205MPH on a stock RC-51?

Re: 205MPH on a CBR 1000RR?

Quote:

"The defendant need say nothing about how fast he was going."

That reminds me of the Chappelle Show

I plea the fifth, bam bam, I plea the fifth.

One two three four FIIIIIIIIFFF!

Re: 205MPH on a CBR 1000RR?

I believe that the timing strips on the highway are 1/4 mile apar - correct me if this is wrong, but it's only somewhat relevant to my point.

At very high speeds, unless the points used for measurement are very far apart, you'll need some fairly precise timing to get an accurate reading. Let's assume my 1/4 mile for discussion purposes. At 60 MPH, this distance takes 15 seconds to traverse. At 90 MPH, it takes 10 seconds. We're still within the realm of reason. At 180 MPH, though we're down to five seconds and small timing increments have dramatic impacts. One-half seconds less time will give you a reading of 200 MPH, while one-half second more will yield 164 MPH. While the difference between 180 and 165 and 200, from a legal point of view, is probably irrelevant, measurements become more error prone the finer they have to be.

I doubt parallax had much to do with this, as the measurement points would be almost adjacent to the bike (painted marks on the highway). If the measurements were far from the bike, then parallax with a moving observer would be more of an issue.

My ultimate point is that the difference between 205 and 200 and even 180 is huge to sportbike geeks (like me) - but such unrealistic difference in top speed is easily attributable to imprecise estimates.

Also note that at slow speeds, the officer has time to take a bite of doughnut and slurp some coffee and still have a reasonable estimate of speed because of the relatively long time it takes to travel the measurement distance at speeds closer to the legislated speed limit.

cdg

Re: 205MPH on a CBR 1000RR?

If that bike wasn't seriously Hopped Up I hope he secured it away were it can't be tampered with, the "Law" has probably taken care of that for him. There is no way a stock 1000cc RR or RC51 (or anything) is going to go 205MPH unless there was a STRONG tailwind, or a long fall. Any number of experts could testify to that. If the guy was on Miguel's spare bike, well that would be a different story. There was most likely a timing error. This guy needs a Good lawyer (I know, oxymoron). If Justice is served (we all know that always happens in this country right?) the case should be thrown out, Next! Of course there is a lot of money to be made on victimless crimes in this Country.

An aside, I have always (since 14 anyway) wanted to go over 200MPH on a Motorcycle. If that guy was going close to that fast I'll bet he has had to LHAO over the bragging rights. Maximum Style points, an International Star? I'd buy him some drinks for the story but he may end up busy for awhile.