Biker arrested, clocked at 170mph on Thruway

WRGB-TV Channel 6 News ^ | May 3, 2012 | Unknown

[faithhopecharity]

Sand? Ungood for bikers. Bikes prefer real, old-fashioned good pavement. Anyone wanting to go that fast should rent some time on a racetrack (or get his head examined while its still in 1 piece, ha!) This guy should buy those good officers a great big box of chocolates - they saved his miserable life. ( Canandaigua. Beautiful !)

[traditional1]

I don't care HOW "cool" or fast your crotch-rocket motorcycle is, there's NO WAY it's safe at speeds approaching or exceeding 100mph on public roadways. Sand, oil, gravel, etc. on the street will put you on your ass in a split second and there's no way around it. Race courses are free of debris, roadkill, sand, etc., but public roadways have no such conditions.

Those fools on motorcyles that do these sorts of things have NO BRAINS, and don't know what they're in for until it's too late.

[arthurus]

Loses. His license being too tight is not relevant.

[yobid]

I own that bike. 1/4 mile in 10 seconds @ 145 mph. So that’s zero to 145 in ten seconds.

I’m still breaking it in.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Dude takes lane splitting to a whole new level.

Incredibly reckless.

[Pharmboy]

Ya got me beat...I opened mine up to 110 on the Mass Pike at 4AM back in the 1980s. Felt great...

[palmer]

So that's zero to 145 in ten seconds

With the rider still on it?

[arthurus]

I gave up bikes in 1988 after 25 years of riding pretty much only two wheels. My fourth trip to the hospital with multiple broken bones &c made me swear off of them. Gas going up over $4 a few years ago sent me back, but at a more sedate level. I have now a Honda 250cc Reflex. It will comfortably go any legal speed in this part of the country and the way I drive (a long commute at 40 mph) lets me get 75-80 miles a gallon. When (ha!) gas goes back under $2.50 I will re-activate my Chevy(pre GovernmentMotors).

[Neidermeyer]

>”...fetal alcohol syndrome.”<

Good diagnosis. Shape of head and chin is classic FAS.
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Disagree , no receeding chin. Just not an attractive face shape..

[kearnyirish2]

“What are we turning into?”

The despair/hopelessness that plagued the urban underclass for decades has spread into the middle class as an increasing number of young Americans realize they have no future; you see it with the rise in teen pregnancy, drug abuse, body piercings/tattoos, and driving at 170 mph atop a speeding little machine.

These are America’s next generation of Dem voters, reliant on welfare and food stamps as a replacement for the jobs their parents used to work.

[yobid]

LOL - yeah ya gotta really hang on!

[arthurus]

I only once had any notion of going over a hundred. I was driving over a longish bridge in Panama City FL on a Yamaha XJ650 30 years ago (no other traffic) and there was a Navy Ground Effects Vehicle on the water going parallel to the bridge. The Navy had admitted to a top speed for those things “in excess of 70 mph.” I wondered how excessive that might be. I reached about 105 and the damned thing was still pulling away when I ran out of bridge and slowed back down.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

“What are we turning into?”

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Well, in large part the war on union jobs has been won. At least manufacturing unions. (government unions are growing)

Now the jobs are gone. Horrayy! We won! (looking around at the rubble)

Problem is, that just means now, more people cannot support themselves.

So democrats gained votes, in the process.

[Travis McGee]

Live fast, die young.

Sometimes.

[kearnyirish2]

“Well, in large part the war on union jobs has been won. At least manufacturing unions. (government unions are growing)”

The manufacturing unions committed suicide. In an increasing number of Dem states, government workers are dropping like flies because they have become unsustainable. Without hard figures, I think it is a safe bet that NJ has less teachers/cops/firemen than 4 years ago; I don’t see how they could make up for the thousands laid off by budget cuts (which even climbed into the tenured ranks).

Many people forget that soon after 9/11, when the NYC government was asked how they intended to replace the 343 firemen killed on that day, the initial answer was: “We aren’t going to”. They had such an excess of personnel, and were already feeling the economic heat of financial firms leaving the city (one of the saving graces in the WTC was the number of vacancies in the buildings; more people may have died in the stairwells without them).

[panaxanax]

Just kidding about the sand, but a “repaired” pothole up here lasts about an hour.

[Sawdring]

Here in Minnesota we had a kids who was clocked on his bike going 212 mph, they called him 212 Tilly.

[Rj Snows]

Less trail more boon docking Sierra Nevada

[chrisser]

I’ve of the opinion that we ought to give these guys a chance to run their machines.

Not like morons through busy traffic, but by periodically temporarily closing roads (right after major construction finishes where other traffic is already diverted would be ideal) and allowing the public to have an occassional chance to feel some speed, after waivering of course.

More and more racetracks are shutting down, and most of them are filled with sanctioned events that discourage the general public from participating.

There’s a natural desire in many people to see what their machines can do. If we periodically gave them an opportunity, when we could make it reasonably safe for them and the public, ensure they aren’t drunk, and perhaps run a safety check on their equipment, a lot of people wouldn’t find the need to do crazy stuff like this.

[kenmcg]

SUICIDE RUN!!!