Motorcycle was clocked at 157mph, court told (w/photo)

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[chance33_98]

Motorcycle was clocked at 157mph, court told

By Stewart Payne (Filed: 18/06/2003)

A motorcyclist was recorded travelling at 157mph as he flashed past a police camera, followed by a friend doing 148mph, a court was told yesterday.

It is believed to be the highest speed recorded on a British road and both riders were warned to expect a stiff penalty after pleading guilty to dangerous driving.

Neil Bolger pleads guilty after being caught in a police speed trap in Buckinghamshire doing 148mph

The men, both 29, were said not to be racing each other. Andrew Osborne, from Leamington Spa, Warwicks, who was clocked at 157mph, and Neil Bolger, from Gaydon, Warwicks, must wait until next month to find out their sentence, but were given interim driving disqualifications.

Magistrates in Aylesbury, Bucks, heard that the men were spotted on the A421 near Buckingham speeding through an underpass on a dual carriageway noted as an accident blackspot. The road had a 70mph limit.

Theresa Murphy, prosecuting, said they overtook a lorry on a sweeping bend before being caught by the speed trap.

Darren Rogers, defending Osborne, a master technician, argued that the case should be dealt with by magistrates and not referred to the Crown Court.

Nicholas Devine, defending Bolger, a lorry driver, said that although he was travelling at excessive speed there were no aggravating features. "There is no evidence of alcohol or drugs," he said.

The case was adjourned for four weeks for reports.

[xsrdx]

Two stroke streetbikes are cool. Looks like even 500GP is moving to four strokes though, and now MX 4 strokes are pretty common.

I had a CR450R back in 1981, I weighed about 120 wet and the thing would get to 60 in about 2.5 seconds if I could hang on and keep the front end down.

My first streetbike was an 81 GPz550, then I sold it for an 82 1000 Katana. Funky ride, also lighting fast when it came out, 11.29@122mph IIRC.

Now my 96 ZX9R sits in the garage a lot, kids sort of change your schedule.

I like the new GSXR, but its ugly -I hope Honda can find some horsepower with the promised CBR1000 next year because I think the big RR's are great looking rides.

[Travis McGee]

"Buy your son a murdercycle for his last birthday."

[atlaw]

For a real high-speed treat, try dialing in at 135 on one of the old Mercedes 560 SEL's. If you're on an open highway, you have absolutely no feeling of speed whatsoever. Your only real indication is the speedometer (and maybe the Geo or two you smush along the way). It's like a high-speed baracalounger.

[cinFLA]

I don't want a pickle ...

[wardaddy]

Pith master bump...

You need to screenwrite an Elmore James style movie with those lines...

[JoeSixPack1]

Same engine, mine is a 95 flhtc.

(with a few goodies thrown in so the Honda guys don't beat me up too bad...:-)}

[wardaddy]

My road warrior days are over though I wish I had a stable of Dukes, Bimotas, Aprillas etc for investment purposes.

a good 900 desmo goes for multiples of the original price and looks great....

...so does a cherry H2 actually..

Who was that early GP racing great from the US...even before KR....I remember he wore a flat top haircut....??

I used to ride a friend's RD 350 or 400 (?)...it was a little pocket rocket too...

The GPZs were arguably the first modern outta the box cafe bikes mass produced you know...

[A Navy Vet]

I got a ticket for doing 20 in a 35 on Hawthorne Blvd., cruising in a lowered '54 Merc. That was before I caught the "need for speed". Corvettes only, now.

[wardaddy]

(elmore leonard)....geez a dissolving cerebellum is a terrible thing to endure..

[VaBthang4]

Boys will be Boys.

[MalcolmS]

>>>My guess would be Huyabusas, capable of approaching 200 mph. <<<

Huyabusas sounds about right. But I understand in the ER they call these 'donor' cycles.

[Charles Martel]

It's not dead sexy like the Miura, but the Iso Grifo was one interesting piece of machinery, too. Those were the early days of Shelby-American and everyone was playing with the engine-transplant concept. Iso used a Can-Am spec Chevy big-block. All that torque made the lack of V-12 music easier to overlook.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Not only that, why would the camera be on a turn? Seems silly to me.

I think you're right. The speed radar works by detecting how fast something is moving away or toward it. A vehicle travelling through a turn (i.e. moving laterally with respect to the radar) would show a lower speed to the radar its than actual speed.

[archy]

From the picture it seems as though he is riding on the right side of the road - don't they drive on the left side in GB?

They do indeed, as in Japan, though in Germany they drive on the righthand side like Americans [mostly!] do. But the pic of that particular '67 Lambo Miura is of Kirk Stevenson's during *Italian Car Day* in Atlanta last year.

Those folks put on quite a showing; even had a couple of Ducati and Guzzi motorbikes show up last year.

That's Kirk's Miura, which was voted best Lamborghini at the event, on the right, next to the red ragtop.

-archy-/-

[archy]

It's not dead sexy like the Miura, but the Iso Grifo was one interesting piece of machinery, too. Those were the early days of Shelby-American and everyone was playing with the engine-transplant concept. Iso used a Can-Am spec Chevy big-block. All that torque made the lack of V-12 music easier to overlook.

The purists with the Italian silk shirts and pointy-toe shoes would be outraged, but I suppose a 12-hole Jag engine might be transplanted into one....$700 Canadian for one [running!] from Longrun....

[archy]

Who was that early GP racing great from the US...even before KR....I remember he wore a flat top haircut....??

Mike *the bike* Hailwood? Not from the U.S., and I think of him with more of a receding hairline, but back around '67 when he took the French Grand Prix at Clermont Ferrand on a Honda 250cc 6-cylinder he may have had a crewcut. Flattracker Joe Leonard comes to mind, too, I think he got into GP bikes for a bit before switching over to Indy cars, and he wore his hair like the former Marine he was.

[archy]

I'm 6'6, 290, I cannot be seen on a Sportster, I'd make it look like a moped.

Yeah, no Sportster for you, but there may be other, larger bikes in a similar pickle as the Sportster was for me.

Roadog. I understand one of the two prototypes *Wild Bill* Gelbke built preceeding his *Auto Four* project is available for sale. And there were seven or eight of the Auto-fours completed, and one of them might be available. That ol' boy was WAY ahead of his time.

[SoDak]

Whoah baby! That's a bike.

[Willie Green]

Brings new meaning to "crotch rocket"...

IMHO, "numnutz" is the more appropriate terminology in this situation.
I'm sure FReepers will come up with plenty of other substitutes for these speeding weiners.

[JoeSixPack1]

This is the Martin-Fierro Butt Cycle, AKA The Spanish Moon Shot!