Motorcyclist dies after crashing at nearly 300 Mph

Yahoo! ^ | 7/15/12 | Dave Sherwood

[DemforBush]

BOWDOINHAM, Maine (Reuters) - A Florida motorcyclist known as the "fastest man on two wheels," died Sunday after crashing at just under 300 miles per hour while trying to break his own record for the fastest speed on a conventional motorcycle in a time trial in Limestone, Maine...

[Doogle]

..bike veered right, went off course, he was thrown 40 ft in the air close to 100 yds...was conscious and communicating on way to hospital but later passed......

RIP Mr Warner

[BraveMan]

According to the article it is a “modified, turbo-charged Suzuki Hayabusa”.

[Carriage Hill]

Squeegee, ziploc baggie.

[Disambiguator]

Throw a plastic bubble over the passenger compartment, and you have a great, all-weather commuter vehicle.

You should look up the Monotracer. It's exactly that.

[fabian]

another life just wasted...

[-YYZ-]

Thank you for posting a sensible and tasteful comment. He wasn’t a maniac or a moron, he was doing this in a controlled environment. He knew there could be risks involved, as did everyone else participating. Some of us need a little more excitement in life than can found sitting on a couch watching other people do things on TV, or posting ignorant and tasteless comments in a thread like this.

[Harold Shea]

Have seen Top Fuel bikes run 260 in the quarter-mile

with the front wheel off the ground half the track.

Just guessing he had something break on that run.

Heard a driver say once they aren`t very hard to drive

when they are right.

RIP

[onedoug]

“Hold mah beer n’ watch this....”

[fieldmarshaldj]

Yikes. RIP.

[PGR88]

Race director Tim Kelly said local authorities were investigating the incident. "Something occurred and he lost control of the vehicle. That's all we know right now," he said.

At that speed, even hitting an insect would probably feel like being shot.

[conservaterian]

He was texting at the time of the accident. “Almost to 300...”

[driftdiver]

This guy lived about 10 miles from me.

[RobertClark]

At that speed, even hitting an insect would probably feel like being shot.

I've surpassed 164 on my bike, and cannot fathom nearing 300. At 150+, any tiny deviation from perfect is a mountain. A piece of pea gravel, a fly, a small bump in the road all have major ramifications. We were in a reasonably controlled environment and it was still somewhat unnerving.

[Slambat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEmPg9rcKss

[Romulus]

Take note of those sponsors, because every one of them has some blood on its hands.

[driftdiver]

Yeah its a shame people must push the envelope of their own free will

[Robe]

At that speed, even hitting an insect would probably feel like being shot.

Prob why he attempted this in Maine, down south hitting a June Bug would like being shot with a .45

Prime South Carolina June Bug

[zeugma]

another life just wasted...

Hardly. Every death id regrettable, but everybody dies. He wasn't sitting around eating potato chips all day on his sofa. I'm not sure what the fellow did in his day job, but given the sponsorships he had on his bike, it doesn't look like he was just a layabout. Folks who do this kind of thing are pushing engineering knowledge. I'm sure that much was learned in the process of developing his cycle.

Just because someone is taking risks, and pushing envelopes doesn't mean they are stupid.

[Jeff Winston]

When they do stuff like this, they are pretty armored up. Surprisingly, it's possible for at least some of them to survive crashes at pretty high speeds:

In a previous event, a female rider had fallen from her bike at 211 mph, but survived with only minor injuries.

I wouldn't have thought it possible to survive a fall from a bike at 211 mph with minor injuries.

[zeugma]

Take note of those sponsors, because every one of them has some blood on its hands.

Do you say the same thing about sponsors of NASCAR?