Motorcyclist hits 200kmh on State Highway 1

**sinfull** · 30th April 2010, 13:07

Perhaps the guy does have the trophies to back it up !

**StoneY** · 30th April 2010, 13:11

Originally Posted by sinfull

Perhaps the guy does have the trophies to back it up !

If he does, it still does not justify that speed on that section of road with all the other feed roads that come onto it as well.
You know something about this no one else does Bill???

**sinfull** · 30th April 2010, 13:14

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**nodrog:Me** · 30th April 2010, 13:19

Originally Posted by StoneY

Speed may not be the be all and end all of road safety, but 200kmh+ on a public road is fucking with EVERYONES safety, no other way to see it.

The speed limit isnt just to keep the rider safe you know, also the car trying to pull out and merge from that rural road 300m ahead....at 60m a second that guy would have cut the car in half with no chance to swerve or brake in time

All the bravado about 'I can speed safely' is utter bullshit............... save it for the fuckin racetrack where there are no other road users that can anticipate and judge the fact that headlight coming down the road is travelling twice as fast as they THINK and EXPECT it to be, coz a fast bike moving toward you at 60m a second looks no different to one douing 30m a second for jo public and THATS the issue, not how good the rider is.....

Like it or not its the speed limit and its the law, crying about how good you think you are is just crap unless you have the race trophies to back your ego up and prove how fuckin wonderful you can ride at 200kmh and over............... ( i know I dont)

yep speed kills, thats why all those germans have to show their race licenses before they travel on the autobahn.

**HenryDorsetCase** · 30th April 2010, 13:34

Originally Posted by nodrog

yep speed kills, thats why all those germans have to show their race licenses before they travel on the autobahn.

Yes because there are extraordinary similarities between the german unrestriced autobahn, snd SH1 by Levin. both are road, and both link places with other places, just for starters.

**grusomhat** · 30th April 2010, 13:43

Originally Posted by nodrog

yep speed kills, thats why all those germans have to show their race licenses before they travel on the autobahn.

what a pathetic argument

**nodrog:Me** · 30th April 2010, 13:46

Originally Posted by grusomhat

what a pathetic argument

no its not you tool, speed does not kill, the enviroment it is done in does. nobody has burst into fuckin flames from exceeding a posted speed limit.

**Fatjim** · 30th April 2010, 13:46

Originally Posted by grusomhat

what a pathetic argument

What a pathetic argument.

**Ixion** · 30th April 2010, 13:51

Originally Posted by nodrog

no its not you tool, speed does not kill, the enviroment it is done in does. nobody has burst into fuckin flames from exceeding a posted speed limit.

Have so too. Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov for one. Admittedly he was going quite fast, and not near Levin.

**StoneY** · 30th April 2010, 14:05

Originally Posted by nodrog

yep speed kills, thats why all those germans have to show their race licenses before they travel on the autobahn.

Lets see...

Autobahn, engineered by the most anally retentive engineers in the world to be SAFE at speed, no side roads, no old decrepit jap import deisels wheezing out of rural driveways........ cops that prosecute ya for road rage if you flip another motorist the bird........

SH1 near Levin........ pffft not even engineered just the path the dirrt track used to follow coz it was flattest for the bullock teams............and still as lumpy!

**nodrog:Me** · 30th April 2010, 14:07

Originally Posted by StoneY

Lets see...

Autobahn, engineered by the most anally retentive engineers in the world to be SAFE at speed, no side roads, no old decrepit jap import deisels wheezing out of rural driveways........ cops that prosecute ya for road rage if you flip another motorist the bird........

SH1 near Levin........ pffft not even engineered just the path the dirrt track used to follow coz it was flattest for the bullock teams............and still as lumpy!

so the enviroment is the danger, not the speed?

you catch on pretty quick.

**StoneY** · 30th April 2010, 14:32

Originally Posted by nodrog

so the enviroment is the danger, not the speed?

you catch on pretty quick.

Mate I never doubted it OR said Speed was 'the danger', did I?
I said speeds like this on THAT road were ridiculous and dangerous regardless of rider skill......

When Radio NZ call me for comments on this sort of stuff I HAVE to play the moderate law abiding concerned motorcylist because I speak for BRONZ

Where he was doing this speed was really dumb, no matter who it was.
Driveways, side roads, bumpy surface..............................212kmh?

Now way out back of say Lake ferry with nothing else at all in sight and 4kms of straight, flat, empty road in front of the ST4 and ................ whole different scenario.

I still say keep it on the racetrack (officially)

**marty** · 30th April 2010, 14:56

Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase

Hopefully it was a dude on a testride. Ride it like you rented it.

A few years ago I took a 750 MV for a test ride from a certain BOP dealer. The sales guy was on a CBR900RRRR I think. I couldn't keep up with him. And I was caning it. I remember thinking as we were going up the Kaimais - fuck I hope there's no cops over the brow of this hill - I'm 100kmh over the licence losing speed....

**HenryDorsetCase** · 30th April 2010, 15:41

Originally Posted by marty

A few years ago I took a 750 MV for a test ride from a certain BOP dealer. The sales guy was on a CBR900RRRR I think. I couldn't keep up with him. And I was caning it. I remember thinking as we were going up the Kaimais - fuck I hope there's no cops over the brow of this hill - I'm 100kmh over the licence losing speed....

All I can say is "Bravo"

I mean "tsk tsk"