300Kph+, no central reservation, public road
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0c7p_YuXxE
Wow, just wow. Talk about inappropriate use of speed. I can't think of a time I've seen worse
Wow, just wow. Talk about inappropriate use of speed. I can't think of a time I've seen worse
Looks incredibly stupid on a busy public 2 way road.
Worth remembering Mr S Moss and Mr D Jenks were driving for hours at those speeds in their Mercedes, on public roads in Italy in the 1955 during the Mille Miglia. Over 1000 miles, they averaged 100 mph, often reaching 300 kmh.
Watching how fast it looked from that bike just now makes those stats seem all the more amazing Moss did that nearly 60 years ago.
Worth remembering Mr S Moss and Mr D Jenks were driving for hours at those speeds in their Mercedes, on public roads in Italy in the 1955 during the Mille Miglia. Over 1000 miles, they averaged 100 mph, often reaching 300 kmh.
Watching how fast it looked from that bike just now makes those stats seem all the more amazing Moss did that nearly 60 years ago.
Fort Jefferson said:
I call bu!!sh!t on the 300kph. At that speed, the trees go past a lot faster than that.
Too right - that looks waaaay too slow. And wherever that was filmed - do people routinely travel over 150mph or something - there's part where they catch up on a bike which seems to take quite a while, and the bike then undertakes it. Are we to believe that the bike they caught was also going warp speed too, as he doesn't exactly whiz past.
I'm by no means on of the tinfoil hat brigade, but that looks wrong. And what's with the tacho needle? All over the place.
Take off the speedo reading and that looks about 80mph to me.
bikes are often limited at 300kph and by the rock solid way its revs locked out, i'd say that it hit its limiter.
tbh, that looked 180 to me, effing fast. completely crazy. it's not often bikes go away from a race like that licking their wounds, it must have come as quite a shock, lol
tbh, that looked 180 to me, effing fast. completely crazy. it's not often bikes go away from a race like that licking their wounds, it must have come as quite a shock, lol
Dog Star said:
Too right - that looks waaaay too slow.
And wherever that was filmed - do people routinely travel over 150mph or something - there's part where they catch up on a bike which seems to take quite a while, and the bike then undertakes it. Are we to believe that the bike they caught was also going warp speed too, as he doesn't exactly whiz past.
I'm by no means on of the tinfoil hat brigade, but that looks wrong. And what's with the tacho needle? All over the place.
Take off the speedo reading and that looks about 80mph to me.
It's filmed in Sweden - the roads are typically around twice as wide as the typical British A-road and much, much straighter plus the dotted lines use longer dashes than in the UK - its very easy to underestimate the distances as a result. The cars that its overtaking are probably doing the speed limit which is likely 80 or 90Km/h, and the other bike is presumably giving it some; the overtake at ~1:20 is nothing like overtaking a car doing 50-60 while doing 80.And wherever that was filmed - do people routinely travel over 150mph or something - there's part where they catch up on a bike which seems to take quite a while, and the bike then undertakes it. Are we to believe that the bike they caught was also going warp speed too, as he doesn't exactly whiz past.
I'm by no means on of the tinfoil hat brigade, but that looks wrong. And what's with the tacho needle? All over the place.
Take off the speedo reading and that looks about 80mph to me.
longshot said:
Fort Jefferson said:
I call bu!!sh!t on the 300kph. At that speed, the trees go past a lot faster than that.
The small white posts at the side of the road look consistently laid out. 100 metres perhaps?Work it out.
sorry to piss on the high speed bonfire but i too call horse s
t on this one.
i dont think those poles are anywhere near 100m apart. if you stop the film at 1:37 there is a side road on the right that takes up nearly half the gap between then poles but is clealry smaller than the road the bike is on, if the poles were 100m apart it would make the sideroad the best part of 50m wide and the main road getting on for 100m wide just as a rough guess.
im sure one of you maths experts could work out a speed for 50m apart, maybe 80m which would fit into marking out KM's in units??
edit:
thinking about it maybe even less distance, my hgv can only be a max of 16.5m, it would block the road they are on with no problems judging by the scale of it against the cars. it looks only a little wider than our A roads so setting that against the width of the side road i mentioned i reckon thos poles are no more than 40m apart. our uk motorway location markers are 100m apart, these seem much closer?
t on this one.i dont think those poles are anywhere near 100m apart. if you stop the film at 1:37 there is a side road on the right that takes up nearly half the gap between then poles but is clealry smaller than the road the bike is on, if the poles were 100m apart it would make the sideroad the best part of 50m wide and the main road getting on for 100m wide just as a rough guess.
im sure one of you maths experts could work out a speed for 50m apart, maybe 80m which would fit into marking out KM's in units??
edit:
thinking about it maybe even less distance, my hgv can only be a max of 16.5m, it would block the road they are on with no problems judging by the scale of it against the cars. it looks only a little wider than our A roads so setting that against the width of the side road i mentioned i reckon thos poles are no more than 40m apart. our uk motorway location markers are 100m apart, these seem much closer?
Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 10th October 09:43
Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 10th October 09:43
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