Posted on 06/18/2003 8:15:48 PM PDT by chance33_98
Motorcycle was clocked at 157mph, court told
By Stewart Payne (Filed: 18/06/2003)
A motorcyclist was recorded travelling at 157mph as he flashed past a police camera, followed by a friend doing 148mph, a court was told yesterday.
It is believed to be the highest speed recorded on a British road and both riders were warned to expect a stiff penalty after pleading guilty to dangerous driving.
Neil Bolger pleads guilty after being caught in a police speed trap in Buckinghamshire doing 148mph
The men, both 29, were said not to be racing each other. Andrew Osborne, from Leamington Spa, Warwicks, who was clocked at 157mph, and Neil Bolger, from Gaydon, Warwicks, must wait until next month to find out their sentence, but were given interim driving disqualifications.
Magistrates in Aylesbury, Bucks, heard that the men were spotted on the A421 near Buckingham speeding through an underpass on a dual carriageway noted as an accident blackspot. The road had a 70mph limit.
Theresa Murphy, prosecuting, said they overtook a lorry on a sweeping bend before being caught by the speed trap.
Darren Rogers, defending Osborne, a master technician, argued that the case should be dealt with by magistrates and not referred to the Crown Court.
Nicholas Devine, defending Bolger, a lorry driver, said that although he was travelling at excessive speed there were no aggravating features. "There is no evidence of alcohol or drugs," he said.
The case was adjourned for four weeks for reports.
Umm, well this one don't exactly run up anywhere near 20 grand, but it sure beats the super bikes up to 130 and I could ride it along those boys in the pic, turn sideways and give 'em a big ole grin. When I've done that before they always have this startled look of shock, disappointment almost. Then they try harder and look just goes deeper. Then out of the kindness of my heart, I back off and let them run point for me.
If I wanted to ride in superbike races I'd get a Ducati 999R, or equiv. Since I wanna keep my DL for more than a couple of days and I want a comfortable ride for 10+hrs at a time-I'll ride my Harley. I can also mount a waterfoul bag on it and stuff it with all sorts of goodies. See how much character it gives the bike!
" a store bought harley isn't made to dance with a store bought Valkerie and sure ain't gonna dance with a Ninja or even a katana."
This one's special, there might be some like it, but this one's unique, it's mine and it out dances most.
"If I have to explain, you won't understand."
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My guess is that they estimated your speed, or got you on radar.
JoeSixPack1 proves the old adage that after 2 a.m., NOBODY -- not even rice -- is ugly. <|:)~
http://www.allpar.com/cars/concepts/tomahawk.html
I'm sorry, I wasn't watching and I missed it. Kindly let me get my camera, and show us again....
Back around 1966 while riding a 350cc Jawa, I managed to go into the side of a Nash Rambler [now there's a car you don't often see much anymore...] driven by a drunk who figured 4-way stopsigns didn't apply to those driving Nashs. I figured that if I tried to lay the bike down before hitting him, I'd stand way too good a chance of getting run over by his rear wheels, so I stood up on the footpegs and aimed right for his rear wheelwell/tire with my front wheel. All of a sudden, my bike came to a thumping halt, as expected, and I went flying through the air. There was a fella sweeping his porch who observed the whole thing, who said I went over the back deck of the car with my hands outstretched, tucked myself into a ball, performed a perfect forward somersault and landed on my feet.
While I was walking around the end of the car to see how bad the bike had gotten beaten up, it dawned on me that I could be really badly hurt and not yet noticing the pain, beyond a coulle of sore spots- my knee got banged either clearing my handlebars or his trunk lid and rear fender area, so I wasn't completely unscathed. But when the guy with the broom walked up to me and asked *Do you know what you just did?* I figured it had to have been at least mildly entertaining, at least.
That was long before the days of mandatory helmet laws, so I wasn't wearing one at the time, and happily that wouldn't have made a difference in this instance. On another ride on a different bike, I managed to get my money's worth out of a brain bucket, but that's another story.
There oughta be a happy ending to a good yarn, and in this case, there was. State law required us to report the accident within 24 hours, but the blitzed driver, who apparantly had some experience at this sort of thing before, offered to buy me a new bike, cash on the spot, if we'd wait until his blood/alchol content level went down, saving both of us a jackup of insurance rates at the very least. I arranged for a pal with a pickup to come and get my bike, and spent the frest of the afternoon calling dealers looking for anyone within 500 miles with a Vincent in stock; no luck. But the next day a 61-inch Harley EL panhead demonstrator was sitting in my yard sitting next to my crumpled Czechbike. I never did get the parts to repair the old Jawa, but eventually picked up another one.
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You're spot on. Brooklands, The Isle on an uncharacteristically pretty day, and the Vincent factory at Stevenage in Hertfordshire back in The Days. And the cottage is indeed Ned Lawrence's homestead of Cloud's Hill in Dorset, and he did indeed appreciate the BrufSup, having owned seven of the Brough SS80 and SS100 machines, with an eighth on order when he died on *George VII,* an SS100.
I've done that too, with probably the most embarassing occasion being the time I was crossing a paved highway during an Enduro on a 500cc single-cylinder BSA Gold Star *thumper* and had the carburetter slide stick about halfway open, with mud-caked knobby tires that offered very little stopping power; brakes versus engine was not the way to go. While reaching for the spark plug lead to shut the damned thing off, down I went. It was a late June or July day, and most of the riders were in jeans and T-shirts; I chose to stay with leathers [blackberry patch and briars] and shredded both jacket and trousers and more of what was beneath than I was real happy about.
I'm a charter member and my new line of BS goes something like this.......
"Hi, you have beautiful eyes, and 67% of the skin on my body is only 25 years old, wanna dance? "
I have on more than one occasion had 100% of the skin on my body be that of a 25-year-old. One recent favourite was a flight attendant for KLM and the other a Korean sweetie getting her master's degree in English. Not both at the same time, however. Too crowded, and potentially distracting. Such a situation involving 67% would seem to be disarming, at the very least.
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Well, a claimed, theoretical 400 m.p.h. for the Dodge V-10 *Viper*-powered machine, anyway.
But the article posted here tells us where the helpful British machinery for recording speed attempts is located [GPS coordinates, please, someone!] so all you have to do is get one of the Tommy-hawks, haul it over there, wait until the weather's decent and there are no obvious coppers about, and fire it up. Good luck; mind the curves.
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They do have a look of all coming from the same cookie-cutter, don't they. But there are some things that can be done about that, too:
This one's special, there might be some like it, but this one's unique, it's mine and it out dances most.
It dances with the one what brung it. That's what counts.
Nice lil' sled.
(it was a slow 2 years, didn't go anywhere. :-()
It's not too late to plan for the Harley birthday party run to Milwaukee coming up. That'd be a nice little weekend ride from FLA on a FLH....
And there's always next year's Memorial Day Run for the Wall to D.C.; a couple of FReeper bikers have made it for that one.
Martin, we're going to need a *FReeper Hooligan* post for a calender of future FReeper biker events one of these days...and the 4th of July runs wuill be coming up shortly....
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Sure y'did.
That would be the limited production HONDA Valkyrie Rune. <|:)~
Check it out at http://www.hondamotorcycle.com/
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