Oregon cop strikes gold traffic violations

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/24/exotic.speeding.oregon/index.html

 

wow. going 100 mph in 55, they have guts to be going that fast in that speed limit.

 

May 2003, on the San Francisco to Miami Gumball 3000 Rally, the first CCR in the United States received the biggest speeding ticket in the world; 242 mph in a 75 mph zone somewhere in west Texas.


A Minnesota motorcyclist may have hit a record for a speeding ticket: 205 mph.
Minnesota State Patrol pilot Al Loney was flying over U.S. Route 61 near Washaba, part of a task force cracking down on this fall's "Flood Run," an informal motorbike ride that takes place twice a year along the Mississippi River.
He looked down and saw two bikes racing at high speed, and when one shot ahead, Loney waited till the rider reached a white marker in the road. Then he clicked his stopwatch.
A quarter mile and 4.39 seconds later, the rider reached another marker. Loney did the math: 205.11 miles per hour.
"I was in total disbelief," Loney told the St. Paul Pioneer Press. "I had to double-check my watch because in 27 years I'd never seen anything move that fast."
Samuel Armstrong Tilley, 20, had soon been pulled over and booked for reckless driving, driving without a motorcycle license and driving 140 mph over the posted speed limit of 65.


Maybe he had to pee.....?

 

my truck might do about 200 mph...if you dropped it out of a plane

 

It's not hard to develop the build/tune to hit that. The "gentlemans agreement for bike governors is 187...In theory no production bike will get faster than that, unless you un-govern it. With the right cams, fuel management, pipe, filter, and the right tune...You could wind out 205...Not sure I'd want to tho.

 

I'm not sure either- Limited experience with V-Twins- but my stock 600 Inline 4 hit 162 (on a closed course) and had some left. I've installed a pipe, filter, and fuel management with a generic tune since then. Sadly I have bolted on larger testicles...so I haven't been able to try to top that.

RC51 weight ~430 dry...Some drive gears (-2,+3) might help top that speed out....I think it could be done...but ::shrug:: Any one got an RC51 they want to let us test with??