Motorcyclist leads police on I-70 chase that hits 170 mph

Observer-Reporter ^ | 06/06/2005 | KATHIE O. WARCO

[todd1]

I don't know but my crotch rocket maxes out at 170... he must have been on an 1100 cc bike.

[todd1]

He probally wasn't running... It is hard to look back when you are going that fast... Have to keep your eyes in the road or you can be toast fast.

[Nov3]

He was pegged at 220 at 10K. He wound it out to 11K!

[Utilizer]

No doubt, mate. The guy I referred to apparently sailed out for quite a distance; that was why the LEOs doing the searching did not immediately spot him. I think he was a lot more banged up than just the leg, but memory fails Me about the rest of it. I know he was unable to crawl away from his landing site, and he was lucky to have friends that did not give up searching for him. Not to mention surviving about four days severly injured in the open and without any food or water.

I think the bike finally came down the following winter and was too damaged to rescue (not to mention difficult to get to), but that was just what I heard from people who claimed to know the guy.

[Lx]

Cycle's gone? They used to be my favorite bike mag.

I saw the completed bike in some mag years ago. I would have tried to ride it (then). The one I saw had outriggers on it. I guess it was just too dangerous without them.

http://www.amadirectlink.com/legisltn/100yrs/nightmare.asp
No pictures though.

[wizr]

Thanks for the ping. I like scenery. Can't enjoy it going anything over 70. To me, MOST of the fun is getting there, and the longer it takes the more enjoyable the ride.

[speed_addiction]

My R1 does about 170.

[zipper]

you sound like my wife.

[Utilizer]

LOL. No worries there, mate. I've hated the BrainBuckets ever since the day when a friend accidentally dropped one of the 'hi-end' ones in a showroom -and it cracked like a glass balloon. I 'drive' with seatbelts because I believe in them (despite horrid laws that state I must do so), but helmet laws are just so much pap, in My view. Just like the seatbelt laws. We are supposed to be a free nation. Leave us alone so we can be free.

[Utilizer]

Not to mention hearing about mates Downunda that died from neck injuries when before they would have merely sustained some head trauma...

[LearnsFromMistakes]

My wife used to work in a tissue-typing lab for organ transplants. They called these bikes 'donorcycles'...

[MarkL]

Yeah, slightly-- the z-rated street tires are rated for "over 149 MPH" but 220? Maybe some race tires.

This has been a huge problem for racing as well. Last year, there were two "catastrophic tire failures" during qualifiying at Daytona. One at about 170MPH, the other at nearly 190MPH. IIRC, one of the guys slid nearly 300 yards! Both riders were in the hospital for a while.

In racing, what they've been doing for a while, especially on tracks with a high bank turn like Daytona, is have tires with multiple compouds. One side (the side that contacts the track during the high bank turn) is a "harder" compound, able to deal with the additional heat and stress, while the rest of the tire is made of a "softer" compound, which gives better traction, but doesn't last as long.

Mark

[MarkL]

It was 1000cc RC51 Honda. Only mods were exhaust systems. A fast ride, but not a 200mph one.

IIRC, the factory HRC RC51s raced by Miguel DuHamel and Nicky Hayden just a few years ago, wouldn't quite hit 200MPH. Those were hand built, "factory" racers, that would have had a price tag somewhere near $200,000 to buy (which you couldn't... Honda only leases their racers to the satellite teams, and Miguel and Nicky were riding for the Honda factory).

Mark