Thread: Irate police hunt 'missile moron' motorbike rider

Originally Posted by Pickles2

I knew Peter Brock very well...he was the same age as me, knew him when he had the A30...as many of you would know Peter had a long involvement with road safety, hense the .05 racing number.
Well, Peter wasn't a big fan of radar, speed cameras etc etc. He said the main attribute was "attitude"....his words, & I quote, "If you haven't got your brain in gear when you get behind the wheel, nothing will make any difference".
Cheers, Pickles.

Yeah , we'll that says it all mate doesn't it? Anyone who does anything like the speed of that bike on a public road with other road users around certainly doesn't have his brain in gear does he? Rip Brocky......even he couldn't argue with a tree.....and that was on a road closed to the public during a sanctioned event.....the point being that our roads and environment are not designed for those sort of speeds......no one can argue Brocky was an exceptional driver, and he came unstuck.....so how long before the rest of the " it won't happen to me - I'm immortal" crowd become a statistic.....you guys hang **** on the coppers but we are the ones who clean up the mess and deal with the families after the event.....
Imagine your in the td5, come to an intersection, look right and see nothing all the way to the crest of a nearby hill about 100m from the intersection, so you pull out and bang, a bike or car hits you up the back end with the resulting injury and mayhem that follows.....at those sort of speeds that's about 80m a second....normal human reaction time is 1 second.....wouldn't even have slowed down much.....
I don't give a toss about the politics or the hypocrites, the reality is we need speed limits so we can all get around with some degree of safety....if you'd cleaned up after as many crashes as I have you wouldn't be so keen to go those sort of speeds....if you have done them, it's not skill that you survived, its luck.

End of my rant....

Originally Posted by TD50WA

Yeah , we'll that says it all mate doesn't it? Anyone who does anything like the speed of that bike on a public road with other road users around certainly doesn't have his brain in gear does he? Rip Brocky......even he couldn't argue with a tree.....and that was on a road closed to the public during a sanctioned event.....the point being that our roads and environment are not designed for those sort of speeds......no one can argue Brocky was an exceptional driver, and he came unstuck.....so how long before the rest of the " it won't happen to me - I'm immortal" crowd become a statistic.....you guys hang **** on the coppers but we are the ones who clean up the mess and deal with the families after the event.....
Imagine your in the td5, come to an intersection, look right and see nothing all the way to the crest of a nearby hill about 100m from the intersection, so you pull out and bang, a bike or car hits you up the back end with the resulting injury and mayhem that follows.....at those sort of speeds that's about 80m a second....normal human reaction time is 1 second.....wouldn't even have slowed down much.....
I don't give a toss about the politics or the hypocrites, the reality is we need speed limits so we can all get around with some degree of safety....if you'd cleaned up after as many crashes as I have you wouldn't be so keen to go those sort of speeds....if you have done them, it's not skill that you survived, its luck.

End of my rant....

That's very well said. Doesn't everyone reckon they're just the best ever driver in the world? I had a good mate who was a volunteer ambo in the Wheatbelt, and some of his stories were very educational.

(Now, if you can work out what Hitler has to do with this thread please let me know since obviously no-one else can . . . )

Originally Posted by Davo

(Now, if you can work out what Hitler has to do with this thread please let me know since obviously no-one else can . . . )

One of the posts refered to having vehicles escorted by a man in front waving a red flag to alert oncoming people to the approach of a horseless cariage.

The Nazi flag is primarily red.

The inference being that the proposed tolerance and enforcement of the speed limit is nazi like.

I'd hate to be bumbling up a gentle hill on a two lane section of the Hume at a glorious 85km/h, as that's what my County does up gentle long hills, check the mirrors and blind spots, all clear, pull out to overtake farmer Joe lumbering up the hill at 70km/h, and three blinks of the indicator later have a helmeted head where my spare wheel normally is.

That motorcyclist had reached Ludicrous Speed.

TD50WA...I don't see anyone "hanging anything on coppers" (Your Words), who mostly do a very very good job, in sometimes very difficult, and unthanked, circumstances. Any reasonable person would know that.
What I will say again, though, is that speed limits in this Country are, in some places, too low. Here in Victoria, we have the Hume Highway...110 limit....Over the years, I've spoken to several Highway Patrol officers who have said, on several occasions, off the record of course, that it's easily safe for 130kph.
I drive a lot myself in Country Victoria...bullet straight roads, no-one around, yet I have to sit on 100Ks .....AND I DO, but I reckon it's unreasonable.
I ain't condoning 273ks either....that is simply ridiculous. Speed Limits?...Got no problems with them at all.....except that in some places, IMHO, they are too low.
Cheers, Pickles.

Originally Posted by amtravic1

I can see no problem riding on the Hume at that speed as long as the rider knows what he is doing and is looking far enough ahead.

Sorry mate but that is the attitude of stupidity.

Anyone who suggests they "know what they are doing" riding or driving at that speed on a public rode clearly shows they do not know what they are doing.

Speeds like that should only be attained on the race track and I bet there are no race drivers who would travel at that speed off the track because they know that to travel at that speed and not kill yourself and/or someone else you need everything going your way in a closed environment with other "professional drivers" !

Now I am not perfect by any measure but this "I am the greatest driver and can do 200+kmp sideways if I want" attitude reminds me of a time where I went to the equivalent of traffic school for a driving infringement.

The attitude of some of the young men and women scared me more than the data and information presented.

One wanted to argue with a presenter about the accuracy of data on stopping distances, suggesting his "Fully sick" Nissan/Subaru/Commodore V8 would easily stop in less than 10m from 60 or 80kph despite the scientific evidence saying it took say 60m. No amount of discussion would convince him that he was wrong, Unbelievable !!

Or the guy who was off the road for something like the next 10yrs because he had so many repeated speeding fines, but still insisted that he was a safe driver "cause like I can handle my car at 200+ kph", how he came to that conclusion was never explained, just that he believed it.

I do not care who you are or how good you think you are, on a public road there is absolutely no way you can suggest that speeds like that are acceptable.

Sorry for the rant but I just think your comment is fundamentally wrong !


George

Originally Posted by DiscoWeb

One wanted to argue with a presenter about the accuracy of data on stopping distances, suggesting his "Fully sick" Nissan/Subaru/Commodore V8 would easily stop in less than 10m from 60 or 80kph despite the scientific evidence saying it took say 60m. No amount of discussion would convince him that he was wrong, Unbelievable !!

Friction coefficient of ~0.8 (standard road tyres), 60km/h (16.66m/s) to zero.
Works out to 17m to stop from 60 to 0. Plus reaction time.
Works out to 31m to stop from 80 to 0. Plus reaction time.

Now these figures are highly conservative. The best cars are stopping from 100-0 in about 30m. That gives them a grip on the road of ~1.28.

Which is a 80-0 distance of 19.2m
Which is a 60-0 distance of 10.8m

Every "safety" related video or presentation I have seen on speed has been complete and utter bull**** from a physics perspective.
However, if you go to a racing driver training type presentation, they have it right.

Originally Posted by Dougal

I may have once met a gentleman who was clocked somewhere over 180km/h on a motorbike.

What could Mr Cop do about it? Nothing. Probably just sat there looking stunned at the reading.

Funny.... I know a bloke who took a Hyabusa to its upper limit once...

Riding along side at the time was a guy who on his work days wears a Blue Leather Jacket and straddles a BMW.