I don't care about the rider, I care about the innocent people who are in his path.
Posted on 06/01/2012 12:56:44 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
Edited on 06/01/2012 5:24:04 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
ROSENDALE (AP) -- Authorities say a 28-year-old Hudson Valley man has been charged with driving his motorcycle at nearly 200 mph in the rain on the New York State Thruway.
State police say a trooper clocked Anthony Anderson of Poughkeepsie driving at 193 mph around 8 p.m. Wednesday in the southbound lanes of Interstate 87 just south of Albany. The trooper was able to get a description of the high-performance bike and alerted nearby Thruway patrols.
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This is an insane man.
More crappy journalism. At least they could have asked what make of bike he was riding.
Darwin award wanna be.
Damn sure wasn’t a Harley, LOL.
They must have pulled the space shuttle out of retirement to catch him. A helicopter won’t even go that fast.
“charged with driving his motorcycle at nearly 200 mph in the rain on the New York State Thruway.”
Dude, just lie down on a railroad track and wait for a train. You’ll get the same result without having to shell out for the bike.
A family member, who works in a hospital O.R. tells me the doctors call these bikes “donorcycles”.
I really doubt they clocked him right. 140 maybe, but that’s still too damn fast for a bike.
Probably a Hayabusa
Huh?. Able to get a description of a motocycle going past you at 193 mph? That's funny
Some (late) idiot posted a youtube video going that fast. It was terrifying to watch.
I believe the proper term is donorcyclists.
I’m scared $hitless of motorcycles. So this seems totally insane to me.
my car will approach 190 mph. I won’t though. After about 130 mph you start thinking about all the tie rod ends you’ve replaced in your life and all the times you’ve had a tire blow out, or run over a groundhog. Then, after 150 mph, you start thinking about all the things you still have to live for. This guy sounds suicidal.
I've heard them called "squids." Not many organs left intact at 193.
Wow, some cop was way behind on filling his quota for the month.
If this doofus had actually crashed at 190 mph, you would have needed a blotter to pick him up.
No organ donations today!!
I've done 120 on my Honda V-Twin. It's a cruiser and weighs about 800 pounds without me on it.
193 if perfectly believable on a sport bike.
What I find hard to believe was that this was done in the rain. I've ridden in rain, and at legal highway speeds, the rain feels like someone throwing gravel at you non-stop. It's really painful.
“hard to believe done in the rain”
I live in the mid Hudson river valley farther north (next county up) from Ulster County and although there may have been a random shower I think it was a rather clear night around here - so the rain thing seems odd to me too.
I don't care about the rider, I care about the innocent people who are in his path.
>> my car will approach 190 mph.
Well, hell, my ‘95 Ford will also *approach* 190MPH.
In the same way that when I walk out of my front door I’m “approaching* mecca.
Looooong way to go before I get there. :-)
>> my car will approach 190 mph.
Well, hell, my ‘95 Ford will also *approach* 190MPH.
In the same way that when I walk out of my front door I’m “approaching* mecca.
Looooong way to go before I get there. :-)
He may be insane, but right now he is with his buddies, showing them the tickets and claiming bragging rights.
Happy as a pig in slop.
That’s not good.
It’s okay, he was wearing a helmet.
It’s quite possible for a top-end road-legal crotch rocket to break 200 mph. For a while, the Japanese manufacturers had a “gentlemen’s agreement” to govern their sportbikes to about 185 mph. I don’t know if that’s still in effect or not, but those governors are not hard to remove (it’s just a chip change in a car, I assume it’s similar on a bike).
}:-)4
@ 198 mph the only donating he’ll be doing is to the feed the wildlife foundation.
Just blowing out the carbon buildup.
Eyes
The motorcycle industry is finding the Scott Walker Governor a bit hard to remove these days but it seems to have the effect of supercharging the vehicle rater than acting as a restriction plate.
Cop on his radio: "It was a reeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllyyyyyyyyyyy fast bike that just blew past my cruiser!!!!!"
Have you ever been to Daytona to see the motorcycle races ?
They routinely exceed 200 mph.
Not riders pushing 200mph on the streets. When they hit something, there's not much left to donate.
I recall tire testing at Daytona a couple of years ago, Ben Spies had a "catastrophic tire failure" at 186mph, and he slid hundreds of yards before eventually hitting a wall. Though he didn't break any bones, he did suffer some 2nd & 3rd degree burns through his leathers from "road rash."
Roads don't have run-off areas and other safety features. And you can bet this rider wasn't wearing top of the line protective gear like Spies, an AMA championship road racer.
Mark
And what a lot of people don't realize is that at speeds over 100mph on a bike, unless you can REALLY get tucked in behind the fairing, the wind buffeting goes from uncomfortable to painful pretty quickly. The wind blowing your helmet around makes for a very sore neck.
I've gone as fast as about 120mph on a track, and have NO WISH to ever ride that fast again. I also fell off a bike on a track at over 80mph, and never want to do that again either.
Mark
It wasn't so much a "gentlemen's agreement" as a threat by the EU to place HUGE tarrifs on ALL the bikes by a manufacturer imported (not just the "beasts") if they sold them without a governor to limit speeds to less than 300KPH. And they're still limited, but yes, it's through electronics. The biggest problem is the tires holding up.
Mark
Hey, I don't ride my Ducati on your lawn, keep your lawnmower off the road. Ha!
There’s quite a few similar Youtube vids from Russia. Seems the Russians practically wrote the book on reckless driving and road rage. Thanks for the post. I will never again complain about the traffic in NYC.
Someone's radar needs to be calibrated. Or the rain threw the reading off.
Long ago I had a 1970 Firebird with a 250 hp engine and no emission controls. One day I decide to see how fast it would go on an open stretch of interstate. I got it up to 108, got scared, and took my foot off the gas. To this day I don’t know how fast to would go, since it was still happily accelerating when I chickened out.
At 193 MPH he was probably getting under 10 MPG. They just rolled up on him when he stopped for gas.
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