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To: sheik yerbouty
Some guy in Minnesota got a ticket for 205 mph a few months back, but he pulled over when he saw the cruisers.


Consensus among motorcyclists is that the 205 mph reported speed was bogus, high yes, but the bike in that episode could not do 205. Rider plead to something lesser. If he had contested it, the airborne means in us for the determination of speed would have been shown to be invalid and lots of other tickets would have been tossed out.

42 posted on 06/06/2005 9:14:55 AM PDT by Starwolf
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To: Starwolf
I wanna see this motorcyle or any motorcycle on a dynometer (sp?)

I don't believe an unmodified bike will do 170 on a dynometer or even a test track, let alone heavy traffic on the interstate.

45 posted on 06/06/2005 9:22:32 AM PDT by Responsibility1st (Spurs in 5)
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To: Starwolf

205 takes at least 77 percent more energy than 170, on the same motorcycle (205 squared divided by 170 squared)


48 posted on 06/06/2005 9:26:28 AM PDT by zipper ("The fear of God makes heroes, the fear of man makes cowards."-- Sgt Alvin C. York)
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To: Starwolf

The bike was probably heavily modified.


71 posted on 06/06/2005 10:23:21 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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