SMBowen
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posted September 21, 2004 09:20 AM
Fastest speeding ticket ever!
Saw this on another board and had to post it here!
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/4992111.html
    
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papawheelie
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posted September 21, 2004 09:22 AM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, thats awsome. "Total disbelief" That's freakin' great!!
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avdigigeek
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posted September 21, 2004 09:36 AM
I can't belive a cbr 1000 rr can do 205...
I wonder what the hell he had done?
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SPROCKET
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posted September 21, 2004 09:41 AM
If a 1000rr can do that, what about a 10r?
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SMBowen
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posted September 21, 2004 10:28 AM
Yeah I bet I could get at least a 220mph ticket, thanks to the 10R. HAHA!
The forum I got it from made a comment that it can't be true, we all know hondas can't do 200.
The way it reads "When one of the bikes accelerated dramatically" he was using nitrous.
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/9716733.htm?1c
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beansbaxter
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posted September 21, 2004 10:50 AM
Too much room for error on the cops part with the stopwatch...I dont think that is an accurate representation of the bike's speed.
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madav8tr
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posted September 21, 2004 12:47 PM
Rumor is the bike that was stopped was a RC51, not a 1000RR. It is, after all, a Honda 1000 as well. If true, it is most definately a case of operator error as the RC ain't hittin 205mph.
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SPROCKET
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posted September 21, 2004 01:49 PM
Well that link is dead.
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redelk
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posted September 21, 2004 02:12 PM
Using a stopwatch is laughable. Especially since one would assume the office was viewing from a fixed point. For example, lets say your at a dragstrip and your are standing next to the track, right at the midway point with a stopwatch. Human reactions, combined with visual perspective in relationship between both the start and the finish lines. After factoring those in, it would be easy to see him coming up with a time somewhere around 4.6+ seconds. I'm guessing that works out to a little over a 180 mph. In reality, I'd be surprised if it really wasn't closer to 170.
Any lawyer will find it easy to prove the inaccuracy of this and that alone will get him out of the speeding part of the ticket. Now if they choose th charge him with some form of "reckless" (driving, endangerment, etc.), he's on his own.
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Hells Dark Lord
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posted September 21, 2004 02:14 PM
the link worked for me, and I am calling BS on a 205 MPH 1000cc Honda......hell the dam AMA Superbikes arent doing that, hell the repsol Honda V-5 has only been clocked at a little over that. I woudl take that and fight that ticket....after all we all know the new bikes are governed at 186 MPH right....lmfao
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FP 10R
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posted September 21, 2004 03:06 PM
Yeah right what was the Pilot smoking? Neither Edwards RC51 or Tenkates CBR1000 RR can manage that speed on the track and they are at least 40 kilos lighter with professional riders. Somethings not right on this one I have been 320 kmh+ on a hotted ZX12R on the Autostrada in France and believe me it is one intersting ride the slightest movement out of the slip stream makes the bike move sideways REAL FAST!
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frEEk
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posted September 21, 2004 06:13 PM
what if it had a honkin turbo? i _could_ be possible
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bluedevil
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posted September 21, 2004 06:30 PM
It was mention on "two wheel tuesday" and even Mr. White was questioning that speed sarcastically mentioning the GP's and if he trully did he must of had a couple of bottles of nitrous and a turbo.
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crazyman1
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posted September 21, 2004 09:24 PM
Minn. Trooper Writes 205 Mph Ticket
WABASHA, Minn. (AP) -- With a State Patrol airplane overhead, a motorcyclist hit the throttle and possibly set the informal record for the fastest speeding ticket in Minnesota history: 205 mph.
On Saturday afternoon, State Patrol pilot Al Loney was flying near Wabasha, in southeastern Minnesota on the Wisconsin border, watching two motorcyclists racing along U.S. Highway 61.
When one of the riders shot forward, Loney was ready with his stopwatch. He clicked it once when the motorcycle reached a white marker on the road and again a quarter-mile later. The watch read 4.39 seconds, which Loney calculated to be 205 mph.
"I was in total disbelief," Loney told the St. Paul Pioneer Press for Tuesday's editions. "I had to double-check my watch because in 27 years I'd never seen anything move that fast."
Several law enforcement sources told the newspaper that, although no official records are kept, it was probably the fastest ticket ever written in the state.
After about three-quarters of a mile, the biker slowed to about 100 mph and let the other cycle catch up. By then Loney had radioed ahead to another state trooper, who pulled the two over soon afterward.
The State Patrol officer arrested the faster rider, 20-year-old Stillwater resident Samuel Armstrong Tilley, for reckless driving, driving without a motorcycle license - and driving 140 miles per hour over the posted speed limit of 65 mph.
A search of speeding tickets written by state troopers, who patrol most of the state's highways, between 1990 and February 2004 shows the next fastest ticket was for 150 mph in 1994 in Lake of the Woods County.
Tilley did not return calls from the newspaper to his home Monday. A working number for him could not immediately be found by The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Only a handful of exotic sports cars can reach 200 mph, but many high-performance motorcycles can top 175 mph. With minor modifications, they can hit 200 mph. Tilley was riding a Honda 1000, Loney said.
Kathy Swanson of the state Office of Traffic Safety said unless Tilley was wearing the kind of protective gear professional motorcycle racers wear, he was courting death at 200 mph.
"I'm not entirely sure what would happen if you crashed at 200 miles per hour," Swanson said. "But it wouldn't be pretty, that's for sure."
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