Holmes
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Kitchener man charged with racing – 177 km/h in 80 zone on motorcycle
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lol, that's what the limits are when you leave the city.....ever go do the 507, the turns get enertaining doing over 160-170.
Holmes
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So I'm not alone here~!
Bahaha.No!
torontoZX6R
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Turbo dish, take a day off for once. It might be tough to get down from that moral high ground of righteousness, but please give it a try.
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Holmes
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I feel surrounded with like minded people on this forum for once! Admitting to speeding, hating on turbodish.... I ****ing love it!
Turbodish is the one calling in stupid safety labels on products, while all of his cupboards are safety locked with neat writing detailing all that's within.
Honestly, sure this guy was doing well over the limit, chances are he knew how to ride. It's the morons that putt around the city doing JUST the limit and less that I worry about. One loud noise and they suddenly lock up the breaks in there cars and start checking every window available to make sure the worlds not ending.
Honestly, sure this guy was doing well over the limit, chances are he knew how to ride. It's the morons that putt around the city doing JUST the limit and less that I worry about. One loud noise and they suddenly lock up the breaks in there cars and start checking every window available to make sure the worlds not ending.
Holmes
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Amen brother
Please provide the name of the street where you live together with your signed open invitation for all to come and enjoy their high speed riding there. After all, if it's good enough that you think it's acceptable to inflict it on others, then you should be quite happy to experience it in front of your own home, family and neighbours as well.
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Really? How do you tell the difference between someone who can ride and someone who can't? By their speed on a straight road? Then please explain this one: http://www.citytv.com/toronto/cityn...eadly-motorcycle-race-that-was-caught-on-tape
And if uber-rider was so skilled and able to handle anything he might encounter at high speed, then how come he couldn't see the police cruiser that bagged him? What if it wasn't a police cuiser he didn't see but some kid on a bicycle coming out one of the field entrances?
Putting around at the limit and doing more than double the speed limit has one significant difference - kinetic energy. Doubling your speed quadruples your kinetic energy. When you crash, that kinetic energy is a big determiner of how much damage and injury/death will come out of that crash.
I'd rather be hit by a putter than by a moron doing over twice the limit. That's not being self-righteous or up on a high moral ground - that's a simple matter of putting my well-being and the well-being of others on the road above some idiot's grossly juvenile wish to play boy racer on a public road.
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You ride darkside. You no longer have any input on anything relating to safety.
some people might not feel like risking a nice bike with no insurance coverage for starters?
If the govt was so interested in protecting us why would they allow the sale of motorcycles that go 170 km/hr in first gear? They know full well most will try out that performance and they can profit from it. When is the last time anyone heard of someone getting killed by a speeding motorcycle other than the rider in Canada?
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Difference here being, he wasn't out racing people on the streets like a hooligan, he was just by himself, and at 47, chances are he knows his own limits and boundaries. Racing downtown Toronto with 3 people is a hell of a lot different then riding on the highway, by yourself at your own comfortable pace. That's like comparing Laguna Seca to a freaking Go-Kart track.
I'd actually rather not get hit at all. I'd take my chances with the rider that knows what he is doing, and is capable at 170 kmph, over Grandma who can barely see over the dashboard putting along at 60 / 80 kmph.
I am not praising what this guy did, however cops and the media are so hung up with with the 174 law, that they forget about the other ****** drivers you have, getting licenses handed out at the local bingo hall. My grandfather included, the guy can't even check his blindspot because he can't turn his neck all the way to the left. When doing the written tests, they pointed out the answers for him. Even he say's he shouldn't be driving, and only does for emergencies. The ridiculous part is that they gave him a license, and that scares me more then the local speeder flying down a highway.
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Doing this on an open access road is about as dumb as it gets. As others have noted, anyone (or anything--dog, deer, sasquatch) can run out into the road, or a car can pull out of a driveway. He was going nearly 50m/s and it would likely take a couple hundred metres to stop, in short no time to react to anything. Given reaction time, speed, and the likely stopping distance (due to the speed and lack of skill) the rider would be lucky to not hit something even if he saw it 300m ahead.
Not that it is still not really stupid but at least if someone is doing this type of speed on a 400 highway (when it is not busy of course, and everyone else is doing 130) it is safer (all relative) than what this idiot did...
Not that it is still not really stupid but at least if someone is doing this type of speed on a 400 highway (when it is not busy of course, and everyone else is doing 130) it is safer (all relative) than what this idiot did...
So instead of just risking the loss of a bike in the controlled environment of a race track, they choose to entertain even greater risk of crash in a public space, and in doing so also impose risk of injury and even death to others who didn't sign up for that public road track day? What kind of logic is that?
It happens. Does the fact that it doesn't happen that often (in part given that bikes are a tiny minority on the road) make it any more acceptable?
http://www.citytv.com/toronto/cityn...eadly-motorcycle-race-that-was-caught-on-tape
http://www.traffictickets.to/news_10_3_05.shtml
http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2010/08/28/15172156.html
People get badly hurt too when riders screw up.
http://www.nrps.com/news/details.asp?id=mr1736
Absolutely - it seems to work for the Germans on the Autobahn, but then again, other German drivers fully expect that they may be passed at double or triple their rate of speed. We expect that others will be traveling at, more or less, the same speed. Bottom line is, when you change the rules of the game without informing others, someone's inclined to lose unexpectedly. If I expected to encounter cars and bikes approaching at anywhere from 80kph and 180kph, while pulling out onto an undivided country road, I'd be pretty stressed.
