300Kph+, no central reservation, public road

[Le TVR]

NorfolkInClue1 said:

i dont think those poles are anywhere near 100m apart.

Quite.

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Swedish guidelines for state roads
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The normal frequency is 50 m on two lane roads and 100 m on motorways. Three posts are to
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[Matt UK]

Dog Star said:

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.

Agreed. Look at 1m15s. If the camera bike is doing 160+mph, then the biker is about to overtake must be crusing along at about 130mph?
If we assume the other biker is crusing at 80mph (which is the fast side of normal maybe) then the camera bike would just flash striaght past him with a 80+mph differential.

So yes, horse st in my book.

[trashbat]

As a quick estimate, I counted 30 posts in 25 seconds, which at 50m separation would be 210km/h. That was rough so it's believable.

Someone claimed 80mph. Are all the other cars stationary then?

[Liquid Tuna]

I don't think that's anywhere near 180mph. Anyone who's travelled that fast will tell you how quickly things come up on you at those speeds so I don't believe it either. I've seen videos previously where the speedo's been dicked around with and shows far quicker than it actually is. All for effect on the video.

[Le TVR]

trashbat said:

As a quick estimate, I counted 30 posts in 25 seconds, which at 50m separation would be 210km/h.

Agreed and that is exactly what it looks like.

Remember the R1 has an electronic speedo. It can be re-calibrated to suit different gearing, sprocket sizes etc. I expect it only reads up to 299 and that is why it stops at that point, whatever the rpm.

[crossy67]

I thought the clock must be maxed out as 299, it reaches that at 13krpm but doesn't rise any more even though the revs clearly hit over 13.5krpm