Holy shit, motorcyclist sets new speeding ticket record
 

Minnesota trooper writes 205 mph speeding ticket

WABASHA, Minn. (AP) ? With a State Patrol airplane overhead, a Stillwater motorcyclist hit the throttle and possibly set the informal record for the fastest speeding ticket in Minnesota history: 205 mph.

On Saturday afternoon, State Patrol pilot Al Loney was flying near Wabasha, in southeastern Minnesota on the Wisconsin border, watching two motorcyclists racing along U.S. Highway 61.

When one of the riders shot forward, Loney was ready with his stopwatch. He clicked it once when the motorcycle reached a white marker on the road and again a quarter-mile later. The watch read 4.39 seconds, which Loney calculated to be 205 mph.

"I was in total disbelief," Loney told the St. Paul Pioneer Press for Tuesday's editions. "I had to double-check my watch because in 27 years I'd never seen anything move that fast."

Several law enforcement sources told the newspaper that, although no official records are kept, it was probably the fastest ticket ever written in the state.

After about three-quarters of a mile, the biker slowed to about 100 mph and let the other cycle catch up. By then Loney had radioed ahead to another state trooper, who pulled the two over soon afterward.

The State Patrol officer arrested the faster rider, 20-year-old Stillwater resident Samuel Armstrong Tilley, for reckless driving, driving without a motorcycle license ? and driving 140 miles per hour over the posted speed limit of 65 mph.

A search of speeding tickets written by state troopers, who patrol most of the state's highways, between 1990 and February 2004 shows the next fastest ticket was for 150 mph in 1994 in Lake of the Woods County.

Tilley did not return calls from the newspaper to his home Monday. A working number for him could not immediately be found by The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Only a handful of exotic sports cars can reach 200 mph, but many high-performance motorcycles can top 175 mph. With minor modifications, they can hit 200 mph. Tilley was riding a Honda 1000, Loney said.

Kathy Swanson of the state Office of Traffic Safety said unless Tilley was wearing the kind of protective gear professional motorcycle racers wear, he was courting death at 200 mph.

"I'm not entirely sure what would happen if you crashed at 200 miles per hour," Swanson said. "But it wouldn't be pretty, that's for sure."

Coolest motorcyclist ever.

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its a week ago already? man time flies

Damnit, someone already posted this?

liek 3 or 4 people posted it before yes

Well dont I look like a jacktard :uhoh

hurry do a google image search on vida guerra and hotlink a pic of her to divert the attention from you

205!! Sheesh. Ive been 120 and that was fast enough for me.

well... the bright side is that now all the chicks and his friends will believe his bike is "really" that fast.... being that he got an objective confirmation with a laser radar.



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http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandf...ws/9746097.htm

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They note that if the trooper who timed Tilley were off by a half-second which critics say is possible given variables such as the altitude, speed and the angle of approach of his Cessna it drops Tilley's speed to about 185 mph.

This still would be the unofficial state record for the fastest speeding ticket, and everyone agrees a Honda CR51 can hit that speed. But it's not the double C-note.

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As it is, bike experts say that most unmodified sport bikes already top out at about 185 mph because of limits with their fuel injectors. To get an RC51 up to 200 mph, they say, the owner would have to change the bike's transmission, fuel injectors and gears and might have to add either a supercharger or pump nitrous oxide or methane into the fuel system. All of these changes are possible, but seriously spendy.

There's a guy in Sweden who goes by the name "Ghost Rider", who has a suzuki hyabusa with someone like 400 HP coming from a Turbo :Graucho

highly doubt its an rc51... not saying they arn't fast, ive rode em in the past - but there is a way better chance its honda's new 1000rr

and yes, i agree that there is a very good chance that the pilot was off by at least a 1/2 second w/ his stop watch

how do they calculate your speed exactly. I know they can time it but how do they know the distance between two objects?

There are two white lines a 1/4 mile apart they start a stop watch at the first line stop on the second then just do the math to figure out how long it took to get from line a to b.