Motorcyclist hits 200kmh on State Highway 1

**peasea** · 29th April 2010, 19:07

Originally Posted by beyond

Exactly. Once you're used to travelling at a high speed anything less seems real slow. BUT conversely your reaction times and concentration increases to way higher levels.

Yuppo. Had a thrash from The HOG Nat's in ChCh to Methven earlier this year (in the V8, not on the bike, long story) following a mate in another V8 Holden at 200 for ages... coming back into the 50k zone seemed positively pedestrian.

**scumdog** · 29th April 2010, 19:12

Originally Posted by shrub

At 200 kmh swerving is something to be avoided. I'm more thinking of the hazard several hundred metres down the road that our friendly Poliss Cuntstable was convinced the wicked biker was going to hit.

Trouble is: nobody told the hazard that it must be 'several hundred metres' down the road....all it takes is somebody that sees (if you're lucky!) a motorbike in the distance and thinks "Meh, tons of time to swap lanes/ turn across the road/do a U-turn etc..

**miloking** · 29th April 2010, 19:14

Originally Posted by marty

how many seconds did it take for you to react to it and close it down?

It was pretty swift, also accelerated by the fact that Iam at work right now and there are still people in the office

**Insanity_rules** · 29th April 2010, 19:23

Originally Posted by Kittyhawk

I was a wanker once.....now I just wank.

Pictures or it didn't happen!!!!

I never speed myself "wink wink"

**marty** · 29th April 2010, 19:24

Originally Posted by miloking

It was pretty swift, also accelerated by the fact that Iam at work right now and there are still people in the office

0.025 second?

or closer to 2?

**dpex** · 29th April 2010, 19:25

WQell, there ya go Scum, the orders from on high have filtered through. :--)) Hell's teeth, you cops might start acting like citizens if this keeps up.

But what about the crap spouted? The average reaction time is 2.4 seconds. Bullshit! In 2.4 seconds I can eat half a pizza while changing down from six to two.

Then..."The rider would have to have seen a threat half a K away?" Yeah right.

On puke, from the one hundred metre marker after the straight into the hairpin, we all have to come down from 250-plus to 60/80...in one hundred meters...which 'most' of us do, regularly. The top boys are pulling down from 300 in the same distance.

Yet your bosses rabbit on with nothing more than polispeak, designed to add to the bullshit story that speed kills.

This 'Speed Kills' crap has to be the most pentafrastic argument ever mounted. like speed, of itself, kills. Crap. Bad management of something which is moving at a necessary velocity to kill, kills.

I am so sick and tired of this nanny state shit asserting that everything kills so we shouldn't do it. Eating, smoking, doing drugs, mountain climbing, climbing a ladder, zipping along on a bike at X-Ks, using salt, drinking coffee, and so the list of 'killers' goes on.

Why don't we all agree to do absolutely nothing which may cause us to die early" Go Vegan lest a burger may fuck up our veins, and generally live a perfect life till we toddled off to death, having cost the tax-payer gazillions of dollars to keep us alive in our useless dotage?

Yeah. That's a great scheme. Remove the fun from life but have a long, funless life.

The thing which seems to have bypassed so many is......We are allowed to be stupid. We are required by the law of natural selection to take chances. We are humans with no other purpose on this planet than to have fun.

Why do your bosses carry on propounding this shit? All it does is cost you...the cop on the beat, chalking up speeding tickets to fulfill your quota....more credibility.

**miloking** · 29th April 2010, 19:31

Originally Posted by marty

0.025 second?

or closer to 2?

nah more around 0.3 ... and it was still too long!

Actualy kind of still have the image burned into my eyes...like looking into bright light!

**miloking** · 29th April 2010, 19:39

Originally Posted by dpex

WQell, there ya go Scum, the orders from on high have filtered through. :--)) Hell's teeth, you cops might start acting like citizens if this keeps up.

But what about the crap spouted? The average reaction time is 2.4 seconds. Bullshit! In 2.4 seconds I can eat half a pizza while changing down from six to two.

Then..."The rider would have to have seen a threat half a K away?" Yeah right.

On puke, from the one hundred metre marker after the straight into the hairpin, we all have to come down from 250-plus to 60/80...in one hundred meters...which 'most' of us do, regularly. The top boys are pulling down from 300 in the same distance.

Yet your bosses rabbit on with nothing more than polispeak, designed to add to the bullshit story that speed kills.

This 'Speed Kills' crap has to be the most pentafrastic argument ever mounted. like speed, of itself, kills. Crap. Bad management of something which is moving at a necessary velocity to kill, kills.

I am so sick and tired of this nanny state shit asserting that everything kills so we shouldn't do it. Eating, smoking, doing drugs, mountain climbing, climbing a ladder, zipping along on a bike at X-Ks, using salt, drinking coffee, and so the list of 'killers' goes on.

Why don't we all agree to do absolutely nothing which may cause us to die early" Go Vegan lest a burger may fuck up our veins, and generally live a perfect life till we toddled off to death, having cost the tax-payer gazillions of dollars to keep us alive in our useless dotage?

Yeah. That's a great scheme. Remove the fun from life but have a long, funless life.

The thing which seems to have bypassed so many is......We are allowed to be stupid. We are required by the law of natural selection to take chances. We are humans with no other purpose on this planet than to have fun.

Why do your bosses carry on propounding this shit? All it does is cost you...the cop on the beat, chalking up speeding tickets to fulfill your quota....more credibility.

I agree with you!
but...you cant get all philosophical and deep & meaningful with cops, they dont understand that.
When you try to tell them that "taking chances" is crucial part our basic instinct and that we evolved to do that,
they simply wont uderstand because most of them barely finished 6th form or are just as brain washed themselves.

On the other hand their bosses arent as stupid as you think...this message of "speed kills" pretty much guarantees them continous funding from govt and jobs security, as long as they manage to convince general public.

**scumdog** · 29th April 2010, 19:41

Maybe somebody moved the point: maybe it was actualy .24 seconds.

And off the race-track most people aren't always key'd up and ready for a potential disaster - probably more likely to be thinking "Man this is fun, I wonder if my girfriends at home, man I bet I look cool" and shit like that.

**shrub** · 29th April 2010, 19:47

Originally Posted by scumdog

Trouble is: nobody told the hazard that it must be 'several hundred metres' down the road....all it takes is somebody that sees (if you're lucky!) a motorbike in the distance and thinks "Meh, tons of time to swap lanes/ turn across the road/do a U-turn etc..

Only thing is, if there is a cop ahead the biker will be on their brakes hard before the cop has a chance to do a U turn in front of them.

I agree though, nobody should EVER go faster than 109 kmh, even overtaking. At 109 kmh one is completely safe and at no risk from anything (except maybe being taken by space aliens and getting probed) but at 110 kmh death is no longer a possibility; it's a certainty.

**imdying** · 29th April 2010, 19:53

Originally Posted by scumdog

Maybe somebody moved the point: maybe it was actualy .24 seconds.

Nah, waiting for a virtual light in a small place that is going to go off in under 7 seconds is absolutely no indicator of reaction times on the road. I reckon 2.5 seconds isn't that far off from the average person riding home, thinking about their dinner.

**Conquiztador** · 29th April 2010, 19:53

Originally Posted by bogan

yeh but they are drivers, a biker doing 200kmhr, I would hope is reaction times would be under a second (bet he hopes so too!)

he we go!

I got 0.2552s could be interesting to see what others get. And yes I am aware times are different when you aren't expecting things.

0.2122 + 10 char

**shrub** · 29th April 2010, 19:55

Originally Posted by scumdog

Maybe somebody moved the point: maybe it was actualy .24 seconds.

And off the race-track most people aren't always key'd up and ready for a potential disaster - probably more likely to be thinking "Man this is fun, I wonder if my girfriends at home, man I bet I look cool" and shit like that.

Not that I've ever ridden faster than 109 kmh, but if I did I know I'd be completely focussed on the road, potential hazards (that car coming along the sideroad ahead of me - it's travelling too fast to stop), white Commodes doing U turns etc. In fact I'd be completely focussed on riding, and that's why they reckon road tolls increase when speed limits go down - people relax and stop concentrating.

I wonder which is safer: a mad, crazy biker travelling at 140 kmh and completely focussed on what he's doing, or Mary Pajero travelling at 105 kmh while she eats her lunch and has a chat to the front seat passenger while keeping an eye on the kids in the backseat with her cunningly adjusted rear vision mirror? (woman can multi taskl you know).

Silly question! Mary Pajero of course, she's not speeding!

And if you're more interested in how you look than what it feels like to ride your bike, I suggest giving up riding because you're missing the point.