With not only the engine but the aerodynamics of the bike to keep the front-end on the damn ground.
With not only the engine but the aerodynamics of the bike to keep the front-end on the damn ground.
mobobuff
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Skin would completely come off just at 50 mph.
That's assuming he just doesn't hit the back of a car and fly through both windshields.
You know what'd be cool... if he ramped the bike at that speed. A big ramp with a huge incline. And then landed in a lake.
Vic
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Only in congested urban areas, and accident rates have not gone down since implemented.
The 2 greatest myths about driving are "Speed kills" and "People always drive faster than the posted speed limit". The realities are that traffic congestion and driver inattention are the leading causes of accidents, and virtually all drivers (except drunks, teenagers, and motorcycle squids) only drive as fast as they feel is safe.
edit: there is no "safe" freeway speed. You do not somehow die in every accident at 56 or faster and miraculously live in every accident at 55 or slower. The reality there is that 55 mph = 88 feet/second. Force equals mass times acceleration. You do the math.
there's still the "driving without a motorcycle license" charge and the overall charge of reckless driving.
Bikes are already set up that way since you'd get plenty of lift at 100 if things were badly designed. It's mostly a question of HP if you want to break 200 on a bike with a stock fairing.
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As a physics teacher, I find it pointless for the officer to have a hundredths digit on the stopwatch. Rarely do I have students who can master such precision with a stopwatch. (I did have one student a few years ago who could come within 2 or 3 hundredths though, but that's 1 out of very many. +/- one second is on the extreme high side. It's rare that I run across anyone off by more than half a second. With .5 seconds error, that translates to 184 mph.
With such a short time, .5 seconds error is pretty significant. Had it been more like 30 seconds being timed, the .5 second error would have been less significant.
With such a short time, .5 seconds error is pretty significant. Had it been more like 30 seconds being timed, the .5 second error would have been less significant.
The problem is you aren't accounting for reckless driving. Of course the "math" will tell you one thing, but common sense will tell you that someone driving 80mph weaving in and out of cars doing 65 is bound to cause an accident sooner or later.
Driving isn't just math, you have to factor in the conditions around you. I know most of the people on the roads (at least around here) do infact speed. Nashville has cracked down on Speeding very hard for the past year. The court system got so overcrounded that they've implimented a paperwork system so that you can plead guilty, mail in the cash and go directly to class. You can drive down the road and see them with 4-5 cars pulled over on 65/40/24 at any time. People do speed..thats just a fact of life.
I'll totally agree though that speed isn't the number 1 killer..it's peoples reckless driving or just plain inability to drive.
Not all bikes are set up correctly for extreme speeds out of the factory. I have been on several bikes that feel rock solid at 120-125 mph but the front end starts to feel light at approx. 145 mph.
The size and shape of the driver can also have a decent effect.
Vic
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I agree. But IMO (using the example you gave) some idiot doing 50 blocking the left lane in a 65 is even more dangerous than someone weaving in and out doing 80 in that same 65. Yet that dangerous idiot doing 50 blocking the left lane (idiot because those fools usually think they are safe drivers, oblivious to the dangerous congestion they create behind them) will never get a ticket.
The purpose of speeding tickets is to generate revenue, not improve traffic safety. Almost every day I see people dangerously not signal in front of police or scream through an intersection chasing a yellow light right in front of a cop (both are class B traffic infractions, comparable to 15 over) and never get a ticket, but God forbid you do more than 5 over in front of a cop.
I think you were going for momentum there. Cruising at 55mph you have relatively little acceleration. Momentum = V*m
/end physics nerding
heres a cap from the news(25mb)
edit:
vid moved to here
http://www.chiefmarley.com/dow...o/download.php?file=44
Originally posted by: EvilYoda
hehe, I wanna see a copy of the ticket. That's gonna be a pretty penny
wouldnt that be a felony?
Originally posted by: gistech1978
Originally posted by: EvilYoda
hehe, I wanna see a copy of the ticket. That's gonna be a pretty penny
wouldnt that be a felony?
is recklessly driving a felony? then yes
Originally posted by: Kalvin00
340 KB/S. Nice server
wow great link, fast.Btw both of them were not ARRESTED
That server RULES. 850kb the whole time. That made me a happy person. In any case...that cop who clocked him was such a dork. Man I hate cops. "HE WAS going 205". That cop needs to get off his power trip and think that just maybe he was a little off. Flying a plane, looking for road markers at a couple thousand feet, and pushing a stop watch all at the same time doesn't seem to be a very accurate way for one person measure speed.
They don't automatically arrest you for reckless driving. Trust me, I know... sigh.
In my state, reckless is automatically added for going +25 over the posted limit...
In my state, reckless is automatically added for going +25 over the posted limit...
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