bonneville article,roughly twice the hp needed v momentum?

A Hayabusa will do 300 real k's, the speedo reads high.

K1-k4 GSXR's will only ever do 299, sadly that's as far as the speedo goes. And since it's on the dash, it must be true, right?

Most modern litres will do near enough to 300 clicks to count.

[3umph]

A Hayabusa will do 300 real k's, the speedo reads high.

K1-k4 GSXR's will only ever do 299, sadly that's as far as the speedo goes. And since it's on the dash, it must be true, right?

Most modern litres will do near enough to 300 clicks to count.

ummm isnt that so you have heard

[Ixion]

And so am I.

I haven't specifically directed my comments to the riders in question, rather more so, to the posters that blindly claim that doing 200kph+ is perfectly safe.

Well 200kph is certainly not perfectly safe. But then, nor is 20kph. Safety , with all due respect to the begowned gentleman, is not boolean, it is relative. Almost nothing in life and certainly very little on two wheels, is ever perfectly safe. Everytime a rider starts his machine, Death climbs on the pillion. Safety is a continuum , which must be constantly assessed for all the given circumstances, and brought into bounds acceptable both to the rider and to society. Sometimes opinion as to both the bounds and whether a given speed or behaviour falls within them will be debatable.

Since I do not know the circumstances of the case cited I cannot offer any opinion as to its safety. Other than to comment that there will be many more circumstances where 20kph is acceptably safe than there will be where 200 kph is acceptably safe. But, 200 kph is not really all that fast. And there are certainly roads in NZ where , on a suitable machine, I would think that 200kph was acceptably within my personal bounds of safety. Though of course I never actually speed. Speed kills. This I know, because the gubbermint tells me so.

[_STAIN_]

To most of the posters here, who must surly own GN's and SR's .....or live under a rock.

Many modern sport bikes are capable of 160kpm "before" redline and power wheelie in 3rd gear.
From 100 to 200 is less than 2 slow blinks and can be frequently achieved on "clear" short straights,
where there is no vehicle in sight. (reads mufti)
The buyer of a sport bikes does it purely to bring 100kph agony to his wrists.

[madbikeboy]

ummm isnt that so you have heard

I have heard, this one guy, put a GPS unit in his GSXR1000, and with taller gearing and some sensible mods, he saw 307 kph with the GPS unit. I'd trust that more than pub talk.

[jrandom]

Now ya talking,the whole 300 click thing gets interesting,plenty on here have doneno doubt..hey its the interweb and this is a bike forum.

300 has been exceeded a few times at the Cliffhanger flying quarter mile, I think, almost exclusively by probably-not-stock Hayabusas (I have a feeling an R1 managed it once).

A mostly-stock 2004 Hayabusa, ridden by our very own kiwifruit, did 281 last year.

Nobody's done 320 yet, though.

[Big Dave]

I did 400 on my Buell.

[3umph]

I did 400 on my Buell.

up hill and into a head wind and even was 2 up so I heard

[Viscount Montgomery]

Comments like "If you want to speed, then go to the racetrack" are such a tired predictably repeated crock of shit. Who the fuck's got the time, money and inclination to ride fucken racetracks? WTF do you get? Two fucken outings a fucken year or some shit? The hand-wringers and panty-pissers need to join the real world. If you're riding empty back roads then 211K is highly likely fuck-all and perfectly fucken safe. But if these brainless dodos got busted at 211K on the main fucken highway amongst traffic, then tough shit.

And if it was fucktard squids in one-piece leathers and arai helmets doing their feverish wank wank wank wank posturing bullshit, then throw the fucken book at them too. If I had my way, arsehole squids would have their bikes confiscated and crushed whilst being strung up and given a fucking good long hard whipping. Getting these fuckers crying and pissing blood in apology is the only sensible way

[98tls]

A Hayabusa will do 300 real k's, the speedo reads high.

K1-k4 GSXR's will only ever do 299, sadly that's as far as the speedo goes. And since it's on the dash, it must be true, right?

Most modern litres will do near enough to 300 clicks to count.

Will and has are as you know are vastly different,and again as you say i wouldnt trust oem speedos on anything.