[Responsibility1st]

170 mph? Gee that's fast.

My pig can only fly 100 mph.

[LIConFem]

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

He's lucky that's all he hit.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

What kind of crotch rocket was it?

[Fierce Allegiance]

Ping

[RebelBanker]

Sounds like a Darwin Award wannabe. This Bozo is not qualified because he did not manage to kill himself despite a really good effort. I guess he will just have to try harder next time. Just hope he does not take any innocent people with him.

[Millee]

He DIDN'T use his turn signal??!!??!! That's it, throw the book at him!

[GrandEagle]

Porter told Weller that his bike-riding days were over.
He may become well aquainted with the "pedal powered" type!
GE

[STFrancis]

Okay, something smells WAY fishy here...

First of all top speed for a Hayabusa right now is 183MPH and it's the fastest production motorcycle made. So the 200MPH is kinda iffy (not excusing what the Squid did in any way).

He hasn't made his first payment on the bike but was cited with driving with no insurance and registration???? They won't even let you take a bike out of the dealership without insurance etc.etc. Doesn't make sense to me!!!

The guy was just plain STUPID though...

[martin_fierro]

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[River_Wrangler]

Who was going fast enough to clock him? How did they clock his speed? I didn't think the radar units went that high.

[martin_fierro]

What 220 mph on a 'Busa looks like

[philsfan24]

sweet

[vortigern]

Last weekend, I'm northbound on Interstate 75 between Dayton and Cincy... in the centerlane doing about 73 mph. Two of these yo-yo's flew past me STANDING ON THE REAR WHEELS only, one in the left lane and the other in the right. They had to be doing 100+ mph -- They each had passenger holding on for life and limb -- no helmets, no turn signals, NO BRAINS.

[Xenalyte]

Trooper Martin Gonglik was running radar about 4:20 p.m. near the Dunningsville exit of the highway when he clocked Porter going 120 mph.

Well, tripling the speed limit is one way to celebrate, I guess.

[martin_fierro]

I went to college in that area.

Those Washington County country boys are well and truly nutz.

[Revelation 911]

That's no misprint. Commonly referred to as a sport bike or "crotch rocket," an aerodynamic motorcycle like the one Porter was operating is capable of speeds of around 200 mph.

yet us cage drivers are obligated to wear our seatbelts

are these things in a risk pool of their own ?

[DarkSavant]

One of my co-workers brags that he hits 120 on the highways when he needs to let some steam out, don't think I believe him but he does seem like he'd be the type.

[BulletBobCo]

Ring ding ding ding ping

[savedbygrace]

Porter was arraigned before Weller on charges of reckless endangerment, fleeing and eluding police, driving with a suspended license, having no registration, having no insurance, driving off the road, not using his turn signal, failing to drive at a safe speed, speeding, careless driving, reckless driving and not having the vehicle inspected.

They forgot littering.

[deport]

This lad needs to soup up his bike a few more hp to keep up with the following:

Motorcycle world abuzz at biker's 205 mph ticket

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (AP) -- People across the United States are shaking their heads over the kid ticketed for allegedly riding his motorcycle at 205 mph -- some out of disapproval, others because they doubt he went that fast.

Ever since a State Patrol pilot clocked Samuel Armstrong Tilley's 2002 Honda RC51 going a quarter-mile in 4.39 seconds on September 18, people in chat rooms, garages and biker bars from Sturgis, South Dakota, to Los Angeles have been buzzing about the alleged feat on Highway 61 near Wabasha.

State Patrol pilot Al Loney, a 27-year veteran, and his superiors stand by their report.

[Utilizer]

I do not buy the 170 either -but well above 100 yes. Back when I was working and living in Los Gatos, I used to ride every weekend up Hwy 9 up to Big Basin. Loved all the nice curvy sections -even when sometimes a tree or rockslide had dropped across the road and I had to do a bit of 'offroading' to get around the section. I used to get passed by often by ricerockets taking those same curves at high speed and lean angles. I just shook My head at what the idiot's antics were likely to get them. EVERY WEEK, the local paper listed the number of them that went over a cliff because they overshot a turn, or hit a cager going the other way. And some of them were wearing shorts, t-shirts (optional, apparently), and sneakers.

One guy even made the front page because he went over a cliff, and was severely injured with at least one broken leg that I can recall. His friends noticed that he did not come back the following Monday, and on Wednesday notified authorities he was missing. They finally found him a couple of days later when after going back and forth along Hwy 9, one of them happened to stop over a particularly narrow section where he noticed a long skid mark leading to a broken guardrail and thought he heard something when he called out the guys name. They wound up having to chopper the guy out -and only later found the bike.

About thirty feet straight up, lodged in a tree.

(C)San Jose Mercury News, about... '88 or so.