300 km/h Motorcyclist in traffic!

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Cops normally don't chase motorcyclists anyway, especially on busy roads. Superbikes are just way too small and nimble. But yeah, this is epic.
 
What an idiot. Recording oneself doing illegal things and then posting it onto YouTube for all the world's police to see. :lol:
 
I love how this is right next to the thread arguing for a speed limit increase! :lol:

But seriously, 300km/h is insane, both from a nerves and mechanical perspective! He'll be lucky to ever drive again if they catch him. That's one of the things about Youtube and the internet these days - it makes it way harder to be anonymous for that sort of thing. I hope they catch him - we have no need for people like that burning down the roadways.
 
Ok, yea, he's obviously a very bad man* (meant in both respect of the term "bad"). Obviously this person deserves to be spanked. But was anyone's life (besides the biker) really at risk? Sure some property was at risk, but I kinda doubt anyone even had a chance to freak out and do something stupid. I imagine there are some small cars where getting hit from behind by a bike doing 100mph faster than you could put someone's life at risk, but 99.999% of the time when this goes bad it's the person on the bike that dies and nobody else.



* If that was a chick, we need photos to mastur... uh.... know who this dangerous person is.
 
BlackBrant in the comments estimates it at about 216 km/h. It makes sense since when he's going an indicated ~200, he's not really going that fast past the traffic.

White lines are 3 meters long and 9 meters in between. He's passing 10 of these lines every 2 seconds during the 299km/h section of video.

That means, he's traveling [(3+9) x 10]/2 = 60m/s or 216km/h. Even given 10% speedo error and error in my timing of the passing stripes, it's a far cry from 299km/h...so I retract my previous statement and propose that he's enlarged the rear sprocket (probably for stunting or low end acceleration) so the speedo is probably way out.
 
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I do wonder how people forget that YouTube is public and that doing something illegal is likely to draw attention!

Pity because the guy can seriously handle a bike, should be directing his energy's to motorsport.
 
I do wonder how people forget that YouTube is public and that doing something illegal is likely to draw attention!

Pity because the guy can seriously handle a bike, should be directing his energy's to motorsport.

I am pretty sure he knows that YouTube is public. That was more than likely the point.
 
Ok, yea, he's obviously a very bad man* (meant in both respect of the term "bad"). Obviously this person deserves to be spanked. But was anyone's life (besides the biker) really at risk? Sure some property was at risk, but I kinda doubt anyone even had a chance to freak out and do something stupid. I imagine there are some small cars where getting hit from behind by a bike doing 100mph faster than you could put someone's life at risk, but 99.999% of the time when this goes bad it's the person on the bike that dies and nobody else.



* If that was a chick, we need photos to mastur... uh.... know who this dangerous person is.

Well potentially other peoples mental health was at stake. Seeing a person get torn to shreds and blood and guts everywhere would affect most people very negatively.
 
I do wonder how people forget that YouTube is public and that doing something illegal is likely to draw attention!
Someone in the comments wondered why the Ghost Rider guy was praised and this guy is being scolded. As it seems, internet attention is both good and bad with the same situation in different times.
 
I imagine there are some small cars where getting hit from behind by a bike doing 100mph faster than you could put someone's life at risk, but 99.999% of the time when this goes bad it's the person on the bike that dies and nobody else.

That is not entirely correct. A car can be cut in half by a motorcycle with that much speed difference. Even if the bike somehow didn't penetrate the car far enough to reach the passengers, the rider (or his remains) will penetrate the windows easily.

Any single lane change by any one of those cars would have made that bike and rider a projectile towards any of the other traffic, with a HUGE amount of kinetic energy. Bike and rider probably mass out at 15 to 20 percent of most cars, but kinetic energy is factored by the square of the velocity.

If the rider loses control and runs into a bridge abutment or concrete wall, then yeah, it's just the rider who gets cleaned up with a wet-vac. But at triple the speed, even with 1/6th the weight, he has 50% more kinetic energy than a car.

But that difference is more of a factor in surface streets rather than freeways. A bike running a red light at 130 will not be a pretty thing to see, or be part of.

The main thing I don't like about these videos is a perception by "the public" or "the media" that bikes are evil because they can do this. Bring up a video of some guy who stole a Corvette or is showing off his ferrari, doing 175 on the freeway, and it's, "Get that guy off the road!! Put him away forevey before he kills someone!" But bring up a bike vid, and it's all bikes and bikers being represented somehow. "Oh, you ride a motorcycle? I saw that vid of the guy riding through traffic at 170 miles an hour," or "I saw the vid of those idiots popping wheelies in freeway traffic," and somehow I'm associated with that. Somehow as a driver I've never been associated with the Corvette or Ferrari videos....
 
Agreed and the other thing besides him crashing is that imagine an older lady driving a car and seeing somebody on a bike flying past them, what are they going to do? Slam on the brakes? Swerve? Maybe he cuts somebody off and they swerve to avoid and hit the person beside them.

It's not just the fact he could crash.
 
^I have the DVD of that (a legit one), really hard to come by :D
Also Snowpatrol had that vid as video for a song, and the back story on how it was made and the follow ups is really nice to read

Yeah, Gost rider, Getaway in Stockholm, Gumball, Mischief,... nothing new.

Some of them actually know what they are doing. Some don't (especially at gumball where rich kids race). The major negativity is that it leads youngster to speed. But maybe that is just natural selection.

But awesome. You need to have balls of steel and be really stupid though.

Want to drive 300 go to Nardi, with all the bumps it will give you enough thrill to piss your pants, no need to put innocent families in danger
 
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I don't believe he was a threat to people around him. If you have the balls to go 300 kph, then you most likely have the skills to back it up too. Of course, there's always a chance that it was just some kid who wanted to show off, but I'm doubting that.
 
But his assumption is that everybody holds their line, and how can any intelligent person put their life on the line based on that assumption?

And he is risking other lives, people who didn't sign up to be at that risk.

While riding (and driving, for that matter) your awareness zones should be 2 seconds, 4 seconds, and 12 seconds. You should know at all times everything that's within 2 seconds of you. You should have frequent glances out to the 4-second limit, every 2 or 3 seconds, and you should have several glances a minute out to 12 seconds away.

At 150 mph, 2 seconds is 440 feet, 4 seconds is 880 feet, and 12 seconds is about a half mile. That's just too much stuff to keep track of when the people being kept track of are unaware of the circumstances.
 
The other road participants, don't know / realize about that he is coming with 300km/h, one wrong move from him or someone else, a bit of ikky circumstances and the massive crash is done.

I needed to learn too the hard way that on public roads, people even with a valid driving liscence aren't the best drivers and certainly not in these conditions.

He can be the best driver of the world, when he comes with 300 and someone changes lines without noticing him, it's fatal for him, and probably others. Ever seen what happens when a cyclist gets thrown at a windshield? The guy behind isn't safe...

As "cool" as such vids are, the people are plain dumb. Want the thrill of death, participate in the isle of men challange.

"to be though, you gotta be dumb" a song lyric goes...
 

So if you do something like this in North America everyone hates you, yet you do it in Europe and everyone loves you. Look at the like bar. The world is just stupid. :rolleyes:



^ Same with this. Look at the like bar. But there is one exception to this video, and that is it was filmed onthe Autobahn. But you can see what I'm going at...
 
Biggest question i have on the matter is Why the hell to Canucks use KPH as a unit of measurement?! :boggled:
 
Biggest question i have on the matter is Why the hell to Canucks use KPH as a unit of measurement?! :boggled:

Because the metric system is better.

It is also problem 36 with America as said in Simpsons.

Number 36 with whats wrong with America: No metric system. What is this? The time of Charlemagne?
 
That is not entirely correct. A car can be cut in half by a motorcycle with that much speed difference. Even if the bike somehow didn't penetrate the car far enough to reach the passengers, the rider (or his remains) will penetrate the windows easily.

Any single lane change by any one of those cars would have made that bike and rider a projectile towards any of the other traffic, with a HUGE amount of kinetic energy. Bike and rider probably mass out at 15 to 20 percent of most cars, but kinetic energy is factored by the square of the velocity.

If the rider loses control and runs into a bridge abutment or concrete wall, then yeah, it's just the rider who gets cleaned up with a wet-vac. But at triple the speed, even with 1/6th the weight, he has 50% more kinetic energy than a car.

But that difference is more of a factor in surface streets rather than freeways. A bike running a red light at 130 will not be a pretty thing to see, or be part of.

Yea, I understand the concept of kinetic energy. My point was that from behind is not likely to kill anyone. Yes if there's someone in the back seat, or the driver goes flying through the rear window, it's possible someone else will die, but I don't find it particularly likely. 9 times out of 10 I think what happens is that the cyclist slams on the brakes to avoid something, or swerves, loses control, and goes flying off the road altogether. A friend of mine got t-boned by a bike. The biker flew over the roof of the car, friend was ok. If a car gets t-boned by another car, generally people aren't ok.

I just envision a lot of circumstances where trunks get caved in, or a truck driver wonders what that "thunk" was from the rear, or motorcycle and driver are sliding along the freeway. Not too many circumstances where other drivers or passengers get hit.

Agreed and the other thing besides him crashing is that imagine an older lady driving a car and seeing somebody on a bike flying past them, what are they going to do? Slam on the brakes? Swerve? Maybe he cuts somebody off and they swerve to avoid and hit the person beside them.

Having had this done to me many times (I live in LA afterall), I can tell you that you don't generally have time to swerve. LA is the land of motorcycles splitting traffic at 40 mph speed differentials while traffic is doing 80 mph. They do it here all the time because the law says motorcycles are allowed to split traffic (at no more than 20 mph total and no more than 10 mph speed differential, but they forget that part).

Generally when a motorcycle is closing on you at 40 mph you don't see him until you're looking at his tail lights. After that, you don't even think to swerve because he's past you (that's usually when his 3 buddies go past you). If you do see him before he passes you your first instinct will generally be to hold still.
 
I wouldn't say it isn't likely the cardriver might be killed. After all, a bike easily weighs, what... 250kg? Include the biker and you're looking at 325-400kg. I wouldn't for the life of me want to be in a car at which a nearly half tonne-weighing object is moving at a 120 mph speed difference at :scared:
 
You're might be just a bit heavy on the bike weight, depending on the bike. A CBR1000RR would be about 200kg, an R1 just a tick more. Your point is valid, for sure, though.
 
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I agree it might be a little on the heavy side. But then again I picked up that number form my dad's BMW G1200GS. It weighs about 250-260kg with a full tank of fuel, without the rider. This bike doesn't go 190 mph, but it still reaches 120 mph.
 
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