racing Eurostar

[bikerkeith]

Being the secretary of a Kent bike group I get all sorts of queries. One came my way recently from somebody purporting to be from a Ferrari car club, asking if we knew anything about racing the Eurostar.
Now I assume this guy meant the stretch of the M20 where the high speed line runs alongside for some miles. (They are certainly quick off the mark, the trains have only been running for a week or so.)
Firstly it would need a seriously quick set of wheels to keep up with the train that cruises at, I believe, 187mph. Secondly, the M20 gets very busy so I question the sanity of somebody who even attempts this when there is other traffic on the road.
Oh, it would also be very illegal, with porridge for anybody who gets caught.
Has anybody else heard of this new stunt?

[EvoBarry]

Performance Bikes mag did this I think, with ZX12 and Hayabusa if memory serves me...

Sounds like a giggle until you workout the effort required for a few minutes racing_a_train. Hmm.

[Pigeon]

The trains do 186mph service maximum, and have been given the usual "plus 10%" test - 205mph! So you need a serious bike to catch them... but there's a good chance you'll be going too fast for plod's anti-speed technology to get a reading on you

[s2ooz]

did they not mean racing it from london to paris?

[Pigeon]

How do you get across the Channel? Waiting to load your bike onto the shuttle is going to cane any chance of beating the Eurostar. You'd have to ride through the service tunnel...

Course, given the power and lightness of a bike... you could fit it with a set of folding wings and a furling prop, and fly across.

[nonegreen]

Nah what hyer need is to put the bike on a Formula 415 Sr1 (boat) then blast accross the channel at 115 Mph get orf the other side, no problem.....