Son, do you know why I pulled you over?

[scottm]

I'm writing you up for 140 mph OVER the limit. This my effect your insurance rates...

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/9721046.htm?1c

 

[Buncrana]

Can you copy and paste the article?

 

[Candyman]

Yeah, it's asking us to go through a registration and stuff...

 

[vbgagnon]

^^^^^^^^^ What they said!

 

[HumboldtBlazer]

Posted on Tue, Sep. 21, 2004





Minnesota trooper writes 205 mph speeding ticket

Associated Press


WABASHA, Minn. - With a State Patrol airplane overhead, a Stillwater 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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Information from: St. Paul Pioneer Press, http:// www.twincities.com

 

[vbgagnon]

Thats impressive!

 

[HumboldtBlazer]

Yeah, I recently did over 160 on a 2004 Honda 900 RR and it had so much more juice! So I know the 1000 could top 200. I was on a closed drag strip when I hit that speed (don't have a motorcycle license). Needless to say I was scared shitless. Now this has got me thinking what 2bills feels like.

 

[Candyman]

Someday, riding a bike like that will make him the coolest organ donor in the Emergency Room....

 

[vbgagnon]

Someday, riding a bike like that will make him the coolest organ donor in the Emergency Room....

Will there be any organs left from a crash at that speed?

 

[Mr T-Maxx]

Well, for sure the brain is useless, whether it survived the crash or not.


Mr T

 

[NCNitro]

Well, for sure the brain is useless, whether it survived the crash or not.


Mr T

LMAO, now thats funny!

 

[Blah420]

ahahaha aint that the truth going that fast on a bike is crazy one wrong move and u r done for

 

[scottm]

Hmm, thats wierd, i accessed it several times before it blocked me too. Here is another link to the same story.

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040921_1478.html

 

[El Pirata]

Good story.

 

[FRIDGE]

o kool!! 205 on a bike. honda should have him advertise now "the fastest speeding ticket in the history of minesota on a honda!"

 

[Team 17]

He definitly not getting any liscense for at least 2 years or more. But it had to be some rush going that fast.

 

[HumboldtBlazer]

My question is why did he stop? Bike = gone.

 

[Jester]

Yeah, I recently did over 160 on a 2004 Honda 900 RR and it had so much more juice! So I know the 1000 could top 200. I was on a closed drag strip when I hit that speed (don't have a motorcycle license). Needless to say I was scared shitless. Now this has got me thinking what 2bills feels like.

This is an error on the officers part in the air. That bike can not top 200mph! They said it was modified for street racing, but at that, not very likely. Consider that DuHamel's 190 horsepower 1000 Superbike only pulled 195 at the '04 Brainerd Superbike race. There is a big difference between the 2 bikes here. Lets just say the kid bypassed the limiter on the bike..... My bike puts out 132hp to the rear wheel. The 1000RR puts out I believe 144 at the rear wheel. odified prolly about 160! Also take into consideration the variables that are involved.....

what if the distance the cop actually measured was not .25 mile, but instead was .2 mile. and the total error in his time measurement was .5sec, thus making total time 4.89 sec.

.2/4.89 X 60sec/min X 60min/hr. = 147mi/hr.
I believe that these errors could have been very easy for the officer to do. there is a hell of a lot of difference from 147 to 205.

Let's say with speed of reaction, distance(he was in a helicopter) etc. factored in, the cop can produce a timing that is accurate +/- 0.2s.

Now let's see how it would look like if he overmeasured for .2 seconds, and the real time for the biker's quarter mile was 4.59s.

0.25mi/4.59s x 60s/min x 60min/h =196mph

And this is only if the copper's reaction was 0.2s slow, but what if it was more.. I mean he's measuring a small amount of time, from a moving helicopter..

And finally.....(Blazer)... if you went 160 indicated on the 900RR you were actually only going about 145(ish), and at that, the 900RR is only good for about 180(ish)

But my question would be what were you really riding? The 900RR was produced from 1994 to 1999. From there it went to the 929RR until 2003 when it became the 954RR. And then.....in 2004 the 1000RR.

So, I find it really hard to believe that this kid was going 205! Point taken? :smoke:

 

[HumboldtBlazer]

The Honda 900RR weighs like under 300lbs though................deff he bypassed the revlimiter.

 

[scottm]

I agree it is unlikely he was going 205, but 170 - 180 is possible. We don't know how much it was modified though, either. It might be turboed or no2, who knows. The top speed of a pro race bike in a particular race isn't necessarily an indicator of top speed potential, because it no doubt was set up for fastest lap times on that particular track. That same bike set up for Bonneville might hit 240...

Its much more likely that this guy barely hit 170 on a ratty old 900 with a few mods, than it was a fully built bike properly set up to go 200. He's probably lucky to be alive.